So just to start with something positive got all the remaining kitties at Mom's fixed finally. Judy, Pebbles, Fred, Barney and Onyx (rescued from Granny's). So no more worrying about them. Also got Smokey from Misty's litter fixed as well which leaves Thor, Loki, Oberon, Titania, Puck and Ash to be fixed.

Dad's dementia several weeks ago had him wander out an emergency exit at a shoe store and not even noticing or reacting to the alarm when it went off. Then he punched a mirror injuring his knuckles (thankfully not breaking the mirror) because he couldn't recognize himself in the mirror and 'got into a fight' with 'that other guy' in the 'other room.'

Last weekend finally I had an emergency vet run for Nyx ($1300 ) because she seemed in pain and not responding normally. On top of a massive infection she's got an enlarged heart, because of that I need to find a specialist to do an echocardiogram on her to find out what's wrong with it hopefully. Annoyingly when I tried to get a price for the test at the closest vet (instead of the ones 3-4hrs away or more just one way) I was told they don't give out the cost, that the doctor has the list of prices and it's basically whatever he decides to charge which is insane. Oh, but I'd have to pay $180 up front just for them to reexamine her. So the emergency vet, regular vet and these people NONE of them will give me a straight answer for the price, refusing even a basic ballpark figure and adamant about not giving any numerical values. So I'm going to have to call the others farther away starting tomorrow to see if any of them will give cost estimates and if they don't I may just snap, refusing to discuss the costs of something and expecting someone to wait until after it's done to find out is ludicrous.