Finally Friday

Rocky: As you know, our cat labor union (the AFT-CIH: Associated Felines Training Completely Incompetent Humans) recently staged a strike. I'm pleased to announce that after hissing all grievances then engaging in collective bargaining for Temptations and chin scritches, we reached a resolution. Now it's Finally Friday and we have a weekend of work planned to make up for lost time.

We have customer orders to fill, so my weekend will be spent snoopervising the production of cell phone charms, bookmarks and a couple of brand new products soon to be launched - eyeglass holders and crazy cat lady necklaces and pins ...
Also, Finally Friday is a perfect time for forgiveness. I have completely forgiven my mom for her excessive absenteeism since I learned that the reason for it is that our dear friend Jim has a medical problem and she has been helping him with doctor appointments and tests. He had been treated for gout, which didn't help, and now an MRI shows that he has some kind of bone tumor in his foot. It might be what is called a "giant cell tumor" which can be very serious and can metastasize to the lungs whether or not it's malignant, which hasn't yet been determined.

Jim has been part of my mom's life for almost 30 years; he's like a human dad to me and I'm very worried about him. Here is with with me and my mom on her birthday in November.

With my full support, my mom is going out of town with Jim again on Monday to a major orthopedic center. The doctors here are saying that, at the very least, he will be facing a biopsy and major foot surgery to remove bone and, if possible, replace it with cadaver bone. In the meantime, Jim is in a lot of pain. He loves kitties, so any purrs you can send to him will be warmly received and will work wonders. Also, if any of your humans have had experience with any condition that at first seemed like gout but turned out to be a tumor or something else, we could sure use your advice.