52 Card Project 2021: Week 5: Kittens

Now that we are in the depths of winter, I am reminded of a friend who once remarked:

thirty days have September
April, June, and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Save for February alone
And that has 9,838.

I have been thinking longingly about how much I would love to have a cat. Fiona has been sending me adorable pictures of her roommate's cat, who is a big chunk of a Tuxedo With An Attitude.




Alas, I am deathly allergic. If I hold a cat and let it nuzzle against my neck, within twenty minutes, I'll have hives breaking out all over. We had a cat when I was growing up, and I had to be on a prescription antihistamine AND go to the doctor's office to get an allergy shot once a week for seven years. Fiona is as allergic as I am, and she copes with it by taking a strong anti-allergy medication. I suppose I could do that, too, but then I consider that after all, a cat could live fifteen years or more. I am not sure what lies ahead for Eric and me, but perhaps we will be getting a place together. He has an elderly cat already. So I hesitate, not sure I'm willing to commit that long to something that, after all, could make me deathly ill if the medicine doesn't work. Perhaps I could foster kittens?

Over the last week, when it's late at night, when I'm lying in bed and too lonely to sleep, I've been scrolling through YouTube kitten videos (check out The Dodo kitten channel). I don't know why they comfort me, but they do.

Kittens




Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.