Cat problems coming like buses

First Ashley got blood in her urine so we took her in on Sunday (Monday being a holiday - our cats always seem to get ill on weekends) and after getting painkillers and pills for her cystitis, brought her back home. She improved a lot and got her scampery playfulness back. So far, so good.

Then two days ago, after he and Ashley had enjoyed their dinner, Sebastian jumped up on the stool by me as he likes to do when we're watching telly, then suddenly started circling anticlockwise. We were puzzled, but when Greg put him down on the floor, his legs, especially on the left side, were all floppy. I googled and the symptoms indicated vestibular disease which has sudden onset and comes right over a couple of weeks. Sebastian was panicked and panting, but we calmed him down and took him to the vet the nest morning, yesterday. He's still there as they want to know what might have caused it so they're doing tests, and he needed to go on a drip as he lacked the coordination to drink properly here, spilling the water all over the floor. We'll probably get him back tomorrow, but they'll give us a big crate to confine him so he doesn't accidentally hurt himself.

Ashley went back today for more tests as they wanted to be sure there wasn't a kidney problem, so they're both there right now.

Greg, who usually does the pilling, will be away for two weeks from next Monday and I'm so not looking forward to doing them and dealing with poor floppy Seb on my own. Sooo stressed about it all happening at once.

Nutella with chopsticks at the ballet?

5 – World Nutella Day: Do you like Nutella? How often do you eat Nutella?
I do! I don't eat it a lot, usually only eat on pancakes, which I make fairly rarely, or inside heated croissants where it melts so I have a sort of pain au chocolat. It's also a great filling for hamantaschen (as is marmalade).

6 – Chopsticks Day: Can you eat with chopsticks? If yes, how often do you use them?
I can, and I own some beautiful red-and-black lacquered ones I got in Malaysia, plus two Jedi light-sabre sets, blue and green, but they don't light up or hum. ;) I use them for sushi and other Japanese or Chinese takeaway dishes.

7 – World Ballet Day: Have you ever been to a ballet performance? Have you ever had ballet lessons?
One or two, with my parents. As for ballet lessons, my mother forced me and my sister to have them when we were at primary school. I couldn't walk till I was two and had to be taught things like how to skip, so I used to say my legs weren't well connected to my brain. It turns out I have motor dyspraxia AKA developmental coordination disorder (DCD) depending on where you live. Anyway, my mother thought it would help with my lack of coordination, but it didn't and I hated it. (Of course my sister was much better; she was always quite athletic.) I also took tap and I did rather like that, practising in our basement to get maximum noise: heel toe, heel toe, shuffle-hop-down, shuffle-hop-down... Actually I would mind doing tap now, or line dancing, as I could probably handle that.