Well the news continues to be good and that is waaay good!  As for the other, well live and learn.  If only she would learn to speak people then she could tell you what the problem was.  Its not that cats can not speak people.  Its just they find it beneath them to bother.  Human's don't learn to speak cat very well, but some of us do pick up a few words.   Enough to carry on a halfway casual conversation.  Like how's the weather?  But beyond that, i don't think our tongues and throats are made for it.  I remember trying to discuss quatum physics with my cat... and well the looks she gave me, it was obvious I had a very poor volcabulary command of the language.  Not to mention a very bad accent!  :O)