*sigh* Poor Wibble

[lwood]

As some of you might remember from this pair of posts, as well as this pair and these pictures from countgeiger, I helped my cat George into the clearing at the end of the path fourteen months ago.

Not long after that, his littermate Wibble turned up hyperthyroid (this is often what it means when an old cat becomes a bag of bones: it's feline overclocking). Well, at least we knew the routine by now--and unlike her brother, she could take thyroid medicine twice a day without obvious adverse effects. We started treatment, figuring that at her age the nuclear option would cost more than relatively inexpensive pills, given the amount of time she likely had left.

The past couple days, while she's always had a delicate tummy, now she's throwing up more than usual (including the thyroid meds, of course), including a clear, slightly bilious vomitus under my desk this morning.

While she's been drinking more than usual, her eyes are sunken, a sign of dehydration.

The vet doesn't have any appointments today--while I could sit with her in a carrier in the vet's office on an emergency basis until someone had time...I don't think that's fair to Wibble, in a strange box in a strange place with no real access to water when she's drinking as much as she is.

There will be an appointment tomorrow instead.

We'll see what happens.

-- Lorrie

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[wednesday]

So, two 200-yd skeins of an Intention Yarn Family worsted-weight single-ply*, which is red and aqua overdyed with a muted sky blue and ends up being very early twilight over water. Looks very like your LJ theme, actually. When the option to snag this one in particular came up, it seemed needful for all sorts of reasons and people.

I'm trying to make fingerless mitts with one of them, having reached the point of discovering that Malabrigo-likes are easier on the hands in some ways, but have found that straightforward rib-and-stockinette looks horrid with the colourway.

Started noodling around tonight with Juniper Mitts, save for casting on one fewer repeat than the smallest size recommends with an eye towards doing a proper gussety thumb. (Still trying to decide whether that should go inside the knit bit or the purl bit, and from there whether it's sanest to resume the pattern once enough stitches are increased.) I am dreading something so complicated as COUNTING TO EIGHT, but it's almost like unto Just Ribbing, No Big Deal. I think.

I am so going to be keeping an eye on your socks; if I can get to a stage where sub-worsted weights are on the table again, I may be playing with that pattern myself. Little hats!

* Was a club colourway, but am not in the club. Acquired spares from source.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*blink* Whyfor you no make socks with worsted-weight yarn? There are patterns for this--if I had all my brainmeats and had knitted one pair of these, and you had sufficient interest, I could puzzle out how to manage hatheel at a worsted sock gauge w/o too much trouble.

And that yarn is a Darn Pretty Color! Yay!

-- Lorrie

[wednesday]

No small part because I have all this sock yarn and all these sock needles here from right before the claw hand last flared up, and keep thinking "that!"

But it would make sense, I guess; it is about to be scary winter in NH and all. (Some of it, I'll admit, is wanting stuff I can wear the rest of the year. I had had a metric ton of boot socks, but can't seem to find them at the moment.)