Congrats Song! *loves* Good to hear! Best of luck, and keep me in the loop <3
Had a bad week myself. Sorry, being a Debbie downer here.
We had that one tragic incident with our foster kittens where we lost the whole litter and mom awhile back. I thought I'd recovered from that. It had been awhile. We had some more foster kittens and cats since then with no issues.
Well, we just recently got another group, and we had them for quite a few months. Really sweet babies. Anyone who has me on Facebook has surely seen a number of pictures of them. There was a mom and 4 kittens (all named after characters from the Hunger Games). My favourite, Finnick, just dropped dead the one day, and I was the one that came across his body. We found out that the whole group was infected with calici, a brutal feline virus. They probably picked it up from the shelter or other foster cats, and because the group we foster through doesn't vaccinate, they had no immunity to the disease. Luckily I vaccinate my own, but it resulted in one dead kitten and the rest needing hospitalization with no warning signs, all within less than 24 hours. Needless to say I'm no longer fostering. I can't handle losing animals. And I'm hyper sensitive about my own kitties. I rushed them all to the vet for a check up, even though all fosters are properly quarantined and have little contact with my own. Calici is airborne though, so it can affect others, and while I vaccinate, I find that vaccinating yearly is overkill, so I wanted to make sure their tighters were still high enough and got a booster for my youngest fur-baby.
After that, my husband's grandmother went into renal failure and passed away. So the family's been a mess. His uncle just passed away not even a few months ago, so it's been hard (he was the MC at our wedding). On top of this a family friend fell the other day, broke her hip, and was rushed into surgery.
I'm done with issues. I would like a nice relaxing week now please? No one can die anymore.