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orca2011 said:
He was brought over briefly, uhhh, last week I think to pick their brains a little. We will probably be back.


ETA: Looks like we're looking at a food trial before a visit to derm. This'll be fun since he likes to eat things off the street...
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i said no to a food trial for that reason. it was unrealistic to think that i could maintain a 100% strict diet for the requisite 2-3mo in Grenada. the local culture is to throw food on the ground as you're done with it and she occasionally steals something.
 
orca2011 said:
He was brought over briefly, uhhh, last week I think to pick their brains a little. We will probably be back.


ETA: Looks like we're looking at a food trial before a visit to derm. This'll be fun since he likes to eat things off the street...
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For other reasons, Ivy's food was switched around a bit when she was still in guide dog training and that's how I figured out she was allergic to chicken. It made her itch like no other - or so I thought. Switched her to science diet lamb and it got a bit better. Then I tried fish with a sensitive systems diet - worse than chicken even. We've tried one or two more since then (including beef) and now I'm on Taste of the Wild Lamb in which I couldn't find any other meat/byproducts. The itching is mostly gone now thankfully. I've now changed to all vegetarian treats or ones that only use lamb as a meat source to see if that helps as well. And then I got coconut oil at the ready since fish oil doesn't work for her.

That dog better knows I love her. She's not cheap. Haha
 
I had an online quiz due this morning at 8 am. I did it Monday evening, no problem. I go to check my grade today, and it says I never submitted it. I'm not sure if I just saved it and didn't submit, or what happened. Not happy right now because the rule is that if you don't have the quiz done, you can't do the lab. Emailed the prof, told her what happened and that I was sure I'd submitted it. I told her if I did screw up, I'd take the 0 for that quiz (it's not a colossal part of our mark) as long as I could still do the lab. Obviously, I want the points though, and I'm hoping she shows some sympathy. 🙁 She doesn't seem like the most understanding of profs.
 
Took the GRE again yesterday, hoping to improve my quant score. I studied all weekend (I know I should have studied more, but ran out of time) and thought that I'd get at least the same score, but it went down...several points 🙁 I didn't study at all for the verbal and got the exact same score! Aaarrrgghhhh!! Feeling pretty disappointed in myself.
 
remi4301 said:
Took the GRE again yesterday, hoping to improve my quant score. I studied all weekend (I know I should have studied more, but ran out of time) and thought that I'd get at least the same score, but it went down...several points 🙁 I didn't study at all for the verbal and got the exact same score! Aaarrrgghhhh!! Feeling pretty disappointed in myself.
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That happened to me. Studied all summer and got an average score. I retook it a month later because I had signed up for it in advance incase I bombed it the first time, and my verbal dropped 100 pts while quant and the writing section went up a little. Standardized tests just suck. Try not to beat yourself up too much.
 
Coquette22 said:
I had an online quiz due this morning at 8 am. I did it Monday evening, no problem. I go to check my grade today, and it says I never submitted it. I'm not sure if I just saved it and didn't submit, or what happened. Not happy right now because the rule is that if you don't have the quiz done, you can't do the lab. Emailed the prof, told her what happened and that I was sure I'd submitted it. I told her if I did screw up, I'd take the 0 for that quiz (it's not a colossal part of our mark) as long as I could still do the lab. Obviously, I want the points though, and I'm hoping she shows some sympathy. 🙁 She doesn't seem like the most understanding of profs.
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:xf: that she understands quiz technology always finds a way to screw us somehow. I hate online quizzes and assignments for this reason. 🙁
 
remi4301 said:
Took the GRE again yesterday, hoping to improve my quant score. I studied all weekend (I know I should have studied more, but ran out of time) and thought that I'd get at least the same score, but it went down...several points 🙁 I didn't study at all for the verbal and got the exact same score! Aaarrrgghhhh!! Feeling pretty disappointed in myself.
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I took it yesterday too, and almost the same thing happened to me! I went in hoping to improve my quantitative score slightly. Quant went down 2 points, and verbal went up 3....and I hardly put any effort into verbal and analytical writing. C'est la vie, I guess! That certainly wasn't what I was aiming to do. I'm still happy I took it - I would have been forever wondering whether I would have gotten a better score if I hadn't taken it. I just sucks to have spent the money for a validation that wasn't particularly necessary. 🙄
 
Escalla said:
:xf: that she understands quiz technology always finds a way to screw us somehow. I hate online quizzes and assignments for this reason. 🙁
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Crisis averted! She can see when I saved my questions so she knows I did it and she said she could work with it (which I assume means I get full credit for it). I somehow managed not to hit "Submit". I have no idea how. Won't make that mistake again!
 
Coquette22 said:
Crisis averted! She can see when I saved my questions so she knows I did it and she said she could work with it (which I assume means I get full credit for it). I somehow managed not to hit "Submit". I have no idea how. Won't make that mistake again!
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👍:woot:
 
Oven decided to be special and not actually heat up to the temp I wanted...even though it had been left on by my roomie since I don't her I needed it. I'm about to have dinner probably a solid 1.5 hours later than I anticipated and I'm starving since I went to the gym between classes today...

And as for my doggie and his food trial, we're working on mastering "leave it" before I start the trial so that I can hopefully avoid using a basket muzzle for the entire time...I'd feel horrible if that's the route I ended up having to go.
 
Abney said:
I am going to single forever because I'm lame. 🙁
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No way jose.. We are in this together!! And we won't be single, we're just too awesome for any of these pansies around right now. 😀
 
Sorry to hear that, Em.


I finally broke today and responded to the anti-vaccine posts of a former co-worker (not a vet, thankfully).

I'm sure there will be backlash. But if there's 1 pet peeve I have, it's being anti-vaccine.
 
dyachei said:
Sorry to hear that, Em.


I finally broke today and responded to the anti-vaccine posts of a former co-worker (not a vet, thankfully).

I'm sure there will be backlash. But if there's 1 pet peeve I have, it's being anti-vaccine.
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Same here. It is usually the one place where I will go ahead and stick my neck out if I hear people talking about not getting their puppies/kittens the series of shots because it has increased risks of tumors. 👎

Especially when I have seen parvo take such an aggressive trend upwards in Oklahoma this year.
 
Whine: One of my classmates seems to have acquired a bunch of offensive t-shirts. I never liked him much to begin with, but this just confirms it. 🙄 There's been three of them so far.
 
Day off with a ton of things to do, and of course I'm pre-migraine.. Rx meds aren't helping,sitting w/ice packs on in hopes I can fight it off.
 
Will it ever stop hurting? Will I ever stop missing him so much it tears my heart out?

It has been over a month and I still cry every damn day...... I want to go back in time and change the outcome......

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devyn said:
Will it ever stop hurting? Will I ever stop missing him so much it tears my heart out?

It has been over a month and I still cry every damn day...... I want to go back in time and change the outcome......

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I am so so sorry devyn. When I lost my cat a cried every day for 2 months. And then less frequently. Took me a good 6 months before I stopped crying at least once a week. It does get better but it takes way longer than is reasonable as far as I'm concerned. It's so hard to lose your soul animal.
 
maybe i'm blowing things way out of proportion, but i am really hurt by a friend's suggestion. i got back from IVECCS the other night without my luggage (i knew it wasnt coming) and it came in today. in a rare moment because i hate feeling like i'm putting someone out, i asked a (long time and close) friend for a ride to grab my stuff this evening. the airport is really close to where we live, not more than a couple of miles. after saying sure, she later asked for gas money, and while thats not a big deal, it was just kind of a shock and surprise. i have gone to the moon and back for this person many times in the last several years and i'm just hurt that apparently she doesn't feel the same way? here i am babysitting her cat for the day (for the second time this semester) because her apartment complex scheduled maintenance. i'd never dream of asking her for any sort of repayment. thats what friends do for each other. guess not? :cry:
 
What a horrible thing to have happened. I couldn't imagine dealing with that. You should consider talking to someone. This is a huge burden to carry. This post is a step in the right direction.
 
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DVMD - I'm so sorry you went through that.. I don't have any helpful advice but I can empathize and I'm thinking of you and sending you fantastic sleeping with unicorn glitter dreams.
 
Just gonna mention this...but every thread (only 2 on pre-vet, but tried others in pre-med just to be sure it wasn't a fluke) that this Monte2wen has posted in throws up a big red flag from my anti-virus software...which has never happened on SDN before and isn't happening when I visit any other threads that he/she hasn't posted in. Comes up as a Malware threat. 😕 Just a little warning. Just noticed that he/she has very spammy answers too. Maybe I'm just being paranoid...

Also, to be in line with this thread: My rant is...I can't sleep. Since moving back to CS and starting my doctoral program I'm constantly up past 3am all the time. I'm tired...I just can't shut the noggin off. Maybe I need to start trying some Unisom or something. 😴
 
Lots of love, DVM. Trust me, however hard it is, talking about it at least every once in a while helps tremendously.
 
DVMD, use the power of growing older and the positive things in your life to help out during rough times. Plus the power of those that lurv you in the darkest hours. :biglove:

My rant: I went home last weekend and it is my peak allergy season. I was trying like mad to keep a cap on it. I did ok, but had to mow my lawn over the last two days and these stupid allergies made just enough inflammation in my nose and throat to turn into a cold. The first football home game is today and I really wanted to go, but now I guess I'll stay home with good drugs to make sure it is subdued by Monday, which is a Phys Exam. 😡
 
Lupin21 said:
DVMD, use the power of growing older and the positive things in your life to help out during rough times. Plus the power of those that lurv you in the darkest hours. :biglove:

My rant: I went home last weekend and it is my peak allergy season. I was trying like mad to keep a cap on it. I did ok, but had to mow my lawn over the last two days and these stupid allergies made just enough inflammation in my nose and throat to turn into a cold. The first football home game is today and I really wanted to go, but now I guess I'll stay home with good drugs to make sure it is subdued by Monday, which is a Phys Exam. 😡
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It shouldn't be much of a game anyways.
 
Rant: I have gained so much weight since high school. I know that just about everyone gains some weight and it's probably not realistic to try to get back to that weight, but it drives me crazy that I thought I was fat then. I was wrong. I am fat now. I was healthy then. I keep wanting to change it and do well for a few weeks/a month, then I hit a plateau and give up. It doesn't help that I don't know how to cook (I'm a better baker because it's exact, cooking tends to be more experimental it seems). I also can't figure out how to enjoy exercise. I'm frustrated and tired of hating myself.
 
Bearby said:
Rant: I have gained so much weight since high school. I know that just about everyone gains some weight and it's probably not realistic to try to get back to that weight, but it drives me crazy that I thought I was fat then. I was wrong. I am fat now. I was healthy then. I keep wanting to change it and do well for a few weeks/a month, then I hit a plateau and give up. It doesn't help that I don't know how to cook (I'm a better baker because it's exact, cooking tends to be more experimental it seems). I also can't figure out how to enjoy exercise. I'm frustrated and tired of hating myself.
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Are you me? I feel very similar most of the time. E-hug.
 
That's tough, DVMD...but look how far you've come since then. I've had a rough patch the last few years dealing with illness, and things can look bleak sometimes, but know you've got an amazing community here to talk with and relish in the fact that you've succeeded DESPITE what happened to you. Chin up, girlfriend 🙂 😍
 
I think I have developed an intolerance to lactose.........

When I drink a glass of milk, I now get horrible stomach cramps a couple hours later and feel awful. I've stayed away from it the last couple weeks and haven't had any symptoms. Cheese doesn't make a difference and neither does yogurt. I haven't tried ice cream yet. I will be trying another glass tonight from a different carton to see what happens.

This is particularly upsetting because I LOVE milk and have always had a couple glasses a day. :cry:
 
Escalla said:
I think I have developed an intolerance to lactose.........

When I drink a glass of milk, I now get horrible stomach cramps a couple hours later and feel awful. I've stayed away from it the last couple weeks and haven't had any symptoms. Cheese doesn't make a difference and neither does yogurt. I haven't tried ice cream yet. I will be trying another glass tonight from a different carton to see what happens.

This is particularly upsetting because I LOVE milk and have always had a couple glasses a day. :cry:
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lactaid.
 
dyachei said:
lactaid.
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That will probably be on my shopping list this week. I'm really bummed but glad there's a manageable solution and I can save myself from the consequences of eating ice cream (if that affects it). Ice cream is something that has to be in my life. 😳
 
Escalla said:
I think I have developed an intolerance to lactose.........

When I drink a glass of milk, I now get horrible stomach cramps a couple hours later and feel awful. I've stayed away from it the last couple weeks and haven't had any symptoms. Cheese doesn't make a difference and neither does yogurt. I haven't tried ice cream yet. I will be trying another glass tonight from a different carton to see what happens.

This is particularly upsetting because I LOVE milk and have always had a couple glasses a day. :cry:
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Have you tried goat's milk? I had the same problem with cow's milk, but never had any GI upset with goat's milk.
 
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