"Cat"astrophe!

Shew! Well, it has been almost a week since I posted. As I write this I wonder, has everyone abandoned me? I sure hope not. My life has been BUSY since my return home from California. I worked close to 70 hours last week and managed to put some time in at the gym. To date I have lost 17 pounds and 4% body fat. Yeah!!! But my biggest event last week happened on Thursday...

Thursday August 3, 2006 4:30am, I hear the shrill sound of my alarm clock, ugh. I have to be in the office at 6:00am for a conference call. I hate being the only west coast person in the company. All conference calls are based on east coast time. This is the third call at 6:00am this week and I am exhausted. My only saving grace is that I was suppose to receive a voice mail sometime in the night on my cell phone confirming the call is on...check the cell phone, no messages. I call the CTO who is not sure if the call is still on and he will call me back in 5 minutes... 5 minutes turns into 30 minutes. Awe hell, I'm awake now. Of course the call gets cancelled.

I turn on CNN, make coffee and figure out what I am going to wear. I decide to wear my spring green pants but before I do I must fix the hem that is falling. I get out my sewing kit, match the thread to the pants and begin sewing. When I finish I cut the thread and place the needle with the remaining thread hanging off of it back in the pin cushion, kitty jumps on the bed. As I am admiring my handy work the kitty jumps off the bed. Something is wrong, I can feel it.

I look over the other side of the bed where kitty jumped down and she looks fine but something still feels wrong. I get on the floor for a closer look and kitty takes off. Never does kitty run from me, something is definitely wrong. But what is it? I look in the pin cushion for the needle with the spring green thread hanging off of it and to my dismay it is gone. I run after kitty she will not even think of letting me get near her and I think to myself there is NO WAY a little cat like that could swallow a 2" sewing needle but the needle was no where to be found. Finally, I corner kitty and get a flashlight, pry open her mouth and take a look in, no needle, no thread. Did she really swallow it? I begged kitty to please tell me but today would not be the day she would speak.

I took kitty to the vet for an x-ray hoping and praying the needle would not be there but it was. The news was grim the needle had already made it's way to her stomach. The vet explained that they had a very skilled doctor on staff who would attempt to scope it out but if that didn't work they would have to cut her belly open to get it out. The surgery schedule was pretty booked that day so I left my kitty and went to work sobbing and angry that such a stupid thing happened.

Finally, at 12:00pm I get a call from the vet and they were able to get the needle out with the scope. Thank God! They gave the needle back to me with the spring green thread still hanging off of it. What an emotional day. I could not think of losing my pretty little kitty that day. Aren't animals and pets such a blessing and a joy in our lives? Today I am blessed to still have mine.

Michael - I am putting in my suggestion for your new son. I think he should be named Murdock. What have you come up with?