more Chester, more graduation, still no recipe

So Chester's doing better, but his labs are getting worse.  It appears that he has an obstruction in his biliary system.  If he were human, they would take out his gall bladder through a small hole in his abdominal wall.  But no, the poor sick  thing will need an open abdominal procedure, and they will do  microsurgery on his gall bladder to save it.  AND he is anemic, so he will require a blood transfusion first.  The vet is optimistic and feels the only reason to euthanize would be cost.  Too bad he doesn't have Blue Cross.  I guess I can always pawn my wedding ring...

So three graduation ceremonies and a river of tears later, my headache has become the size of the Pistol Star, and it's got every pain reliever written all over it (to no avail).  I'm throwing two parties in the next two days and I have to transfer the cat to another hospital across LA for his surgery tomorrow, all this with two kids.  I'm about to supernova.