Cat-Effected Reading Habits

[sakon76]

So I had been rereading Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, which I hadn't read in... well over a decade, I suspect, as a beginning to an Arthurian kick. (And I have a LOT of Arthurian novels I want to reread my way through.) But the book is, to put it lightly, not light and fluffy reading. And after yesterday's news about Sushi, I really couldn't handle more fiction that depressed me and made me wonder in a not-always-pleasant way about the universe and my place in it. So I switched over to Terry Pratchett's "Making Money," which, being Discworld and more specifically being one of the books about Moist, was guaranteed to go down quickly and easily. Which it did.

I've been having to force-feed Sushi the past few days, which involves tinned food combined with water, squirted into his mouth via a large-ish plastic syringe. He doesn't particularly enjoy it but we both seem to be getting used to the system by now. It really says something about my state of mind that it made me really really happy this evening when he sniffed at the bowl I thinned the paste in, and then ate his dinner all by himself from the bowl. (This does not mean, however, that he is let off of having the nasty beefish smelling vitamin goo smeared on his nose so that he'll lick it off.) Today was better for me than yesterday... I've basically reached the acceptance at the moment that he's likely going to die much much sooner than I ever wanted him to, and that all I can do during his remaining time is take care of him and make him as happy as I can. Thus he's getting to do things that he wasn't allowed to before, such as being on my lap in the computer room. (Where he is as I type, in fact.)

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[mmouse15.livejournal.com]

I hope you find much enjoyment with him for as long as you have him.