Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday is baaack!

And I'm very thankful today that my crazy ear bump seems to be non-life-threatening, after all! I still have a bump on my ear, but we're pretty sure it was caused by a particularly rough ear scratching with my back foot and a sharp toenail. Mom is keeping my nails trimmed now - she'd sort of let them go to seed there for a long while. MOM...

Ear bump looking much less ominous

I think I just nicked it and it got infected, then I scratched it again, then again, and kept making it bleed and irritating it and aggravating it. I can't help it that it's the perfect distance and angle from my back foot!? Now it's all healed over and it's just... a bump. I can live with that.


Anyway... It's all good and it looks like me and my manpants will be around to keep you entertained for some time to come. ; )  Thanks again for the PawCircle and all the prayers and good wishes! I love you guys. 


What are you thankful for this week??


I'm not going to make this a blog-hop, since I'm posting so late, so just leave a comment with what you're thankful for this week. If you want to, you can write your own gratuity post and leave us the link!


 Cheers!
  Cokie
=^..^=

Paw Circle Request

Cokie's mom here... Please put Cokie on your Prayer /PawCircle list today. I just discovered what appears to be a baby pea sized tumor on the outside of Cokie's ear. 

I can't imagine how it got there so fast. I couldn't possibly have missed it if it were there yesterday, as I'm always scrunching his ears and look at him closely when I wash his paws every morning before I put on his man pants. 

I noticed this from across the room today. Very obvious red bulbous growth of some kind. 

This is not good news, since in the last couple of years, under the best of circumstances, Cokie freaks out too much to even take him to the vet. We've had to have vets come to us and even that is traumatic - for them and for us.

Today we have no choice but to take him in though, and we're hoping that whatever it is, they can cut it off and be done with it.

I'm a very, very worried mama right now, though. 
Please picture Cokie vibrant and healthy! Thank you for your love and kind thoughts.
 

Ear looking fine on my birthday 3 weeks ago.

Thank you so much,
Kristin & Cokie

UPDATE Feb 20, 2011: #Pawcircle For My Friend LaddieCat

Thanks for all your well wishes and #PawPrayers for my friend @LaddieCat. 

He's recuperating from his surgery at the Vet now - successful, but not out of the woods just yet... More and more friend have been showing up to snuggle on #LaddiesCouch. 

See a pic I took tonight here. 

carnival.mindofmog.net/

@Laddiecat is the brother of CookieManCat (@sadlovelyheart) & @BongoDoggie.

He's very ill - not eating or peeing - and having a last ditch emergency surgery this morning to remove a blockage in his urinary tract. Provided it's successful, Laddie will have to leave his Mom and family and move away, as he needs to be an only cat from now on, not let others eat his food or vice-versa, etc.

Portrait of Laddie Cat

He has a loving home to go to, but it's very sad for his Mom to have to let him go. For now, though we're all hanging out on #LaddiesCouch with him until the surgery, and will be snuggling him afterwards...

We're joining paws for a big #PawCircle #PeeCircle #HopeCircle & praying all goes well!

Laddie's on the far right side of the couch, next to me.

Feel free to lift this pic and jump on the couch yourself. 

Laddie and his family need all the support they can get.

You can light a candle for Laddie here:

You can send messages of encouragement to Laddie and his family by Tweeting him @LaddieCat.