JOHN-J ANDERSON

Release by John-J Anderson. The river grew black, glowing with the faint spectres of ghostly pale hands reaching up from the depths, unable to break the surface, trapped in a sodden muddy prison of breathless torment. Cries echoed out through the desolate landscape surrounding him, alone on the grassy winter banks. “RELEASE ME FROM THIS NIGHTMARE!.” Adding malice to anguish came the whippings winds that howled about the ears and drew up spiky grey hairs from his necks and arms. Shrouding the night sky that had grown weary with a black cloaking mass, the darkness held a canopy of withered tangled tree limbs. They seem to dance in the wind as though orchestrating the events unfolding mercifully below their reach. Nature succumbs to the forces of dark splendour that danced on her soils that evening. With sudden disarray, the river ceased its tempest storm of harsh, crashing waves and became deathly still. As though the arrival of an expected guest broke the focus of hatred, the fog t...

I will keep this update short, we took Angel to her vets appointment on Monday for Xray's on her colon. We ideally wanted to find out what we are dealing with in terms of a potential megacolon, which would explain some of her digestion issues. It turns out she is actually looking remotely healthy in the gut, just some dehydration problems leading to constipation most likely. Unfortunately, after more blood works and urine samples, Angel has been diagnoses with stage 4 kidney disease and will now be on end of life care. They have given us all the medications and fluids to make her as physically comfortable as we can, but the vet has given her a year at most.  Naturally we are devastated, but now isn't the time for us to grieve, all that matters now is making sure our girl is comfortable and happy. Her new favourite vet (who she absolutely loves) was very upbeat about Angels health otherwise, saying that for a stage 4 senior cat, she looks bright and happy. I put that dow...