She's ok. Glad to be home but she's already forgiven me which surprised me.

She has asthma. We also treated for "lung worms" on an off-chance but it pretty surely asthma. She got a steroid shot and a pill for the worms. No home meds, thank God. Abby would not handle that. Her brother was on a lot of meds and he handled it ok but she would not. She would just retreat to the basement and hide from me permanently. But as long as we don't have to do too many steroid shots per year we're ok.


I'm stressed because I didn't want a chronic disease but glad that she hasn't swallowed something. I had a cat years ago who swallowed a bunch of stuff from the trash, mostly the sizing stickers from clothes and it didn't pass as it should have. He had emergency surgery, quit eating and had a feeding tube placed and died. There was a lot more but it's too upsetting to share; nobody needs to hear that story. So I was really afraid that she'd need surgery for the same thing.

I am so tired now. That was stressful. I got there 10 minutes early just to discover I forgot my purse. So I had to call my mom to bring it to me. Thankfully we live about 8 minutes from the vet so it wasn't huge but I do owe her a big favor. Amazingly I went to the bathroom after I checked in and they were waiting for me outside it so we had no waiting room time at all. Tons of waiting in the exam room of course but that's to be expected. She had a blood test for heartworm and xrays. I was surprised they didn't do a full blood panel. I felt good about this vet (new to me as mine left) because she could have done so and charged even more.

She's already forgiven me and has come for pets and purring. That's good. I was afraid she'd hold a grudge.

But we're all done and I am about to make some dinner. Eggplant ravioli. I hope it is good and not too slimy. It's from Aldi's which is generally good but sometimes not.