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Clyde, the Grumpy Cat

27 Thursday Sep 2018

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Pets, Photography

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Gifting, Human, Pets, Vet

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Hello, my name is Clyde.  I’m a thirteen-year-old gray tabby.  I weigh approx. thirteen pounds and I stay grumpy most, if not all of the time.  I have a five-year-old step-sister whom I despise and do not get along with.  I had a natural born sister but she died when I was about six years old.  I didn’t like her much either because she never let me do what I wanted to do.  She never let me talk and therefore made me depressed and I never purred.

I have two well-behaved humans.  The female human is my go-to human.  She is the one I get up in the mornings when I want to eat.  I’m very dominate when it comes to food and therefore there is no sleep in days.  She thinks that I don’t know when she’s awake and I get very pissed when she doesn’t get up right away.  Sometimes so, that I pee on her special places.  I believe she calls this “gifting”.

The male human is more accommodating. When he gets up and goes to the bathroom, I go in with him just to stand guard.  You never know when the female human will come in and cause problems.  He likes to pet me more than the female human.  I sometimes like to get in a good petting but he needs to learn when enough is enough. I claw at him and sometimes I draw blood but he never learns

I do not, under any circumstances, like to be picked up, sit in anybody’s lap, strangers, loud noises or called fat.  I’m big boned, not fat.  I also do not like to take trips in the car, especially to the vet.  This is when I “gift” more.  I surprise myself as to the amount of pee I have in my bladder. I pee on the nurse, the vet, my female human, and the human’s bed when I return home.  You’d think they’d learn not to take me to the vet but they haven’t yet.

I am Alpha.  There is no one better or more important than me.  If you don’t believe me, just ask me.  There is nothing that goes on in my domicile that I don’t know about.  Most importantly, if you piss me off, I will gift on something of yours.  You may not know about it for weeks and when you do find out, the smell will be most alarming.

It takes a special human to put up with my personality.

Clyde

Today’s Thoughts 4/14/2018

14 Saturday Apr 2018

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Cancer, Leukemia

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Cancer, Cats, CML, GrayfeathersBlog, Leukemia, Pets, Storms, VLog, Weather

Good afternoon everyone.

As I write this, we are experiencing a severe thunderstorm. This system has caused several tornado’s in the state of Mississippi but has weakened during its path over to our neck of the woods, in which I’m very thankful for. Looks like it may be a wet Saturday for us.

My cat, Clyde, hates thunderstorms and is sitting next to me on the floor looking for protection.  He’s not a lap cat and hates to be picked up and will not sit with you or me or anyone else as far as that goes.  But during storms, he seeks my protection and my protection only.  He just heard a loud clap of thunder and off he goes behind my bed.  He will not return until all is quiet again.  Funny,  cowardly cat.

Not much reaction to my video that I posted the other day.  I guess that might my last one. I don’t know, I may try one more to see how it goes.  I’ll give it some time though.

After I made the video, I went back to youtube and watched some video’s from the Leukemia Society.  They had posted several videos of patients with CML as they described their weeks up to being diagnosed.  They included bruising,  Feeling tired all the time, headaches and wanting to sleep all the time.  I never experienced any of that.  On one video, the guy was saying that when he was diagnosed back in 2014, his white blood count was over 260.  Mine was caught before it got that high.  At the time of diagnoses, mine had gotten as high as 138.  Maybe that’s the reason I didn’t experience any of the side effects; my numbers just wasn’t as high as his.  I also read that one lady, who also was diagnosed in 2014, got her numbers down and was taken off all of her meds.  She still get’s tested every six months but she no longer takes meds for her CML.  That’s encouraging.

I hope everyone has a chance to get out and enjoys the weekend.

Tim

 

 

365 Day Photo Challenge Day Eleven “Getting Board”

11 Sunday Jan 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Uncategorized

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365 Photo Challenge, Boardom, Cats, Pets, Photography, Pillow, Rain, Weather

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I’m getting board stuck in this house.  I’ve got a brand new camera and I’ll I’ve got to take pictures of are my cats.  Let’s just say my wife and daughter are camera shy.

I’ve got two cat’s.  I spotlighted Clyde the other day and this is Sophie.  She was hiding under a pillow on our bed.  She does this sometimes but I was ready for her when she did this today.

Eighty percent chance of rain tomorrow so it looks like I’ll be stuck in the house again tomorrow.  Doctor appointment on Tuesday and I might get to go back to work on Wednesday.  Not really looking forward to that but at least it’s something to do.

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365 Photo Challenge “The Master is Asleep”

02 Friday Jan 2015

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Attitude, Cats, Pets, Photo Challenge

Today’s photo is of one of our cats, Clyde.  Clyde is a nine year old male and weighs about fourteen pounds.  He is the master of our household, or at least he thinks he is.  He will not let my wife sleep in.  He will get on top of her and yell until she gets up to feed him.  This usually starts around 6 am in the morning. If she stays in bed too long he will eventually leave a gift of pee somewhere in the house other than his litter box.

Clyde is one of two cats that live with us.  His sister, Bonnie, died a few years back with a heart attack, or so the vet says.  About a year later we acquired another female cat named Sophie, a cat with a completely different demeanor.

Clyde

Clyde

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML | Filed under Pets

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