Medical triumph (of sorts) and rattie woe
Oct. 22nd, 2007 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Okay, so! First things first! I haven't read it yet, but this is all over my f'list and needs to be even more all over my f'list/the internet/etc. If you don't already know what it is, give it a click and find out, it should be happy-making.
On the more sad-making side of the force, my pet rat Ford is sick. Kinda rather sick. Kinda rather almost maybe very sick. He's sluggish and has bad coordination and doesn't wanna eat and can't keep his face clean very well. Took him to the vet last night, where they ruled out lung infection via an x-ray, so the doctor thinks it's probably neurological, and we're thinking a brain infection. We've got my boy on antibiotics and steroids, and hopefully those'll help him get up to snuff soon-ish. The other possibility for what it could be is brain cancer/tumor, which is highly worrying, especially since I've had him and his brother less than a year. I was expecting to be able to go at least a few more months before I had to start worrying about really serious, debilitating illnesses.
I keep crying when I stop to think about it, so I've been trying to avoid doing that except in the most abstract ways possible, but it's hard. While I've lost pets before, I've never lost one that's been really mine, and it hurts pretty bad - especially because I don't know how much I should hope for yet. Should I plan for the worst and then feel guilty about it if he pulls through (or even if he doesn't), or should I take a more optimistic approach and hope for him to get better and then be pretty much crushed if he doesn't? I do have the barest outline of a plan of what to do for Arthur should things not go as hoped, but I have no idea what to do emotionally. I guess I'll just have to do the best I can.
Fight the good fight, Ford. I love you.
And now I'd better go see about passing the multiple choice part of an exam and then failing the practical part.
Okay, so! First things first! I haven't read it yet, but this is all over my f'list and needs to be even more all over my f'list/the internet/etc. If you don't already know what it is, give it a click and find out, it should be happy-making.
On the more sad-making side of the force, my pet rat Ford is sick. Kinda rather sick. Kinda rather almost maybe very sick. He's sluggish and has bad coordination and doesn't wanna eat and can't keep his face clean very well. Took him to the vet last night, where they ruled out lung infection via an x-ray, so the doctor thinks it's probably neurological, and we're thinking a brain infection. We've got my boy on antibiotics and steroids, and hopefully those'll help him get up to snuff soon-ish. The other possibility for what it could be is brain cancer/tumor, which is highly worrying, especially since I've had him and his brother less than a year. I was expecting to be able to go at least a few more months before I had to start worrying about really serious, debilitating illnesses.
I keep crying when I stop to think about it, so I've been trying to avoid doing that except in the most abstract ways possible, but it's hard. While I've lost pets before, I've never lost one that's been really mine, and it hurts pretty bad - especially because I don't know how much I should hope for yet. Should I plan for the worst and then feel guilty about it if he pulls through (or even if he doesn't), or should I take a more optimistic approach and hope for him to get better and then be pretty much crushed if he doesn't? I do have the barest outline of a plan of what to do for Arthur should things not go as hoped, but I have no idea what to do emotionally. I guess I'll just have to do the best I can.
Fight the good fight, Ford. I love you.
And now I'd better go see about passing the multiple choice part of an exam and then failing the practical part.
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Date: 2007-10-22 09:18 pm (UTC)I blame you for my new addiction to Storm Hawks. >(
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Date: 2007-10-23 02:07 am (UTC)NOW TELL ME HOW YOU LOVE IT.
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Date: 2007-10-23 02:24 am (UTC)OF COURSE AERROW IS AWESOME, TOO. AND WAY MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN ANY 14-YEAR-OLD HAS ANY RIGHT TO BE.
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Date: 2007-10-23 02:27 am (UTC)SO YOU CAN SEE WHY SONOKO KEEPS ACCIDENTALLY NOT!FLIRTING WITH HIM, CORRECT?
Also, do go on.
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Date: 2007-10-23 02:41 am (UTC)Though, is it just me, or does Finn sound EXACTLY like Kero from CCS? I mean, I know he IS Kero, but still.I DON'T BELIEVE I HAVE THAT ONE DOWNLOADED YET! D:YES, YES I DO. TRUST ME, IF IT WERE ME, THERE WOULD BE NO NOT! TO IT.
I would like to marry Dark Ace. He and I would have hilariously lame but somehow awesome children together. Also. Please now disable me from trying to slash Dark Ace/Aerrow. Only you can stop this beast before it has a chance to grow.
Also! Is it just me, or does it seem a bit like Piper's swinging for both teams, if you know what I mean?
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Date: 2007-10-23 02:56 am (UTC)It's probably not just you, but I stopped watching the CCS dub, like. AS SOON AS IT AIRED, because I'd actually read the comic first and the GLARING ERRORS were like unto BURNING to me.YOU WILL LOVE IT WHEN YOU GET TO IT, I ASSURE YOU. IT HAS PIRATES AND IS OTHERWISE GENERALLY AWESOME.THAT WORKS.
XD We have a potential apper for him in the wings, I feel compelled to mention ♥ And HAVE FAITH, there are others. (Though I'll probably have to re-watch the series before I feel it 100%.)
It is not just you! Mem, for one, went on about it at great length!
...This is the part where I'd ask you to continue, but in fic form, except I'm kinda nearly outta time, s-so ^^a (You can continue anyway, if you like?
And in fic form, that would definitely be cool :Dbbb)no subject
Date: 2007-10-23 03:14 am (UTC)I watched all of it. D: I knew not what I was doing. It was my among my first anime, before I even knew what anime was. I didn't even know manga EXISTED.ZOMG PIRATES AWESOME. DOES MEM HAVE IT UPLOADED YET?AWESOME. :D Well. As long as I'm not alone. XD
...I knew I'd seen someone on my f-list mention something about it! XD I couldn't remember who it was for a bit.
UM. Maybe when I catch up? D: I can definitely see myself wanting to, so. Yeah.
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Date: 2007-10-23 02:50 pm (UTC)You are so not alone. In fact, our Aerrow-mun cannot deny it.
Yeah, Mem's like, "She's totally into the ladies." And then I watched Best Friends Forever and was pretty much forced to agree.
\o/ I eagerly await this, then :Db
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Date: 2007-10-23 05:16 pm (UTC)I am cool with this. :D
It's kinda hard not to agree. And in Absolute Power, you totally know she was trying to flirt with Starling.
PS: As you may or may not be able to guess, I should be in school right now. Unfortunately, I seem to have twisted my ankle something awful and, as such, I am not, in fact, in school. Just thought you'd like to know.
At least this gives me more time to watch Storm Hawks!no subject
Date: 2007-10-23 09:05 pm (UTC)XD I really really have to re-watch the series.
Re PS: DD: Poor Lyzz!
And yes, that is always a plus.no subject
Date: 2007-10-22 09:23 pm (UTC)Go Ford!*
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