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Pam, you just lead the MOST interesting life! I love living vicariously through you!! One day I AM coming to visit you!! Where's Judy today? Laura, I was overwhelmed w/Mo today. I know what you mean. This is what the vet said (yes, she's a travelling vet... love her!)... Lactulose (liquid med) 3x/day; enema tomorrow, then weekly for awhile; wet food mixed w/extra water (soupy consistency, we'll see if he eats it); & propulsid (some med that has to come in the mail) don't know yet how many times a day I think it's a pill. She also told me to read the book Dewey the Library Cat, evidently he had this problem & lived to be 19 w/tlc. Good for him. Right now Mo is living in my bathroom w/his box & water & food & snuggle area as he is having the OPPOSITE issue now & it gets on his backside & then he sits down & leaves spots & I don't need that all over my house. I keep going up & trying to clean him off w/kitty wipes (like kids' wipes, basically) but he's a bit cranky w/folks going near his butt now, & I can't blame him. So he'll stay in there for tomorrow 'til after the enema & then Sun I'll try to give him a bath (MORE CAT FUN!) & we'll see. Phew. Now I've forgotten my more personals & the oven is beeping so gotta go. BBL, I hope!

((Terri)) I wish I had advice for you... it IS true that worry never solved anything... if it were me, I'd do everything in my power to control what I could control & then pray on the rest!

ooooh Haydee... I like your new avatar! You are so gorgeous!!! Well, the vet is here... she took Mo out to the van... then she came back to get permission to sedate him, as he is impacted "up past the bend in his colon". Lovely. Poor guy. I can tell that she REALLY thinks we should stick w/Mo... & we are for now... she says there's 1 more drug we can give him... + we (& when I say "we", you know I mean "me", right?) will give him weekly enemas, see how he's doing, then move to every other week, then every 3 weeks... w/the hope that it'll taper off... so we'll see... all I know is that if he gets to this point again, the outcome very well may be a "final" one for him... :confused: Sorry to go on about this... you all are great to humor me w/using this forum to vent about this... I know this is WAY tmi for some of you... you all are vooderbah!

:biggrinjester: :biggrinjester: :youcandothis: :youcandothis:Congratulations Jenn!! :confused: :Dancing_sad: :Dancing_sad: You are my inspiration!!!

Ahhhhh... to wake up to the dulcet tones of a cat moaning, interspersed with squeals of what sounds like a squeeky toy being stepped on... now THAT is the way to start the day @ 5am! :confused: Yep, you guessed it, it's Mr. Mo! & his incredibly broken digestive system @ work yet again. I already have a call in to the vet... it's been only 1 month since she was last here & I've given Mo his Rx food, liquid meds 2x/day, and 2 kitty enemas since then... & still here we are, w/poor Mo in so much pain... I'm thinking that this is not going to end well... it seems to be getting worse, not better... her visits are having to come closer & closer together. DD cried @ bedtime because she was upset that he was in pain, DH is angry because of the cost, I'm conflicted because I see all the options... waah.

Too Funny, Terri! Thanks for thinking of me! That about sums up my attitude right about now! In fact, I'm so "done" w/the day that I actually FORGOT that I was gonna have a drink this eve... now it's too late, I fear... I'm going to go to bed instead... drat it all... me & my goody-two-shoeness!

Ha! I just thought I read that wrong... about the chili... I figured I must've glanced through the sentence & I thought I saw "chili" but who would give chili to a barfing person? Ay yi yi Laura! "Brat" diet all the way!!

My afternoon's mantra: "I will not volunteer for any PTA Board positions ever again. I will not volunteer for any PTA Board positions ever again." Ugh. I hate slogging through the ALWAYS LATE treasurer's report and trying to "forecast" our balancing of the budget + dealing w/whiney people's issues... bleh!! After tonight's meeting, there will be only 4 MORE & then I'm DONE!! I've been VERY good today w/eating... I'm saving my cals for a dt. cran & vodka when I get home after the meeting!!!

Now THAT's interesting, Laura... it must be the "weird baby dreams"!! The tree cutters are here... yay, I get to work for a month to pay off that bill... so motivating... not.

Good Morning, Vi's~~ Things are getting back to normal here, which = "busy". Which feels good, in a way. Too much slothing around is, well, too much! Make it a great day, everyone. Will check in later!!

Kat, don't let that jerk steal your happiness! Go & enjoy & do your grandmotherly duties!! I'm thrilled that you have a new grandbaby!! Love you!

Good Morn, The kids are on a 2-hr late opening ("so far", as ds keeps saying, with hope in his voice) as we're on the rain/ice line here in upper Md. Sometimes I think it'd be easier on the nerves to live somewhere like Alpena, where you KNOW you'll get dumped on w/snow, rather than here, where we're always a "maybe" w/this kind of stuff... or where some parts of the county may be icy, but other parts aren't... well, 1/2 hr 'til ds has to go meet the bus, so if they're going to close schools, they'll need to be doing it soon. Of course I was supposed to meet my friend for our first SB coffee morn of the new year this a.m.... not sure where we stand w/that... ((Janie, Kat, Kinsey, Jane...)) bbl

Back from school w/the copies... now I'm going to "treat" myself & watch Oprah from yesterday while I collate & staple 400 PTA newsletters!! I'm a sucker for all the "Best Life" hoo-ha. What can I say, anything motivational helps. TracyKS, I meant to tell you this previously, but reading about your lemon "tonic" jogged my memory about just hot lemon water being helpful/cleansing... so when I first come downstairs in the a.m. to make kids' lunches, I make a cup of hot water, mix in a t. of lemon, & enjoy. I don't add sweetener as I get enough of that already. I can't say as it's helping, but I figure it's not hurting, & it's 1 cup in before 6:30am. Oh, another "trick" I'm pulling on myself is to leave a full 16.9 oz bottle of water by my bathroom sink, so it's there when I take my pills & then sip on as I get ready... I make myself finish it before I'm done. So then that's 3 servings of h20 in before 8am! Ok, off to staple. I know, you wish you had my glamourous life!!

Getting an early morning start to the day today by making bazillions of copies for school. Make it a good one, Vi's!

I suck. I fell off the wagon and had 6 (SIX) white chocolate macadamia nut cookie dough balls. :wink_smile:

Laura, I think she meant the first sugar rush of the day?? Can't wait to see the vid feed of our little Vi guy!! Haydee, I agree w/Laura... that sounds like a fantastic trip!! I want to go to that fancy hotel!! Still plugging along...

Pam's headstone?: "Here lies Jazzy Bradford: BAM!"

Thanks for the link info... now I'm all caught up w/TracyKSs vids... I like watching them just to see & HEAR you, Tracy!! Your peppy personality comes a-shinin' through! :wink_smile: Just had a 3rd contractor here to look at the downed trees... ugh... all I know is, no matter who we choose, it adds up to mucho bucks... bleh. Ok, off for more cleaning, laundry, organizing... anywhere I look in the house there's something to be done!

Good Monday Morn, Vi's~~ It's back to work & school day today! Yay!! I get my house back & can clean & it won't get messed up even as I'm cleaning! lol! + I've got to get my editing scheduled... + PTA stuff etc... NOW it feels like a new year -- no more lounging around, napping & reading!! Down again this a.m.! Will keep weighing each day 'til the woosh stops... then will try to go to 1x/week like Judy... Make it a great day, everyone!

Where'd everybody go?

How do we see TracyKs's vids?

What's gotten into you, Miss TracyK? You are on a roll! You are now officially on my list of folks to speak @ my funeral. You'll bring down the house!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I laughed so loudly out loud that I had to read what I wrote & then what you wrote to ds & dh. You. Crack. Me. Up!!

Judy, we posted @ the same time! So glad to read that Bob's special day went well. He sounds like such a special guy. You lucky gal!!

Hey. Made the yummy ham & chz soup. Have had 2 cups so far. The whole family is slurping it up... hope there's a little bit left for me for tomorrow! I didn't put in tofu, but did add 1/2 can of drained rotel tomatoes... I think that's the only change I made... oh, I used real ham, 1/2 of it chopped, 1/2 of it shredded in the bullet. Am on my laptop while watching dh's Eagles play the Vikings... they're up so far, so that's good... Tomorrow dh goes back to work & dkids go back to school! Hallelujah! I love them, but they've been cramping my style & messing up my house for 2 weeks now! So tomorrow will be serious cleaning, organizing, & getting back to the grindstone. Judy, how was this morning? Hope you're safe w/the wintry weather. Am still philosophical after yesterday's funeral. It makes me wonder what folks would say about me @ mine. What would stand out. How I'd be remembered. Sigh... deep thoughts... Off to surf around... enjoy the eve!