All this week I've been fighting off chest congestion and headache, and felt really lousy Thursday. I spent just about all day in bed, not getting up for any length of time until about 3:00PM.

Getting out of bed just made my headache worse - it felt like my head was going to explode. I sat on the couch holding my head, and after a couple of minutes I felt a cold, wet nose against my leg. Little Harri girl was coming up and giving me the signal that she wanted to snuggle.

Harri climbed up in my lap and stretched out along my arm, just like she used to do in the truck. She relaxed and made herself at home, and purred up a storm. What was astounding to me is that as long as she was purring, my headache went away! Harri spent an hour and a half relaxing in my arms and purring up a storm, and as long as she kept purring my headache stayed away.

After an hour and a half or so I went back to bed. As soon as I put Harri down the headache returned. It moderated a bit when Ranger curled up on my pillow beside my head, but nothing worked as well as Harri's purrs.

I've always known that kitty purrs are magical, but now I have first-hand experience that says so!

Copyright © Dan Mahoney
November 19, 2005