Russ just called. He'll arrange to have the vet come and pick Cricket up tomorrow, just to be safe. And to keep me from going stark raving mad between now and Sunday when he gets home.

I was prepared to take her down there myself. I'd have to walk and it's quite a ways. (South Sioux is narrow and long.) He said he'd already talked to the vet before he left, because a cat almost always gets sick while he's gone. Our vet is a great guy. He comes by and picks up the animals for us.

Of course, he also says we put his daughter through college, so I guess it's a fair trade.

Well, she got sick again, though not as badly, I think. And she's still up and moving around.

I hate days like these.

I ended up with 3015 words. Good count, good scene.

I went to bed about 9am, got back up a few minutes later... and found that one of the cats had been ill, and there were spots of blood all over the kitchen floor.

I was fairly certain I knew who it had been. Cricket has an ongoing bladder infection that the vet can't clear up and can't figure out. She gets it, gets better, gets it again. She doesn't usually vomit blood, though, so I worried over her, getting up every couple hours to see how she was doing. She stayed up and moving all day (better than me, in fact), and was quite happy tonight when I opened up one of the really expensive cans of cat food for them.

I'll be watching her tonight and tomorrow. If she starts looking bad, into the cat carrier she goes tomorrow, and we take a nice long walk down to the vet.

But to say that I'm really worn down...

Slow writing, but a good scene done. A difficult scene, dealing with the deaths of many people, and an unexpected gift.

new total 46,820
old total 44,935
new words 1885

Still a ways to go tonight, I think. But I'm happy with what I've gotten so far.

Had several other things to take care of. Kind of funny, really. Yesterday, when I couldn't come up with ten words to write without looking for something else to do, I couldn't find anything to get me away from the computer. Today, wanting to do the scene in Ada Nish Pura, I am constantly side tracked by a number of things. I don't need to be side tracked by most of them, but it still happens.