Before the Birthdays
Mar. 22nd, 2013 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aWe're about to have a busy week, with birthday celebrations, an outing to a play, and my finishing up volume 3 of Designers & Dragons (hopefully), so a few notes on what's going on now ...
CATS. The cats have continued to acclimate to each other, faster than I had hoped. There's very little hissing now, and the growling has been gone for days. Lucy has even stopped huffing. It's really only when Callisto accidentally runs into Lucy now that there's a minor squabble (by which I mean Callisto hisses and flees and Lucy looks confused).
Poor Lucy really lost her mojo with this strange cat being in the house, but she seems more confident and happier by the day. Unfortunately the poor kit's courage has been insufficient to run Callisto off of the prime spot at the top of the cat tree. Three times I've seen her get up the gumption to go swarming up the cat tree, then turn back at the last moment. She's also not quite up to playing with toys most of the time, but hopefully soon. (As I write this, she just started bouncing a rubber ball around all on her own!)
In any case, it seems clear that Lucy and Callisto not going to be hated enemies, which is a great first step.
HEALTH. I went to my final cardiologist appointment for the nonce on Thursday, and got back the results of my echo stress the previous week. The good news is that the EKG and the ultrasound were both fine after the exercise. That's a big WHEW. Apparently I did have some extra heartbeats *after* the exercise, which can be common with higher blood pressure, but my doc wasn't too worried. We've got a routine follow-up scheduled in 6 months just to be sure everything continues AOK.
CATS. The cats have continued to acclimate to each other, faster than I had hoped. There's very little hissing now, and the growling has been gone for days. Lucy has even stopped huffing. It's really only when Callisto accidentally runs into Lucy now that there's a minor squabble (by which I mean Callisto hisses and flees and Lucy looks confused).
Poor Lucy really lost her mojo with this strange cat being in the house, but she seems more confident and happier by the day. Unfortunately the poor kit's courage has been insufficient to run Callisto off of the prime spot at the top of the cat tree. Three times I've seen her get up the gumption to go swarming up the cat tree, then turn back at the last moment. She's also not quite up to playing with toys most of the time, but hopefully soon. (As I write this, she just started bouncing a rubber ball around all on her own!)
In any case, it seems clear that Lucy and Callisto not going to be hated enemies, which is a great first step.
HEALTH. I went to my final cardiologist appointment for the nonce on Thursday, and got back the results of my echo stress the previous week. The good news is that the EKG and the ultrasound were both fine after the exercise. That's a big WHEW. Apparently I did have some extra heartbeats *after* the exercise, which can be common with higher blood pressure, but my doc wasn't too worried. We've got a routine follow-up scheduled in 6 months just to be sure everything continues AOK.