Happy New Year to all in the Orb! May 2025 be a good one for us all! Lucky goes for his second follow up after the radiated iodine treatment at the end of January, hopefully his numbers stay good! Thank you all for your prayers and support over the past couple months!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful holiday art, Georgia! I know the Orb encompasses many beliefs so I will wish a Seasons Greetings to all!
My little black cat Lucky (a total Puck doppelganger with 4 legs) passed his one month checkup after the radiated iodine treatment with flying colors. We just finished an hour of lap time together reading Breaking Cat News and our Sunday comics, and just enjoying pets and purrs. With Lucky home and happy with Terri and me and his sister Missy, I don’t need anything else to know that these will be the best holidays ever!
Fr. O’Kittery looks annoyed in panel 3, like he’s heard enough. If he’s anything like the Irish Catholic priests of my youth, the two fiends had best watch out for their own good. The late Fr. Folliard, the pastor of my old church when I was growing up, was a standout rugby player and boxer before joining the priesthood. Gave me a few boxing lessons that cut short the grade school bullying I’d put up with.
Happy Sunday, and thank you for your prayers and good wishes for my best little pal Lucky!! We got the best news on Saturday – we get to drive to UT Knoxville and pick him up on Tuesday!!! He was such a good boy, that he immediately went back to eating, drinking, and using the litterbox regularly so that the post-procedure radiation dropped rapidly enough for an early release! He’ll get one last Geiger check Monday evening, and we’ll be there midday Tuesday to bring Lucky home! I’m sure the Orb magic had a lot to do with that!
Hi Orbsters, I’ve been away this week. On Monday we took my best little fur baby buddy, our black cat Lucky, to UT Knoxville’s vet center so he could receive a radiated iodine treatment for his hyperthyroidism. A 3 hour drive, but they are one of the leaders in this treatment, the only 100% cure currently for hyperthyroidism. He was on the waiting list at several centers, and UT had a last minute opening so we jumped on it. He had the treatment Wednesday, and has been doing well in isolated recovery (due to the radiation). I’ve never been apart from him since he chose me as his Cat Dad 12 years ago, so having to be apart for several weeks is difficult…. but I know it’s the best thing for Lucky. Hopefully we’ll have him back in time for a truly joyous U.S. Thanksgiving. Please keep Lucky and our family in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you all!
Prayers of comfort for you on your loss. Our special fur babies leave paw prints on our hearts, and they last forever.