As you all know, I share my home with my husband and our 3 cats.\u00a0 Our elder statesman is Hershey, has famously hated me for 15ish years now.<\/p>\n
Hershey is 18 years old.\u00a0 Up until a few months ago he really wasn’t showing his age.\u00a0 But recently that has changed.\u00a0 His coat isn’t as shiny.\u00a0 He moves slower.\u00a0 He sleeps more.\u00a0 \u00a0His hearing seems to be fading a bit.\u00a0 About a week ago we believe he had a short seizure.<\/p>\n
But on the flip side, his meow is as loud and clear as ever.\u00a0 He is still eating, drinking, and using the litter pan (and only the litter pan)\u00a0 on the regular.\u00a0 We have no reason to believe he’s in any kind of pain.\u00a0 He hasn’t had any other episodes\/ seizures that we are aware of.\u00a0 He still doesn’t like me getting too close to him.<\/p>\n
We are not going to subject Hershey to a battery of medical tests at his age.\u00a0 We just aren’t.\u00a0 So we watch and wait and wonder.\u00a0 And it sucks.\u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n
So I hug my girl kitties (when they let me) a little closer. I recall all the funny things Hershey’s done over the years.\u00a0 I am regaled with stories from my husband about their early days together.\u00a0 I think about my former kitties- Buddy and Princess – and all the joy they gave me during our time together.<\/p>\n
And we watch and wait and wonder together.<\/p>\n
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As you all know, I share my home with my husband and our 3 cats.\u00a0 Our elder statesman is Hershey, has famously hated me for 15ish years now. Hershey is 18 years old.\u00a0 Up until a few months ago he really wasn’t showing his age.\u00a0 But recently that has changed.\u00a0 His coat isn’t as shiny.\u00a0 He moves slower.\u00a0 He sleeps… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cats","category-its-all-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hershey.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}