Even though she is not my cat, I care about her just as much as I would any other cat I am friends with. She had to be put to sleep today after a week of frightening degradation after we took her in on Monday - her kidneys were failing, and 85% or more of her kidney cells were non-functional. After days of taking her to the vet for subcutaneous ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness, it feels so good to eat things without near-immediately feeling intestinal distress!! I stopped the Depakote medication last night, and the symptoms are already going away - I am feeling so happy about food right now!! I'm still being careful about my food choices (nothing too greasy/fatty/sweet/salty/high-fiber), but my appetite ( Read more... )

After so many days of having intestinal issues, I called my doctor today to see what should be done. I was thankfully told to stop the medicine, which I am ecstatic about! I really don't seem to deal well with neurotransmitter-altering drugs, for sure - the last two I've tried ended similarly, and this one I'm on now is only at pediatric levels of ( Read more... )

There are just so many right now flying about in front of my window here in Nashville TN. We've got three tube feeders, an egg-shaped hopper feeder, a suet cage, and a squirrel feeder to hopefully distract at least one of the five that come and ransack the other feeders ( Read more... )

Interesting - I think the Frova has worked pretty well - within an hour, I'm feeling like I do after I take an Excedrin - pain's still kind of there, but reduced to almost nil : ) Hooray!

Just more of a personal note than anything. I feel that I'm coming down with a migraine, and my neurologist gave me four different abortive medication samples to try. I will be trying the Frova (frovatriptan succinate) today. Here's hoping that it's actually a migraine - that's what I hate about my migraines - they creep up on me and I'm not always ( Read more... )

I just flew in right under the radar with that final paper I had due today - I started it last night, went to take a nap around 1am, slept until 5am, then worked on it until 7:45, got done with my first exam at 8am in 20 minutes, then added some extra stuff to the essay at the library before going to my second exam at 10:30, passing the paper in on ( Read more... )

I just installed the 30-day trial of Adobe Illustrator CS5 on my laptop, so now I can work at home for the last of my Vector graphics assignments! Also, I'll be able to Livestream them, too (if my laptop can process that much info at once, but we'll see - it seems to be able to take a lot for now - I'm still conditioned by my 1 gig RAM laptop of ( Read more... )

After a day of potentially being hatched but no sightings due to snow and the need to keep it warm, the first chick of the Red-Tailed Hawks has been seen! : D I couldn't keep this to myself ^^ What proportions on this chick, haha!


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I gotta stop reading the chat to the nest cams - they can make me very frustrated indeed ( Read more... )