weekly retro #70: asked the vet for a lobotomy but they said no

happy june, happy pride. it's also the beginning of what i'd been preparing for weeks, which is a new chapter in my cat's life as a (hopefully) cancer-free tripod. in this weekly retro i talk about some dark stuff but calling attention to the dark makes the light even brighter or whatever. oh, and go knicks! taking care of people, and animals, comes easy to me. what's hard is making sure i don't isolate myself to just that care. i still have candles to make and ship, ceramics classes to attend and learn from, muscles and bones to exercise and strengthen, birthdays to celebrate and bloodwork to do. if i can sleep just a little bit more than the city does then i am doing okay. i'd been through this before, in april, when pumagreg had his first surgery to remove and test the tumor in his leg. an "injection-site sarcoma", a rare cancer that's removable by amputating the limb - hence this current situation. it's been a really tough few days, for him and also for me. being there for him is…