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Kim, Proud Queen of the Fat and Fabulous!
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Feb 11, 2012 08:40AM
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All in all, not a bad situation, and now I can make jokes. Saturday, I was shaking and crying throughout the day. I have never had been in or had an accident before. So, as a first time for everything moment, not a bad one.
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PLEASE remember my landlady Sue in your thoughts and/or prayers. Her daughter died of a drug overdose leaving behind 4 young children. Thank you all.
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Here's the scary part. I can only see 100% out of my right eye. I had a bleeding retina in my left several years ago that left me with a center dead spot. I have peripheral, but not dead center. So, fear is a big part right now.
I am at a day by day thing right now. I must stress that my vision is just fine, and that hopefully this is a normal thing for me that she just hasn't noticed before or wasn't enough of a concern before to be noted.
I will keep you posted.
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I lost my pet mouse, Etoille(our group photo avatar) on Saturday. He was 2 years and 1 month old to the day that he moved into my heart. He was the first mouse I had purchased making him my first true time at being a pet parent. Jasmine only lasted 2 days as she was too young. We still have Luna,who is also over 2 years old,and she is doing fine.
And relentlessly mooching extra treats off Kim and I. Can't forget that. Luna won't let us.
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So... I am having a LOT of pain in my left leg recently, at night. Waking up every two to three hours from the pain. I went to the doctor's office and he diagnosed inflamed bursa and t-strap. He sent me for x-rays and the results posted on mychart. Test results posted on mychart. I now apparently have:Disk space narrowing, vacuum disk Phenomenon and endplate spurring at the lower four lumbar levels consistent with
degenerative disk disease. Multilevel degenerative facet changes are seen as well. There is mild dextroscoliosis of the lumbar spine. There is mild marginal spurring at the left hip. Mild osteoarthritis at the left hip.
I am going to find a teaching position with insurance how? I am going to work 20 years there how? Color me depressed :(
*hugs* That really stinks. But we're here for you; if you need anything, just ask.
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Aunt Pat stories were always my favorite stories to hear over the years as she was a Character. One story that will translate to those who did not know her is this one. One time grandma,Aunt Pat, and Uncle Hughie went out to dinner and grandma drove. She was taking them home, and Aunt Pat, in a typical move, had placed her leftovers on the floor of the car. When she got out,forgetting that her leftovers were on the floor, stepped in them. Not only did she make a mess in the car, she left a trail to the house as she went to get something to clean up the mess!
These were the kind of stories I heard all the time. She worked for the May Co. and retired well after they became Kauffman's, before the Macy's buyout. She loved golf and baseball. She was loud, loved to laugh, and swore like a sailor when she forgot the kids were in the room, which was often. She loved her family, life and a good drink.
She will be missed.
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Oh my. I am sorry I forgot to tell you. *embarrassed look*The pain is evidently from the arthritis rather than the bursitis as rotating the joint can trigger the pain. The other conditions are all minimal and of no concern at this time according to the doctor. We are treating the pain with A) a new mattress, B) Ketoprofen 3xs a day, and C) physical therapy. It is actually working, I have just woken from my third night in a row of NOT waking through the night from pain. YAY!!!!
Huggies and THANK you for asking.
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*hangs head in shame* I should have called....(bad friend,bad!)
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On a higher note, we became mouse parents again after losing our remaining two at Christmas. We now welcome a dulche de leche colored girl named Dusty (as in Springfield), a gray and white girl called Pogo (she has a possum face of half gray and white) and Tatianna, a light brown,(kinda like a ferret brown) girl to our lives.
Oh wow. Sending energies! Happy anniversary of surviving the surgery.
Congrats on the new critters
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I was just thinking the same thing. School is done now... call me and we'll make plans.
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Narzain is recovering, albeit slowly.Tatiana is doing fine; she's favoring one paw, and isn't as steady on the ladders as she was, but she's active and eating. Dusty is also fine, and has been a wonderful sister to Tatiana, keeping her warm and comfortable while she was sick.
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And in a cruel twist of fate, we lost Tatiana last night. One week to the day after losing Pogo. When I got home, she was laying very still, partly on her side in the entrance to their plastic igloo, and her eyes were closed. I tried blowing on her to rouse her, but only disturbed Dusty, who was sleeping next to her. I went to get the supplies to remove her, but then she drew two deep breaths. At the time I thought she was letting me know she was still holding on. Now I think they were her last breaths. I checked on her just before bed, and she was gone.Dusty seems mostly okay, if a bit lost and shell-shocked. She was always the most skittish and standoffish of the three, though she will take crackers from me by now.
I am not dealing with this terribly well right now.
I am so sorry to hear about the loss. Much comfort to you my friend.
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Dusty's new roommate, Endora, is absolutely adorable! Alas, she is also an escape artist. This morning I found her sitting on top of the cage; she got out, but couldn't get back in to where the food and water live. Fortunately, she is not shy about being handled, and let me pick her right up and put her back inside. Hopefully this experience "scared her straight," so I don't have to wonder where she'll be whenever I leave the room...
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Oh my. I think you should talk to where ever you got them from. For them all to go so fast in close order.... something sounds fishy. My most sincere condolences.
We now have a total of three mice, and a story. So, yesterday Kim went back to the pet store where she got Endora (who were supposed to be getting more female mice in on Friday) to get her a new roommate. Well, they meant NEXT Friday, sorry. So, option two, the store nearest my place, where she got a nice-looking mouse. What neither she nor the store employee could tell at the time was, that one was a boy. Apparently he was tense & spraying that unique boy-mouse musk on the drive, and his little nuts were a little more obvious then. Oops. Easy mistake.Not wanting to circle back around, she went to another shop nearer to her place, where she found two adorable girls: Esmerelda, an all chinchilla-grey cutie, and Serena, a study in black and white. They stayed at Kim's place until I came by after work. Then they moved in with Endora, and hit it off immediately. They also started climbing the walls immediately; two ninja mice in the house!
What happened to the errant boy, you ask? We took him back this morning, with many apologies and declarations that he didn't do anything wrong, we just can't have a boy mouse. We're trying NOT to go into the baby mouse business. They took him back no problem; I last saw him heading for the igloo in the store's display cage.
All's (hopefully) well that ends well. Our three girls are active (and staying inside the cage). Perhaps de-stressing can now commence? One hopes.
Any errors in relating this story are all mine, and I apologize on behalf of my brain.
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I knew something wasn't right when the smell started in the car. I haven't smelled that since Etoille and Sol so I knew that that meant! Unpleasant is one word for it.
On Saturday, while we were at the library, my contact lens was irritating my left eye. I went to remove it, and could not find it. My eye was still bothering me, so I thought my contact had migrated to above and or behind my eyeball. I'm panicking,thinking I need to go to the ER and have my eye flushed out. It was on the desk. It blended in with the desk. They are lightly tinted to bee seen when you drop one, except the desk is the same color as the tint. So, there I am, with only one eye to see with, trying to type.
Not good.
Thankfully, I wear disposable ones, and have backups. We were close to my house and it was quickly fixed.
Sheesh!
As for the other 3 we had, they were sold to as "feeder mice" and not "fancy" which means that hobby breeding was largely not a big part of their lives. Feeder mice say it all. Fancy usually means mice with color and patterns. Typically they are bred by hobbyists for color,temperament,and longevity. Some stores sell both white and colored as feeder mice if they have a supplier who is just breeding to breed. I believe this may have been the case with our three.
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The precautions seem to be adequate, as Miss Endora has since stayed inside the cage. Now if I can just get her and Esmerelda to stop fussing at each other...Serena just stays out of those arguments. Smart girl.
SAD AND EMOTIONAL POST ALERTThis morning was a sad one, as it saw the loss of our Endora. Just after 7 am, I went by the cage and offered goldfish crackers (the treat of choice) to the girls. Serena and Esmerelda took theirs, but Endora was laying on the second level of the cage with her legs hanging through the bars, not responding. I reached in and supported her legs; she moved over to the side of the cage and lay back down. Within a few minutes, she took two deep breaths which I think were her last.
I took her out and held her for nearly a half hour, looking for any sign of breathing, but she was gone. This hit me hard, as I have become very attached to the cute little escape artist. I don't know if she had a sudden illness (she was fine last night), or if one of her escapes had somehow damaged her inside, and it caught up to her this morning. She did not seem to be in pain, thank goodness.
I think what hits me the most is the fact that she always came back to me. Always. Except this time.
