underwhelmedandoverstimulated:
I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma’s cats staying with me.
- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.
- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.
- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I’m sleeping and injured.
That’s love. 🐈⬛🐈❤️
cats are so very unclear on what is wrong with us but they want to help
The accident that disabled me as a teenager left me with, among other injuries, a broken hand and wrist that required surgery. I had to sleep with it elevated on a couple of pillows for ages. At the time, my family had an elderly cat named Prissy who we’d adopted somewhere around 10 years prior. Prissy was not a very friendly cat, and not a cuddler. She would not sleep on my bed with me, because she knew I would roll around and kick in my sleep; if I came to bed while she was napping, she’d just get up and leave.
But while I was in a cast, she spent every night from the time I went to bed until the time I got up laying beside my arm on the pillow, purring and guarding me. That is love.
Studies have shown that the purring actually can help promote your body to heal faster, they are helping, because they love you.