Lazy Eye

This song has been stuck in my head lately; 1. because it's a good song and 2. because of Darla

I've been waiting
i've been waiting for this moment all my life
but it's not quite right

A week or so Darla started to get some eye infection and closed her left eye a lot because of it. Hence she (temporarily) adopted the name Lazy Eye.

to appear sad
with the same 'ol decent lazy eye
fixed to rest on you
aim free and so untrue


Last weekend we took her and Little Guy to the vet; Darla to fix her 'lazy' eye, which ended up being conjunctivitis, and Milo to get his first shots.

We took them back to our old vet in Boston because it was easier to get a Saturday appointment with them (apparently if my kitties had been seen before at the vet in my new town they probably would have squeezed them in, but since they were new "clients" they weren't going to accommodate them. nice.). Darla howled like the world was ending the whole way, so then Milo took her cue and thought the whole car experience must be akin to torture and chimed in as well. It was a fun ride.

everyone's so intimately rearranged
everyone can focus clearly with such shine

Now everyone is doing well. Little Dude will go back in a few weeks for the 2nd round of shots (he was a big boy about it, yet tried to spit out the deworming concoction he was forced to ingest--it kinda looked like he was foaming at the mouth since the stuff was a thick milky substance). Five days of gel in the eye twice a day cleared up Darla's eye problem quite nicely.

lost and loaded
still the same 'ol decent lazy eye
straight through your gaze
that's why i said i relate

Here's a picture of her a couple days into the treatment, getting a little better.It may look like they're best of friends in this picture, but not so. Milo has so much energy he clobbers Darla every chance he gets and she growls and bats at him. He was actually playing with her tail here and she was allowing it for a little bit before she ran away.

and this 'real'
it's impossible if possible
at who's blind word
so clear but so unheard

Now we're looking into getting a third cat so Milo has a playmate, and Darla won't become too bitter about this transition. Though she's only 3 years old she kind of acts like an old lady compared to Mr. Crazy Kitten. I guess her and Simba just loved to sleep a lot and she used to be the one with more energy.

it's the room the sun and the sky
-Silversun Pickups