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Hijacking again

Hi all it me Ashley again hijacking the blog. I begging you to please help my mom and dad pay for my last two dance competitions. This is my last year competiting and I really want to finish the year. My mom is working two jobs to help, put it isn't enough. Especially with my doctor bills but this year it has been my dads drs bills that isn't helping. So if you can me stay in dance, please and thank you. :) Ashley

So We Got a New Cat or the Cat got us, Part I

Ashley's kitty, Lily, died on December 22 last year.  Ashley loved that cat, we all did.  She was so precious to us.  We worked hard at keeping Lily alive for as long as possible after she swallowed a string in September.  The vet didn't offer us much hope without an expensive surgery but we tried; we believe there is always hope.  We fed her with a syringe for weeks, she eventually started to eat (a lot) on her own.  She started gaining weight and passing the string.  Eventually there appeared to be no more string.  We thought we had saved her.  She was playing, eating, drinking and almost back to the weight she was prior to her getting sick. We were very hopeful.  That all changed quickly one dreadful Thursday before Christmas. Lily wouldn't eat, she was hardly moving.  She went downhill quickly because by the end of the day, she was not walking at all and she began to have little seizures.  At first I didn't know what to do, I was in tears knowing this was the end fo