Eva & Butters
Member Since 2010
Good Morning ~
Mel and Lil, I just had to post this again...hope it's okay. You and Musette, Mel, have been such an inspiration to so many of us...always giving encouragement and hope. This morning, I was feeling such great sadness thinking of you and Musette. Then I went into our living room, and there, across our rug, was the most beautiful, brilliant rainbow. So rare here...doesn't happen often. I can remember another "floor" rainbow like this one several years ago right after our beloved Willie died. I felt a sense of calm come over me then and I feel it now. I believe Muse and Musette are telling me they're okay...more than okay. {{{Mel and Muse and Musette}}}
Love,
Eva
"I hope LILandKIT don't mind that I copy and pasted part of what I told them over on the Relaxed Lantus board last night. But we have all been right where you are, patience isn't my strong suit either. I thought I had it all figured out with Maxwell when I adopted him and he did everything almost textbook for getting a cat into remission and he did it so quickly. Then comes Musette, and I'm back to feeling like a newbie all over again. She clearly hasn't read the stickies, she doesn't want to follow the rules and she wants to do this whole sugar dance her way...imagine that!...oh wait....She's a CAT! That is what cats do...everything their own way, and according to their own rules.
When I hit one of those really frustrating days I take a deep breath and try to remember... We call this a dance for a reason, when you first start learning a dance you feel awkward and clumpsy as you start learning the steps, but the more you do it, more you practice the more graceful you become, until your body instinctively starts to move when you hear the music. The same with this dance, its frustrating and overwhelming at first, you feel clumpsy, there are days that you feel like your tripping over your own feet, and you swear you will never be able to remember all the steps in the right order, but if you take it one step at a time, and work it into a routine, pretty soon it will become like brushing your teeth, you will be able do it in your sleep. Your body will almost instinctively go through the routine, I know now after 6 months of testing Musette as much as I test her, and I have the luxery of being to test her alot.. I have woke up the next morning and had to check the meter's memory to see if I actually tested her or if I just dreamed I did. There is only one problem with this dance......only the cats can hear the music! And just like a dance, while the basic framework remains the same, every dancer puts their own style and flare to that dance. Every cat dances to their own music, and like any good dance partner we just have to learn to follow their lead. And yeah, somedays regardless of how long we dance with our sugarcat, there will be days when we break a heel, step on our hem, or slip on the dance floor and fall on our hiney. But when those days happen, you just have to gracefully pick yourself up off the floor and go on with the dance. Then go have a melt down in the dressing room later while you drown your bruised ego with chocolate and alcoholic beverage of your choice. Because when the music starts for the next performance, you need to go right back on the dance floor, because your dance partner is counting on you, they can't dance without you.
Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang"
Mel and Lil, I just had to post this again...hope it's okay. You and Musette, Mel, have been such an inspiration to so many of us...always giving encouragement and hope. This morning, I was feeling such great sadness thinking of you and Musette. Then I went into our living room, and there, across our rug, was the most beautiful, brilliant rainbow. So rare here...doesn't happen often. I can remember another "floor" rainbow like this one several years ago right after our beloved Willie died. I felt a sense of calm come over me then and I feel it now. I believe Muse and Musette are telling me they're okay...more than okay. {{{Mel and Muse and Musette}}}
Love,
Eva
"I hope LILandKIT don't mind that I copy and pasted part of what I told them over on the Relaxed Lantus board last night. But we have all been right where you are, patience isn't my strong suit either. I thought I had it all figured out with Maxwell when I adopted him and he did everything almost textbook for getting a cat into remission and he did it so quickly. Then comes Musette, and I'm back to feeling like a newbie all over again. She clearly hasn't read the stickies, she doesn't want to follow the rules and she wants to do this whole sugar dance her way...imagine that!...oh wait....She's a CAT! That is what cats do...everything their own way, and according to their own rules.
When I hit one of those really frustrating days I take a deep breath and try to remember... We call this a dance for a reason, when you first start learning a dance you feel awkward and clumpsy as you start learning the steps, but the more you do it, more you practice the more graceful you become, until your body instinctively starts to move when you hear the music. The same with this dance, its frustrating and overwhelming at first, you feel clumpsy, there are days that you feel like your tripping over your own feet, and you swear you will never be able to remember all the steps in the right order, but if you take it one step at a time, and work it into a routine, pretty soon it will become like brushing your teeth, you will be able do it in your sleep. Your body will almost instinctively go through the routine, I know now after 6 months of testing Musette as much as I test her, and I have the luxery of being to test her alot.. I have woke up the next morning and had to check the meter's memory to see if I actually tested her or if I just dreamed I did. There is only one problem with this dance......only the cats can hear the music! And just like a dance, while the basic framework remains the same, every dancer puts their own style and flare to that dance. Every cat dances to their own music, and like any good dance partner we just have to learn to follow their lead. And yeah, somedays regardless of how long we dance with our sugarcat, there will be days when we break a heel, step on our hem, or slip on the dance floor and fall on our hiney. But when those days happen, you just have to gracefully pick yourself up off the floor and go on with the dance. Then go have a melt down in the dressing room later while you drown your bruised ego with chocolate and alcoholic beverage of your choice. Because when the music starts for the next performance, you need to go right back on the dance floor, because your dance partner is counting on you, they can't dance without you.
Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang"
