The begining of the end???? I don't think so!

So much has happened.  It has been a few years since my last post.  I was so passionate about getting this blog up and running but life caught up with me.  I will definitely circle back on the past few years where our beautiful son was born, our beloved Bentley died and we bought a hop yard.  Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum.  So here we are, fast forward a couple years.  February 25, 2017 where we fight for the life of our precious Zoey girl whom you have seen featured in past posts.

Here she is on day one of transitioning to a raw diet.  On Feb 7 I brought her in for a holistic vet visit as i found a mass under her jaw.  I suspected the worst and I have had too much experience and common sense about this.  Blood work came back and no sign of infection which confirmed my suspicions.  Friday February 10, she had a biopsy.  February 14 we received the news is was a fibrous sarcoma.... the very aggressive kind.  Since then, we have been on the mad dash to figure out how to treat.  I don't feel it is very humane to put her through chemo, radiation or further surgery.  I would only be doing it to satisfy my own angst.  The doc had the option to remove the mass during biopsy but felt it was too risky.

Over the past 10 days I have spend quite a bit of money and time figuring out the proper diet for her.  Kibble is out of the question now.  Carbs feed the cancer.  I am seeing great results around the ketogenic diet where there is zero carbs, high fat and lower protein.  I spent so much time looking for a canned food that she may like.  I found one but she doesn't eat it like her fancy feast which still has 1% carbs.  A few professionals told me if anything is going to save her it is strictly a raw diet not canned.  I tried a processed raw early on but she didn't touch it.  I also didn't try to transition her. Fast forward to yesterday, look at her eat raw mixed with her Fancy Feast (transition).  One of the workers at Benson's graciously helped me with how to transition and even gave some dried raw as treats to sprinkle on top.  She freaking gobbled it down.  So now we transition to just raw over the next few days and wait.  I feel like something has happened over the past week because I can now feel her jaw bone and I couldn't before but that may be a result of the surgery.

We have circled round and round about surgery but I really don't want a mess of a cat when all is said and done.  She still has really good quality of life still.  I can't do this again after Bentley.  I really hope this is works.  It has too!  Stay tuned.

Water Spirits

It has been a few days.  It has almost been too hot to come upstairs and work on the computer but we spent some time cleaning up junk and then cleaned out the pool for the dogs.

And then some jerk decided it would be a good idea to put ME in the pool!  Thanks Dave!  And no, there is no pictures but I was walking around the yard in my underwear until I drip dried! LMAO!  You know... I do not know why I didn't use my self defense tactics on him.  I will have to remember that for next time.

We went to see Brad Paisley on Friday night.  Thankfully Brad came to visit us in the cheap seats because we could not see JACK on the lawn.  A heavy reminder of why I never get lawn seats!

Zoey is doing well this week.  I actually caught her bathing herself which never EVER happens.  Here she is rubbing her face on my psych book.  So speaking of psych, I had one of my most successful message sessions on Saturday.

For privacy reasons I can go into real detail but this special spirit (and BTW they are all special) gave me this I was just so excited.  Sometimes I think I share too much and there are some things that just should not be told but when I brought up this bobber oh boy!  Things seemed so right.  I get so amazed when I get things right and for this message session I was so nervous.  I didn't know anything really about this person so this was my first stranger outside of class so I wanted to pay special attention.  I seem to do much better in the morning.  I am more clear and I am able to focus better so we made an appt for Saturday AM.  I was told to ask her for a particular picture (first time I ever used an electronic picture).  So I got it and it was exactly what I was looking for... or what the spirit was looking for.  So I spent some quiet time with this spirit and really got more than I bargained for.  Which is interesting because I gathered messages for another relative of this spirit and didn't get as much.  But that is ok.  I feel that everything I was able to communicate, this girl was able to relate to.  Thank goodness.... what a relief!

I really hate how there has been so much death this year.  But I am glad I am able to help... even if only one of my sentences helps or makes sense, it makes it worth it!

So with that being said... I think Zoey started talking to me.  No I am not smoking anything tonight!  I am drinking coffee if you have to know.  I got a box of new cat litter and was thinking her box was getting pretty thin and it is time to add some fresh stuff and do some scooping.  I didn't really want to do it and debated about not doing it.  THEN I heard in my head, "Well that is not very fair to me.  I can't change my box.  I will pee outside my box if you don't change it".  I ended up changing the box... :)

DISLIKE: Ceiling Fans

Although Zoey looks like she is mad... she is actually sleepy and relaxed.  It only took her 48 hours to tell me what was wrong.  Maybe I should concentrate on animal communication instead of spiritual lol.  So I think it was yesterday morning and she was still acting weird.  I fed her and she was not interested and insisted on staying in the bathroom.  She did finally come in the room and hide under the table.  She looked at me, looked at the ceiling, looked at me, looked at the ceiling.  HOLY CRAP!!! It is the ceiling fan!  I turned it off and she was happy as a clam!  Dave turned it on the other night as we don't have air.  We never had a ceiling fan at my house.  Life is now back to normal in Zoey land.... THANK GOD!

Speaking of manimals this week was soooooo hot for them so It was a good thing they were going to Mommy Dannis for day care.  Here is Cindy sticking her head out the window... her version of air conditioning.  These car seats are great for the little dogs.  It straps them in for safety, while allowing them to still catch some airtime.

It even gives them room to lay down and sleep for long trips and they are still strapped in safely.

I highly recommend these for keeping the pups safe during travel.  My girls love them so much!  Maggies I got at Christmas tree shop for $5! and Cindy's I got on Amazon for probably $20.  And if you notice they are elevated, not only so they can see outside but so they don't set off the airbags!  NICE!

Of course... I needed to catch my own airtime!  Feeeeeewwwwww so hot!

 Ooooops.  I almost forgot to mention Bentley and Spot.  They are wondering why they couldn't get their air time?  That is a story for another time.


So today is supposed to be a nice day.  Not too hot.  Let's try to enjoy it!