*stops for breath*

I have a weird feeling of coming back to earth - the last two weeks have been a bit insane. Today at work is the first time for a while that I've felt like I can catch my breath and do some normal stuff, like reading fic and catching up with people.

Our cat with renal failure had a relapse - every time we took her to the vet we thought it would be the last time. But she's on a second medication, and her blood urea and nitrates are back to where they were before: not normal, but manageable, and it looks like she's stable again, for a while. She was really unhappy and clingy, she lost weight she couldn't afford to lose because her gums were so swollen she couldn't eat her kidney-safe kibble but we couldn't give her tinned food, because of her BUN levels, and it was all just bloody scary and distressing for everyone. But she's okay now, and she's stable, and we'll have her happy and healthy for a bit longer.

I'm not used to having cats grow old and sick. We lived on a busy road as a kid; our cats would just go out and not come back. (This makes no sense, looking back. Why didn't we keep our cats inside? Stupid parents.)

On a more cheerful note, in that time I also managed to defeat my writers block (thank you, thank you, thank you, wonderful people who helped with this!), and go to an art retreat, and spent a couple of days in Melbourne, and though I'm tired, I feel like stuff got done.

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