- September 29, 2006 -
Tonight, I ran out and the two were having a very stiff and threatening conversation through the screen door. Sorcha was all puffed out, and trust me, when Her Royal Fluffiness puffs out she is huge. The little black and white cat sat, frozen, under my balcony table as Sorcha gave her whatfor. I now have photographic evidence of my recurring cat burglar!
Just in case I inadvertently worried anyone yesterday:
The Cat Burglar
As I was checking my email, I heard a loud noise in the living room, followed by a lot of growling and yelling. Occasionally over the last few weeks, I've heard this commotion and have run out to the living room to find Sorcha glued to the balcony screen and nothing out there to be seen. There's a little black and white cat that has been hanging around outside (wearing a harness, so clearly a neighbor's pet), and I'd never seen her anywhere but at ground level, but I suspected that the source of the ruckus was likely another cat climbing onto the balcony.
I mentioned yesterday that a funky vision problem was interfering with my ability to read the monitor. By the time I finished up, it was like looking through a pane of glass covered in Vaseline with moving white track lighting wrapped around my head just outside my peripheral vision. I went to bed very early. This morning I woke up with a migraine (which slowly subsided throughout the day), but I could see just fine. I had a little trouble concentrating on some things, but that's a rather standard issue migraine trait. I looked up the visual disturbance, and it looks like it was a textbook "migraine with aura". The info I was able to find, along with the interpretive artwork of what a visual aura looks like to the sufferer, leaves zero doubt in my mind that this is what happened. A little frightening to experience, but not any more harmful than a migraine without it. Apparently, only 15-20% of migraine sufferers experience visual auras, and I think it's only 1 in 10 people who experience migraines at all. So I'm special! Anyway, it's nothing to worry about. If there's a next time, I'll recognize it immediately as the precursor to a migraine and head it off with a bunch of naproxen, just like always.
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