Thanks everyone for your comments -- and for making it through my never-ending account!
Timing can be such an interesting thing...we were not back an entire day before Mingus was covered with fly bites...never could have shown him like that...
MA, don't feel bad -- I was so sleepy that I stared at you for a bit before it sunk into my addled brain who I was looking at! Later, Leia discovered my talent for getting so wrapped up in my thoughts that I don't see or hear those who are speaking directly to me...(without benefit of low blood sugar...)
For those who asked, Teddy is doing wonderfully...back to his normal, hyper, food-stealing, cat-humping self!