Community & Cats
Nov. 1st, 2021 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aWe got to enjoy a bit of Kauai community on Sunday, something that's been too rare since we arrived because of the pandemic.
Tip Top. Our original plan was to start off the day with brunch at Daddy-o's because of their constant advertising on Star 94.3. But we arrived there a few minutes after 11 and found that, despite their constant radio ads saying they were open 7-1 on Sunday, they'd closed at 11.
Some locals leaving just as we got there suggested Tip Top, and since we'd heard good things about them from my dad and Mary, we tried it. There was a half-hour line to get in, but that was in part because they properly have 50% of their tables closed off. And we enjoyed a very tasty breakfast, an egg and bacon sandwich for me, pancakes for Kimberly. This was clearly a hole-in-the-wall community restaurant, like Da Crack was 20 years ago (much less so now), so that was nice.
Y. One of our main purposes of the day was to go to the Y, because Kimberly's physical therapists want her to be doing water exercise in a pool, and the other major choice, a free pool in Waimea that currently has a limit of 6 and which has very limited hours, seemed a poor option.
The biggest obstacle was actually that the Y only takes cash, so we had to come up with $20 cash, which we did by buying Cheerio's and Peachi-os as Longs Drugs and getting some cash back.
Once we got in, the pool was very nice. Lots of friendly people, which Kimberly talked to several of (and which I exchanged a few words with). Kimberly also had a good time doing her exercises, so we'll be returning in a few days to get a family membership, probably for the next several months. (That required a check or about $100 in cash for the first month, so we couldn't do it while we were there on Sunday.) I suspect I"ll go with Kimberly to the Y sometimes, and she'll start getting out there on her own sometimes on Paratransit, because I don't think I can be out there with the frequency that her physical therapist wants.
Unfortunately, we're still having cat problems.
Callisto. Callisto has been a bit iffy in eating lately, sometimes either finishing her wet food after Lucy, or not at all, which is totally unlike her. So this morning I called in to the vet asking what our next step should be, because I assume it's a continuation of the high-white-blood-cell-count/inflamed-stomach that she had two months ago. Then after I called, she started acting much worse today, actually running from me! So I took her in to get an anti-nausea shot, and they discovered she's running a 103.5 temperature, which is a cat fever. So she got anti-biotics and an anti-nausea and some subcutaneous fluids, and she's going back in in two days to see if she's better or if we need to do something more. She was still pretty jumpy after we ran some errands this evening, but then she started hanging around waiting for the evening's wet food, growled at me when I pushed her away from Lucy's food, and ate hers pretty voraciously. So clearly feeling a little better.
Lucy. Meanwhile, I've got Lucy scheduled to get her weight checked next Monday, so we can see what the next step is for her health, and the prior weight loss.
Whew. That's a lot with Kimberly still needing lots of support, all thew new physical therapy needs, and my trying to finish my Elf Book project.
Tip Top. Our original plan was to start off the day with brunch at Daddy-o's because of their constant advertising on Star 94.3. But we arrived there a few minutes after 11 and found that, despite their constant radio ads saying they were open 7-1 on Sunday, they'd closed at 11.
Some locals leaving just as we got there suggested Tip Top, and since we'd heard good things about them from my dad and Mary, we tried it. There was a half-hour line to get in, but that was in part because they properly have 50% of their tables closed off. And we enjoyed a very tasty breakfast, an egg and bacon sandwich for me, pancakes for Kimberly. This was clearly a hole-in-the-wall community restaurant, like Da Crack was 20 years ago (much less so now), so that was nice.
Y. One of our main purposes of the day was to go to the Y, because Kimberly's physical therapists want her to be doing water exercise in a pool, and the other major choice, a free pool in Waimea that currently has a limit of 6 and which has very limited hours, seemed a poor option.
The biggest obstacle was actually that the Y only takes cash, so we had to come up with $20 cash, which we did by buying Cheerio's and Peachi-os as Longs Drugs and getting some cash back.
Once we got in, the pool was very nice. Lots of friendly people, which Kimberly talked to several of (and which I exchanged a few words with). Kimberly also had a good time doing her exercises, so we'll be returning in a few days to get a family membership, probably for the next several months. (That required a check or about $100 in cash for the first month, so we couldn't do it while we were there on Sunday.) I suspect I"ll go with Kimberly to the Y sometimes, and she'll start getting out there on her own sometimes on Paratransit, because I don't think I can be out there with the frequency that her physical therapist wants.
Unfortunately, we're still having cat problems.
Callisto. Callisto has been a bit iffy in eating lately, sometimes either finishing her wet food after Lucy, or not at all, which is totally unlike her. So this morning I called in to the vet asking what our next step should be, because I assume it's a continuation of the high-white-blood-cell-count/inflamed-stomach that she had two months ago. Then after I called, she started acting much worse today, actually running from me! So I took her in to get an anti-nausea shot, and they discovered she's running a 103.5 temperature, which is a cat fever. So she got anti-biotics and an anti-nausea and some subcutaneous fluids, and she's going back in in two days to see if she's better or if we need to do something more. She was still pretty jumpy after we ran some errands this evening, but then she started hanging around waiting for the evening's wet food, growled at me when I pushed her away from Lucy's food, and ate hers pretty voraciously. So clearly feeling a little better.
Lucy. Meanwhile, I've got Lucy scheduled to get her weight checked next Monday, so we can see what the next step is for her health, and the prior weight loss.
Whew. That's a lot with Kimberly still needing lots of support, all thew new physical therapy needs, and my trying to finish my Elf Book project.