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So, where we left off with my dad's medical situation is that his spinal surgery, which would have been this Tuesday, got canceled last Friday afternoon by the anesthesiologist due to it being too risky because of his heart condition.
This week has been really horrible for my mom and dad--they have spent all of it calling back and forth between the cardiologist's, anesthesiologist's, and neurosurgeon's offices trying to get them to talk to each other and come up with a course of action. The neurosurgeon, and the nurse there, have been available and nice; the anesthesiologist largely unreachable (but the nurse in neurosurgery is changing that); and the cardiologist guarded by a bulldog gatekeeper of an admin asst who is patronizing and gives out false information to get rid of you--she gave my parents the impression yesterday that the catheterization was unnecessary and they don't need their office anymore. According to the anesthesiologist, this is wrong, and we're trusting that one. My parents are prepared to get another cardiologist if need be.
( Oh, because nationalized health care would be so very inefficient, unlike privatization, you commie . . . )
OK, onto my feral cat questions. If you've been reading this LJ, you've been learning more than you wanted to know about the stray cats Moomoo and Tuxie and their Adventures in Domestication and Training of a Proper Human Servant. Moomoo is stray, but she has obviously never been feral and was probably abandoned from a home, due to her comfort with humans and how happy she is to walk into the lobby anytime I invite her. Tuxie may have been born in the wild and started out feral, and is still often very skittish about being petted, but since I was rubbing his belly this evening, I don't think he qualifies as quite feral anymore.
But there's a third cat I haven't mentioned yet. I call this one The Stranger, and this one's a total feral who has been starting to approach me, and I'm trying to determine what I am to this cat, and whether I'm going to need to consider trying to place this one as well.
( Cat Encounters of the Feral Kind--Warning: reading this may be hazardess to non-cat people--do not read while driving )
This week has been really horrible for my mom and dad--they have spent all of it calling back and forth between the cardiologist's, anesthesiologist's, and neurosurgeon's offices trying to get them to talk to each other and come up with a course of action. The neurosurgeon, and the nurse there, have been available and nice; the anesthesiologist largely unreachable (but the nurse in neurosurgery is changing that); and the cardiologist guarded by a bulldog gatekeeper of an admin asst who is patronizing and gives out false information to get rid of you--she gave my parents the impression yesterday that the catheterization was unnecessary and they don't need their office anymore. According to the anesthesiologist, this is wrong, and we're trusting that one. My parents are prepared to get another cardiologist if need be.
( Oh, because nationalized health care would be so very inefficient, unlike privatization, you commie . . . )
OK, onto my feral cat questions. If you've been reading this LJ, you've been learning more than you wanted to know about the stray cats Moomoo and Tuxie and their Adventures in Domestication and Training of a Proper Human Servant. Moomoo is stray, but she has obviously never been feral and was probably abandoned from a home, due to her comfort with humans and how happy she is to walk into the lobby anytime I invite her. Tuxie may have been born in the wild and started out feral, and is still often very skittish about being petted, but since I was rubbing his belly this evening, I don't think he qualifies as quite feral anymore.
But there's a third cat I haven't mentioned yet. I call this one The Stranger, and this one's a total feral who has been starting to approach me, and I'm trying to determine what I am to this cat, and whether I'm going to need to consider trying to place this one as well.
( Cat Encounters of the Feral Kind--Warning: reading this may be hazardess to non-cat people--do not read while driving )
