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10/31/2006 5:25:43 PM
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The rollercoaster
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Yes, I will get her to the old vet tomorrow where she can be on the IV and all. I just didn`t have a choice....my vet wasn`t in and the other vet didn`t have any appointments that weren`t during my teaching time. I didn`t know what else to do. She could barely walk.
I hope that we`ve caught it in time, but I fear that it is late stage. She looks remarkably healthy, but her numbers are bad. She was pissed off at all the vets and purred when I visited her this evening. She has tubes stuck in all over and an elizabethan collar to keep her from taking stuff out.
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11/1/2006 5:49:33 AM
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Emily-your vet-
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It is high. She is at a vet school hospital. Where they make rounds in a team and have all kinds of sophisticated stuff. But it is our only emergency vet center.
So, yesterday, she had X-rays, blood tests, a sonogram, an EKG (as the chemical imbalance can cause heart complications), plus everything else. During the night she has been on an EKG monitor and has had more blood tests as blood tests will indicate when her values are getting back to normal. The blood tests are really expensive, as they are for human tests. Not that this makes the price tag any easier for me.
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11/1/2006 5:54:10 AM
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What`s the cutest Halloween costume you saw tonight?
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I didn`t get ANY. Now have a gigantic bowl of candy to get rid of.
Stupid colleague scheduled a meeting at 6:00 pm (a meeting which could have been conducted yesterday, tomorrow, or in the next week or two), so I missed any trick or treaters who tried. Why he didn`t tell me that we needed to meet at 6:00 pm on Halloween BEFORE I bought the boatload of candy, I cannot explain.
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11/1/2006 6:34:51 AM
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What`s the cutest Halloween costume you saw tonight?
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No, old, married, and a lot of other things I can`t print here.
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11/1/2006 10:40:37 AM
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emily1cat
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I lost my sweet grey kitty today to acute renal failure. She did not respond to aggressive treatment; her kidneys had given out. It`s been a very difficult couple of weeks on the pet front.
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11/2/2006 5:06:21 AM
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emily1cat
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Thank you. She was my dear buddy. She was my bottle baby and was uncommonly smart and unbelievably devoted. She had more vocabulary than many people. I`ve never had a cat like her before and I`m so sad to have lost her as well as Eloise.
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11/2/2006 5:21:53 AM
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Simon Update #2
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Poor pup.
Do give us an update.
NO MORE POISON! You just can`t control who/what will get into it.
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11/2/2006 6:34:07 AM
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Simon Update #2
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No, it`s not funny. We had a family cat who got into some sort of poison--never knew what it was--but rat poison is, of course, so commonly used. She had the best medical care possible but died anyway--not a good way to go.
I just don`t think that there`s a way to EVER assure that no child or pet will ingest a poison intended for another critter. Kids, pets, and life itself are unpredictable, and unfortunately, where there`s room for a mistake to happen, Murphy`s law will intervene.
When there`s other solutions (even humane trapping and releasing), I just don`t see any reason for rat poison.
Hey, maybe a dog-friendly cat is in your future. You could even get a dog-tested adult cat from a humane shelter.
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11/3/2006 11:04:15 AM
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Email addy..Do not add me to your address books
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It will be very nice if the new system will have a "private message" function so that there will not be a need to keep the list of addys and update it all the time as people change email addresses.
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11/5/2006 5:42:40 AM
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Got my new IK - an idea for Highland Silk and Kydd
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Yes, very nice issue. May even buy and extra when it`s on the shelves. Nice patterns for more accomplished knitters. Do you think that there`s only so much knitting mojo to go around? One magazine keeps putting out unattractive patterns and another hits the ball out of the park.....
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11/6/2006 8:39:03 AM
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New guy
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There`s a new guy in my life and he`s very grey and fuzzy. His name is Sterling, and he`s a 5 month old ball of fire. He`s got amber eyes and is going to be a VERY BIG boy. The paws are huge, but he has a little girl voice.
I got him from a rescue where he was in a foster home with other kitties. I got him in part because he`s been vetted--even neutered already. This helps because I already have one at home, and couldn`t figure out how to do all the medical stuff and keep the current kitty safe and healthy. Sterling taught himself how to fetch at his foster home, so I suspect that he`s a smart little bugger. Foster mom also said that he was the naughtiest kitten she had ever had. I`m surely in for it.
He`s a snuggler, he spent all morning in bed wrapped around my neck and purring.
I picked him up late Saturday afternoon and he`s been in the "safe" room isolated from my remaining kitty, until last night when he busted out (door doesn`t close securely with a "click"). There`s some hissing right now from resident kitty which I hope subsides. But at least remaining kitty is up and out of bed. He`s been mopey, as have I.
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11/6/2006 9:17:21 AM
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New guy
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He`s a character. I just drew the first bath. He didn`t have access to a human bathroom in the foster home so this was new. Of course, being a kitten, as the tub was filling, he was curious, so I thought I was going to see the terrified wet-footed cat tearing around the house. Nope. He jumped in, fascinated with the running water. I thought maybe he would make a break for it when the water reached his ankes.
Nope. Kept on wandering around watching the water. I finally plucked him out when the water reached his elbows. Totally unphased. Paw shaking to get the water off, but he seems like water when he`s in it.
I just heard a "sploosh" which means he must be wandering around in the tub as the water drains. Oh, boy. I guess he`s part tiger.
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11/6/2006 11:09:43 AM
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New guy
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He actually came with the name! But I think that it`s a good one.
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11/6/2006 6:23:47 PM
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Kydd Mohair v. Kid Silk Haze
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Hope you guys answer this one. I haven`t even gotten my newsletter yet and all of you have snippets of yarn.
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11/7/2006 6:15:51 AM
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Kydd Mohair v. Kid Silk Haze
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Thanks Jamie. Oh, well, I guess I`ll have to depend on you guys to alert me to new offerings. I just get too much email at that address and I`ll miss the elann newsletter, most likely.
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11/7/2006 6:29:13 AM
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knitting, warehouse style
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It`s a good thing, I think. The more knitters, the better yarn and such. People who like knitting with Lion often learn to LOVE knitting with other stuff.
The more, the merrier.
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11/7/2006 6:36:52 AM
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What color CE "Paintbox" are you?
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Van Gogh. Love purple.
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11/7/2006 9:14:13 AM
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Wherever in the US you are, no matter what your views. . .
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I did, and I`m even wearing the "I voted" sticker.
A student in line for coffee asked "What`s that?" So, a little promotion today for voting will happen in class.
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11/9/2006 8:55:29 AM
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Elizabeth Zimmerman DVDs
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As it so happens, I just checked out this from the public library, and I started with lesson one even though I`m a good knitter. They are pretty funny and totally low-tech (you hear people in the studio commenting to her as she teaches), and I learned stuff even from the first lessons. (Like she advocates a backwards loop instead of knitting into the front and back of a stitch to increase. Says it`s more invisible. Gonna try it to see.)
So, it`s decent entertainment so far.
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11/14/2006 5:36:34 AM
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Emily.....your grey sweater
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I spun my own yarn, from an 80% alpaca/20% silk roving. The "pattern" is also mine--just made it up.
And the little stripey detail on the sleeve? Well, I didn`t buy enough roving the first time. Although I got the same stuff, it wasn`t quite the same color of grey, so I alternated rows with the new batch. It`s not as noticable in person as it is in the picture.
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