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WildZoo said:
1. Nature hates being personified
2. DVMDream hates being personified.
Therefore, DVMDream is nature.
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Minnerbelle said:
I think you summed up my point nicely there.



I think that is wise. Though seriously, I wasn't ridiculing you. Quite the contrary. I was saying that I think the disconnect here is likely based on word choice/semantics, rather than stupidity. I would also advise you not discuss this topic in the manner you did here for vet school interviews provided you are not in vet school yet.
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I've already had an interview and been accepted to one school. Thank you though 🙂
 
Ok, I am just panicking in your general direction. I'm not asking for medical advice. If you want to reassure me that yes, I am just panicking because the human brain likes to make connections, cool! I will take it!

My mastiff mix had to be put down a 1.5 years ago due to an intestinal adenocarcinoma (yes, I necropsied and tested it). My older daughter is showing similar gut symptoms. I'm not saying she has cancer, just that she seems to be blocked. She has been vomiting for days with no stool and since she's keeping marginally hydrated, they just say to keep giving her "Cerenia" and keep giving her oral fluids. She has an abdominal mass (pretty sure it's stool) that hasn't moved in days and she now says her belly is sore, but is just as stoic as my dog was and when I opened him up, his intestine had actually been perforated and the omentum had closed it by adhering all his guts together in a solid ball. Again, not saying that is what is going on with my girl, but my panicked brain is just doing the "The last time I saw similar symptoms someone died" thing and I HATE IT!

I'm gonna go cry somewhere until the doctor calls back...
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
Ok, I am just panicking in your general direction. I'm not asking for medical advice. If you want to reassure me that yes, I am just panicking because the human brain likes to make connections, cool! I will take it!

My mastiff mix had to be put down a 1.5 years ago due to an intestinal adenocarcinoma (yes, I necropsied and tested it). My older daughter is showing similar gut symptoms. I'm not saying she has cancer, just that she seems to be blocked. She has been vomiting for days with no stool and since she's keeping marginally hydrated, they just say to keep giving her "Cerenia" and keep giving her oral fluids. She has an abdominal mass (pretty sure it's stool) that hasn't moved in days and she now says her belly is sore, but is just as stoic as my dog was and when I opened him up, his intestine had actually been perforated and the omentum had closed it by adhering all his guts together in a solid ball. Again, not saying that is what is going on with my girl, but my panicked brain is just doing the "The last time I saw similar symptoms someone died" thing and I HATE IT!

I'm gonna go cry somewhere until the doctor calls back...
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if you're that worried, go to emergency
 
We've been in and out of the doctor's office all week. I called to basically get permission to run into emergency. If we do that, we wait for 1-2 hours rather than 5+. She's 4 and her new sister is 6 months. Even panicked I know enough to make my wait period as short as I can.
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
We've been in and out of the doctor's office all week. I called to basically get permission to run into emergency. If we do that, we wait for 1-2 hours rather than 5+. She's 4 and her new sister is 6 months. Even panicked I know enough to make my wait period as short as I can.
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Yeah, but how long do you have to wait for the dr. to call back? If it is going to take him another 2 hours to return call... well...
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
We've been in and out of the doctor's office all week. I called to basically get permission to run into emergency. If we do that, we wait for 1-2 hours rather than 5+. She's 4 and her new sister is 6 months. Even panicked I know enough to make my wait period as short as I can.
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I doubt that it would be 5+ hours. They typically triage symptoms. if your daughter is blocked, that can be very emergent
 
They called, we are headed for rads. Like I said I was panicking in your direction in part because I know at least some of you understand how your brain goes to the worst places even though rationally you know better.
 
dyachei said:
I doubt that it would be 5+ hours. They typically triage symptoms. if your daughter is blocked, that can be very emergent
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Oh, I've sat waiting in the ER for 4.5 hours before they brought us back when she wasn't breathing well. A nurse spotted her turning blue again and pulled us back and said "we normally pull breathing problems back quickly. Somebody didn't understand sleep apnea's relation to breathing."
 
Pretty sure I'm getting sick. Throat is burning, I feel nauseous, and slightly dizzy. I have an exam tomorrow so I'm spending all day in the library studying, but I just want to sleep.

Really hoping it turns out to be nothing. I was planning to go down to visit my new born niece this Friday, but obviously I can't if I'm sick. I wouldn't be able to go down for another few weeks if I can't this Friday, so fingers crossed.
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
They called, we are headed for rads. Like I said I was panicking in your direction in part because I know at least some of you understand how your brain goes to the worst places even though rationally you know better.
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I hope everything is okay with your daughter. That's so scary. Good thoughts for you and her.
 
Oh visiting parents, if you say you'll be at my place at 11 am don't be there at 10:20 am and expect me to be ready to go on a Sunday. Parents arrived at my place while I was in the shower. Mom was upset that I wasn't there to answer the door right away.

Well, stay in the car until I call you back or, like, use the keys I gave you to let yourself in.

Also, I'm a little upset that some guy was following a small opossum around the green space behind my condo. He was poking it with a stick and pissing it off. It was around 2 pm in the afternoon so I have to wonder what happened to the poor thing. Is it sick? Is it hungry? Did someone disturb its home?

I live right off of a very large metro-park so I have all kinds of woodland critters outside my patio fence.
 
Kicking myself for not getting pet insurance for my kitty who very likely has pancreatitis or inflammatory bowel disease (pending diagnostic bloodwork and ultrasound). Why didn't I get insurance? Oh yeah, because it was something like $300 a year.
 
So at least potentially, my kid is the equivalent of a fecally impacted cat. Too much poo to see anything. We just moved. She's stressed. Yeah! Funny, I was watching the 3 cats for this problem, not the people...
 
Minnerbelle said:
The two weeks of fall we had was really really nice...

One of these days when I'm old and rickety (kinda already am) and have money to retire and live large (doubtful), I'd love to spend my spring-fall in New England and travel down to FL for the winter.
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We call that being a snowbird. And it's pretty common. I bet you could do it on a relief basis if you really wanted
 
dyachei said:
We call that being a snowbird. And it's pretty common. I bet you could do it on a relief basis if you really wanted
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Haha, yeah a good number of my clients do that. I sell a **** ton of cerenia for this reason.

Ooh. Relief for the winter somewhere warm. I like that! My employer probably would not...
 
Minnerbelle said:
Haha, yeah a good number of my clients do that. I sell a **** ton of cerenia for this reason.

Ooh. Relief for the winter somewhere warm. I like that! My employer probably would not...
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You'd probably have to do relief both places if you wanted to and be licensed in both. But seems like a decent deal to me
 
dyachei said:
You'd probably have to do relief both places if you wanted to and be licensed in both. But seems like a decent deal to me
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Actually, I should just move to the pacific northwest or CA. GTFO of the northeast especially after the dreadful winter that was last year...

I do miss never having to check the weather in the Bay Area cause it was always sunny and not too cold. Denver area was also really nice weather wise.
 
Minnerbelle said:
Actually, I should just move to the pacific northwest or CA. GTFO of the northeast especially after the dreadful winter that was last year...

I do miss never having to check the weather in the Bay Area cause it was always sunny and not too cold. Denver area was also really nice weather wise.
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Yeah, but the drought is not good, either
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
I still can't handle 70 and below. Couldn't when I was out of Florida for 10 years, and I can't now that I've experienced the glorious winters again
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It's funny, I've spent 23 summers in Florida and still can't stand the heat/humidity.
 
WildZoo said:
It's funny, I've spent 23 summers in Florida and still can't stand the heat/humidity.
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The humidity is what makes the heat worse. I'd still suffer through maxed out heat/humidity to miss out on these last two winters we've had. 30 below before windchill is just unacceptable.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
The humidity is what makes the heat worse. I'd still suffer through maxed out heat/humidity to miss out on these last two winters we've had. 30 below before windchill is just unacceptable.
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That is horrible. Coldest winter days in Pittsburgh were 10 below with windchill. That was about my limit.
 
WildZoo said:
That is horrible. Coldest winter days in Pittsburgh were 10 below with windchill. That was about my limit.
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It was only that bad the winter of 2014. Last winter, when I got back up north, it was still about 10-15 below but not nearly as bad as when I was walking to class that winter haha. Darn polar vortex
 
Minnerbelle said:
****ing **** ****. It's snowing already this year
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Rwwilliams said:
Not quite a native Floridian but I can't handle much below 75. Nebraska in February is going to be awful.
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So, I totes live in north-western Nebraska at the moment and lived here during my undergrad. We got to -50 (with windchill) every winter I was here. The first snow is always the first week of October. We actually canceled homecoming because of a blizzard my senior year; killed 10% of the trees on campus. But we haven't had a single snowflake yet. It's actually freaking us out a little bit. It keeps hitting 80 every couple of weekends, so all the trees still have their leaves. If the first snow is full blown blizzard, the trees will be screwed again. 🙁 .
 
batsenecal said:
So, I totes live in north-western Nebraska at the moment and lived here during my undergrad. We got to -50 (with windchill) every winter I was here. The first snow is always the first week of October. We actually canceled homecoming because of a blizzard my senior year; killed 10% of the trees on campus. But we haven't had a single snowflake yet. It's actually freaking us out a little bit. It keeps hitting 80 every couple of weekends, so all the trees still have their leaves. If the first snow is full blown blizzard, the trees will be screwed again. 🙁 .
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You're scaring me a little bit. I don't really own winter clothes... I'm going to be at the GPVEC, and I think we're outside a lot.
 
Drought shouldn't be going on too much longer in California. It's already rained twice in the last 2 months!
 
Teepster87 said:
Drought shouldn't be going on too much longer in California. It's already rained twice in the last 2 months!
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Water's been kinda scarce since I lived there in the early/mid 2000s. I don't think a little bit of rain fall here and there, or even a year of extra rainfall will do it tbh. But who knows, I'm so not an environmental scientist by any stretch of the imagination.
 
Minnerbelle said:
Water's been kinda scarce since I lived there in the early/mid 2000s. I don't think a little bit of rain fall here and there, or even a year of extra rainfall will do it tbh. But who knows, I'm so not an environmental scientist by any stretch of the imagination.
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One of my classmates told me they were listening to NPR and some authority on the subject said we'd need the equivalent of several El Ninos, not just one.
 
batsenecal said:
So, I totes live in north-western Nebraska at the moment and lived here during my undergrad. We got to -50 (with windchill) every winter I was here. The first snow is always the first week of October. We actually canceled homecoming because of a blizzard my senior year; killed 10% of the trees on campus. But we haven't had a single snowflake yet. It's actually freaking us out a little bit. It keeps hitting 80 every couple of weekends, so all the trees still have their leaves. If the first snow is full blown blizzard, the trees will be screwed again. 🙁 .
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We hit like 85 2 weekends ago I think. Earlier this year, I think it was the Farmer's Almanac predicting summer to go later since winter didn't really break until like April. Now it dropped like 20-30 degrees overnight, and it going to hit 80 again on Wednesday. 😡
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
We hit like 85 2 weekends ago I think. Earlier this year, I think it was the Farmer's Almanac predicting summer to go later since winter didn't really break until like April. Now it dropped like 20-30 degrees overnight, and it going to hit 80 again on Wednesday. 😡
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Sickness. Sickness everywhere.
 
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