Grandma's Pearls

Update on Marvin

Well, yesterday we took the cat to the vet because we thought he had another wolf worm that hatched out of him. Turns out that we were wrong. He had been fighting a few days/week ago. He had gotten bit and the bite got infected. They had to keep him overnight so they could sedate him and clean-up the wound. They said that if the infection had gone any further, we night have lost him. I'm going to go pick him up today and bring him home. I'm pretty sure that he will have to be in the house for a few days and on meds for atleast 10 days. The vet also said that he was going to lose some tissue from the area and not to be alarmed when we see it. I hope that it isn't a lot. We have had him for quite a while now and it would feel very empty around here without him.

On another note, I talked to one of my sister's yesterday also. She told me that my other sister's soon to be ex- husband got the test results back from the doctor's. He had surgery on the 4th to remove his pancreas and part of his stomach. They did tests on other parts of his body, looking for cancer. He had to have his pancreas removed because of the cancer. Well, they found it in 1 of his lymph nodes, at least that is what they have said so far. It isn't good that they found it in his lymph glands. Usually when you find it there, well, it just isn't good most of the time. I'm hoping and praying for the best outcome possible. I was told that my sister isn't staying there to help him through it. I can sort of understand why but part of me just thinks that isn't right. I know that she doesn't love him anymore, but, they have been together for so many years and he is going to need someone there to help him keep a positive attitude and get through this. If he doesn't have anyone there for him, the chances are that he isn't going to make it. I feel so sorry for my sister and her husband. We had to go through the cancer thing with my mom, just last summer and that was beyond hard. We got through it because we pulled together as a family but the way he was raised, they don't know how to pull together, they just pull apart. That is one of the many reasons my sister can't stay there and watch or help. It just doesn't seem fair for her to have to do this again. I have always been told that He won't give you more than you can handle, but I think this is too much for her right now. It is too soon for her to be able to deal with this.

I was talking to my husband about it this morning before he left for work and I told him that if we ever ended up like my sister and her husband and something like that happened to him, I would never leave him alone like that. I just couldn't do it to him, not after all the years together. I told him that I just had to tell him that, just so he would know. His response was that I better hope we don't win the lottery because if we do, then he won't have to worry about me, financially, and then he will be gone. How is that for being a loving, caring individual! I just looked at him and said, I know. Then he left for work and thatt was that. Kind of put a damper on my day because I now know that if something like that happened to me, I would be alone and that really hurt my soul. I'm done!