A long time ago (April 2009!) I went to the dentist to have some cavities filled, and they numbed me, then came in to the room and told me “Oops, we don’t have an in-network dentist here today. Do you want to pay out-of-network fees and continue?”

Um. No.

At the time (full story here), I was trying to be chill about it, but it’s something that’s made me feel more annoyed over the years. I mean, WTF? Get your ish together! We have a different dentist now (who has it together, but doesn’t clean our teeth as well. Sigh.)

Long story long, I inadvertently did that to Khali today. At the last veterinarian visit for Apollo and Starbuck, the vet gave (well, sold) me some Gabapentin to help relax the cats for their next appointment, and to use to sedate them to trim their nails at home.

So Khali had her annual well appointment today, and I gave her the drugs two hours before her appointment, then the vet had to cancel the appointment… which is no big deal (I already had to rescheduled twice) but now I feel like an a-hole for sedating my cat for no good reason! Like, I feel REALLY guilty! You pick her up and she’s just like a limp noodle. Khali is NOT like that. She has fight-or-flight turned on 80-90% of the time.

She’s fine, I just feel so bad. Poor thing.

We did take advantage of it to clip her front nails though. They’ve never been clipped! You can hear her walking around on the hardwood and tile in our house, and her nails were so long they started to curve too far. So I’m happy we could do that. But I am really not sure if we’ll use this just to clip their nails (Starbuck needs hers clipped too…).

I just hope she snaps out of it soon!

I sat her down next to Apollo and she plopped right over to him. She hardly ever stays where I place her!