A Very Great Quantity Of Excellent Cats

[TheShellBeach]

New thread.
Continuing the adventures of all our cats, the well-behaved and the less well-behaved.

Broken ribs and a sprained ankle together is no fun, Coastergirl. Get well soon!

@coastergirl ouch, my sympathies.

@TheLongRider surely a farewell photo of the fosters is needed?

The three of them trying to clean my yoghurt pot.

Oh so fluffy! Thanks Long

So sorry about Emerald @TheShellBeach ❤️

I was working yesterday but in a different branch and had a little helper...

@PollyCreo Very helpful office cat - bet he really increases productivity 🤣

Best use for paperwork. I bet he’s a fine manager.

I have the builders round today. So of course it was the perfect opportunity for my fecking cat to launch herself on next door's tabby, yowling horribly, while I shouted "WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING STOP THAT NOW" until they desisted. The culprit is now lurking in the garden looking aggrieved.

Aggrieved but not at all guilty: "They deserved it."

@prettybird under a pear tree together sounds a wonderful place for them to be.
our old boy’s favourite place is talking to his favourite plant on the pathway. So I know when that day comes for us, that is where his place will be.

@coastergirl you have my sympathies. I broke five ribs when I was young and the pain was grim.
And then to damage your ankle as well!

It was inevitable that Walter would seize his chance to cause another injury, really.

Just read the thread through (so many dotey wee cats!) & I’m so very sorry for your loss Shell.

The BalletCats are just starting to wonder if perhaps it might be lunchtime soon. Well, Nijinsky (black cat) is - his littermate [half-]brother, Balanchine, isn’t hungry yet apparently…

DD's birthday present to me has finally arrived - a bottle of Tobermory gin.

Trebles all round - and here is Linney, looking pensive on DH's chair in the garden.

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats @Supersimkin2 He was only on a day's trial but implemented the following:

1. Improved customer relations (meet and greet service)
2. Thorough regular cleaning of work surfaces (rolling around on my desk purring)
3. Reconfiguring work space (knocking everything off my desk)
4. Assisting with electronic communications (lying on and walking across my keyboard, standing on the phone and sending a very questionable reply to a supplier via WhatsApp 🤨)
5. Health and safety checks of food-cooling systems (trying to climb inside the fridge)
6. Regular mental health checks (headbutting me if I had the temerity to ignore him for longer than 3 minutes)

I've named him Bolly as he's champagne coloured 🥂😹

The pain is indeed grim. I've been in tears with it today. Very unlike me. Prescription for tramadol and naproxen has just arrived so I'm waiting for them to kick in. Ankle is all pretty colours now. I've done a good job of it.

Omg 😳😟 hope the painkillers kick in soon, you poor thing ❤️

The ankle is actually really not bothering me, it's the ribs. Never felt pain like it 😢

It's horrible isn't it and nothing you can do 😭 I broke a rib three years ago and at one point felt like I couldn't breathe.

@coastergirl Tramadol causes extreme constipation. Having broken ribs makes the whole thing difficult anyway - so I recommend taking two senokot twice a day from right now.

I agree - I'd rather do a few hours of labour than go through that again.

I fell in the bath when I did mine. I was only 23, so young and fit, but it took me twenty minutes to get out of the bath and drag myself to my bedroom. DH was at work. I made it to the phone and called a friend to take me to A & E.

Ugh. I thought I would never get out of that bath. I slipped when showering, and landed on my right side, on a grab rail which the previous owner had had in her bath.
Isn't it weird how you can remember pain?

My GP sent a prescription for Fortral and Mogadon (who remembers dear old Mogadon?) which I thought was over the top, but as soon as I tried to get into bed and sleep I saw why he'd sent them.

I've never forgotten that GP. (He was struck off a year later for failing to diagnose an ectopic pregnancy in a woman, who died).

Bolly needs an immediate pay rise and promotion.

Oh Coastergirl. I winced when I read your post. Now I've seen the picture it looks unbelievably painful.

Tobermory gin sounds lovely - I've just been looking at the website. A gin and tonic with lots of ice will be perfect on a warm evening TheShellBeach!

Bolly looks like an excellent recruit, PollyCreo.

He's insisting that a belly rub clause (claws) is included in his contract. He was offered chilled mineral water yesterday but turned his nose up, preferred to sip from a manky puddle 🤔

Oh @coastergirl many sympathies (& also empathy for the ankle, have genuinely lost count of how many times I sprained mine, especially as a teenager). Very much recommend ice for both ankle & ribs - is really good for reducing pain (I’m on fentanyl patches & will go for ice & paracetamol before resorting to oxycodone for breakthrough pain, so not just chatting bubbles about pain management) & tbh as long as the ice pack isn’t touching my bare skin I don’t wrap it. (Apologies if you think this is glaringly obvious, sometimes people forget about using ice after the initial injury iyswim? At the risk of granny/egg sucking territory: if it wasn’t explained, & it far too often isn’t, hence my saying, atm it’s important to schedule your pain medication. It should get you on top of the pain & scheduling it will keep you there; waiting to see if you “need” the dose, while understandable, means you end up in pain & then have to get it back under control &… obviously you don’t keep on like that forever, but it’s so instinctive for so many people to wait & see if they need their next dose or they can manage & it’s actually really bad healing-wise, in the early stages, anyway. I’m dreadful for remembering to change my patches - I’ve now an alarm that tells me I need to - which is a whole other sort of bad idea. 🤦🏻‍♀️)

@PollyCreo
Your new co-worker looks splendid. And the BalletCats tell me tummyrubs are a Union Thing 🤷🏻‍♀️ (Cannot find photo of Nijinsky, but both of them like having their tummies rubbed).