My beautiful cat Eli passed away on the 31st of July. He had cancer in his stomach and fortunately didn't suffer, but he got very skinny in the last few weeks of his life.
We inherited Eli about 7 or 8 years ago when a family a few houses up the road moved away and left him behind. He adopted us and there began a beautiful relationship with my lovely boy who was to become my constant companion when I was at home.
In many ways he was a fourth child. He was very
needy of attention and love. He followed me around everywhere and if I sat at the computer typing he would lie on my hand and half of the keyboard and swat at my hand when I moved the mouse. He would snuggle up on my chest or on my knee if I sat down and was always under my feet when I turned around. If you left any food unattended he would steal it. He came and took over my pillow every morning purring so loudly that sleeping was difficult. Eventually with the aid of a carefully primed claw he would manage to shoo me off the pillow.Eli was a cat in a million and I loved him to bits. He had a fun personality (though I will carry some scars from his claws forever) and was a wonderful member of this family. My home feels so empty without him here and he can never be replaced in my heart.
Uni has been full on and I feel as if I have hit a bit of a wall this past couple of weeks - though this is not helped by all that is going on in my "normal" life. Things have really stepped up this semester and although learning heaps the reality that clinical is happening in a couple of weeks and I have to go out and look after people in hospital is pretty scary. I feel a bit behind in the study and will be seriously hitting the books over the next few weeks. That's not to say I'm not enjoying it, because I am. I think it is the stress of deadlines and the thought of failing that is scary.
Finally, the building is coming along nicely and they are doing a great job and on schedule too. I just can't wait to be over there. I feel that the walls in this tiny house are closing in on me at times. It is very noisy with my lovely kids and me trying to study is pretty tricky in amongst all the chaos. However it is short term pain for long term gain. Movie below of progress to date.
