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Thanks, Abney.
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Thanks, Abney.
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I don't see this as a bad thing ESPECIALLY in that type of situation. It isn't the time to teach or hand hold, just get that animal taken care of. THEN, you go back over everything that occurred and why you did what you did.....THAT is then a teaching opportunity and everyone wins because they learned something.
Apparently, I scare the pants off our volunteer, not that I try to but he also doesn't listen. (ie. This week one of my techs had to yell at him to not touch the aggressive, trying to bite dog even though she had ALREADY said it once.)
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We invited friends over for crabs. I told her 530-6ish. She texted me at 520 saying they were running late. I told them no problem. It's 715 now and not a peep from them. THEN the AC quit in the other half of the house about an hour ago so I called the company my dad has a deal with (its their house) and they said they'd give me a call back (hopefully) tonight and get us lined up (hopefully) for tonight. My parents are out to dinner though so I hope my dad doesn't yell at me for calling the company. Luckily we sleep in the basement so it shouldn't be awful but ugh.
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Friends don't give friends crabs
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It's Abney. You should've known she would go there.
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While I have no idea what's going on, you know I'm always around to chat.
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I'm having a really rough time tonight 🙁
The headache condition I suffer with (new daily persistent headache, headache 24/7 for 5.5 years) is apparently refractory. It either goes away on its own in a few months or it never goes away. I'm getting nerve blocks done on Monday, and last time I tried them it was so painful. And that was only two. This time we're trying six.
My favorite dog was PTS at the shelter. He was a gunshot victim and was the sweetest thing ever. But he was starting to get dog aggressive, and he was a pit bull, so they euthanized him. I hate double standards. He was my first suture dog, and all he wanted was love. Sucks.
I'm worried about my kitty who may have stomatitis. We're bringing her to see a dentist on Thursday where I'm from (OSU doesn't have one). I may have to leave her with my parents if we opt to try cold laser instead of full mouth extractions. I will miss her terribly.
I don't know why this is hitting me so hard tonight. I'm ready to cry and there's no good reason for it. My parents are coming to visit tomorrow, and then I'm going on vacation with my family, and I'd rather sit in my room and cry. Not freaking normal.
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The headache condition I suffer with (new daily persistent headache, headache 24/7 for 5.5 years) is apparently refractory. It either goes away on its own in a few months or it never goes away. I'm getting nerve blocks done on Monday, and last time I tried them it was so painful. And that was only two. This time we're trying six.
My favorite dog was PTS at the shelter. He was a gunshot victim and was the sweetest thing ever. But he was starting to get dog aggressive, and he was a pit bull, so they euthanized him. I hate double standards. He was my first suture dog, and all he wanted was love. Sucks.
I'm worried about my kitty who may have stomatitis. We're bringing her to see a dentist on Thursday where I'm from (OSU doesn't have one). I may have to leave her with my parents if we opt to try cold laser instead of full mouth extractions. I will miss her terribly.
I don't know why this is hitting me so hard tonight. I'm ready to cry and there's no good reason for it. My parents are coming to visit tomorrow, and then I'm going on vacation with my family, and I'd rather sit in my room and cry. Not freaking normal.
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I'm sorry Nstarz 🙁
Hang in there! I hope you and your kitty are both happy and healthy soon!
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just a random question, but have they done any blood for bartonella?
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For Callie? No, but she was suspected to have calici as a kitten, which I've read is also correlated with stomatitis.
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just curious. My colleague has a case where she was positive and is on cyclosporines now. Was just wondering about your case.
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Interesting. Callie's all kinds of f*ed up, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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I cannot wait) until I can afford to move. I am so over ths job and this town! I want to move NOW, not wait 2-3 more months.
This job makes me angry and I dont like that.
This job makes me angry and I dont like that.
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My now-ex-apparently didn't tell me happy birthday. 🙁 I thought he still wanted to be friends (because he said he did), but I'm doubting that more and more and that makes me extra sad.
EDIT: And apparently his my birthday was better than mine was.
EDIT: And apparently his my birthday was better than mine was.
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Im an idiot :-(
stupidest decision ever and one I swore I wouldn't make
stupidest decision ever and one I swore I wouldn't make
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Thank you- I definitely know I'm not worthless, but it just makes you feel like you are when none of your co-workers seem to care. I had a much better day yesterday- but Friday was really really rough for me.
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EC, sorry that its been a tough time for you. It may be better just to make a clean break with him though.
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See I really didn't think so either. I'm naturally one of those take charge persons. Good to know I'm not alone. Oh well I told them I'd take more time to think about how my instructions would come off to others.
I also believe in CPR situations that even though CPR works only less then 1% of the time that no matter what you should act like they are going to live 100% of the time. If CPR is on the animals cage card or if someone bursts through the door and wants CPR I'm going to go full steam ahead. No time wasted, no questions ask just go. I hate when people walk to go get tubes, put a pep in your step maybe this is that 1% that lives.
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Finally able to try playing Bioshock Infinite, and the menus are all black so it's unplayable. And there's basically nothing I can do about it.
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I'm sorry NStarz! 🙁 I hope things are looking up for you soon!
and no one is normal. Don't feel weird
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is it the human male variety?
two wrongs don't make a right but it sure as heck makes you feel better sometimes.
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My friend's nephew (her brother and baby's momma has been in custody battle for awhile now) came back from his mothers house lethargic, covered in bug bites, and with the most horrific diaper rash.
This is the idiot mother who brought home the raccoon...which she still has.
Hate is a strong word but I hate this girl. 😡 She is a terrible person and terrible mother.
She fights so hard for custody and will lie through her teeth but then treats him like garbage and pawns him off on people when she has him to go out drinking.
Luckily, the judge saw right through her. He won primary custody (she gets him every other weekend for the sake of him and his stepbrother having a relationship) and will get full once he is in school.
The saddest thing is that she has an older son from a different father who is stuck with her full time.
This is the idiot mother who brought home the raccoon...which she still has.
Hate is a strong word but I hate this girl. 😡 She is a terrible person and terrible mother.
She fights so hard for custody and will lie through her teeth but then treats him like garbage and pawns him off on people when she has him to go out drinking.
Luckily, the judge saw right through her. He won primary custody (she gets him every other weekend for the sake of him and his stepbrother having a relationship) and will get full once he is in school.
The saddest thing is that she has an older son from a different father who is stuck with her full time.
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Seriously, call whatever the child protection services is in your city/county. You can do it anonymously and at least tell them about the raccoon and your concern for the older kid.
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I totally thought you were,talking about a puppy at first and was going to ask for pictures. When I thought about it, I realized you are probably talking about a human and I would have sounded really creepy
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Already done. She lives in north florida so they alerted the authorities there. They cant do anything about the raccoon because apparently in the great state of FL it is not considered child abuse to have a wild animal living in the house. He has a drs apt tomorrow morning for the rash. They will document then. This is not a new thing. She showed up to court in pajama pants. 🙄 The judge still thought it was fit to give her every other weekend. FL favors the mother. It really sucks but it is true. 🙁 The older kid's father is not fit to be a parent either.
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Having food poisoning and a broken toilet is NOT fun. 👎 Add a flat tire on my car so I can't drive to a public restroom. 👎thumbdown
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Warning... TMI ahead...
When my fiancé and I first bought our house it had one bathroom. We both got food poisoned one morning and I mean emergency, barely making it to the bathroom food poisoning. Unfortunately he got to the bathroom just before me. I sat on the couch sweating, cramping, rocking, and eventually whale moaning. I said F it, ran outside and broke in our new back yard.
He ran outside asking if I was ok (I was screaming to let me in the bathroom) and he caught me in the act
He now calls me "poopy pants" although in my defense, I didn't get any in my pants, just fertilized the new yard 😉.
Our 2nd bathroom is currently underway 😀
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Warning... TMI ahead...
When my fiancé and I first bought our house it had one bathroom. We both got food poisoned one morning and I mean emergency, barely making it to the bathroom food poisoning. Unfortunately he got to the bathroom just before me. I sat on the couch sweating, cramping, rocking, and eventually whale moaning. I said F it, ran outside and broke in our new back yard.
He ran outside asking if I was ok (I was screaming to let me in the bathroom) and he caught me in the act
He now calls me "poopy pants" although in my defense, I didn't get any in my pants, just fertilized the new yard 😉.
Our 2nd bathroom is currently underway 😀
That makes me feel a *tiny* bit better.
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Ugh! I'm so frickin enraged and I have no one to vent to, so I'm sorry if this seems childish or over the top:
I'm not feeling good today but I begrudgingly took the dogs out for a walk earlier because they were bugging me so much. They're both great on a leash but get pretty perky when any other dog walks by. Well, they sure got perky today: just as we were approaching an intersection, a bicyclist with his dog running alongside came into plain view on the street perpendicular to us. His dog rocketed across the intersection 😡 (no leash whatsoever) and ran RIGHT up to my dogs 😡😡. Now, *my* dog is super playful and submissive--I've never had an issue with him being scared or aggressive around other dogs--but my boyfriend's dog is a protective, in-tact, purebred hunting lab made up of 70lbs of muscle. He's never hurt anyone but I've seen him become very defensive. Anyway, I got nervous when he hackled/postured (nothing more, thank goodness) and at that point I decided to focus entirely on diverting his attention to me so that we could get away. Suddenly though, a second bicyclist rolled up behind me a literally YELLED, "HEY, that kind of DOG should be CHAINED UP!"
...I was totally dumbfounded, and by the time I processed it all, he was around the corner and bicyclist #1 (dog owner) was skulking up to me and apologizing quietly. I didn't say anything to him and just grabbed my dogs and stomped off.
That really, really pissed me off. I wanted to pursue bicyclist #2 and give him a piece of my mind. I was way more upset by his reaction than I was about the unleashed dog coming at me, even though the incident had the potential to end very badly.
Idk dudes. Mean people suck.
On the bright side, I was very pleased with how my dogs reacted and responded to my commands despite the fact that I projected a lot of nervousness. Yay, doggies!
I'm not feeling good today but I begrudgingly took the dogs out for a walk earlier because they were bugging me so much. They're both great on a leash but get pretty perky when any other dog walks by. Well, they sure got perky today: just as we were approaching an intersection, a bicyclist with his dog running alongside came into plain view on the street perpendicular to us. His dog rocketed across the intersection 😡 (no leash whatsoever) and ran RIGHT up to my dogs 😡😡. Now, *my* dog is super playful and submissive--I've never had an issue with him being scared or aggressive around other dogs--but my boyfriend's dog is a protective, in-tact, purebred hunting lab made up of 70lbs of muscle. He's never hurt anyone but I've seen him become very defensive. Anyway, I got nervous when he hackled/postured (nothing more, thank goodness) and at that point I decided to focus entirely on diverting his attention to me so that we could get away. Suddenly though, a second bicyclist rolled up behind me a literally YELLED, "HEY, that kind of DOG should be CHAINED UP!"
...I was totally dumbfounded, and by the time I processed it all, he was around the corner and bicyclist #1 (dog owner) was skulking up to me and apologizing quietly. I didn't say anything to him and just grabbed my dogs and stomped off.
That really, really pissed me off. I wanted to pursue bicyclist #2 and give him a piece of my mind. I was way more upset by his reaction than I was about the unleashed dog coming at me, even though the incident had the potential to end very badly.
Idk dudes. Mean people suck.
On the bright side, I was very pleased with how my dogs reacted and responded to my commands despite the fact that I projected a lot of nervousness. Yay, doggies!
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I forgot my camera battery charger. 😡
Stopping over in Frankfurt. I really hope I can find something there.....ughhhhhh so pissed.
Stopping over in Frankfurt. I really hope I can find something there.....ughhhhhh so pissed.
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Online shopping as therapy after a crappy few days
its DANGEROUS
but it feels soooo good
and it's something I've always wanted, so at least its not completely spur of the moment? So it's okay, even if I'm already worried about paying rent next month, right?
its DANGEROUS
but it feels soooo good
and it's something I've always wanted, so at least its not completely spur of the moment? So it's okay, even if I'm already worried about paying rent next month, right?
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I totally thought you were,talking about a puppy at first and was going to ask for pictures. When I thought about it, I realized you are probably talking about a human and I would have sounded really creepy
I thought she meant a puppy too!!! HAHAHA All my bad decisions in college involved bringing home stray kittens and hiding them in my dorm room... Then getting in trouble for it during random RA checks. Oh well! I was saving lives! 🙄
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haha, glad to know I'm not alone! I was an RA and would hear through the grapevine about stray kitties in my residents rooms. I always tried as long to pretend I didn't hear it. Until I actually heard meowing
It was so hard to not walk in and just play with the kittens instead of enforcing the rules 🙁
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It is so freaking hot in my boyfriend's dorm room. It's currently only 71 outside, but in that awful little prison cell it's at least 90 and the air is so humid and stagnant it's suffocating. To make matters worse, we have to share one of those ridiculously tiny single dorm beds, and bf is a total bed hog with a habit of squashing me into the wall, which does nothing to help the fact that I feel like I'm going to combust from overheating.
It's 3:30 AM and I'm now sitting in the dorm lounge by the window where it's at least ten degrees cooler. Really wish I could sleep here but I'd be in trouble if the RA found me. I'm trying to decide if that's a better or worse fate than the panic attack I was on the verge of having in that dorm room/oven.
I refuse to visit bf at school again until December. 😡
It's 3:30 AM and I'm now sitting in the dorm lounge by the window where it's at least ten degrees cooler. Really wish I could sleep here but I'd be in trouble if the RA found me. I'm trying to decide if that's a better or worse fate than the panic attack I was on the verge of having in that dorm room/oven.
I refuse to visit bf at school again until December. 😡
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Why would RA care? I was one and I know I for sure wouldn't think twice about it!
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Unaccompanied guest wandering (and bumming out) in the common rooms can be a probs depending on the type of dorm I guess.
At my UG even dorm residents werent even allowed to sleep in common rooms... Some RA's didn't care, but I was yelled at about it a few times. And unaccompanied male guests were a big no no... But then I went to an all women's college...
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No one is allowed to sleep in the common areas, even dorm residents. I think it's to discourage guests from staying too long and to make sure students get their own housing instead of crashing at a friend's dorm all semester. Plus it would be really irritating if you lived in the building and wanted to use the lounge but couldn't because guests were always sleeping there.
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I'm in North Carolina and I saw a bunch of them who looked like they just got up when I had to go for my speeding ticket (which I got improper equipment, which is just an infraction and won't show up on my record 😀). I was in that room with a lot of dirt bags. Like there was a sex offender in there who found some way to violate his conditions with social media and we had this lady who was getting extradited to Maryland for felony forgery and perjury.
And there had to be at least 15 possession charges while I was in there.
But my rant is that we were seated in the back of the courtroom and the dudes next to us all knew each other and started screwing with their phones and one of them had theirs go off (and the ringtone was Rack City, out of all things to have go off in court).
And everyone else just issues "motions to continue" or a "continuance". It scared the bejeebus out of me when they all got up at once; I was worried that my mom and I were going to get attacked or something. ._.;
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Mmm yes...single sex dorms or schools I can see that being a big issue.
Guess I just always took pity on the people who were out there...as whenever I found them, they had been sexiled....
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