lisaviolet's diary

Thursday, June 30, 2005

10:40 PM - 06/30/2005

The topic: This week at the vet’s
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Well, both Georgie and Richie ended up visiting our local, friendly, neighborhood vet this week.

Georgie had the lump on his back, which turned out to be a sebaceous cyst. The doc said it shouldn’t be a problem. Usually dogs get them, they’re fairly rare in cats. (Remember Buddog had a big one on his leg, that eventually affected his walking?) George checked out fine otherwise.

Richie, though, Richie has had the most obnoxious breath. I complained about it last month to Brian and he said he liked it. Ish. Looking in Richie’s mouth, it was very red around his gums, so I made the appointment for him.

Richie has gingivitis/stomatitis. The vet said we were lucky it was caught early, because usually owners don’t even know there’s a problem until the problem is much further along and the cat ends up losing teeth. What happens is the body’s immune system sees the normal bacteria and tartar around the teeth and starts working overtime to get rid of it. The vet said Richie’s nasty breath is known as “blood breath”. He showed me how easily Richie’s gums bleed. Poor cat.

Richie is now on antirobe and prednisone for two weeks and next week, he goes in for a dental. But the vet said we should be able to control it, well, get rid of it altogether and that it shouldn’t be a problem after this.

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when you’re upset that you wish you could take back? Especially when you realize that what you said was taken even worse than what you meant? Which was pretty bad in the first place?

Well, earlier this week, I made a really mean, nasty, comment about something I totally got wrong. See, someone blogged about a dead cat. But I didn’t go to the link, I assumed (ASS of me, big time) this person was referring to a much beloved cat who had died. And I was upset and I called him a “miserable son-of-a-bitch” and said that I hoped his next dose of Viagra turned out his lights.

Now, when I made the Viagra comment, I was thinking along the lines of men who take Viagra going blind. And when I made the comment, I didn’t know it was a permanent blindness, but I was under the mistaken impression that it was a temporary thing. And it was a really horrible thing to have said. Under any circumstances.

But this guy thought I wanted him dead. Because of the “turn out the lights” part of my entry.

Now, I want to apologize to you, Rob, of gutrumbles.com. And please, don’t paint all catlovers with the brush I’ve handed you. I’m really sorry for what I posted. I’ll make no excuses because there is no excuse for what I said to/about you. There was no call for me to have said something so nasty, and I’m really ashamed that I said such a thing.

Not all catlovers are as bitchy as me.

Please accept my apology.

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June 2005