addendum...apparently, cats do have strokes...

...although Opal didn't...
She had a blood pressure spike...but some cats do have the all out version (puts me in mind of Opus' pal Bill in many ways...it was a Bloomin' great cartoon...)

As of this morning, the patient was tolerating her meds...and the humans who were coaxing pills into her gullet and firing drops into her eyes. But the kind doctor gave her a -- wait for it -- puddy-cure just in case she gets fed up with her caretakers.