Storm signals are up ~ added a few after storm pics

[Debbie]

we have several windows with amazing views. Our farm is located in an amazing place, right at the base of Tillamook Head. If I look in the one direction, it's only 2 miles to the Pacific ocean (not visible, but I can see the seawall coming from there), and to the other I can see Saddle Mountain which is like having my very own Lonely Mountain. The views from Tillamook Head are amazing, gorgeous pine forests and vistas over the mountains. We're very lucky to have found this place.

Mister almost didn't make it in 2012. He started with a scratch from a cat fight back in Feb and by April I realized it was only closing, slightly mending and then the abcess would rupture and it would start the whole cycle again.

My vet did surgery, sent Mister home, twice. The wound continued to grow and be scary and awful. Mister had to live at my vet clinic for almost two months and we had to culture the wound to find antibiotics that would work against it. It was a very aggressive staph infection and Mister's vet file looks like a New York telephone book.

Mister used to be an outdoors cat, but he spent most of 2012 at the vet's or in a small bedroom in the house. I think he managed a little outdoors time overwinter, but when we moved here in 2013, he had to become a full time indoors kitty. This place is beautiful, but there are way too many predators and we are located along the highway. Clearly he's decided the sunroom was a good trade as I've heard him purring here more than I ever heard when we lived in Missouri.

I found links to the threads for him if you'd like to read

dalesfans.proboards.com/thread/22381/misters-back-hospital-updated

dalesfans.proboards.com/thread/22475/misters-progress-update-7-17

[yanny]

Gosh, it sounds like he was very lucky to have got through it! The poor thing we keep our cats outdoors, luckily there haven't been any major injuries with them so touch wood they won't have any problems. It can be worrying though to keep them out side all the time but ours do love to hunt!

[valerie n scout]

How,photos are lovely, Mister is lovely X

[Debbie]

It was so touch n go with him, that I really did fear we were going to lose him. The vet was under orders to put him to sleep immediately if it got too much, but aside from the awfulness of cleansing and caring for the wound, Mister was happy and he never held a grudge with the staff. So long as he decided life was worth living and fighting for, we were more than willing to pay for any medicines and pain control possible. He continues to thrive down to the dedication of a very caring vet staff and my vet who wouldn't give up on him and of course Mister's overwhelming desire to keep it up.

It also has to be said that Missouri has some of the worst staph infections in the soil in some areas, my friends have to give penicillin shots every time they give vaccines to prevent their horses from getting staph. One of my uncles went into the hospital from a heart attack, and he died from staph infection in the stomach (he got it from being in the hospital, they can't get rid of it). It's truly unreal how bad the staph infection is in places, very scary.

[yanny]

That's so scary, it must be awful having that to worry about all the time!

[Debbie]

It was horrible! I'm so glad we could move back to the Oregon coast and I was relieved Mister could make the journey with us. He's such a purr box nowadays