Another special day

As of today, Bumble has been living cone-free for exactly two months! We really have no idea why this has happened. His condition was getting so bad towards the end of 2009, and we were so disappointed that he had to wear the cone during Christmas break. Now he's almost... like... a normal cat...?

We had been trying so many different strategies before Christmas, so it's hard to say which one deserves the credit for this. But then he didn't have any treatment at all for two weeks, and it got better three weeks later? Who knows.

Of course, Bumble's old issues have made frequent guest appearances in the last two months -- ear infections, weird rashes, obsessive licking behavior, more ear infections -- but by now we've accumulated an entire shoebox of medicines from all his visits to the vet, so we can immediately treat his ailment of the week.

And it's been gradual, but -- fingers crossed -- his symptoms have really scaled down to the occasional acne outbreak. And sometimes he gets this weird inflammation around ONLY his right eye...

Aww, Bumble. I'm rooting for you, little crunk friend.