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May 29, 2006
Imogen Update
We spent the weekend in Tacoma, visiting friends there. We had dinner at the Sea Grill. Sooooooo gooooooood. In many ways, Tacomatose doesn't even seem like the same city it was when I first got there 20+ years ago. We got to see Narrows Bridge construction, and downtown Tacoma is so much more vital than it was when we lived there. But Ruston Way is the same. (We stayed at the Silver Cloud Inn.) And the weather is the same. It was cold and rainy all weekend.
I love the Pacific Northwest. So much. It dawned on me on this trip that I have been a resident of four different states in my lifetime. Arizona, where I was born, and about which I really had little to no choice. Idaho, where I grew up. Once I became an adult, Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Idaho, in that order. And since the time I was finally able to make my own choices, I have lived in the most beautiful places: the Puget Sound, the Willamette Valley and Portland, Oregon, and the Palouse. I have been so lucky. But the realization I had was that Tacoma feels like home and has ever since I first stepped out of the car and onto the University of Puget Sound campus for my spring break visit in 1985. "Home," said my heart.
Home.
Now, Dave and I realize that we need to find a new place to be, since he has promised me that we won't live in this tiny house in this tiny town for a minute longer than necessary. (That is the exact wording of the promise, by the way, "not a minute longer than necessary.") So we have to figure out where to go from here. And that's tough, because it's entirely up to us. He can work from anywhere, and we really want this next move to be the move. To the place where we can put down roots and just stay. It's hard to figure out where that will be.
But. I promised with the title to this entry that it was an Imogen update. Which I haven't given you yet.
Imogen and Katala boarded with the vet this weekend. With the special needs they have right now (meds and food and monitoring) we didn't figure a twice-a-day catsitter would be the best choice. So we boarded the girls. Leaving them behind was tough, but I knew they'd have the best care at the vet. So after their annual exams and rabies shots, I left them. Broke my heart.
They did a blood chem on Imogen while we were gone, just to see whether the antibiotics were working. The vet called and left a message on my cell. Apparently, it was an infection, because Imogen's liver numbers are back to normal. Which means we have a healthy girl again. And she and Katala are now home and very happy about it. Very happy. The least happy cat in the house is Q, who is following me from room to room like a small, fat (very fat), screamy, black shadow. Just to be sure I don't abandon her again.
So everyone's fine, and I'm going to spend the day getting the household back in order.
Posted by sally at May 29, 2006 09:51 AM
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