I owe you an explanation

I always keep my promises so it is unlike me to just ride off into the sunset like this, and I could see that some readers are threatening to sue ( wink at NBA ). I'm not trying to act primadonnish ( is that actually a word ? ) . But I love you all for being so faithfull and for caring and therefore I will tell you what happened. When I was typing that post , the bell rang and lo and behold who is it ? my cousins - the two girls are university students and came over so that I could help them revise for their final exams- of course ruining all my plans , but hey that's life. Plus it's so nice to see them pass.

But that is not the whole story nope , yours truly is a softie at heart, I cannot resist a stray cat or any stray animal for that matter , let alone my own pet. Well anyway the house cat went missing since noon a few days ago and I could not find her in the usual hiding places. So I organised a neighbourhood search which comprised of guess who? my poor mother (yes I was dragging her with me ) and a friend who was visiting , no body else was interested apparently. Actually the neighbours think I'm a little soft in the head for stopping to save hedgehogs and birds - never mind .. where was I ? ah well we shouted and looked in a 2 km square area for 6 hrs while I was dragging my medium sized aluminium ladder around ( in case we need to climb a palm tree or something). Thank God we found the little one sheepishly perched on the wall of a villa which resembled ours, she was scared to death and looked like she could not hear me . I tried to entice her with fish that a generous neighbour feeling sorry for me looking like a scarecrow with trainers a Libyan shibshib ( that's toe sandal for you) and an old T-shirt gave me , but the cat turned her head in disgust. So I had to make use of that ladder, which of course came short about 30 centimeters from the wall and I had to actually climb ! something I have not done since highschool. Resulting in a scratched and injured hand and a pulled shoulder muscle - I'm disgusted by myself I tell you. Okay I did climb up and got the bugger down never know I still had it in me. But really I should be more fit !

We fed her cuddled her etc.. but it seems she has some kind of lesion in her eye. I tried washing it with normal saline. Then proceded to bug my veterinary friends. Who all said I should give her some antibiotic eyedrops as well. The first one said Chloramphenicol 4 times a day, the second advised Gentamycin instead. Well I went and got Chloramphenicol . Now I know why God did not allow me to have my wish and become a doctor. I am so bad when it comes to animals I'm a nervous wreck of fear...how is she, does she hurt , will her third eye close? does she have fever etc...So imagine how it is if it were a child ?

I did not feel at ease especially after I bought the Chloramphenicol and used it and mum warned me that if something happens to the cat it will be my fault for wanting to treat her.
So I freaked out and tried to think whom I could pester from my vet acquaintances, and then I an outlandish idea came to mind , who else but a blogger ? I phoned Adib in tunis and explained my problem. He scared even more when he was shocked at how come we are still selling Chloramphenicol in the pharmacies in Liby a - it has been discontinued everywhere else. I guess in Libya we have other things to think about, will check it out. So for now she will be taking Gentamycin and maybe Dexamethasone . A big thank you Adib for listening to my hysterical complaints and for the great advice :) !
Her eye still hurts poor baby , and she does not improve I don't know what to do .... except give antibiotic orally.

The other thing is that the small birds outdside have hatched and are learning to fly so now I have to take each one and put it back safely and check that I don't squash them when I drive my car out of the garden.. or that the cat does not eat them. All I want is the cat to get better now... I am going nuts here and my shoulder still hurts ...

That promised post is coming up but I wanted to explain to you guys first what happened :)