Author: kazbah33pics

Did I say something the other day about there being no photos of me? Since then M Kaz has been busy with her camera and her phone taking photo after photo after photo of me. Who can blame her – I’m that photogenic?

Aunty Wendy and Uncle Wayne were here for the weekend. It was great to have them here but they really have to think about me a little bit more – specifically where I’m going to sleep since Wayne is using “my” bedroom and Aunty Wendy keeps locking me out of the office where she is sleeping.

Aunty Wendy is still in a lot of pain because she hasn’t been able to have her hip operation. She does have her rolley thing though and when she’s on that, she can move very quickly – but we’d all feel better if the brakes were a bit more reliable! Uncle Wayne did have a go at fixing them when they were all at the Broadwater this morning and she just needs a bit of an incline to really test it to see if they are working.

Before M Sooz came out to have breakfast with them all this morning, M Kaz, Aunty Wendy and Uncle Wayne were doing what M Sooz and I call “tech talk”. They were trying to hook Aunty Wendy’s keyboard to her tablet by Bluetooth and once they had that working, it was time to get the monitors working. Jobs done it was time for breakfast. M Kaz would still be in the kitchen doing “a little bit more” on the toast had the others not noticed that she had no idea how to use the timer function on the toaster. Who knew you could set the toaster to do that? M Kaz knows now and she says it’s going to revolutionise her life. (I still think she does not get out enough!)

I know M Kaz was sad when they left because she re-watched the final episodes of “Ghosts” (UK) and of Resident Alien. There may have been tears • but you didn’t hear it from me.

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.