Sickliness

This is Zoe. I didn't feel so good the past week. I just got under some of the soft things and slept and slept. My human companions decided to take me to the vegetarian, but I didn't want to leave my home. The vegetarian office was a scary place. There were dogs making noise and I just wanted to crawl back under the soft things. The vegetarian had 2 or 3 human helpers but no feline translators, so I couldn't explain that I felt bad, but just wanted to be home. They poked me and felt my ears and other things too delicate to describe. They said my temperature was high- that's what I kept trying to tell them! They poked me with something pointy, but I acted like it didn't hurt. They took me back outside and put me in the big box with wheels. I started to feel better over night, but my humans insisted that I swallow some little white things. They claimed it was good for me, but it tasted reallllly baaaddd! It made my stomach feel bad too. Ziggy tried to be nice to me during this time too. After a few days they stopped forcing those into me and I feel better too- especially after they stopped giving me the white things. Now, after a week, I feel normal and don't feel like crawling under the soft things any more! Ziggy didn't seem to get sick. They think it was an inflection caused by coughing up a fur ball (I like leaving those on the soft things!).
I feel a lot better now and feel protected by my surroundings. The humans can write some now.
Janet got some sort of flu or othe respiratory illness that seems similar to what Jim got a month ago and which still shows signs from time to time. It was just starting on the 2nd and got much worse on the 4th or 5th, but she is doing better now. Zoe seemed sick on the 2nd and was spending most of her time under some bed covers. We took her to a vet used by some friends for their dog in the evening of the 2nd. He thought she got an infection from an internal cut from coughing up a large fur ball a day or so before and he gave her an antbiotic injection and gave us some more in pill form to give. Zoe already seemed better the next day, but we gave her the pills for 5 more days. Giving pills to cats is challenging- like making a kid eat spinach or maybe like putting a motorcycle in your own mouth. Anyway, it seems to have worked she has been behaving quite normally for the past few days.