hey and welcome pookie9. i'm happy to see that i'm not the only "crazy cat lady" here. i have 11 cats, 3 dogs, 1 horse, and 1 kid. well, 2 kids if you count my partner as one like i generally do. the animals were all strays and shelterites that i'm too soft to say no to.

sorry to hear about the empysema. my great-granda had it in his one lung. he started smoking in WW2, and didn't quit until the mid 90's. and then it was only because he couldn't drive anymore, and nobody else would buy for him. thankfully the neighbor kids that he kept trying to bribe were too young.