Ultimate Coffee Date: July 2025

Welcome to July’s Ultimate Coffee Date!

Ultimate Coffee Date: July 2025

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I’d tell you it’s been a really hard month year. In my last update, I’d mentioned Muffin was doing a whole lot better, but unfortunately she took a turn for the worse again and I said goodbye to her earlier last week. I made a little video for her that I still can’t watch completely without crying.

I’ve had her since pretty much the start of my medical career, when I started living at Please Save A Cat and she was my roommate. I knew from the start she’d be a foster fail and she’s honestly been one of the few constants in my life since then. We’ve lived in 4 different states together and she’s gotten me through some of the hardest times of my life.

Going for a walk + explorations (was trying to give her the best last-day I could <3).

I’m still nowhere near okay, but the amount of love and support I’ve gotten from family + friends has been keeping me afloat (+ even some well wishes from my patients! One of them sent me the nicest email over the weekend that ended up reducing me into tears too). I’m getting a little better each day + have managed to not cry during work hours for the majority of this week, so I’m counting that as a win.

Difficult as it has been to adjust to a cat-less existence (this is the first time in 20 years that I’ve not had a cat), part of me does feel more at peace because I know she’s not suffering anymore. The option of in-home euthanasia was a blessing as well, and the vet who came out to our home was nothing short of phenomenal + made an impossibly hard day more manageable. I hope Muffin’s sunbeaming with my friend’s dog, eating the world, and exploring the world to her heart’s content up in cat heaven.

My world is definitely feeling a lot more empty and there’s no amount of time that ever would’ve felt like enough, but I’m glad for the time that I did get to have with her. <3 I miss her sass, her morning wake-up pats, her cuddles/purrs, and all the love.

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…in an effort to not make this (and my life) all doom and gloom, I’m doing what I do best — immersing myself in all the activities/hobbies ever and it’s true — endorphins do really help.

Two of the hobbies in question = archery + horseback riding. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned my goal to learn horseback archery on here, but…that is a thing I’m striving toward! I took my first couple classes back in college and took a very long break (…basically til this year — February for horseback riding and…last week for archery — I’m up to cantering tho for horseback riding now!).

The guy at the archery shop was super nice and gave me some pointers because I’d forgotten pretty much everything. Many thanks to Jaclyn for the free bow! <3

On top of riding lessons, we get a horsemanship session at the end of every month! Last month was on how to fall safely.

See past ultimate coffee dates here!

(Link-up with Coco @ Running with Perseverance & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner! Also linking up with Darlene, Michelle, Renee, Jenn and Zenaida, for Fit Five Friday.)