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I've booked Josie in for her Hyperthyroid treatment on the 29th June, 2016 at the Sydney University Vet Hospital. I've stopped her medication now, as she has to be off it for 2 weeks prior to her treatment. Her treatment will be a tablet of Radioactive Iodine. She will stay isolated in the hospital for 5-7 days while she's radioactive and they will feed her and change her bedding etc. Everything she comes into contact with in that week in hospital is destroyed. They know when she can come home when she stops giving off high levels of radiation. I've raised just over half her costs, thanks to everyone who has supported her treatment, which is enough for the deposit when I admit her. If anyone would like to contribute to her costs through paypal, for when I have to bring her home. www.facebook.com/helpcurejosie/

Using old timber I sourced for free off "Freecycle" when I was enclosing the back yard.

Using old timber I sourced for free off "Freecycle" when I was enclosing the back yard.

This was the column damaged by the tree falling down in the back yard. I had one spare and used that to fix the fence at the time. This has now come in handy.

It's being cut into pieces to use as packing under the bottom timber plate so the bottom timber plate doesn't sit directly on the concrete, the packer allows water to escape under the bottom plate.

You can see the blue hue on her fur here. This is exactly how she looks in real life. A real life painting. Josie has hyperthyroidism. People wanted to help with her treatment, so I set up a facebook page for her. If you would like to support her treatment, I thank you so much. Details can be found here. She needs expensive Radioactive Iodine Treatment to cure her. www.facebook.com/helpcurejosie/

She's worried I will bring her inside. I have to bring them inside when I can't supervise them in the yard to keep them safe from the neighbours. When I view these photos larger, they get grainy. My brother said it's because I've got the Iso on the highest setting. So now I have to try and get good photos with a lower iso. (after discovering that the highest Iso was getting good pictures). I don't understand cameras, the physics, and I would love to learn the physics one day and understand it in my mind what I'm doing. I'm always guessing at the moment.

His winter fur is growing.

This morning Midnight was very vocal and agitated. He woke me up and then kept coming to my room and carrying on. Raphael got quite angry with him and growled this high pitch agitated sound at him. I eventually got up, I needed to just rest, because I'm still sick, but in the end I got up and let the cats into the yard. Midnight was drooling a bit, and still quite restless, and agitated, pacing the yard. I inspected his mouth and found he has one very sore tooth, a top back tooth. He already lost half his teeth last year during dental surgery, and the vet said the others will go but they only were just starting to show signs of dissolving on the gum line, and he wanted to leave Midnight with some teeth. It hasn't lasted long. Poor little guy. I gave him some pain killer and all the cats an early dinner, moreso just to pacify Midnight. He was content and he was bathing himself in the sun. He remained content till this evening, and I had to be firm with him, he comes to me crying, I don't know what to do. He wants to go out but I really don't think he knows what he wants. He's just agitated. Hopefully tomorrow the pain killer will have worked it's way into his system and stopped a lot of the pain. He is booked in for dental surgery on Friday. I got stressed thinking about this, it means I have to drive him to the vet far away, and it's hard on me even when I'm well to do the long drive. I just want the cats well and happy, but it's one thing after another. I'm pretty sure the 2012 poisonings affected all the cats teeth. Most of them have undergone dental surgery in the last year or so.

I've been worried about Chariie, he's constantly dehyrated. So I added water to his wet food and almost removed all cat biscuits, but he needed a lot of water added at intervals, especially before bedtime. The blood tests revealed he is very healthy, except his immune is bordering on the low end of normal. The vet said the next test would be chest xray to find out what's going on. When he said that I then realised that the chemical fumes the neighbours are making (it is their new way of harassing me), is making him sick. I kept him inside mostly for several days, and now I don't need to add water to his food. His hydration is ok, it's not too bad, and I'm also giving him vitamin paste to help his immune. Charlie already suffers with bronchial problems, asthma. Therefore he is more sensitive to the fumes. The fumes have been rotten egg gas smell and awful chemical smells. It's really foul. It nauseates me. My doctor doesn't think I should be worried about it affecting my physical health. I'm not so sure about that though considering I don't know what they are burning, and they run indoors or drive off in their car after they create the fumes. So they are worried for their own health.

from her dental surgery. Josie is recovering well from her dental surgery. She also seems to be more settled than before the surgery. I suspect her teeth were painful and affecting her behaviour. I just wish her eye colour would return to that bright amber they once were. When the cats were poisoned, it affected their eyes, they never returned to their original bright colour or beauty.

On Thursday 19th May, Josie and I are waiting for our turn to see the vet. She had dental surgery. I decided to do her teeth before I give her the Radioactive Iodine treatment to make sure her teeth do not become a problem. The money from her donation funds for her treatment was not used for this. I doubt I'll be able to raise the money for her dental, and it had to be done. I swore I'd never take a loan to pay for vet fees, but things have been awful with the problems with the cats being poisoned, and the costs have blown out. I believe things will work out in the end, I'm just sure things will work out. I've never been one to borrow money. I've been quite sick, gastro problems for about 3 days. Today, Saturday, I have improved a lot, but I still have to take it easy.

Josie has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and some flickr contacts offered to support her to get treatment that will cure her. I made a facebook page to allow anyone who wants to help Josie. www.facebook.com/helpcurejosie/ I'm working out this camera slowly. I discovered if I took it off auto and set the iso to the highest setting and used the macro when I moved in close, I can get some really good photos.

He's looking good here. I have had to put a lot of water mixed in his food as he's been constantly dehydrated. I'm waiting on test results to find out why.

I've decided to let people help me get Josie her Radioactive Iodine treatment that is a cure for her Hyperthyroidism. I was hoping her condition would reverse, but it's not. I have had her tested for her kidney function and her vital organs and the result was excellent, so I am choosing to get her the treatment she needs if I can. I didn't want to go down this path unless I was absolutely sure there are no other problems. I also have her vet supporting me with her current costs at the moment. Apart from the hyperthyroidism, Josie's blood tests show she is in excellent health. I have made a face book page for her for the people who would like to help support her treatment. www.facebook.com/helpcurejosie/timeline I'm also hoping to get enough money to get her dental surgery done. Her teeth have been rotting from the inside out, and there is a terrible foul smell in her mouth. I've already booked her in for dental surgery next week as time passes the smell from her mouth gets worse. I've never done anything like this before, yet people want to help, and I wouldn't be embarking on raising fund for Josie's treatment but for my flickr community offering, my Ipernity contact encouraging me to do it, and my vet keeping costs down with the view to get Josie cured.

These two photos were taken at the same time of the last post of Matilda.

These two photos were taken at the same time of the last post of Matilda.

Taken in March. Enjoying the start of Autumn. This is Raphael before his winter lion mane starts to grow.