April 1, 2020 Luna’s Lament

WordPress played an April Fool’s joke on me. I wrote a whole blog this morning, inserted most of the photos and then went to get one more photo to put at the end. When I got back, it was all gone. I went through the five stages of grieving fairly quickly, but still didn’t feel like doing it all over. Maybe tomorrow.

Instead I’ll tell you about poor little Luna, our cat. She’s going through her own nightmare of social distancing right now. I took her to the vet yesterday because she was – hmm, trying to decide how much information to impart here – let’s just say that she was urinating inappropriately and behaving strangely. I had to go through an interesting social distancing dance at the vet, too. Upon arrival, I called them from the parking lot. I was instructed to wait until the vet tech came out and then put Luna (in her carry box) by the bench in front some distance away from the door. After retreating to my car, the vet tech retrieved the “package” and I waited in the car until the vet called me with the diagnosis: bladder stones and a UTI. She needs a special kind of food now that she’ll have to eat for the rest of her life, expensive food. And she’s on antibiotics.

Until she’s done with her “indiscretions,” she’s got to stay in the uncarpeted areas where her litter box and food are (which aren’t in the same room – don’t worry). There’s no door in that doorway, so we had to improvise and put the ping-pong table top up against the doorway to keep her in there.

She’s taking it pretty well and of course we come in to spend time with her now and again. I want to tell her “This, too, shall pass,” the same thing we are telling ourselves these days.

I’ll probably delete this in the morning. Are you getting as tired of reading that as I am of writing it? :-).

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