Re: Another disaster - Tonya
hee hee--not laughing at anyone, just laughing at the situation i had endometriosis, have had three back surgeries, recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and have fibromyalgia. have been on disability for 13 years now--ie, i am a member of the idle poor, which is the ONLY way i can even begin to keep up with my menagerie! i know just what you all mean about knowing a whole lot about drugs for specific conditions, learned from the cats--before i had rotator cuff surgery, we were trying to figure out how to figure out the HUMAN dosage of depo and whenever a friend gets an URI, i threaten to scruff them if they don't take their meds had a doctor once who was notorious for overscheduling himself--waiting 2 or morehours for the appointment was not unusual. i remember him being HIGHLY offended one time when, after waiting more than 3 hours and not being seen, i left, because i had a vet appointment. -- MaryChristineAIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCatsMSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 289856892
Re: Another disaster - Tonya
Geeze MC, you're a mess! :) . I was laying in bed last night and happened on one of those awful animal rescue shows on TV. I never watch them, they always leave me in tears. I'm so grateful that there are people out there that go in and rescue neglected/abused animals, but I have enough suffering in my own life and it burdens me to know about suffering I can't do anything about. Yes, I'm a big baby, but I know my limitations, (well, at least I'm working on them!). Anyway, I was watching this segment where this woman had been evicted from her apartment because she had too many cats. These well meaning animal control officers where chasing these poor scared kitties throughout the apartment with nets. They were nervously laughing the entire time! I wanted to reach through my TV and slap them! The cats all looked healthy and well cared for. I kept wondering about the poor woman who thought her only recourse was to desert them. I kept thinking about what was going to happen to those poor cats whose lives have been so unexpectedly disrupted. My right paw kitty, Instigator saw my distress and climbed up on my chest. My thoughts turned to this list and all the wonderful people that share their homes and hearts so unselfishly with our animal friends. I cried into Insty's fur as I thought about what might happen to my babies, if anything happened to me and/or Bruce. We have to do our best to keep ourselves healthy, for their sake, as well as our own. Blessings to this wonderful list! No more late night TV for me! Nina TenHouseCats wrote: hee hee--not laughing at anyone, just laughing at the situation i had endometriosis, have had three back surgeries, recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and have fibromyalgia. have been on disability for 13 years now--ie, i am a member of the idle poor, which is the ONLY way i can even begin to keep up with my menagerie! i know just what you all mean about knowing a whole lot about drugs for specific conditions, learned from the cats--before i had rotator cuff surgery, we were trying to figure out how to figure out the HUMAN dosage of depo and whenever a friend gets an URI, i threaten to scruff them if they don't take their meds had a doctor once who was notorious for overscheduling himself--waiting 2 or morehours for the appointment was not unusual. i remember him being HIGHLY offended one time when, after waiting more than 3 hours and not being seen, i left, because i had a vet appointment. -- MaryChristine AIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCats MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 289856892
Re: Another disaster - Tonya
Thank you everyone for your well wishes. I've conquered the anemia, had the hysterectomy, am halfway moved in, and hopefully will get the thyroid going. You just all know how it is when you have a zoo to take care of. Between work and just basic care of my guys it's a lot of work. I'm either working, taking care of the critters, vegging out on this computer, or sleeping. That's basically it except when I'm on vacation in the summer. Summer will come. Summer will come! And yes, the only bills that get paid are the ones I can pay online. lol.And forcing myself to eat is not the problem. Forcing myself to make something to eat is so I eat cookies, Little Debby cakes, potato chips, etc lol. Really, I've gained so much weight I'm sure that has led to my lack of energy being worse. I need someone to force feed me broccoli!Here's a funny story for anyone's reading pleasure. My thyroid med. has to be taken 1st thing in the morning with water. No coffee, juice, anything else for 30 minutes (preferably an hour). Well I hate this. I hate drinking water and I want something 'good' to drink when I get up. Like chocolate milk!Sooo some friends recommended I put the pills by my bed with a cup of water and take it before I even get up. (I set my 3 alarms to go off a little before 6, but then sleep 30 more minutes to alarms and loud rap music before my friend calls to MAKE me get up at 6:30. Even the cats have learned to sleep through all this racket. lol, and NO ONE will spend the night at my house because of having to listen to all of this or yell at me to get up for 30 minutes!)So we all know I can't have a glass of water by my bed with 7 cats. Or a pill. And I don't want to get UP to take the pill or I may as well get up and be on time for work for Heaven's sake. I want to take the pill lying down and go back to sleep.So I go by a child's 'sippee cup', fill it with water, and put the sippee cup and the pills inside my dresser drawer. This was Friday, my first try with my new foolproof plan. The wind up"firehouse sounding ringing alarm" wakes meup at 6:00. I fumble in the drawer for the pill and cup of water and down the pill. Well, the water won't come out of the cup fast enough and the pill is dissolving in my mouth! I suck and suck on the thing and then give it a big squeeze to get some d*mn water to come out. Off POPS the lid soaking me, the cats, the bed with a glass of water. lol. I got up and put on more pajamas and came and slept in the recliner until my friend called. Time to come up with a new plan. ( I also got up and drank chocolate milk too. I felt I deserved it!) tNina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh Tonya! I'm sorry to hear about your health problems! Don't worry about the house, it will get clean again eventually, pay the bills that you have to, (have you ever paid bills online? It's pretty fast and easy). Please take care of yourself and get some rest. Don't forget to force yourself to eat something. If we were closer I'd come over there and syringe feed you, if I had to.Much love,Ninacatatonya wrote: WHY DO WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH SUCH IDIOTS IN THIS WORLD I am so sorry you are going through all of this. I have not been well and finally went and got a thyroid panel run for myself with an endocrinologist. Well, my TSH was 65.45, and the doctor said it should be 1 or 2. lol. I'm on 137 mg of levoxyl. (The same amount as my aunt who had her thyroid removed due to cancer). All that to say that I've been sleeping pretty much around the clock. The house is a mess, and the bills have not been paid. I started med.s on Monday and hope to feel like a real person again soon. As soon as I get my check books balanced and my late bills paid I am planning to send you some money for your defense. I have some set aside, I just haven't had time to sit and write out checks, get to the post office for stamps, etc... I am off on Monday to go back to the doctor to start more med.s and get more results, etc so I have a long weekend to hopefully get my butt in gear. You are in my thoughts and prayers. If money will take care of this problem, we will come up with the money on this list. And I believe in your 'cause' on this one. It's for you, but it's also for everyone who has to deal with this kind of crap about limits. Yes, I know I'm not a lawyer, but it's freakin' UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Maybe when I retire from teaching and don't have to worry about my job I can just travel around the country and b*tch slap people like you're dealing with. lol. take care, tonya
Re: Another disaster - Tonya
Tonya, I really know what you mean. I have a bunch of health problems myself (endometriosis, polycystic ovaries syndrome, gastritis, depression, had anemia last year which I hope is better...). I seem to only be able to medicate myself properly and get myself to the doctor when the animals are doing relatively well. As soon as I have a long regiment of pilling or vet visits or special diets to make them, though, my own regimen goes down the drain. It's like my brain can't hold that long a to do list and my own treatment gets dropped. I only remember all of it when I remember to write a long list of who gets what when-- and put myself on it! I usually do remember my necessary meds, but I often forget my supplements and vitamins and herbs and stuff... Michelle In a message dated 2/4/2006 4:46:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you everyone for your well wishes. I've conquered the anemia, had the hysterectomy, am halfway moved in, and hopefully will get the thyroid going. You just all know how it is when you have a zoo to take care of. Between work and just basic care of my guys it's a lot of work. I'm either working, taking care of the critters, vegging out on this computer, or sleeping. That's basically it except when I'm on vacation in the summer. Summer will come. Summer will come! And yes, the only bills that get paid are the ones I can pay online. lol.
Re: Another disaster - Tonya
Yes, my doctors always chide me because my cats go to every specialist there is. By the time I make it to the doctor for myself I always know what they're talking about because I've dealt with it with one of my cats. lol. They don't find this as amusing as I do. I was talking to the endocrin. about Free T3 tests and TSH, etc... and she was impressed I had researched this before coming in. But I had researched it because I had two hyper-T cats. lol.t[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Tonya, I really know what you mean. I have a bunch of health problems myself (endometriosis, polycystic ovaries syndrome, gastritis, depression, had anemia last year which I hope is better...). I seem to only be able to medicate myself properly and get myself to the doctor when the animals are doing relatively well. As soon as I have a long regiment of pilling or vet visits or special diets to make them, though, my own regimen goes down the drain. It's like my brain can't hold that long a to do list and my own treatment gets dropped. I only remember all of it when I remember to write a long list of who gets what when-- and put myself on it! I usually do remember my necessary meds, but I often forget my supplements and vitamins and herbs and stuff... MichelleIn a message dated 2/4/2006 4:46:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you everyone for your well wishes. I've conquered the anemia, had the hysterectomy, am halfway moved in, and hopefully will get the thyroid going. You just all know how it is when you have a zoo to take care of. Between work and just basic care of my guys it's a lot of work. I'm either working, taking care of the critters, vegging out on this computer, or sleeping. That's basically it except when I'm on vacation in the summer. Summer will come. Summer will come! And yes, the only bills that get paid are the ones I can pay online. lol.
Re: Another disaster - Tonya
Yes, I know-- I know more about cancer than my two friends who have it do. Fortunately none of my cats have endometriosis though! Michelle In a message dated 2/4/2006 7:02:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, my doctors always chide me because my cats go to every specialist there is. By the time I make it to the doctor for myself I always know what they're talking about because I've dealt with it with one of my cats. lol. They don't find this as amusing as I do. I was talking to the endocrin. about Free T3 tests and TSH, etc... and she was impressed I had researched this before coming in. But I had researched it because I had two hyper-T cats. lol. t
Re: Another disaster/TONYA
Tonya do take care of yourself! I hope you get to feeling better soon. You are in my thoughts and prayers. In a message dated 2/2/2006 4:57:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WHY DO WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH SUCH IDIOTS IN THIS WORLD I am so sorry you are going through all of this. I have not been well and finally went and got a thyroid panel run for myself with an endocrinologist. Well, my TSH was 65.45, and the doctor said it should be 1 or 2. lol. I'm on 137 mg of levoxyl. (The same amount as my aunt who had her thyroidremoved due to cancer). All that to say that I've been sleeping pretty much around the clock. The house is a mess, and the bills have not been paid. I started med.s on Monday and hope to feel like a real person again soon. As soon as I get my check books balanced and my late bills paid I am planning to send you some money for your defense. I have some set aside, I just haven't had time to sit and write out checks, get to the post office for stamps, etc... I am off on Monday to go back to the doctor to start more med.s and get more results, etc so I have a long weekend to hopefully get my butt in gear. You are in my thoughts and prayers. If money will take care of this problem, we will come up with the money on this list. And I believe in your 'cause' on this one. It's for you, but it's also for everyone who has to deal with this kind of crap about limits. Yes, I know I'm not a lawyer, but it's freakin' UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Maybe when I retire from teaching and don't have to worry about my job I can just travel around the country and b*tch slap people like you're dealing with. lol. take care, tonya Terrie MohrTAZZY'S ANIMAL TRANSPORTSSIAMESE COLLIE RESCUEOwner/DriverCheck sites for available Siameses for adoption!http://www.tazzys-siameses-collies.petfinder.org/Click Here to Join WASHINGTON SIAMESE RESCUE Yahoo Group!http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wasiameserescuehttp://hometown.aol.com/tatorbunz/index.htmlhttp://hometown.aol.com/tatorbunz/myhomepage/petmemorial.htmlPetfinder.comAdopt a Homeless Pet!http://www.petfinder.com/http://www.felineleukemia.org/http://www.petloss.com/TAZZY'S ANIMAL TRANSPORTShttps://www.paypal.com/http://www.frappr.com/wasiameserescue
