OUCH!

I decided that the inflatable collar will prevent Tanaka from pulling the needles out when he goes for acupuncture and it did. Dr O then decided to put 2 more needles on the corner of how eyes which are bladder points and to both our surprise, he was very calm about that. He allowed the doctor to manipulate the needles slowly and did not try to bat at him. The only thing he would not allow are needles on his head.

Dr O told me that he does have other cats who would try to pull out their needles as well. He took some pictures of Tanaka and told me that this was not something he had thought of and it would be helpful for others as well.  I hope it would help the other cat parents. 

Tanaka remained very calm throughout the whole process and he listened attentively to our discussion of Buddhist chants that was playing on the radio. He fell asleep once or twice listening to it. :)

Tanaka on Thursday

I did not want to go to see the needle doctor on Tuesday and tried to look furry sad. But as you can see later it did not work furry well this time. 

This was me at the needle doc. I had many needles for my spleen, gall bladder and kidney. The special kidney needles were nearer my left hind foot but I managed to dislodge it. Hurrah fur me!

I was furry nervous and upset at first. I didn't like the smell offur the office nor the feel offur the needles. I told the doctor that I would only have 2 needles on my head. He tried twice to poke 3 needles in but I shook my head and told him NO!

After about 10 minutes I felt much better and wanted to see what else was going on in the office. It was not too bad as san was with me and I had my own woofie all the time. This woofie used to belong to my rainbow bruffer Megat but now its mine.

Later that night san gave me the TCM to eat for my kidneys. It was so horrible that I tried to spit out most of it and I salivated a lot. I tried to sneeze it out as well. San had to give me a warm salt bath afterwards and she also has to take a bath herself. REVENGE is sweet. But I was too tired by then and fell asleep on my favorite blanket.