Monday, May 24, 2021

dietes bicolor


Dietes bicolor - or African Iris - not a native plant (except, that is, to South Africa), but one that's extremely pretty at this time of the year, and I can feel an itch to plant some, native or not ... here benefiting from someone's sprinkler.

As for LucyFur - sleeping on the sofa next to me, and despite another trip to the hospital, much more like her old self - still sleepy, still clearly a poorly cat, but above all, still here.  This time yesterday I wasn't sure.  She had to go into the hospital not because of anything intrinsically worrying, but her feeding tube was backing up weirdly, and kept slipping around - and was held in place by a rather makeshift set of bandages.  I think that must have been the result of the surgery being done at the weekend - now she's wearing a rather fetching commercial collar that also holds the tube fairly flatly in place with velcro when she's not using it, rather than it sticking up like a snorkel, waiting to catch on things.  And they ordered a whole lot of specially compounded medicines for her from NY (!) which can slip down it, which will be a relief after the twice daily struggle with various white pills.  I'm not kidding myself that we're out of the woods - far from it - but today gave grounds for some hope ...

 

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