There are…followup+

I spent most of the day doing things for my cat.  I got a gift card for Target (I have not been there but once or twice) from my cousin in SoCal, and took it to the store today and bought 50 pounds of cat sand for the box, 20 pounds of dry Friskies cat food, 8 cans of food, two packs of kitty treats, and some toothpaste for me.  (and some 8 o’clock bean Coffee – I used to drink that when I lived onthe east coast, but it’s very hard, so I thought, to find here in Oregon).

(I lived up to that statistic – the one that tells us that when redeemed, people often spend more than the card’s value, because I couldn’t remember whether the Trader Joe’s card or the Target card was 40 dollars. When I got to the check out, I had $40.03 in stuff. It tuned out that card was worth THIRTY dollars, so I went ahead and paid the $10.03 difference off my check card, which means that there are slightly more than two dollars left in my checking account.  Well, so it goes)

I spent most of the gift card on Blacky, but it’s stuff we’ll need down the road.  I came home to find two emails from Pongo re: my cat’s insulin.  I had told them who my vet was and Pongo contacted Dove Lewis, the local Animal Hospital group. (who, incidentally, helped me with Hope Cat, who I got after I moved out of the Foster Home and into this apartment 11 years ago.  It turned out that she had thin spots in her lungs and one blew out, and it couldn’t be fixed, "even if I had just won the lottery and had all the money in the world?"  I had to have her put to sleep.  It was, no lie, heartbreaking)

Dove Lewis contacted my vet, up the street.  He has offered to give Blacky an exam and the insulin he needs, if he has enough in stock, free of charge.  If he does not, Pongo and Dove Lewis will help, and Blacky will get the medicine he needs.  One way or another, my cat will get what he needs, and thus, I will get what I need – my cat.

Please get us informed and follow up on this, Pongo writes to me.

I will.

There are good people out there.  There is help for the most important animal in my life.

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Many of you have written me regarding this situation and some have offered material help.  Right now, I can’t do more than be grateful and thankful and all misty-eyed.

I can post more photos – let me offer my view of Oregon and my Guest Photographer’s pictures as poor repayment of much kindness.

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