On my way to my midterm, I was reading the Metro, and I almost burst into tears twice. First, over Abousfian Abdelrazik, and second over Tommy the dog. I'm not very good at displaying my emotions in public, but after the last 20 hours, I was just in super-hyper-emotional-overdrive.Heather came over, and reassured me about Wiggles, and told me that "he is not on death's door". Hearing that from someone who knows something about the subject...just took a huge weight off my chest. I still feel emotionally exhausted, and just looking at Wiggles's poor little face looking all messed up still makes me want to just lose it.
Heather noted something too, something I'd only semi-consciously realized. I hate to admit it, but when I first got Chai, a part of me was like "yow, this is not a good looking cat". Her face was really angular...she was just not amazing to look at. I'd commented to myself earlier in the day that she was looking really good today, and didn't think much of it...but Heather pointed out that it's true, her entire facial structure has changed...she has a regular super sweet cat face now.
It's one of those things you don't notice when you're exposed to it every day. I described the original Chai as "a twig stuck through an orange" - the girl was super skinny, with a huge round belly. But she eats voraciously now, and I guess she's put on a fair bit of weight. We'll never know where Chai was 3 weeks ago and what her life was like, but I am guessing she's a lot better off now.
My friend came over today too to fix my air conditioner (thank god!) and was like "Emmet and Bart have gotten big!". I still think Emmet is my super tiny baby, and hasn't grown at all...but apparently over the last month he's almost doubled in size. I can't imagine him being that tiny!
Heather also gave me the number of a woman who wants to meet both Bart & Emmet on Friday...&I soooo have my fingers crossed. If they could be adopted together it would be absolutely amazing. So much finger crossing...this can't be good!
(Wiggles is the tiny one on top)
Yes, I've said "Thank God for Heather" many times in the past few days myself!
ReplyDeleteHeather is the one fostering "Tuck" that I recently rescued.
I'm so glad the babies are doing better than you had suspected, Tally. Sometimes it helps to just have another point of view.
OMG>>..Emmett and Bart being adopted together?? That would be WONDERFUL!!!!
I also just wanted to say that I know exactly how you feel. My foster kittens were a few weeks older than yours, but I was so worried about them even before they got ill. When they did, I was literally in tears day to day and petrified that something would happen to them or maybe I wasn't doing enough. I still nervously check on their breathing when they're asleep, even though they're big and more or less healthy now. I suppose the more we get used to it, the calmer we'll be, like Heather and Ferne and Jenn and Beth. God knows what we'll be like as first time mothers, eh?
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