UPDATE on the hospitalization of Miles and Pierro

Hello and greetings from Rosemary
I just spoke with Dr Leonard at the LifeCentre. She said the blood tests on both boys came back very good, nothing yet to suggest kidney damage.

It was thought earlier that Pierro could come home after this good report today, mostly because 1. it was presumed most likely that he did not eat any of the flower petals and 2. because he becomes anxious and that causes his heart murmur. However, the doc said that both boys are quite comfortable, sitting at the front of their "house" and observing what is going on in the room and engaging with the medical staff. They are taking the IV fluids well, and tolerating the charcoal treatments, So - she suggested Pierro stay another night with them. I was disappointed but I know he is in good hands. I also think that even though the boys are of course in different "rooms" they are right next to each other, so they sense that they are together in this ordeal.
I will not go to Leesburg and visit them as I believe this might cause renewed anxiety for them. The medical staff in the back and also the front desk personnel are very interested in them and because they are cornish rex and quite handsome they are getting a lot of encouragement.
I also think it is a good thing not to go there to see the boys today because that LifeCentre is very busy with all sorts of emergencies and with that there are people that are very distraught and it is a really frightening place to be.
I do not need to be there.
Thank you all of you for your wonderful and encouraging prayers and purrs and hopeful thoughts.
It is very quiet here - I miss my boys terribly
the box fort is quiet, there are no tussles at the satellite office, there are no
crackling chases through the tunnel, Pierro is not laying in the sunny patch by the window and Miles is not looking for excitement in the closets, cabinets, my sewing things, the bathrooms, or taking shoe liners out of shoes.
I am hoping for continued recovery
again, thank you so much

Friday night trip to the emergency room

Pierro and Miles are in the LifeCentre emergency hospital in Leesburg.
Last night as we were preparing for bed after a long busy day, Miles and Pierro were racing around the house. There in the upstairs hall, Miles paused and then barfed up ---- lily flower parts. Yes, how stupid we were, Blizzie received some lovely flowers from her sweet boy. We put the flowers up high on a cabinet in Blizzie's room. She kept her door closed so the boys were never in there besides they never could have gotten up on that cabinet.

well, last night a few of those lily pedals fell off onto the books and college clutter below and Miles got into them... I do not think that Pierro ate any because he does not normally eat plants. (Miles eats everything, because he is orange)

So, as soon as I saw that barfing incident - and identified the contents, hubby and I packed them up in to their respective carriers and whisked them off without delay to the LifeCentre.

They are being treated for poisoning, Pierro might come home today if his bloodwork comes back good. Miles will probably stay until Monday at least since it is certain that he ingested the flower pedals.

Both boys looked okay last night.
Right now we are just being hopeful.
I called CurlieSwirlie Teri at 11:30 pm last night and it is a comfort to have such a brilliant friend. We went to bed at 1:15 to a very quiet empty house.

This morning, hubby called the hospital early, both boys are doing well.
Lilies are highly toxic - there are a lot of other very poisonous things out there, so try to learn what they are via google, there are so many informative sites which I have no brainpower to find right now.

I am not going to think about the worst outcome from this. I can't. I love my boys so much. I could babble on for hours and pages about this pair of polar opposite tiny tigers.

I will keep you updated - sorry this message is so disjointed. I have had very little sleep. Have a very lovely day every one and kitty

Faith is putting all your eggs
in God's basket,
then counting your blessings
before they hatch.
~Ramona C. Carroll

Frootbat Friday ~ it is the 4th of July week-end!

May the sun in his course visit no land more free,
more happy, more lovely,
than this our own country!
~Daniel Webster
Pierro: Have a fun bonkbonk Friday



Miles: and a bronkie week-end!


This nation will remain the land of the free
only so long as it is
the home of the brave.
~Elmer Davis

Mancat Monday

Miles:
Happy Monday greetings from our main office, kitties
Do you see Pierro peeping at me through the little window on the left?
you can click on this to see him.


This past week-end mom and dad and the girls went to gramma and grampa to celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary.
here is a nice photo taken by our dad, in front of the Greek restaurant they went to eat food and have fun! Oh yeah, that is our mom standing next to her mom. cool huh?


Pierro:
Miles and I stayed home of course, and we were good boys the whole time.
We worked in our box fort,

our main headquarters,
Miles had a few projects and I helped with the details.

we had a relaxing day

Bonks for a happy sun-filled week.

Common sense
in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friday Frootbats

Pierro:
hey kitties
mom is baking a lot of things today and sewing some bits of bonkie cloth together

Miles: The house smells really good, and the bits of cloth are tempting us
Happy Friday and bronkbronk week-end

"To achieve the impossible,
it is precisely the unthinkable
that must be thought."
-- Tom Robbins

Monday Mancats

Miles

well, some of you have inquired about my size...
YES I am much huge-er than Pierro. He weighs 6 pounds and I weigh 7+ pounds.

Mom calls me Mr. Chunkletons, but I am not a chubby guy, just BIG

Pierro
Happy Monday kitties.

As a mancat, I just want you to know that size does not matter --

unless you are talking about HUGE BRAINS

bonks for a fun day

Affection is responsible
for nine-tenths
of whatever solid and durable
happiness there is in our lives.
C.S. Lewis

Frootbat Friday

Pierro:

Mom always knows where to find me
I always sleep

inside my bonkie bloo blankie
look, my paws are as big as my head...

Miles has a new hiding place and mom cannot find him this morning
she looked all over the house she called Miles, but he just would not tell her where he was!!!

Miles: I do not want mom to find my new snoozing spot on top of the refrigerator and under this bronkie cabinet.


-- besides, I am not sure I really like it enough yet

Have a fun week-end kitties!
Those who bring sunshine
into the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie

Monday Mancats

Pierro:
Monday morning bonkful greetings from the dishwasher, kitties.

we hope you had a furry fun week-end.
Ours was exciting.
We watched birdie tv almost all day every day

Miles:

Pierro and I also practiced our mancat-noovers at our satellite office

Aim at heaven
and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth
and you get neither.

C.S.Lewis

Friday frootbats!

Miles: Happy Friday everykitty
Pierro and I are having a great week.
It is very hot and sunny here but our house is nice and cool.
I like to be near Pierro all the time.
Sometimes we even cuddle.. but not a lot, but on top of the dryer, it just happens.

Pierro: Well, we play all day,
and we relax now and then to recharge and to look outside at mom in the garden or the birdies taking a bath in the birdbath

bonks and bronks for a happy day and a fun week-end!!
We are planning on it!

Whether you think you can
or think you can't
- you are right.
~Henry Ford

Mancat Monday

Pierro:
Well happy Monday every kitty.
We are hoping that mom will have some time this week to help us visit some of your bloggies. Oh gosh we miss all of you so much!
Mom has been very busy making her garden beeeeyooootiful for her friend
across the street who is very sick.

We have been watching mom from the window
and urging her on in her endeavors

Miles:
We hope you have a happy snappy day.

Pierro and I have a lot to do today, as usual.

A mancat's job is never done.
bronks to all of you

"I've discovered that what you think you know about people is seldom right, and when it is, it's the other way around."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Frootbat Friday

Miles:
Well, things have been busy here.

Mom is always busy. Blizzie is always busy and daddy works at home and he is busy too. So Pierro and I have to take matters into our own paws

bronkbronk, Pierro!!

Pierro:

after many unseasonably warm days in which mom did a lot of sewing to make cute things for her very sick friend, today is a deeeelightbonkful day for her to go out and get her garden back in shape.
Yesterday our three servants (mom, dad, and Blizzie) just ran off to Annapolis Maryland to attend the Greek Festival with gramma and grampa.
They came home really late last night!

bonks for a happy Friday and week-end!!

Pick battles big enough to matter,
small enough to win.
~Jonathan Kozel

Cool Mancats on Memorial Day in the USA

Pierro: Today is a holiday in our country.
Today is Meow-morial Day, a day we remember and honor our brave and noble military men and women that have fought for our country and sacrificed their lives for our freedom.

Miles: Well, have a bronkibonkbonk day kittypals
Pierro and I are working on important stuff today! -- as usual.

They shall grow not old
As we that are left grow old
~~
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn
~~
At the going down of the sun.
And in the morning

We shall remember them.
By: Laurence Binyon

Frootbat Friday

Pierro:
Happy Friday kitties!

We hope you have a great day with sunshine and bloo sky today

Miles: and Happy BronkWeek-end too!
We are sorry we have not been visiting. Mom has been gardening!!

She said she was not going to make a huge colorful flowergarden this year but she changed her mind.
Her dear friend across the street has bad cancer. She is home and she is very very sick. The cancer is taking her life! Mom has been making the garden on the side of our house, that faces her house, really pretty for her sick friend to enjoy. The family made a special room on the main level of the house that over looks mom's special garden and flowers just for her.

Pierro: Mom has been helping the family too -- so she just comes home and kisses us and cuddles us too.


Miles:
Mom cries a lot because her heart is broken.

We love you dear friends
have a bronkiful week-end too

“Enjoy the little things,
for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.”

~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Miles: it's my gotcha day!!

Miles:
Today is the day I came to my forever home family, just last year!
Missie CurlieSwirlie Teri brought me in her fancy car (free delivery) right to my new house!

I am very happy to have a big brother like Pierro.

Ever since I came to my forever home,

he is always looking after me and keeping me in line....

Pierro taught me all about being a mancat

we have great adventures every day

We play in our tunnel

we plan all of our strategies at our main headquarters:

The Box Fort

we run up and down the stairs every day -- a lot!


we snoopervise on top of the cabinets over the fridge


we check our food cabinets at least once a week.

and--

We help each other finish our foods

because we are real brothers: Miles and Pierro!
Partners in silliness, we always help mom and dad too!

The ragdoll and turkish van kitty girls (Lola, Betty, Carly and Mimi) next door changed from kittens to plus size in the blink of an eye. They grew out of their tree house and gave it to us.

We checked it out right away and gave it 8 paws of approval.
ahhhh plush wall to wall carpeting too!
It is the coolest tree house we ever had, ever!!

Now we use this as our satellite office to relax and recharge
and think of new ventures

Yep, I am a happy boy.
My mommie CurlieSwirlie Coco does not have to worry about me.
I am living the good life!
I am loved ♥

bronkies for a happy day!!

“Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.”
— Walt Whitman