The Venting Thread
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my cat is dying.
I've had him since I was 8 years old. Since last week he's been progressively losing function of his back legs and now his front legs are going too. Vet says it's something neurological but we have no idea what and we would need to do an MRI to possible have an idea. Except MRIs are freaking expensive and my family just doesn't have the money right now, especially since depending on what we find he would most likely still need surgery. And he's 13 and extremely obese, there's a chance he couldn't even handle the anesthetic. Vet also says he's having a hard time breathing.
Were trying him on a round of steroids (prednisolone?) to see if he improves at all. If that doesn't work we are probably going to have to say goodbye
I just feel like such an incompetent pet owner because we can't afford the stupid MRIs and I feel like if I can't even afford that what am I doing owning animals at all.
If you guys could keep him in your thoughts and good vibes that the meds will help it would mean a lot. I know I'm not super active on here but it's been a rough year so far and this is really hard for me right now.
I've had him since I was 8 years old. Since last week he's been progressively losing function of his back legs and now his front legs are going too. Vet says it's something neurological but we have no idea what and we would need to do an MRI to possible have an idea. Except MRIs are freaking expensive and my family just doesn't have the money right now, especially since depending on what we find he would most likely still need surgery. And he's 13 and extremely obese, there's a chance he couldn't even handle the anesthetic. Vet also says he's having a hard time breathing.
Were trying him on a round of steroids (prednisolone?) to see if he improves at all. If that doesn't work we are probably going to have to say goodbye
I just feel like such an incompetent pet owner because we can't afford the stupid MRIs and I feel like if I can't even afford that what am I doing owning animals at all.
If you guys could keep him in your thoughts and good vibes that the meds will help it would mean a lot. I know I'm not super active on here but it's been a rough year so far and this is really hard for me right now.
I just survived through a big surgery (and first durgery I've ever had) and thank God for reals that it wasn't cancer... ashdhdjfkfl
I didn't realize how terrible the post-surgery/post-anesthetic feels though. It is literally the most suffering in my life that I've ever experienced. :B I won't go into further details, but hooray I am alive.
I didn't realize how terrible the post-surgery/post-anesthetic feels though. It is literally the most suffering in my life that I've ever experienced. :B I won't go into further details, but hooray I am alive.
I wish I'd known about that and that I could fix it like that on the cheap and would have just gotten a bank loan to fix the car. It's not even on my ins because there wasn't anything they could do, they didn't even look at the car.
And I love this car!! It's worth so much more than the one I bought, but I can't afford to put it in the shop for any length of time, have no way to get a new hood for it to me without paying shipping or praying my manager at work would take pity on me and go pick one up.
I do like the car I bought, it's another Hyundai, a year older, but 20k less miles on it and less rust, I just wish it had the power windows/ect. Or even cruise control. The bad part is that it's not worth even half of what the other car is worth, so when it's time to sell it, I'd better have a hefty amount saved up to buy a new car. We have car-part.com, not sure if they're nationwide or not, but you can even paint match with them, it's just getting all the body panels, because it needs both front quarter panels, hood, header panel, bumper and grill, plus the headlight assembly. And I'm not a good body person, so for me to put it on, and make it straight and look like it's never been wrecked would be difficult.
I am leaving at the end of the month. The divorce is finalized on March 4th and Im thankful he doesn't read Chaz!!!
If you build it, I will come.
And the answer is drugs. Lots of drugs
But I seriously have no idea. If I didn't have Indy and Harrison I'd probably have lost my mind already. :/
And I love this car!! It's worth so much more than the one I bought, but I can't afford to put it in the shop for any length of time, have no way to get a new hood for it to me without paying shipping or praying my manager at work would take pity on me and go pick one up.
I do like the car I bought, it's another Hyundai, a year older, but 20k less miles on it and less rust, I just wish it had the power windows/ect. Or even cruise control. The bad part is that it's not worth even half of what the other car is worth, so when it's time to sell it, I'd better have a hefty amount saved up to buy a new car. We have car-part.com, not sure if they're nationwide or not, but you can even paint match with them, it's just getting all the body panels, because it needs both front quarter panels, hood, header panel, bumper and grill, plus the headlight assembly. And I'm not a good body person, so for me to put it on, and make it straight and look like it's never been wrecked would be difficult.
I am leaving at the end of the month. The divorce is finalized on March 4th and Im thankful he doesn't read Chaz!!!
If you build it, I will come.
And the answer is drugs. Lots of drugs
But I seriously have no idea. If I didn't have Indy and Harrison I'd probably have lost my mind already. :/
I'm sorry We have a dog at work who's still doing great a year after her splenectomy - so lots of vibes for you guys.
We have a dog at work who's still doing great a year after her splenectomy - so lots of vibes for you guys.
I'm sorry We have a dog at work who's still doing great a year after her splenectomy - so lots of vibes for you guys.
We have a dog at work who's still doing great a year after her splenectomy - so lots of vibes for you guys.
A group of my friends did her PE on their rotation the next day when I took her in for rads/bloodwork, and no one could believe that she was actually 11.
They explored her abdomen and didn't see evidence that it had spread, and her chest rads are clear.
Does this sound similar to the above situations? And how did they choose to treat? We're going to the oncologist tomorrow at 8am...
In the case of the vet's Doberman, he underwent an ultrasound for an entirely unrelated reason. Either he was just volunteered or it was for some mundane reason. He had not acted ill at all (He was 7 or so) and they found the mass by pure chance. In their case, I believe she only did the splenectomy.
Stream of consciousness warning...
Been a weird week. Went yesterday to the funeral of a "friend" from high school. I use quotes because while we knew each other and were friendly, we were never close. She was diagnosed with cancer a few years back, fought the good fight and succumbed last week. We hadn't kept in touch at all, but I knew of her struggle through mutual friends on facebook. I even debated going or not but I felt compelled to go to her service. I shook everyone's hand in the receiving line and they commented that it was nice to see a high school friend come. I don't know why I feel weird about it. Maybe because she was a scant 6 months older than I am and I'm hit in the face with my own mortality. Maybe because she fought so hard to live and I see me and my family making bad health choices every day. Oh well.
Just needed to "say" it out loud.
Been a weird week. Went yesterday to the funeral of a "friend" from high school. I use quotes because while we knew each other and were friendly, we were never close. She was diagnosed with cancer a few years back, fought the good fight and succumbed last week. We hadn't kept in touch at all, but I knew of her struggle through mutual friends on facebook. I even debated going or not but I felt compelled to go to her service. I shook everyone's hand in the receiving line and they commented that it was nice to see a high school friend come. I don't know why I feel weird about it. Maybe because she was a scant 6 months older than I am and I'm hit in the face with my own mortality. Maybe because she fought so hard to live and I see me and my family making bad health choices every day. Oh well.
Just needed to "say" it out loud.
Don't worry. Unless things have changed (and it has been quite a while... but I doubt it.) there are no real "quotas." You're not punished if you don't get X number of sign-ups. Mostly you just get rewards if you get sign-ups. At my store it was a free soda for every sign-up haha.
You'll figure out an easy way to slip it into conversation while you're checking people out. If you're personable and talk to your customers anyway, it's easy to do. My opening was always "Hi, how are you?" then "Would you like the chance to save 10% by signing up for a card today?" Of course now it's 5% off every purchase so it would be a little different, but you get the idea. Most people will say no, it's okay. So long as you're asking.
You'll figure out an easy way to slip it into conversation while you're checking people out. If you're personable and talk to your customers anyway, it's easy to do. My opening was always "Hi, how are you?" then "Would you like the chance to save 10% by signing up for a card today?" Of course now it's 5% off every purchase so it would be a little different, but you get the idea. Most people will say no, it's okay. So long as you're asking.
It is a weird feeling. I mean I kept in touch with Julia (Nilly) one of the parts of this that is bothering me as that she is younger than me. This is my first friend to die of what is typically thought of as an 'age' disease. We tend to think of cancer as what kills 'old' people.
There are more studies now showing that, at least with cancer, its more genetic than we have previously thought and less to do with eating etc.
There are more studies now showing that, at least with cancer, its more genetic than we have previously thought and less to do with eating etc.