I had a nice time at my mom's - my sis got on our nerves, but it was still a nice visit. My mom gave me a big check for Xmas too...talk about being thankful!
If only I could have good tidings for the rest of this entry.
Whiskers is not doing well at all. At this moment, this is the first time I'm not crying over him. He saw a vet on Friday, and a lot of work and tests were done, including extensive bloodwork and fluid therapy. I got a call back from the vet on Saturday morning, and Whiskers' prognosis is very bad: he has too many white blood cells, and barely enough red...I have no idea what happened to him...basically, my sweet lil' guy has leukemia, and/or a bad yet mysterious infection (My other cats are fine).
When I went to the vet yesterday - Saturday - I had made up my mind to have him euthanized - especially after the gasping attack he had earlier in the morning. I thought that he'd die right there in my arms. But his breathing slowed down finally, so I laid on the floor with him for about 2 hours.
When I went back to the vet, the vet told me that Whiskers' outlook wasn't good, but that they could do more tests, including a blood transfusion, which would last for about a week...and cost @ $500.00. That's not including the cost of the other stuff. (I had spent over $300 on him on Friday, and would gladly spend more, but reality told me that I couldn't, as I have four more cats to take care of, and keep a roof over ours heads).
In the end, I opted to get him some meds - an antibody and a steroid for 10 days. Whiskers ate a little yesterday, but barely nothing today. He's been drinking water mixed with Pedialyte too. I had a glimmer of hope last night when a little pink color returned to his nose, and when he jumped on my lap to cuddle, but today, he is still lethargic. He even peed on me when I took him to the litter box this morning (he still goes on his own though)...If there is no marked improvement after the 10 days of medication, I will take him back to the vet to euthanize him. I can't allow this wonderful cat to suffer anymore.
But it sure does hurt my heart like hell, and it stresses out the other kitties too.
What a shitty end to 2012...
I will spend Christmas alone - again. But it's all good. I will visit my mom on the 27th, as my sis from Southern Cal is already there, and we want to meet with the home visit nurse together.
I was also told that I have a big Xmas gift/surprise coming...that's cool! LOL!
For a person who rarely cooks, I plan on baking an apple cobbler, and a pot of greens with ham tomorrow.
I hope that I can take Whiskers to a vet at the SPCA here right after the holiday too, as he isn't eating much...still cuddles and 'talks' but he is obviously not as he should be.
For you friends here - who celebrate the holiday - MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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Merry Christmas Isis, I hope you love your gift, and that your family is doing well, that Whiskers gets better soon and that no drama happens around where you live. Enjoy your apple cobbler and greens...Yum!
Merry Christmas- Apple cobbler.. yum.
xmas is best spent with a bottle of gen
Merry Christmas lovely lady! I'm home alone for Christmas as well. Don't worry, I've seen the movie and it looks like a ton of fun!
It's all good. I'm celebrating this year with friends. We're going to have appetizers and margaritas, then go see a movie, then come back to my place and cook an Asian feast.
Traditional? Hardly - but sometimes traditions need to be broken...
:) Have fun, and so glad you have the trip to look forward to.
Hope Whiskers gets better, might be something simple like a thyroid. My cats have had cases of that, simple pill a day like us humans. :)
ohmigawd, I need me some greens. People here in Canada just look at me funny when I say that....Ima moving in wit you and da pitties!
Hope whiskers gets what he needs to feel better.
Enjoy the day at your Mum's :)
'twas The Night Before Christmas ;)
20:05:32 - Dec 23 2012
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For Isis101 sorry you stumbled across a personal but I sure hope this makes up for it ;)
24th December 2012
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through our house
was blasting the “St. Vitus Dance” by Bauhaus;
Torn fishnets were draped on my forearms with care,
And two cans of Aquanet applied to my hair;
My thoughts were of graveyards, and horror and dread,
Black visions of pain and despair in my head;
And Bianca, whose face was as pale as the moon,
Had thrown up her arm for this evening’s swoon,
When out by the gravestones there came such a clatter,
I sprang from the coffin to find out the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a ghost,
Expecting to find a dark devilish host.
The moon on the breast of the uncaring snow
Threw ominous shadows on objects below,
When, before my tormented eyes did traverse,
But a gorgeous black Crane & Breed carved-panel hearse,
With a gaunt, shrouded driver, who filled me with fear,
And eight skeletal creatures that might have been deer.
More rapid than vultures his coursers they came,
And his deep Andrew Eldritch voice called them by name;
Now, Murphy! Now, Morgoth! Now, Torment and Woe!
On, Dreadful! On, Lovecraft! Mephisto and Poe!
To the top of the gravestones where fog wisps its breath!
With a weight on my soul I consign you to death!
As dead leaves that before hellish hurricanes fly,
When they flutter like giant bats’ wings to the sky,
So up to the crypt-top the coursers they leapt,
While dearest Bianca, like death, still but slept.
And then, to my horror, I heard on the roof
The clicking and scratching of each bone-white hoof.
As I drew in my arm, and was whirling around,
Down the ebony chimney he came without sound.
He was clad all in black, and he looked oh-so-goth,
A billowy ensemble of crushed velvet cloth;
His boots were knee-high, quite buckled and zipped,
And the Spandex and fishnets ‘round his legs were ripped.
His eyes glowed with bluish fire, deathly and cold,
A black eye-liner’d face neither youthful nor old.
A broad lipless mouth drawn with torment and hurt,
And his sorrowful face was as white as my shirt.
A smoldering cigarette tight in his grasp,
Its smoke curling eerily ‘round his cloak clasp;
His gaunt frame was topped with long ebon hair,
And a sharp scent of brimstone and cloves choked the air.
His arms were outspread in the shape of a cross,
And I quailed when I saw him, feeling sorrow and loss;
He narrowed his eyes with a twist of his head,
And I felt the full weight of his angst and dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his task,
Left some Dead Can Dance CD’s; before I could ask,
A single tear fell across his aquiline nose,
And then, like an angel, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his hearse, to his team he then hissed,
And away they all drifted like early dawn’s mist.
But I heard him intone, ere he vanished from sight,
“Gothic Christmas to all, and to all a good fright!”
With somber and tormented apologies to Clement C. Moore
Oh I forgot...when I went by the clinic to update paperwork yesterday morning, I was able to see a nurse who got my prescription for the diclofenac! Yipee!
* It's been a busy week. Although the school was closed, we were working this week - cleaning up and re-organizing stuff. Of course, Big Momma did the bare minimum...sitting on her ass in front of the computer was more to her liking. When Joan - Boss #2 - mentioned that she was not happy with it, I asked her why was she telling me? Shit - if I was the boss, I can guarantee that Big Momma's fat lazy ass wouldn't be sitting in front of the computer stuffing her craw. Good grief.
* Remember the crazy woman I first encountered when I first started working at the college? The one with the pink towel wrapped around her head? Well, she figured that she could come by and demand that we open. After she began kicking and screeching at the door, we got a deputy to swing by and cart her crazy ass off.
* Yesterday, Stan - Boss #1 - took us out for our Christmas luncheon. It was at an awesome restaurant called Elephant Bar, in Emeryville. The place was huge, with cool jungle-like decor...and the food was sooooo good! (Mainly Asian fusion). The only annoying thing was that Jay was present, with his horrid table manners. And yes - he had his headphones around his neck the whole time. After eating, he finished his glass of red wine, and nodded off at the table. Everyone took out their phones to get pics of him. Lol...
When Joan dropped me off, she also read the note at the gate about the drug dealer passing. Later, while I was out doing laundry, and a little shopping, a neigbor told me that the dude 'couldn't possibly survive cracking his skull the way he did...' When I finally got in, I noticed that the piece of pink paper was on the ground, so wet from the rain that the ink ran, and the message could no longer be read. The candle and plastic butterfly were gone.
When I got home yesterday, I saw an unusual 'shrine' propped on top of the building's call box; it consisted of a pink piece of paper, a small white candle, and a pink and white plastic butterfly. The writing on the piece of paper read - to the best of my recollection - the following:
"Goodbye to a nice guy. Gone but not forgotten...(then in capital letters) REST IN PEACE, MY NIGGAH.
His body is gone, but not his spirit"...
I am assuming that the guy who fell out of the window last weekend died from his injuries.
Stayed home from work today...I sure can't afford it, but my stomach is killing me. I guess it'll take awhile for the Nexium to kick in.
Whiskers is having stomach problems again too. He can't poop. I fed him a spoonful of pumpkin this morning, and now I will put some petroleum jelly on his paw that he should lick off - that should help his lil' tummy. My poor baby.
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Hope you get well soon...sweet lady :) x
Well wishes to you and meoww mowe meOWE to Whiskers ... he'll understand!
Um...that cop who was interviewing everyone was kinda' cute...
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Did you ask him to check up on you later???? :D
Ha Ha...he actually commented that he might swing back by with more questions. I'm kinda' glad that he didn't show up, as I was sleepy and wanted to go to bed...
I hope he does :)
Guys in uniform huh. Thought us guys were bad!!
I finally got to bed around 4 am this morning. I'm still not sure what happened, so this is what I assumed, then later witnessed:
A crackhead chick was banging, kicking, and hollering at the door of the drug dealer. At some point, he got fed up with the woman, opened the door, confronted her, then a scuffle occured.
They ended up at the end of the hallway in front of a huge window. Both of them went through the glass, and ended up on the ground two stories below.
People were gathering at the window, looking down, gasping in horror, and dialing 911 - me included. I noticed that the woman was not the skinny crackhead I got into it with a few weeks ago - this woman was pretty big. She was much larger and heavier than the scrawny drug dealer. She was face down and partially out of my sight, but the guy was more visable. He was face up, with a pool of blood quickly spreading from the back of his head. Neither of them were moving. I will never forget the image.
One bystander - a woman - kept repeating that the woman had glass embedded in her chest and stomach. I don't know how she came to that conclusion, as one couldn't really tell from our vantage point.
It seemed like forever until the paramedics and police arrived. There was an ambulance, a firetruck, and five cop cars outside of my living room window:
I later got pictures of the busted window frame, but not the pool of blood left on the ground (It was too dark).
I could have taken a photo of the guy lying on the ground with the large pool of blood surrounding his head before the paramedics and police showed up, but I didn't. I have limits.
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Just wow!
Incredible! I want to say more but I'll keep that opinion to myself.
Goodness. What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this!?
Ahh yes. You live here. Never dull. That's for certain.
Good lord honey- and didn't you just move there?
Blimey I hope you own a gun!
...Right now, that crackhead ho is yelling and kicking at the drug dealer's door. Oh shit. Now I hear glass breaking...
Just a few minutes ago, a guy and a woman crashed through the hallway window from this second floor. Jesus - when i joined others in looking out the window, there is blood flowing from the guy's head, and he isn't moving.
It's taking emrgency crews awhile to get here...more later on. Dear God - what a bloody mess...
I didn't hear of the school shooting until I got home from work yesterday evening. 26 dead...20 of them young children.
Like the majority of people, I am saddened and disgusted by the event. In additon, I find that I am angry...very angry.
I'm angry that the gov't can't get its shit together to actually do something on how easy it is for basically anyone to get a gun; I'm angry that so many mentally disturbed people - along with your basic run-of-the-mill criminals - can get weapons. It's just too damy easy...it's harder for a law abiding citizen to get a goddamn home loan.
I know that this may piss some people off, but I'm also angry at those family members who know damn well that they have a potentially dangerous mentally disturbed member of the family, but don't really do anything about it. (Yeah - let your disturbed spawn become other folks' problem).
It's like this: If the disturbed person is in your family, you need to do all that you can to alert your local authorities on what could potentially happen later on down the line. One local family did do this in fact, and tried to get help for the mentally disturbed son who later beat an elderly neighbor to death. These poor parents not only alerted the local police and county authorities, but also begged the hospital to keep their son for longer observations.
Many say "Well - he is an adult, and is free to come and go if he appears to be no threat" (at the moment). What I want to know is this...is that mentally disturbed person's freedom more important than someone else's life?
What's next..."Deranged Gunman Shoots Up Neo-natal Unit"...???
Our lax gun laws and under-funded mental health care in this country need to be fixed now!
The fiscal cliff? The debt ceiling?
Why don't we get past December 21st, then talk...
I haven't been here in almost a week...by the time I get off of work, I'm beat. The gallstones have been acting up off and on too. So, I certainly don't feel like sitting in front of the computer, although I should at least be mindful to take a few minutes to check my email...duh.
After I'm finish with the omeprazole (Prilosec), I'll start on the Nexium the doctor prescribed for me...I hope that it works. Still no info regarding the blood tests, and the urine and STOOL - yuck - sample.
I'm gonna' try the olive oil with lemon juice tonight to see if I can flush some of the buggers out...here's to happy shitting.
So - Mixpod is gone too? Damn...!
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i know, now where do we go?
Yeah I don't know of any others : (
Well, I got the rest of my bloodwork done on Friday...now, I just have to wait for the results.
What was wierd was when I went to a restroom (it took forever to find a relatively clean one) for the urine sample...I had to ask the woman in the next stall for seat covers - she gave me a ton - lol. It was a good thing that I had napkins in my sweatshirt pocket, as the toilet tissue dispenser was about FOUR FEET AWAY from the toilet...you'd have to be Stretch Armstrong to reach it...WTF?
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I'm picturing the scene. lol
It took forever to find a clean restroom in a medical facility?
That in of itself is a bit disturbing.
I do hope all goes well for you.
I don't even sit on the toilet in my own house..though if one wanted, one could eat dinner off of it as it's so clean.
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very cute!
You just want to get into his cassock!!
I do...so what!
She did admit she's "used him before." *grins*
(Sorry Isis, couldn't resist.)
Hey are you feeding him ^^
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LORDMOGY
02:39 Dec 31 2012
Awww Isis...I'm sorry for the little one. I'm sure you're do what's best.