not ideal

Definitely not an ideal world! Monday, it became clear that Mona was not doing well, she could not keep her food down, and it was a huge battle getting the insulin shot into her without jabbing myself or my husband or maybe getting Mona in the eye. Not a good scenario in any way. So, I had to call the vet and arrange to take the cat in at the end of the day and have her put to sleep. Definitely not an ideal world, or ideal anything. A very teary day for all of us who loved her.
I want to thank Dr. David Kopp and all the techs at Lindsay Veterinary Hospital for their kindness, understanding, and support.

in an ideal world

A few days ago, someone told me that my cat needed to have her insulin shot at exactly 9am, because "ideally, we like to have her here exactly six hours after her shot" but I could not get to the vet's office at exactly 3pm. Life--real life, not ideal life--made that impossible. Could I give her the shot a half hour later? No, because "ideally we like to keep it consistent." Well, newsflash! this is not an ideal world. Sometimes my husband or I have a doctor's appointment that makes EXACTLY nine o'clock cat insulin time impossible. So she gets it half an hour earlier, so we can get to OUR appointments. We do not live in a hospital with nursing staff, doctors, techs, etc., running around keeping IDEAL schedules. 

In my almost 80 years in THIS world, I cannot remember a single solitary ideal day. There have always been wars or famines or hurricanes or earthquakes or starving people, or cats missing their precise insulin times. 

This is not an ideal world, unfortunately. The cat got her shot fifteen minutes late and got to the vet fifteen minutes early. Somehow she survived.