The above photo is of Coco with her sister Chanel a few days ago along with her pink monkey that I bought to hang on her cage the day she came home from the hospital.  She seems to like that monkey.  It's funny, I never can tell what toys they will get attached to or not.

It has been three weeks today since her surgery and I must say that the transformation is amazing!  She began chemotherapy last Thursday because her blood levels were excellent and the vet felt she was ready and the sooner the better.  Her treatments so far have been mild and will be this week as well.  I do realize that they may not all be.  However, the word "chemo" has always made me shiver to say the least.  I am beginning to feel differently.  It is medicine and helps a lot of god's creatures get well!

I really want to apologize for not updating more often and ESPECIALLY for not responding to and or returning comments.  I feel VERY badly about this!  I have continued to participate in Entrecard by reading blogs and dropping cards because it is very helpful and enjoyable to me right now.  It is a great anxiety reducer for me!

Blogging has been good for me and I am going to try to get back into the swing of things.  Again, I can never thank all of you enough for visiting my site, checking on Coco and your well wishes.  God bless all of you!

Four days after Coco's surgery, which was two weeks ago today, we had a professional photographer visit our house to get some family photos.   I am very happy with some of the pictures considering I had gotten about 8 hours of sleep over those four days and I have a hard time keeping my eyes open while having my photo taken under the best of circumstances!  Coco was a little overdue for her nap as well.

We are going to purchase quite a few of the photos and have at least one made into a large portrait (one that kinda looks like an oil painting).  I would love some feedback on which ones you like the best.  I will be purchasing quite a few of them soon.

Here is the link:

www.printroom.com/pro/aperfectshot

when you get to the site you need to type "coco" in the search box and then Coco the cat and family should pop up.  Thanks for looking and your feedback.

I will leave you with a photo of Coco in my bag  that I take to work (she loves getting inside all boxes and bags).  How I wish I could take her with me :)

Before I begin I want to express how much all of your concern, prayers, and comments has meant to us during the past 10 days!  Each comment has comforted me and made me stronger.  My apologies for not replying, but until now I just couldn't as I was nearly catatonic - well maybe not quite that bad, but it was pretty bad!

We went to the vet this morning for Coco's surgery which I haven't talked about because it's too depressing.  We walked into the vet's office to learn her pathology results had just come in.  The vet told us it was cancer but was very unsure of the extent.  She called almost right after beginning  the surgery to tell us the cancer was VERY extensive.  She said she would get what she could or stop before she did anything.  We said to do what she could.  We will be awaiting more test results over the next week to see if chemo is even an option.  At any rate we are looking at 1-3 months.  Please excuse my temporary absence :(