Catherine 🏳️‍🌈

Official word geek and slave to two mischievous cats and numerous fosters. Slowed down by ME/CFS. If I yawn, it's not because you are boring ... 😂

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@bigfan_of_cats I hadn’t realised (or nor had my doctors apparently) that widespread inflammation makes ferritin levels higher than they actually are. Ugh

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@TanteRos @mookpixie That sounds grim. I’ve given up coming off meds. I just take a low dose. My body can’t handle the withdrawals.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@bigfan_of_cats Same, I suspect. Been taking tablets for a few weeks and am hoping this means my feet defrost at some point and the extra sense of feeling like death warmed up leaves me alone.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@bigfan_of_cats That’s just so wrong on so many levels

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@bigfan_of_cats Sending big big hugs. It’s just rubbish, isn’t it.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@mookpixie @FizzyMrs 😂😂

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@FizzyMrs @mookpixie We’re heading to hour seven on the kids next door being on the giant squeaky trampoline directly by my bedroom. Complete with screaming. 😬😬

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

Latest in kitten fashion …

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

If it is that I’m going to need to tape the knees and ankles, tape the legs together, then take the whole lot off to do physiotherapy 3 times a day, then retape. Every day for 2-4 weeks. On my own with a very wriggly kitten … 😬

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

I really really don’t want to step foot into a vets after the horror of last week, but I’m going to have to get over my fear and take my 4 week old kittens in. I feel sick just at the thought tbh. Looks like one of them has swimmers syndrome.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@SarahDavies74 So so much 😢😢😢

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but could we give a big farewell to the most wonderful cat ever, Philip. I found him last night extremely unwell. We managed to get him to an emergency vets, but sadly we had to let him go.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@mookpixie I thought about your boy. He was such a character, too. I don’t believe in an afterlife as such, but if there was, those two would be up there creating all sorts of mischief.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

God this is hard. Cash is confused and keeps looking for him. It feels so wrong. Philip should be cuddled up on my knee with Cash now. How can he be dead, just like that with no warning? Living on my own and rarely leaving the house means he’s just been everything to me.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@mookpixie It was! Spoken to my vets and they are 99% sure that Philip had a blood clot from his heart that had travelled to his brain. He managed to get out from under the bed to find me (what an absolutely amazing cat) but his legs and eyes weren’t working and he was distressed. V sad day

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

He was basically a Labrador in cat form and loved everyone. Goodbye beautiful (and slightly smelly) boy. We’ll miss you so very very much.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

He was only 11 but in that time he managed to be a medical mystery (right to the end), amazing foster brother to so many cats, lover of old curry and the only cat I’ve known who to bring sausages and pieces of cake through the cat flap and then yell to tell me about his prizes.

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@mookpixie Hurrah!

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@cfs_jo @TanteRos Every time

[Catherine 🏳️‍🌈 @Pepperpots2]

@trauma_kitty Hard relate