SHEENA!!!!! Happy Birthday my dear girl - hope you have a wonderful day .. and of course, at least a million more years of good health and humour. :-))
Sharon (N.B.) (by cracky I wasn't going to forget this year!!)
SHEENA!!!!! Happy Birthday my dear girl - hope you have a wonderful day .. and of course, at least a million more years of good health and humour. :-))
Sharon (N.B.) (by cracky I wasn't going to forget this year!!)
Well, I can't let this pass without sing to you in the same croaky voice I used for other last week, so here goes--
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday Dear Sheena.
Happy Birthday to UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
Lucille.
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Happy Birthday dearest Sheena, happy birthday to you!
HUGS
Cheryl
Happy Purr-day mew mew Happy Purr-day mew mew Happy Purr-day, Auntie Sheena Happy Purr-day mew mew
Love, Miss Kitty and Emilie
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you. Happy Biiiiiirthday Deeeeeaaaaaar Sheeeeeeenaaaaaaaa. Happy Birthday to Yooooouuuuuuuuu!
And many moooooorrrrrrrre!
Have a wonderful day, my friend!
Joan
And very happy birthday from Jim and I, too!! We shall toast you with at dinner tonight! Isn't this the "big" one?? Anyway, have a wonderful day, and very many more "happy Birthdays".
Gill
I even had the date in my calendar, and intended to send a card. Well, next year maybe??
Gill Murray ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
The big one is next year lol Remember I am younger than some lol I am very touched with your wishes and I think I shall drive to NB and 'touch' that Sharon !!!
I feel really good right now. I have just returned from the vet, I took Mr Bucket today because he has seemed off colour for several weeks and certainly lost a lot of weight. Then this morning they added another tinned cat food to the list and that was one he has eaten.
Anyway, after many tests, all save the thyroid one show normal for his age and he really thinks the thyroid one will be normal too but might as well do it, he is just old and ageing fast. So that was really very good news, expensive news, nearly $300 worth of news, but good just the same ! The vet always thought he should have been called Onslow,not Bucket, but this afternoon he suggested a double barrel name, Oscar-Onslow, as he bit him :)
May I join the chorus, too? Happy Birthday, Sheena!!!
sue
Thanks Sue.
Now don't you go hitting me, ya old fart. I'll be anxious to see what your kids gave you this year for your birthday - was it last year or the year before you got a plane ride over Nova Scotia - taking all those aerial views with your fancy camera? Hmmmmm, what would it be this year - bungee jumping? Belly dancing? Drag racing car? A Chippendale dancer??
Sharon (N.B.) (who is giggling away cuz I know you thought no one would remember this year) Big Smiley Face!!!
"Sharon" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
Contributions to a new, fancier camera lol
Yeah, you're right. Damn NBers lol
I am so glad to hear that Bucket came through the procedures well, but his normal feisty self. That good news counters with the one from MD.
My daughter's family adopted a pair of 4 month kittens from a Rescue group about six weeks ago.They were absolutely adorable when I was in MD, but the male had problems. Initially it was with the eyes, and we drove outside DC to a pet ophthalmologist. Apparently the kitty had herpes, inherited from his feral mother. All was well when I left, although Gonzo snoozed a lot, Katy made up for it with her energy.
I have now discovered that Gonzo was getting fatter and fatter, and the vet said he has an incurable disease, drained fluid from the abdomen and is scheduled to be put down today.
It does make you wonder a little about the rescue groups. Apparently the Mom was feral and very pregnant. She gave birth almost inmmediately, and the organisation put the kitties through all the normal stuff, including sterilisation. That is why they couldn't be adopted until they were four months old.
I think they were well-meant, but in all likelihood, it would have been better for the pregnant Mom not be saved. I haven't a clue what Marcella has paid to the various vets, plus the "adoption fee" ( which covered the pre-adoption medical care). I do know they can afford it, but my heart goes out to my grandkids today!
Gillian
That's so sad. It's hard for kids it's true, but death is a part of life and usually children seem to measure up better than we think they will. Awful.
We adopted some feral kittens and one of them had a bad reaction to her baby shots, which the V-E-T blamed on being feral. It cost us more than a week's pay to have her treated, and she didn't make it anyway.
And I think it's best for them to meet up with it early.
One of my former co-workers, some grandparents had died before she was born, so she didn't miss them. She was nearly 30 before anyone she knew (a friend's grandfather) died. A couple years later, her mom had fast-moving cancer, and she had no clue how to handle the loss.
People have been dying around me since I was 5. The morning after my grandmother died, I was at work and the only signal anyone had that there was anything wrong at all was that I was wearing a black dress without the usual colorful neck scarf.
Yup, that is true. My grandkids other grandmother, who lived closer to them, died on Dec 30th, after about two weeks of illness. They brought her home to a family get-together on Christmas Day, and returned her to the hospital later that day. Doris was in good shape at Xmas, and that is what the kids remember. The following day she lapsed into a coma, and died shortly thereafter. I was proud of Mike (16), because he read a love-letter that his grandpa had written to Doris at the memorial service. kids are tougher than we give them credit for.
Gillian
Ditto, here, ellice
Good questions. But, sorry for the grandchildren, and the kitties. It's always hard when pets have to be put down, or something happens to them.
Ellice
One does not get used to people dying , around him /her , Every death has a different pain , but all are painful ,,, and every person reacts a bit differently. mirjam If
That's absolutely true, Miriam, but I think there was a grain to the conversation that was culturally based - American culture, that is - that was unspoken and maybe wasn't apparent. That is, in our culture there is such denial of death that children are often "protected" from the reality of death. And in "nuclear" families - mom, dad, and kids often being very distanced from earlier generations - people often don't encounter death during their formative years, and therefore have not only no experience, but also no examples from observing those around them. And very little sense of community that they learn about mutual support in times of crisis.
Better to expose the children, is what was being said, to the reality that death is a fact of life, and give them the tools to deal with grief and loss.
Sue
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