If there is any free, some calmness ~ma for a very dear friend who found a lump in her breast, and is anxiously awaiting the results of the biopsy.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me
Birth, death, illness, new job, vacation...if it's happening to you and you want us to know about it, post it here. These threads are intended for announcements only. Want to offer sympathy or congratulations, or talk about anything? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.
StuntHusband - Sep 22, 2009 9:48:56 am PDT #3721 of 5671
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Theodosia - Sep 22, 2009 10:51:30 am PDT #3722 of 5671
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
And just a little bit of -ma for my therapist, who's just been ordered to a month of bedrest to keep her pregnancy going.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 24, 2009 3:49:37 am PDT #3723 of 5671
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Can I ask for ~ma for The Girl's father, who is having his pancreas biopsy today? Also for the whole family, who are all quite freaked out. He's been told there's a 70% chance it's cancer. We're all trying to think '30%' in the general direction of the universe.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 24, 2009 1:56:53 pm PDT #3724 of 5671
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
It's cancer. Recovery~ma now very much appreciated. Odds are sucky with this type, apparently.
I know they're in the best place for it (M.D. Anderson) but I'm freaked out - so I can only imagine how my not-quite-father-in-law, The Girl and their family are doing.
Fred Pete - Sep 25, 2009 3:37:39 am PDT #3725 of 5671
Ann, that's a ferret.
Rigatoni didn't make it.
When we got to the hospital on Wednesday (insert rant here about street closings around the U.N., which made traffic even worse than expected), the vet told us Rigatoni had gone into heart failure overnight. He was in an oxygen tent, resting comfortably thanks to the pain meds. However, five days after his last surgery, he was still on blood pressure meds that are normally used for only 24 to 48 hours.
The real problem was that (1) the kidney was functioning again, but too well -- he was getting dehydrated, and he wasn't able to retain electrolytes and those other little things that the kidney is supposed to let go through, combined with (2) fluid was collecting in and around both his heart and lungs. The kidney part wasn't too unusual in acute failure -- when the kidney starts functioning again, it goes into overdrive for a while to make up for lost filtering. It then usually goes back to normal. But for Rigatoni to have a chance, that regulation would have had to happen in world record time.
So the vets were down to the choice of treating the heart, which would have caused him to die of dehydration, or treating the kidney with fluids, which would have put him int o cardiac arrest.
So we had him put to sleep. The nurse from the U Penn feline kidney transplant unit was in NYC on another errand, and she had planned to visit anyway. So she was also there at the end. The three of us were petting and cuddling him as the vet gave the injection. So the last thing Rigatoni was aware of was being loved.
He was 2-1/2 years old -- about 27 in human terms. He packed a lot of life into that time, but it wasn't enough.
I took yesterday off to make arrangements. I'm at work today. I'm in tears. Even the sky is crying.
Calli - Sep 25, 2009 6:19:32 am PDT #3726 of 5671
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My annual review is in about an hour and a half. It's been a tense year in the office (as in so many places), and while I think my work has been as good as ever, I really have no idea how things will go.
So some of the patented ~ma would be appreciated, please.
hippocampus - Sep 26, 2009 3:36:35 am PDT #3727 of 5671
not your mom's socks.
I have a couple of phone conversations that could wind up in contract work turning into something more. That said, I am a proven Terrible Negotiator with this company and if someone could rent me a spine, it would be very kind of you. If there's spare job~ma about, to help bring this possibility towards some sort of actual state, I'd be very grateful.
quester - Oct 01, 2009 6:32:26 pm PDT #3728 of 5671
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I'm here to beg some interview~ma for Friday around 2:00 Central time. I have an interview for a job that I am actually qualified for and desperately want. It's only temporary but it is in the kind of job I've been looking for and will get me in the door, at least. Thanks!
omnis_audis - Oct 01, 2009 7:28:56 pm PDT #3729 of 5671
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
As of late this afternoon, Dad is out of the hospital!! He is at a nursing facility to rehab his muscles and help with the transition of missing 1/3 of his major internal organs. But he is getting stronger every day. God help those nurses. If they are lucky, he'll be there about a week or so. Thanks for all your support and ~ma!!
Strix - Oct 02, 2009 7:06:09 am PDT #3730 of 5671
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I got fired. Because I am not Nice Enough and Do My Job Without Pandering To Tender Baby Feelings, and because I stay home from work when I am SNEEZING 40 TIMES AN HOUR and using 2 boxes of Kleenex, or have LICE I GOT AT WORK or am on VICODIN because of back spasms or HAVING A FUCKING HYSTERECTOMY.
I am a bad, bad person. FEAR ME.