Published on November 17, 2004
This Week:
Published on November 10, 2004
We still don’t have a diagnosis on Blotch’s condition, but expect it this week. He’s not been doing very well and I’ve very sad for him, watching his discomfort day after day. I had to rush him to the vet on Saturday because he got dehydrated again. They’ve let me start doing his sub-Q injections at home now. Poor Blotch. Everytime I walk in the room, he thinks he’s gonna get poked. I’ve spent a lot more time loving on him so he won’t think I’ve turned into the big mommy torture machine. He did finally start purring again on Sunday. That was a relief.
Ali’s doing pretty good this week…much better than I am, in my opinion. I’m getting tired of crying myself to sleep with worry. I hardly ever cry and have always been that way. But I’m making up for it now. I’ve cried more in the past two weeks than I’ve cried in the past 20 years. I’m not exaggerating! Poor Richard can only hug and comfort me, which is about all we can do for Blotch until we know exactly what’s wrong with him.
Wanting to keep busy over the weekend (to keep my mind off my worries), we reorganized our bedroom and Max’s bedroom. That was fun…for me anyway. Richard and the children didn’t look too happy about following my instructions for where to put boxes going into storage and where to move the heavy furniture.
I had to secretly make room in our bedroom for Richard’s birthday present, which is being delivered on his birthday, but I couldn’t tell him that. He just thinks I’m on some kind of maternal fall-cleaning craze. Heh…
Hugs to all!
Ang
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Published on November 10, 2004
We received an interesting email last week that brought to light a possible scenario that could have been very bad for us…and completely NOT our fault.
Published on November 10, 2004
I wanted to thank you because, although I’m not as immersed in writing as I’d like to be (had to go back to work full-time), your weekly newsletter reminds me that I am a writer and that I must keep it in order to reach my final goal – become a full-time author.
Published on November 10, 2004
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How often do you find yourself reading through the posts of an Internet writing board only to be caught in a series of complaints? We writers sure can write, but sometimes our focus doesn’t seem all that – how can I say this delicately? – productive.
Published on November 10, 2004
Do all writers make mistakes (lack of clarity, weird misspellings after proofing the text more than once, etc) in the beginning of their writing careers?
Published on November 10, 2004
Lin and Larry Pardey told me that they were the first authors who fired their publisher. They’re sailing through life, literally aboard their sailboat and in a literary way as successful authors and publishers. When I fired my own publisher, I learned a lot – the hard way. The book began under contract with an ebook publisher. Just what every author wants – to get published. Except that I didn’t like my contract.
Published on November 10, 2004
This Week:
Published on November 3, 2004
We had quite a rocky ride over the past week worrying about Blotch and crying endless tears, thinking he was on his last paw. Ali and I visited him at the kitty hospital on Thursday and I thought I detected something in him that told me he was getting better. The vet said he couldn’t see any improvement, but I thought I knew better (time will tell, I guess). On Friday, they wanted to keep him for the weekend, but I really wanted him to be at home, just in case he was dying. I didn’t want him to spend his last few days in a cold metal cage surrounded by barking dogs and hissing cats.
The vet agreed and sent us home armed with several syringes of his meds, appointments for daily shots of fluids (which we had to take him in for on the weekend) and an appointment at another vet on Tuesday for a probe of his sinuses, since the antibiotics seemed to be working much slower than they should (or not at all – it’s hard to tell).
Our primary concern was that Blotch wasn’t eating or drinking on his own. However, he stunned us all by getting up in the middle of the night on Saturday and diving into his cat food!
I’m writing this on Monday night and, while he is eating, he’s still not drinking any fluids on his own. His surgery is tomorrow and we’re hoping they can tell us why his sinuses are completely clogged. It could be a tumor or a fungus. A tumor didn’t show up on his x-ray, so we’re hoping a fungus is the diagnosis. If it’s a fungus, they’ll switch his meds and see if they can find something to get rid of it.
Blotch was feeling down tonight and we started worrying about him again. Maybe he just overdid it this weekend. Or, maybe he overheard us whispering about his sinus probe tomorrow. Ouch.
BLOTCH UPDATE 11/3/04: Blotch has surgery yesterday afternoon and they found a growth in his upper sinuses. It is either a fungus or a tumor. A fungus might be treatable depending on how bad it is. A tumor would be treatable, but the treatment would only cause extensive and prolonged suffering for Blotch and would likely not cure him. We won’t know for 5-7 days what it is. He’s home now and very comfy, sleeping off the anesthesia in Ali’s room with her right next to him doing her school work. She’s a good nurse. 🙂
Hugs to all!
Ang
Hugs to all!
Angie
P.S. Want to read real query letters that landed these contracts? Woman’s Day – $2,800; Redbook – $3,500; Ladies Home Journal – $3,000; DiscoveryHealth.com – $2,000; Lifetime Magazine – $3,000; Life Extension magazine – $6,480; Natural Remedies $11,300; and many more! See: https://www.writersweekly.com/books/1409.html
Published on November 3, 2004
Just wanted to congratulate you on the wonderful article you wrote for fundsforwriters.com about writers getting paid. Bravo! Besides being a NY Times best selling author, I am also a media coach and am constantly telling my clients “if it doesn’t make dollars, it doesn’t make sense!”
