Tell me if this has ever happened to you: You wake up and a cat with a lampshade on his head is staring at you accusingly. It happened to me this morning. After a tumble with an enemy combatant poor Wyatt Earp was bitten. Bitten! By another cat! WITH TEETH! Gah!
I did the only thing I could do. Lockdown. No one goes in or out without passwords. Cat door has been closed for business and taped with heavy duty duct tape. Everyone is bitter.
In the continuing saga of what could aptly be titled: The Ear Infection That Swallowed Los Angeles, I have been deemed unfit for travel requiring changes in cabin pressure. NO FLYING. The ENT I saw today did things to my ear that are best not discussed. I will not speak of them. I have another appointment on Monday. So in other words I won't find out if I'm heading south on a jet plane until 24 hours before take off. Madre santa!
All of this reminds me of a trip I had planned for Paris some years back. I didn't receive biopsy results until 24 hours before the flight. I was planning to go anyway no matter what. In my mind I could see myself launched for flight at the tippy top of the Eifel Tower. My sister had even agreed to push me. Just before falling to my death I would whisper, 'goodbye cruel world'. BUT! The biopsy turned out not to be stage 4 cancer. I was going to live! The Eifel Tower scenario didn't happen. I went to Paris and I SPARKLED!
So I rest my fate in the hands of Chaos. It lends a sort of drama to the trip and I don't have to pack now, if at all, until Monday.
I don’t speak english but i’d like to tell you that your blog is nice & your journals are “topissimes” !!!! I’d like to do so lovely things !!!
PookiePie, I wish I weren’t so out of the loop. I sent that wacky movie to you and didn’t even know you were suffering! WHY am I not more diligent?!
Sure, this isn’t about me, but it is.
Please get to go. Please please please. That way, Wyatt can blame the kitty friend who’s staying with him, instead of you. You will be his RESCUER!! upon return.
Oh Mary Ann – how did I miss this post. I am so sorry to hear about your ear and the cats ear as well. Geez – why do these things always happen before vacation. Never fails at our house. I wish you a very speedy recovery!!
Hugs.
Oh no!!! I’ll be sending up my prayer of Health for you and poor Wyatt Earp! What a terrible terrible thing to have going on. I would be pitiful in your place. You are quite the trooper!
Clearly you can deal with it but I wish you didn’t have to. If I could, I’d bring you some lovely rich soup and tea, maybe with a shot of bourbon or something similar. Take care!
Mercy This sounds horrible. I hope the cat bites heals, no rodents in the cat door, and your poor ear heals – quickly. Sending healing thoughts.
Merida te espera, Senorita Moss. Vete con dios.
Oh, yeah, let’s not even go there with the ears…my last experience left a nurse with minor injuries! I do hope you get to go to Mexico and relax for a little while!
I so hope you still get to go on your trip!! I got an ear infection from hell and ended up with a ruptured eardrum earlier this year. I didn’t even know adults could get ear infections! It hurt sooo bad and was super nasty and I couldn’t hear out of that ear for about 2 months, so I totally empathize. Your creativity, sense of humor, and super fun class have been such a blessing to me so in my book you deserve 10 exotic vacations. I’ll be praying for you! 😉
So sorry about your ear I truly hope that the unmentionables that the Dr did will make it better and you can fly!! crazy how one small part of your body can cause that much havoc aye!! hang in there and hope the kitty posse are all ok!! sending hugs!I hope the flight is a go!!
Mary Ann, just found you through Kim Owens blog and WOW, I want in on your next class! The Remains of the Day journals are wonderful! I am sorry to hear about your poor ear… I can sympathize right now with an ear infection myself. 🙂 Hang in there and Happy New Year!
I always think…”I should comment on this blog” why? it makes me want to live in LA. your’s must be a very good blog to make me see the place I grew up in in the 50’s and 60’s in a new light.
I’m sending ear energy to you… i’m off to Nebraska on Sunday for a 4 week artist residency.
happy 2010, Janice LaVerne from Eugene,Oregon
Me-ouch!! Sending good healing wishes to both you and Wyatt Earp. Wishing both of you happy trails/tails, as the case may be.
Yikes! Hope your ear has cleared up enough by tomorrow that you can go!
Hope Wyatt is feeling much better. My dog had surgery last week. We did some conehead practice ahead of time (since it was scheduled rather than emergency), but somehow I think he would have been quite out of sorts about the cone had he ended up needing after being worked on, even with some positive practice experience of special treats while conified……
Sending you “wide open and happy” ear thoughts!
Also so sorry for ear problems and cat issues. Been there, done that with the cat problem. Got some weird drugs for the ear issue (not as bad as yours!) so I could fly… so my heart goes out to you! Be strong… you know the good karma is on its way to you from ALL of us out here in blogland!
I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!!!!! and soooo loving your Remains of the Day class!!!! Hugs!
Oh, feel better soon, Mary Ann!
ear infections…the worst. and, the pain…oh my gosh.
sorry to hear wyatt erp was wounded and the posse is on lockdown.
hoping everything works out.
Poor Wyatt Earp & poor Mary Ann! Just put one of those cones on your head and you’ll be fine! Really! You’ll be dancing in no time at all… really…I saw this on the Discovery Channel once… or maybe it was band camp I can’t really recall at the momement…
I’m keeping fingers and toes crossed for you, Mary Ann. The gods MUST be on your side as I know no one who deserves more to fly off on a wonderful holiday.
Anyway, we’re all looking forward to your next journal. BE WELL. That’s an order.
And as for you, Wyatt Earp, you do what my Marley does these days and keep a low profile. Fighting never got anybody anywheres.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, dear MAM.
C X
Ouch! Pain! What is it about teachers who push themselves so hard and then get some kinda’ crud on their vacations? Big time not fair. Loving the class…but feeling rather like a C- student so far. Some of those peeps are way good!
Wishing you well, both of you. Nasty infections – be gone!!!
And wishing you a healthy and Happy New Year, full of love, inspiration and creativity!
I think this might be the best blog post I have ever read! Or it might be the cabernet I’m drinking.
Do be well…enjoy the blue moon…and happy, happy, wandering New Year! xo fran
I hope you and Wyatt Earp are both better real soon. And I hope you’re cleared to go on your trip. I completely understand about the cat door, too. After a $1500 vet bill both of our cats are inside only cats now!
Happy New Year!!!
Poor Wyatt Earp and poor Mary Ann. I hope you both recover so that you can go on your trip and poor Wyatt can do whatever (but no fighting). I’ve been busy cutting and cutting papers and more papers…I have paper all over but it’s so much fun. I love this class…it’s been lovely so far! I’m about ready to sew!
Happy New Year,
Mary
Oh Mary Ann that is awful. I am hoping and wishing you pass the ear test on Monday and go on your trip.
Sounds like bad ear karma at Moss cottage-I’ll keep my fingers crossed!!!!
Oh my Mary Ann, when it rains it pours…kiity issues, ear problems…I can’t go there either, a bad experience with an ENT years back left me scarred for life when it comes to my ears…little does he know what I can do with a pair of scissors and glue…anyway…I HEAR ya…I am sending mighty on line mo jo and all the healing power I can muster in your direction.
And to help brighten your spirits; Remains of the Day was totally pure pleasure. Your videos were so much fun to watch and so easy to follow along; never a dull moment. I have watched all the videos several times, just because it’s enjoyable hearing and watching you work and each time I find something else that inspires me. You prepared an awesome class, the PDF’s were fantastic. HIGH FIVES, plus an Oscar for best production. A Tony for best live performance in a leading role. We can’t leave out a Grammy for best musical score and a Golden Globe for best picture of the year.
Keep something absorbent near that ear (eeeuuuww!).
Happy Blue Moon and very Happy New Year.
It will be, I know. They told me so.
dear dear darling mary ann moss ~ i am thinking happy & adventurous things and holding great big good thoughts for your speedy recovery
I just recently found your blog and have to say that I soooo love your sense of humor. No matter what mood I’m in when I stop by your site for a look see, you never fail to put a smile on my face. And who doesn’t need more smiles in their day? Got my fingers crosed for ya that “the ear infection that swallowed LA” clears up well enough for you to continue with your travel plans..
Oh girl, big bummer, about having the “EAR THINGIE”, not the postponement , that can turn into no big deal (as I hope your malady will too). and…I trust that… this, too, will pass.
I was (and still am ) so happy for you about a vacation… which you richly deserve.
In the meantime I want to be the first in my neighborhood to wish you good health, peace, much joy, exciting and wonderful surprises, prosperity and lotsa (good) wishes come true in the new year.
… and may your posse prosper!
EXCELSIOR! . . onward and upward (or whatever is your rightful way )
well i am sorry about your ear, that sounds well, pretty impressively unappetizing…i hope you get to go on your trip…i really just love to visit your blog and get my giggles on with your prose…good luck, i’m sure you’ll be packing come Monday