Call ran 40 minutes over, and ended with another one scheduled for, oh, ten minutes from now. Somebody kill me.

Re the tooth white font: Two of my wisdom teeth and the two teeth I had out recently had to be broken into pieces and pulled out. I just had local anesthetic and, while they were pretty dreary half hours of wondering why tooth pulling has changed so little since Doc Holliday, they only took about an hour total and I could drive myself home. I wouldn't recommend having all four wisdom teeth out at one time with local anesthetic, though. I had two at one time and decided to have the last two out one at a time. General anesthesia is dangerous, it makes me throw up, and it means I have to ask for help. My tolerance for unpleasant medical procedures is pretty high at this point, though. Other, probably saner, people may recommend differently.

Is this the last paper, Nora?

Oh, god. Conference calls. The good thing about them is that you can make faces and obscence gestures. The bad thing is that you can contemplate slashing your wrists.

I have spent most of the day computer troubleshooting. It's a shame that can't be done under anesthesia.

I hope little t's arrival is uneventful.

When I had my wisdom teeth out it was out patient surgery because I went all the way out. I have really bad dentist anxiety, or at least I did, and so the oral surgeon wouldn't consider conscious sedation, just in case I did become aware of what was happening and started to panic. Evidentally there are times when people do become aware of what's going on.

It was expensive but I think it was ultimately worth it.

And my dental anxiety is pretty much gone, the last two times I went to the dentist I didn't get nervous or upset. But I still don't like getting my teeth polished, I hate the vibrations.

Also I need some advice about my cats. Dean has had some kind of GI problems since before I adopted him. He was on an antibiotic that was supposed to clear things up and he's on the special high fiber food.

Except (white fonted for details of stomach problems) he's got diarrhea very bad. It's pretty much like water and there's blood mixed in. He's had blood in his stool since before I adopted him. It was getting better but he seems to taken a turn for the worse. In fact he had blood streaked on his fur earlier when he got out of the litter box and I had to wash it all off of him.

So the thing is I'm going to go to the vet on my lunch break Monday and talk to them. He's been like this since, I'm not sure how long, and he's not as big as Maddie, granted he's always been smaller. But could he .. I dunno...die from this? I mean shouldn't the vet be worried that he's had blood in his stool for months now?

Plus I adopted them in good faith that they were healthy only Dean's not. I love him and I don't want to give him up, but I'm not sure I can keep on paying vet bills every month for him. I'm also really worried about his general health and that even though he plays and is affectionate there's something seriously wrong with him that's going to do some real damage.

I wouldn't recommend having all four wisdom teeth out at one time with local anesthetic, though. I had two at one time and decided to have the last two out one at a time.

I considered getting two out now and two out next year to save money, but I've already waited so long to get them out. It would have been better to do two last year (when my dentist first told me to get them out) and two this year. I don't know what they'll be like a year from now. I'd like to save a lot of money, but I'd also like to only go through this once.

Askye, we had an issue with that just this past week or so. We scooped up a specimen and dropped it off at the vet so they could analyze it, and sure enough, one of them has parasites. They are both getting the anti-parasite meds though. (we suspect it's Marley, but we couldn't catch one of them leaving the offending poo.)

Is this the last paper, Nora?

YES IT IS!

askye, that has got to be frustrating and heartbreaking. Is there a specialty vet hospital you might be able to take him to? When we've done this for Sass to get second opinions, they've all been well worth the price of the office visit because we were given better treatment options and the problem was solved. (IIRC, the price difference between an office visit at the vet vs. at the specialist was about $30).

Also, your vet really shouldn't be charging you for repeat office visits to treat a problem they haven't solved, although I do know that medicine and lab tests can add up!

YES IT IS!

WOOFUCKINGHOO!!!!

GO NORA!

YES IT IS!

Yay!

Not getting the teeth out is a false economy. Inflammation is bad for your health, yo.

I had all four pulled with local. They were complex, but it wasn't that bad.