This morning I saw this headline: "Family Lived With Decaying 90 Year Old Corpse for Months." The headline might be a little misleading - the corpse of 90-year-old Magdeline Avila Middlesworth was found 2 months after the woman had died. Authorities had responded to a call from Middlesworth's sister who had not heard from her in awhile and asked them to check up on her. Middlesworth was from Monroe, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. Friends say she was lured from Washington to Wisconsin by what they referred to as a "cult." When the authorities showed up to the home she had been staying at in Wisconsin, they discovered the remains of Middlesworth piled up on top of the only toilet in the house. One of the three people who lived there admitted she had died two months previous, but that someone higher up in their "organization" had told them if they prayed hard enough, Middlesworth would come back to life. I'm not sure if I'm more put off by the family (which included children) to have left a corpse in their home for two months, or the fact that it was on the ONLY TOILET IN THE HOUSE.

Wally went to his regular vet again today, who determined that they really had no idea what was causing his eye problem. They suggested several things they thought it might be, but then told me why they didn't think that was the problem, based on his thorough examination. I walked away with a prescription for antibiotics in case it is an abscess in one of his teeth that they couldn't find during examination, that might be causing irritation of that eye. That was $130. I think the weekly Wally total is about $296. The vet said he should see an eye specialist, which I actually already had an appointment scheduled with. The cost for a consultation? $220. Wally is turning into a very expensive boy! He's lucky he's so damn cute, as evidenced by this photo of him throwing a fit in my office because I wasn't paying attention to him.