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A Christmas cat
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<p>The best Yule present my wife and I are getting this year is that our beloved cat Sugar is not dying.</p>
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<p>Since her <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3708">medical crisis in September</a> that hasn’t been anything we could take for granted. She bounced back <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3773">amazingly</a> afterwards, but the vet’s sober best guess at the time was that she’d be lucky to live another six months.</p>
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<p>That was a little under three months ago. But she seems extremely healthy – lively, sociable, inquisitive, eyes bright, fur glossy and tail held high. One of the blog’s regulars was visiting this weekend and remarked that Sugar didn’t even seem elderly.</p>
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<p>The cat in question materialized under my desk a few moments ago to nuzzle my foot and meow companionably at me. Now, after a nice ear-scratching, she’s padding over to Cathy’s office, probably to do likewise. She’s happy. She’s <em>good</em> at happy. And, it would seem, at being indestructible…</p>
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<p>Well, we’ll see. We’re supposed to take Sugar back for another sonogram soon. I’m worried about those apparent hepatic cysts that showed up on the last one; they could do her in even if the nephritis stays beaten.</p>
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<p>But whatever may be wrong with Sugar, she’s clearly not in pain or weakened. She’ll be with us for a while yet, doing what she does best – purring at her humans, guarding them from the insidious <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=867">bathroom demon</a>, curling up next to us at night to sweeten our dreams, making us proud every time she welcomes a houseguest to our home.</p>
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<p>The best Christmas wish I can think of for all of you out there is this: may you have a blessing in your life as lovely as our cat – and the wisdom not to take it for granted while it lasts.</p>
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