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On the relationship topic ... My husband is in Spain for 6 months and he left in June. He emails me almost every day and calls at least twice a week. I miss him soooo much and so do our dogs ... BUT on September 30 I'm going to Spain for 2 weeks to visit!!!!!
 
Abney said:
Well. A client at work had a thunder shirt she didn't ever wind up using that happens to fit my dog. We shall see how it goes. I also got her a treat ball that she has to roll to get some super super yummy treats out of. :xf:
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Yay!! I really hope it works!!
 
All you SDNers with LDR-related sadness, hugs and love. It's going to feel bad sometimes and I'm definitely with you on the "sitting alone in my apartment" part, WEN. Everything is going to be ok!
 
I haven't posted on this forum yet but here I go. I'm so tired, I have been working two jobs for the past year trying to make ends meet. I am getting a little discouraged. I feel that I am working my butt off and missing watching my son grow up, and that I won't reap any benefit from it. I am just so effing tired...thats all.
 
PetPony said:
Been watching movies, and eating nutella and chips and salsa for hours. And crying. That's there, too. I don't know what's making today harder, but it is.
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Something in the air today - I've been uber emotional too. Laaaame.

Unfortunately weekend trips are incredibly cost and time prohibitive - none of the flights leaving Friday night would get me there until Saturday late morning at the earliest, and involve huge layovers. And then I'd have to fly back Sunday morning. He's in a masters program, so also incredibly busy with classes. Plus, who has $1000 to fly home for a day? Not me, that's for sure. So unless he magically comes to visit, the next time we see each other will be Thanksgiving. We've been living together for 4 years, so being 2000 miles away is just incredibly crummy.
 
psilovethomas said:
I'm with you guys, WEN and PP. I miss my boyfriend so so so much. Long distance is hard and very emotionally taxing. I talk to mine every night for about 30 min and that is it because we are both busy. He will be going to medical school next year, so I won't be able to live with him again for at least another 3.5 years.
But! We've been doing this for a year already. It is doable! Just look forward to breaks. When I am home, we spend every night together, so we at least get to see each other everyday. Send each other letters (via snail mail)- those are always fun and heart warming. Skype! See if you can plan weekend trips to visit (WEN). Keep yourself busy, it helps the time go by fast and keeps you from feeling in the dumps about the distance.
If you two ever need someone to talk to about long distance, feel free to PM me.
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PetPony said:
According to my maps app, mine is 1660 miles away. I missed his phone calls 20 minutes ago because of work. He texted me saying that his grandpa died. I really want to talk to him and make him feel better but I don't have a phone card anymore do I just have to hope he calls again. 🙁
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PetPony said:
I hate long distance relationships.
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Let me join in on the LDR hate club. My bf is in the Army. We've been in a LDR For 1.5 yrs. I've only seen him a Total of 8 times since he joined the army. And to top it all off, he is leaving for Afghanistan painfully soon for a 9 mon deployment... & won't be back until next fall. 🙁 :cry:
 
No relationship for me but I am over 5,000 miles away from my family and friends. I have been sitting alone in my flat for a few weekends now. Missing my support system, but it has definitely gotten much better with time. Last week I was an emotional mess this week I feel like I am settling in. One day at a time. 🙂
 
DVMDream said:
No relationship for me but I am over 5,000 miles away from my family and friends. I have been sitting alone in my flat for a few weekends now. Missing my support system, but it has definitely gotten much better with time. Last week I was an emotional mess this week I feel like I am settling in. One day at a time. 🙂
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that was all too familiar a feeling for me last fall. and i was supposed to have a good friend in the program with me and as a roommate and she ended up having to go home for surgery and taking a semester off. it was really hard, i felt extremely isolated and alone. but it did get better. i relied heavily on support from one of my very close friends at home and my family to get me through the semester. being international is tough, but i keep reminding myself that it is opening my eyes to the world and making me a better person (and i truly think it is). hang in there!🙂
 
Too bad we can't have a loneliness pity part involving drinks and chick flicks +pity+
 
When there's no one home at my house, my dog stays shut in my room. She had been perfectly fine for almost a month, but got home late tonight after being out for a while (until 12:30 maybe? gone for 6 hours--not any longer than she's home during the day) and found a section of paint scratched off the inside of my bedroom door. ugggggg... feel bad for leaving her this evening.
Apparently there were storms, so wondering if it was that? But I think she's been home alone for storms before--not sure, though. Just thought of that, so will watch her for storms in the future, I guess.
 
All the LDR talk makes me 🙁
In four months I'll be attempting an LDR myself. I've done plenty of 200 mile LDR, and the BF and I survived 6 months of 300 miles, but since then we've been living together. I've never lived with someone before this last year and a half. I'm sure I'll face some adjustment problems once I'm in Grenada but I'm worried about him.
If we could just skip the next 4 years of relationship time and be how we are now after school, it'd be great.
But I'm not the best communicator, I'll be heavily focused on school and we will be skyping. He's slightly insecure and damaged due to a past relationship where the woman cheated and left him. It doesn't help that my dad keeps pushing that I will meet a Dr or vet at school like my cousins did.
I'm worried I'll have to reassure him all the time rather than just talk with him. And I can't be wracking my brain over whether everything is going right while I am studying.

Agh.
 
Abney said:
Well. A client at work had a thunder shirt she didn't ever wind up using that happens to fit my dog. We shall see how it goes. I also got her a treat ball that she has to roll to get some super super yummy treats out of. :xf:
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😍 the thunder shirt! My dog can be a spaz, especially around the 4th of July. There will be a week of fire crackers and fireworks. She goes from barking at the littlest noises to being silent and sleeping through the night.

Hope it works for you Abs.
 
Update on my dog? No barking BOTH times I got home last night. I came home to check on her half way through the night and she was quiet, then when I got home super late (went out dancing/drinking with my bestie who's in town) no barking! :soexcited:
 
It's hard when you have to tell them all the time that you want to be together, you aren't looking for someone else, etc. And annoying. I've had a few talks with mine about that but..
 
found out today that my close friend, a coworker of mine, has lost her battle to lymphoma - she had been hospitalized and in a coma due to complications from her chemotherapy and on life support machines (respirator/ventilator etc) and today an MRI showed that she has irreversible brain damage from a stroke and will never wake up. her family has decided to let her go and she will probably die in the next day or two. she is only 27 and has only been married for 2 years. she is one of the kindest, most generous, most gentle people i know with such a wonderful soul. so sad right now, started crying in the library earlier while studying 🙁

the world is so unfair sometimes.
 
Oh yea. Putting three cats into a not completely enclosed dog run right next to a pit bull is a great idea. And why not put them back in there after one already escaped and walked around the hospital by itself. Genius.
 
Bearby said:
It'll be ok. I've been drinking away the pain for the last few days. Boys are just stupid.
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Yes, they can be from time to time. Hope you feel better soon.
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Sorry to hear that Sunnex. It's always the really awesome people who are taken too early. 🙁
Hugs to you and her family.
 
Brought my kitten's sister back now that she tested negative for FELV. Apparently they don't remember or like each other so in trying to separate them the sister somehow got this wire from the back of our gas stove wrapped around her neck and was literally strangling herself. I got clawed all up and down the arm by her and my kitten swatted me in the eye and gave me a pretty nice split in my lower eyelid. Awesome.
 
wildcatj said:
Brought my kitten's sister back now that she tested negative for FELV. Apparently they don't remember or like each other so in trying to separate them the sister somehow got this wire from the back of our gas stove wrapped around her neck and was literally strangling herself. I got clawed all up and down the arm by her and my kitten swatted me in the eye and gave me a pretty nice split in my lower eyelid. Awesome.
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Geez 😱
 
I'm so sorry to hear all that, Sunnex. Life is very unfair sometimes. 🙁 She was so young to be battling with that.
 
wildcatj said:
Brought my kitten's sister back now that she tested negative for FELV. Apparently they don't remember or like each other so in trying to separate them the sister somehow got this wire from the back of our gas stove wrapped around her neck and was literally strangling herself. I got clawed all up and down the arm by her and my kitten swatted me in the eye and gave me a pretty nice split in my lower eyelid. Awesome.
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Cats just like to make things difficult for everyone. Sorry you got all scratched up.

I think my kf cat is just trying to hurt my feelings. She slept in the garage last night, like I couldn't be trusted to not torture her if she slept in my room. This morning gave her fluids and after she proceeded to scream at my door like I had beat her.
 
wldlfstdnt said:
Cats just like to make things difficult for everyone. Sorry you got all scratched up.

I think my kf cat is just trying to hurt my feelings. She slept in the garage last night, like I couldn't be trusted to not torture her if she slept in my room. This morning gave her fluids and after she proceeded to scream at my door like I had beat her.
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Aw, that's not very nice 🙁

I don't even know what I'm going to do with sister kitty. I had a home for her originally, but now I'm having second thoughts about it because they are letting their other cat and they weren't before. He isn't vaccinated for FELV and they would probably let this kitten out. They live right on the corner of two really busy streets and this kitten is dumb as a brick. I don't think she'd live long outside. They're really nice people but they don't have the best common sense and they have a really big not well trained dog. My friend's family has been keeping her while I was waiting for enough time to pass to re-test her, but they don't want to keep her. I'd like to keep her but I don't think my parents want to have 3 cats. Especially not with my dad's asthma. The whole situation is just stressing me out.
 
thanks for everyone for the support. just really hard and makes me really angry at the world right now. i didn't even get to say bye to her before i left for school, which breaks my heart right now. i'm at a loss for words.
 
wildcatj said:
Brought my kitten's sister back now that she tested negative for FELV. Apparently they don't remember or like each other so in trying to separate them the sister somehow got this wire from the back of our gas stove wrapped around her neck and was literally strangling herself. I got clawed all up and down the arm by her and my kitten swatted me in the eye and gave me a pretty nice split in my lower eyelid. Awesome.
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Yesterday one of my cats was sleeping in the dog's crate, which the dog hates. So the dog goes bounding into the crate to wake up the kitty. The dog is cerebellar and kind of a spaz in the first place, being a 1 year old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, so in her craziness she gets her foot caught in between some of the bars of the crate. She is SCREAMING her head off, and I was trying to help her get her foot out, and she turns around and bites down on my hand HARD. In between her screaming and biting me (and urinating at the same time) I finally managed to get her foot out and she runs away (not even limping). Little witch.

My hand hurts. 🙁
 
nyanko said:
Yesterday one of my cats was sleeping in the dog's crate, which the dog hates. So the dog goes bounding into the crate to wake up the kitty. The dog is cerebellar and kind of a spaz in the first place, being a 1 year old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, so in her craziness she gets her foot caught in between some of the bars of the crate. She is SCREAMING her head off, and I was trying to help her get her foot out, and she turns around and bites down on my hand HARD. In between her screaming and biting me (and urinating at the same time) I finally managed to get her foot out and she runs away (not even limping). Little witch.

My hand hurts. 🙁
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If they just wouldn't struggle everything would be fine! Sometimes animals kind of suck.
 
nyanko said:
The dog is cerebellar and kind of a spaz in the first place, being a 1 year old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever...
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There's a quote about crayons and boxes that seems appropriate here...

Unfortunate, though. At least it isn't like, surgery week and that's your suturing hand? Eh?

It's all the cat's fault, anyway. Damn cat.
 
twelvetigers said:
There's a quote about crayons and boxes that seems appropriate here...

Unfortunate, though. At least it isn't like, surgery week and that's your suturing hand? Eh?

It's all the cat's fault, anyway. Damn cat.
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Yeah, I did blame the cat actually. And we do have our first surgery labs next week but not any live animal labs yet.

It is my puckhandling and shooting hand though. 🙁
 
If you are going to bitch about having to do an operative report all by yourself 1) make sure you are actually doing it all by yourself, not just your half (technically less than half) 2) don't bitch about it in front of your lab partner's friend.
 
When I tell you my dog doesn't respond to her name, will chase after squirrels/birds/rabbits, and that there's a hole in the fence around the backyard, so don't let her off-leash, what part of that makes you think it's okay to let her off-leash in the backyard? And then get annoyed at me when I get upset with you for doing that?
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Husband's aunt is in the hospital. She was walking their two Portugese Water dogs when a stray cat ran across the street. The dogs chased and pulled her across the street, she tripped, hit her head on the curb, and has been unconscious ever since. Much like sunnex's friend, this woman is amazing and loving and bright and beautiful. And we are helpless, because we are 9 hours away. Thankfully, we are getting hourly updates, but I'm sure I will be an intolerable zombie tomorrow.

Sunnex, I'm really sorry about your friend. If you want/need to skip out of histo lab tomorrow to grab a coffee (or a half gallon of ice cream!), let me know. My treat!
 
Sunnex, very sorry about your friend. 🙁

Today at work we found out that one of the food Reps that's works inside our store was the victim of a brutal home invasion and stabbing. The woman, her mother, and a young child were all stabbed to death by a neighbor. The youngest child escaped from the home to a different neighbors house who called 911. What is the world coming to.

Labor day ended up being an eventful day a work, before our Dr. Arrived we were rushed over to the grooming salon where a dog had his mouth stuck in the kennel door, the bottom jaw had gotten between two bars and an upper canine tooth had been lodged on another bar. I put on bite proof gloves and freed the top canine, but we had to use wire cutters to free his bottom jaw. Poor puppy was terrified, and I must admit my adrenaline afterwards had my hands a bit shaky. When the day starts like that, you know it will turn out crazy all day long, which it did. So glad to be home finally.
 
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