I love reading other people's crafty blogs and am so impressed with the beautiful things they create and their willingness to share with the world that I wanted to create my own blog too and share my projects and ideas with an audience that (I hope) will love and appreciate them as well! Plus, now I have more of reason to finish all these projects that I'm always starting but can never finish. Be warned, however, that English was never my best subject and writing was always a struggle for me. But since I have this overwhelming desire to be good at everything (ha. ha.) I'm going to give it a shot.
The name Glitter Mouse is a tribute to my beautiful, sweet, purrfect cat that I had to let cross the Rainbow Bridge on 2/6/13. Mouse was my baby, my very first pet that was all mine. In 1997 I lived in a small garden apartment with my mom that had a strict "no pets" policy. Anyone who has ever lived in a garden apartment knows this to mean no dogs or farm animals. So, one day we took a ride to the local shelter in search of a kitten and her mama (because everyone just goes for the kittens, we couldn't leave the mama behind!). We ended up finding (or they found us is more accurate) 2 kittens and the mama cat - seriously, what kind of person could break up a family? The mama already had a name - Cady - and my mom named 1 of the kittens (Cosette - she loves Les Mis) and I got to name the other one. This tiny little furball that could fit in the palm of my hand was all mine! I named her Mouse and she made me smile for the next 15 and a half years of my life. One night in 2009 Mouse was walking across my bed and seemed to stumble a bit - her back legs looked like they got weak. It happened in an instant and never happened again, but I brought her to the vet the following morning. The vet took one listen to her heart and stated, "she has heart disease". My heart practically stopped beating at this diagnosis. Heart disease in cats has no cure, and being diagnosed at 12 years old made her chances at survival very slim. Prognosis? 6 months at most. She was put on Atenolol which I diligently gave her every day. In August, right after we got back from the shore (yes, she goes on vacation with me because I didn't trust anyone else to take care of her) I noticed she was breathing heavy. I took her to the animal ER and was told she's in congestive heart failure and might not make it. She had fluid in her lungs (pleural effusion <---not sure if that's the correct spelling) which they drained. I picked her up the next day with a new Rx - Lasix. A few days later, the heavy breathing happened again and she was back in the ER - they drained more fluid and told me I should consider putting her down in the next few weeks. Talk about a traumatizing decision! No pet owner wants to see their pet in pain, but no pet owner wants to say goodbye to their pet if they don't have to. I went with my gut and said NO WAY! So, for the next 3 and a half years I gave her 1/4 Atenolol twice a day, 1/2 Lasix in the evening, 1/2 Enalapril in the evening and a topical medicine to her ears in the morning and evening. Fast forward to February 2013 - the sneezing started and I knew in the back of my mind that the fluid was back, took her to the vet and the x-rays confirmed it. My vet drained as much as she could and upped her Lasix dose. Took her back the next day for a re-check and there was more fluid, but when she drained it there was some blood mixed in with the fluid this time. Basically, if I didn't make the decision to put her down peacefully right now, she would "drown without being underwater" sometime in the next day or so. I couldn't let her suffer like that so I put my feelings aside and made the most difficult decision I've ever had to make in my entire life and said goodbye to my best friend. Then I went home and crawled into bed, where I remained (except for trips to the bathroom) for the next 3 days.
And the glitter part? Just cause I love glitter and every thing's better with glitter on it.
So that's my story! Sorry for the novel - I promise my actual posts will never be that long!
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