Author: kazbah33pics

When the Mummies came home from lunch today, they both went in to the bedroom to have a nap. I joined them of course – doing my parrot thing and being on M Kaz’s shoulder. Did you know that parrots can nip? M Kaz does now. It was her fault. She hadn’t turned her watch on to ‘Do Not Disturb’ – or her phone. It was pretty annoying. I don’t know how she expected any of us to sleep through it.

Yes, that did mean that M Sooz was well enough to go out today – it’s the first time since Saturday. She is bearing up okay. The medical appointments keep coming though. Who knew it was a year since she saw the cardiologist; and they’ve been in contact about a routine follow-up.

She’s not the only one who has a medical appointment coming up. It’s time for my annual visit to the V-E-T for my vaccination, I could refuse to go but the Mummies will just trick me into going, or sneak up on me and force me into the cat cage. It usually takes both of them to do that. But the good news is that M Kaz has booked me in for a nail appointment as well. It’s time for that – even I know that. M Kaz does too and I know she is keen to have my nails done before it gets too warm for her to keep wearing long pants. They’ve really saved her this winter.

Sunday! Again! I’m not sure how it comes around so quickly but M Kaz is currently getting ready to go to the Markets. It’s not raining so that means the group will be meeting at HOTA today rather than at the Isle of Capri. M Kaz is taking a camera with her because she’s still thinking she might go to the Gold Coast Show. She almost went yesterday – something about the pull of the showbags, the rides (or photographing them), the blue heeler puppies, the Dagwood Dogs, the camels, the little trains ferrying folk up and down the Parklands. She didn’t go, though, because it started raining just enough for her windscreen wipers to start (they’re automatic) and at that point, she went off to JB Hifi instead.

M Sooz is not back to normal after her treatment on Tuesday but at least she hasn’t been too bad, except for the pain levels. Thank goodness for effective pain relief.

Can you believe M Kaz hasn’t taken any photos of me over the last couple of days. That hasn’t stopped her taking photos of other things – like the sunrise, pelicans, swans, the moon … just no Nigey!

Aunty Wendy came to visit on Saturday with her and M Kaz’s mother and while M Sooz had a nap (she had already been out to breakfast with Aunty M and M Kaz), they went down to the Broadwater for a drink and a look at the water.  There were a few pelicans there as well because it was coming on to the Pelican Feeding Time but they didn’t stay until then because they hurried back to Jannie so they could collect M Sooz and go off to Yum Cha.  I don’t know why they don’t bring any home for me.  Everyone knows I love green beans, chicken wings, pork buns, steamed rice and … well, I like just about everything those Mummies bring home for me.  

Can you believe that since I took that new friend in to M Sooz in bed, she’s been taking things in there as well.  I can’t tell you how surprised M Kaz was when she found a handful of strawberries in her bed.  Or how even more surprised she was when Aunty Wendy told her she had found a Mandarin in her bed.  Must be a Gemini thing said Aunty Wendy. 

M Sooz had her next/last chemotherapy treatment on Tuesday – it was supposed to be on Monday but her platelets weren’t quite behaving themselves when they did the blood test last Friday so they did another on Monday to see if they could go ahead.  They could, but because she also needed to do a blood transfusion they decided to do it all on the Tuesday (with an early start).  The treatment really does knock her around.  As M Kaz transcribes this for me, I am on M Sooz’s recliner, just keeping an ear out to make sure she’s okay.  

M Kaz has been going down to the Broadwater in the mornings to take her sunrise and Pelican shots.  I’ve been enjoying helping her go through the shots … or, I think it would be truer to say that I have been enjoying watching her going through the shots. And watching her think about the Gold Coast Show that’s on this weekend – and liqourice show bags.  Mmmmm … liquorice.  I probably won’t get any of that either.  Grrrrrr.

Did someone say “growl”?  M Kaz has been a bit short some evenings.  I’m not sure if it’s because she hasn’t been sleeping well or because I need to have my nails seen to or because I’m so darned persistent or something else completely.  Sometimes a Nigey never knows.  That doesn’t stop me sleeping on her bed, or her or between her knees … or on M Sooz’s bed or. In one of my many many boxes.

I have left a friend in the bedroom for M Sooz to play with. As yet she doesn’t know who it is but she is fairly certain (or at least hoping) that it isn’t a Cecil. She thinks it could be a Kermit – but she would be wrong. M Kaz did sight it this morning – it has come out from under the bed and is currently under M Sooz’s recliner in the living room. Yes .. it’s a dinosaur – and a pretty big one at that. Okay, it’s not as big as the one M Kaz will be seeing in ‘The End of Oak Street’ this afternoon – but plenty big enough … maybe just a T rather than a T-Rex.

M Sooz is still recuperating from her last round of chemotherapy – she is still fairly tired and happy to stay resting in her bed – especially if I am resting in there too and keeping her company. Like I’ve said before – whatever I can do to help.

It has been difficult to get M Kaz’s attention the last few days. It’s all to do with her photography – and the Pacific Airshow that she went to on Saturday and then spent days sorting – well, it seemed like days! I heard her tell someone she had taken over 4,350 shots and by the end of the sorting sessions, she posted fewer than 50 to her FaceBook page. Phew … talk about a big job – and a massive time-sucker-up-er-er.

The cat grass is reaching the end of its – whatever. I didn’t like this crop that much. I know it’s the same batch of seeds so it should have been okay but … no. Hopefully she’ll start the next batch soon so it’s ready for when I turn my nose up the last time at the current lot. I do pretend to be interested fro time to time – I wouldn’t want M Kaz to get discouraged about her grass growing because she’s been doing a decent job (this time) – even remembering to water it without me having to tell her.