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He’s either got a terrible bladder infection or his FUS is acting up. The vet gave him a shot of antibiotics and I’ve got him on painkillers, but he is not in good shape. Plus he had a temperature yesterday and he still has a temperature this morning. I don’t think it’s good that he still has a temperature. I’m waiting for my vet to wake up so I can call him and talk about it with him. Maybe it takes this long for things to run their course and I shouldn’t be this worried.

I didn’t go to work yesterday and I’m not going to go today. I just can’t leave him. (I am officially insane, I know. But what if something happens??)

Here’s the photograph I mentioned below in my June 17th post. I made it in the late 70’s and unfortunately it’s been damaged. Also, it’s too big for my scanner, so this is not the entire picture. But this is Linda in the red dress I talked about. (If you scroll down to June 17th I give a little bit of the back story.)

Finney has had this problem for years, he scoots along the floor (ew, I know, but it doesn’t do what you think it does). I regularly have his you-know-what glands expressed, but it never helps. I recently read that it could be allergies to food with grains. The problem is I give him food which helps with his tendency for FUS.

So I researched grain-free foods which are low on the things that cause FUS and changed his food. The scooting stopped! But his FUS is back this morning and I’m waiting for the vet to open and poor Finney is in the box every couple of minutes. He’s getting a little out so he’s not completely blocked so I’m not taking him to the hospital but still. He’s very uncomfortable obviously. I feel terrible. Ugh.

Anyway. I was walking behind these cool looking twins yesterday for a couple of blocks.

I took this picture because I liked the ivy-covered wall, but then when I uploaded it I noticed the pigeon. Watching me.

Which reminds me–I regularly rescue spiders from my bathtub even though they terrify me and I sometimes scream while doing it because I’m afraid that the spider will crawl off the paper I’ve used to rescue it and onto me before I’ve had a chance to put them in the hall. But I fantasize that the spiders of the world know that I am a spider-rescuer and they have all agreed to leave me alone and will not do things like crawl on me.

I had two days off (three actually, I called in sick on Monday) and I feel like I got a decent amount of work done. Still, not enough. But I figured out the structure for the next chapter and that is big. For me, anyway. Now that I know what I’m going to say it’s fun to figure out how. Figuring out outline: not fun. Filling in the blanks: fun.

I saw this dress hanging outside a building yesterday. A college roommate of mine when I was at the Museum School had a dress very much like this. She did a painting of it, I believe, but she also put the actual dress up on the wall as decoration. It was an usual thing to do at the time and I loved how it looked up there. I also took a picture of her in it which made me very happy because it came out okay and I was used to thinking of myself as not being good at portraits. I should dig it out. Her name was Linda Dennis.

Anyway, I saw this and I thought, Linda Dennis would do this. She would display a dress on a fire escape like this.