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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13595 is a reply to message #13591 ] |
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Oh Darkness. *sigh*
I'm glad the champagne helped, Robin, and chocolate can only improve the situation. Beautiful, yummy chocolate.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13596 is a reply to message #13591 ] |
Wed, 25 March 2009 20:07 |
 skating librarian
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Would it cheer you up if I pointed out that at least you are not faced with trying to get a constipated cat to eat cooked pumpkin?
Anyway I am sending "Get well soon" to both you and Darkness.
Checking my public library's on line catalog for your books today I noticed that quite a few are out. I wonder if it has anything to do the positive reviews I've been posting on the YA Blog ... that would be nice.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13604 is a reply to message #13596 ] |
Wed, 25 March 2009 21:01 |
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| skating librarian wrote on Thu, 26 March 2009 00:07 |
Would it cheer you up if I pointed out that at least you are not faced with trying to get a constipated cat to eat cooked pumpkin?
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Oh dear (snorts) that sounds very trying (choking sounds) - I totally understand, having wrapped various cats in towels to give tablets, only to have an extra 7 pairs of legs they kept secret explode into edward scissorhands-like action
Hoping that the constipation improves and the pumpkin goes mostly in the cat...
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13607 is a reply to message #13591 ] |
Wed, 25 March 2009 21:10 |
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Oh dear, *strokes Darkness* - he sounds too stoic for his own good; thank heavens it's not a hernia or an ulcer, and hurrah for Peter and champagne.
I’ve been worrying about Darkness for a while. For a long time it has seemed to me that he jumps into the car rather cautiously, and he also holds himself more . . . intensely. I don’t want to say ‘tense’ because if you weren’t already worrying I think it would just look like his style
Noticing incipient issues before they reach clinical levels is something owners do well - useful "worrying" perhaps?
So glad Mike is well and active!
One might almost say ground-breaking.
Groan!!
[Updated on: Wed, 25 March 2009 22:04]
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13615 is a reply to message #13591 ] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 01:49 |
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Diane in MN
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Remind me again why I wanted dogs? Certainly not because they’re a huge amount of expense, worry, and trouble.
No, of course not...Snork! A friend of mine has been involved with animal physiotherapy for a few years now, first with her bitch, who broke or dislocated her toe when she was about two, and now with a puppy who's got a stiff rear leg joint. Her dogs have done both water therapy and treadmill work, and it's been helpful. You might also want to think about a veterinary acupuncturist for back trouble; acupuncture can be very effective for a lot of different back conditions. I hope Darkness's problem resolves itself quickly.
Oh, gods, Darkness caught another rabbit the other day. I should really try to find someone to teach me to dispatch only half killed rabbits. Escaped is fine. Dead is fine. In between is . . . so extremely not fine.
In between is entirely godawful. And if the boys catch them in the course of a hurtle, what would you have to carry to dispatch them with?
it is perverse that the three best stomach-settlers I know are strong black tea, champagne and dark chocolate.
Oh, I don't know, they all sound just fine to me.  When I was getting over food poisoning last fall, I drank ginger ale, but on reflection champagne would have done me MUCH more good!
Oh, and I’m a little better too.
GOOD.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13622 is a reply to message #13620 ] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 05:28 |
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Lighting a candle for you in hopes that light will scare the ME away.
Just a note on Darkness and the physiotherapy. I imagine that the vet didn’t give you any information about TTouch.
This is an alternative therapy and training method. I’ve found the Touches (kind of a very light massage where only the skin is moved) are very helpful with injuries and as a parallel therapy to medical treatment and physiotherapy.
I’ve used it to help several dogs recovering from ACL knee surgery and it keeps my Dane mix up and walking, to spite her bad hips. I’ve linked to the web site. If you’d like additional information about how to do the touches I would be happy to put something together and post it here. At the moment I have to run off to work ...
How to do TTouch
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13638 is a reply to message #13591 ] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 15:09 |
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black bear is usually right.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13643 is a reply to message #13591 ] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 16:29 |
zanne
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re darkness' distress:
we had a dog who presented similar symptoms--turned out she had a knee that would dislocate on its own. so she would limp, and refuse to put her foot down, and then after a bit it would be okay. took a while for the vet to figure it out, because (of course!) we'd take her to the vet and she'd be "fine"... sigh.
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13644 is a reply to message #13637 ] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 17:42 |
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shalea
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| amyrose wrote on Thu, 26 March 2009 14:41 |
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And this time, as Darkness came up, he screamed.
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Ooh.  I admit, I've never heard a dog scream, but I have heard numerous rabbits scream, and I find it terrifying. It doesn't seem like they should be able to make that sort of noise. And when it's *your* pet - Black Bear is right, you're very good at understatement.
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Sighthounds can emit a heck of a scream, although there may or may not be due to something worth screaming about. Hopefully Darkness won't have anything too serious going on. Poor hellhounds.
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13670 is a reply to message #13615 ] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 21:10 |
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Robin
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| Diane in MN wrote on Thu, 26 March 2009 01:49 |
Remind me again why I wanted dogs? Certainly not because they’re a huge amount of expense, worry, and trouble.
No, of course not...Snork! A friend of mine has been involved with animal physiotherapy for a few years now, first with her bitch, who broke or dislocated her toe when she was about two, and now with a puppy who's got a stiff rear leg joint. Her dogs have done both water therapy and treadmill work, and it's been helpful. You might also want to think about a veterinary acupuncturist for back trouble; acupuncture can be very effective for a lot of different back conditions. I hope Darkness's problem resolves itself quickly.
*********** Yes, I was thinking about acupuncture; my homeopathic vet also does acupuncture. And I know about water therapy--out of six hind legs on the whippets, we popped three cruciate ligaments. Rowan could be bullied into learning to use her mended leg(s) but Holly could not. We took Holly to the swimming pool . . . where the physiotherapist STILL had to trick her into using that leg.
Oh, gods, Darkness caught another rabbit the other day. I should really try to find someone to teach me to dispatch only half killed rabbits. Escaped is fine. Dead is fine. In between is . . . so extremely not fine.
In between is entirely godawful. And if the boys catch them in the course of a hurtle, what would you have to carry to dispatch them with?
************ Well . . . the big boys dislocate their necks. I don't know if I can bear . . . but I can't bear LEAVING them either.
it is perverse that the three best stomach-settlers I know are strong black tea, champagne and dark chocolate.
Oh, I don't know, they all sound just fine to me. :) When I was getting over food poisoning last fall, I drank ginger ale, but on reflection champagne would have done me MUCH more good!
************* I used to drink ginger ale till I DISCOVERED that champagne works better!!!!! YES IT DOES!!!!!
Oh, and I’m a little better too.
GOOD.
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| Re: Another Day, Another Crisis [message #13684 is a reply to message #13680 ] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 21:23 |
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Yes, I do already teach. I'm finishing up a DMA violin performance degree, and I have my comprehensive exams in a week or so. I've become a crazed studying monster, only poking my head out to read your blog, Jodi's blog, and Twitter.
(Do you want to know anything about the Stravinsky Violin Concerto, the Bach Chaconne in D Minor, or Brahms chamber music? Or would you rather me explain what the Ars Nova is and why Guillaume de Machaut was involved? My brains are leaking musical facts right now...)
Edited to add: see, I'm positively nonsensical right now... I teach private violin lessons, and have for many years. I don't teach group classes.
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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