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otherstuff
09:12 AM - 02/28/2011

The topic: Well, the “recession is over” hasn’t reached our house yet

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Stuff is worse than ever. Brian keeps telling me there’s work on the horizon, he’s been saying that for a year now. So far, nothing.

Anyway, last year I joined Netflix and cancelled HBO.  Last week, I joined Amazon Prime and cancelled Starz and Cinemax.  Last year, I bought a refurbed Roku from Woot.com and set it up once it got here.

It seems like Netflix has really gotten a lot more streaming shows than they had when I first got it. Or maybe I just wasn’t looking.  But this past weekend, I found all the previous seasons of the A&E show “Intervention”.  While Brian was back in the office, drumming up business for his side links, I sat in the family room, slack jawed yesterday watching episode after episode of Intervention.

*Picks up the phone, dials a number*

“Hello?  A&E?  I’d like to ask for an Intervention please.  What’s that? For who and what exactly is the addiction?  Ummm…me and I’m addicted to watching “Intervention”.” 

rotfl


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catstuff
08:55 AM - 02/28/2011

The topic: Had a scare with Pete this weekend

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Saturday morning, the sound of a cat puking woke us up.  I checked it out, it was Pete. We usually don’t think too much of a puke. But they continued, just foamy stuff.  I watched him for a couple of hours, then gave him an amoxicillan.  He puked that up three and a half hour later. Then I watched him in a litterbox, he cried and had some of the nastiest poo I’ve seen in a while. Very mucusy and bloody. And he cried. He did this multiple times.  His backside was wet.

I found the flagyl (besides firming up stool, it also has an antibiotic effect) and gave him a half of a pill (being as these things are so bitter, I split them and put the pill in a beef flavored gelcap) around seven Saturday night.  He pooped a small amount sometime before we got up the next morning, but nothing big until last night.  He didn’t cry when he went and he went a lot. Still nasty looking, though.  And there was no fresh wetness on the rear area. He is still getting the flagyl, twice a day. He’d been showing no interest in food at all. 

This morning, I got up around 4:30/5:00 to let the cats out and started looking for Pete. Well, the first thing I did was check the litterbox.  There was a small amount of stool in it, the color was weird, some was the pinky/red stuff, there was also some greenish stuff.  The first thing I thought of was when you take a bandaid off and the blood on it has gone green.  I took this as a good sign.  But I couldn’t find Pete in the regular places.  I finally found him in the sink in Brian’s bathroom. He did go outside this morning, because it’s so darned cold this morning, I got him back inside. When we got back from our walk, he was on the top level of one of the cat trees in the living room.  I got him to eat a little tuna (he didn’t want much at all) and some tuna juice (from tuna packed in water).  I also got another flagyl into him.

Poor little guy.  Hopefully this will continue to get better.  If he doesn’t continue to improve or he has another flare-up after this has resolved, I’ll take him in to get a definitive diagnosis, because this wouldn’t be just a one time thing.


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