I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Polter-Cow - Aug 12, 2011 1:17:20 pm PDT #27559 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Todd, all good vibes for the cataract surgeries!

Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose.

Clear eyes indeed!


amyth - Aug 12, 2011 1:17:56 pm PDT #27560 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

~ma for Kato.

Yes, Sunday. Let's do it.


sumi - Aug 12, 2011 1:20:59 pm PDT #27561 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Woo hoo, smonster!!

Meanwhile, here is my pharmacy story: First, let me say that I had 3 prescriptions filled and one of them was the statin and another was a water pill. The pharmacy said that when they faxed my doctor for permission to refill the triamterine (water pill) - they got back that other med so they figured he was starting me on something new. So, I phoned my doctor's office and they checked and in my records it looks like the pharmacy told them they were out of triamterine and wanted an acceptable replacement.

Upshot: I called the pharmacy back to see if they had any triamertine and they do and they're going to call my doctor to get a prescription refill from him.

So, no tumor causing water pill for me.


DawnK - Aug 12, 2011 1:25:43 pm PDT #27562 of 30000
giraffe mode

Steph, ~ma for Kato. If it's squishy, it may just be a fatty tumor.


beekaytee - Aug 12, 2011 1:32:36 pm PDT #27563 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

Best possible vibes for the dog Kato.

Bartleby has a growing (pun intended,sadly) array of these fatty tumors. We get them tested, they come back as lipomas.

Wishing the same for our virtual fur-friend.


askye - Aug 12, 2011 1:32:45 pm PDT #27564 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I hope Kato is okay!

I'm on the phone with Mom, she's keeping an eye on E in the bath. I can hear him singing No More Monkeys on the Bed to himself.


Strix - Aug 12, 2011 1:39:01 pm PDT #27565 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Steph and Jilli, you KNOW ITA re:

Makes perfect sense to me. And what I don't get is -- why is Remeron okay in his eyes, but not Ambien? Remeron is a sedating drug, and it's an antidepressant (which I don't want), and it causes weight gain (which he doesn't want to see happen). Ambien? Just helps me sleep.

And I'm no dummy when it comes to drugs. I get that it can cause dependence, but if it's helping a legitimate medical condition, and the patient is okay with possible dependence, then who the fuck cares? That's like doctors who won't prescribe adequate pain meds for patients with chronic pain because they "don't want the patients to become addicted." Well, fuck that. It's chronic goddamn pain. Key word "chronic." It's not going away. So if it's not going away, then why not help your patient to have a decent quality of life with adequately managed pain?

I've made that decision -- without a 20 mgs of Ambien, I can't fall asleep unless I am up for 24-30 hours. I always run out before the end of the month, and I have found that if I take 15 mgs of Xanax an hours before I try to sleep -- usually at about 1, then I can fall asleep within 2 hours.

My doc seems ok so far about Rxing for me, but I have two more refills left on the Ambien and none on the Xanax.

I am not addicted to them -- I am addicted to fucking being able to fall asleep within 1 hour of going to bed, instead of 5-6 hours (or not at all.) I take my citalopram and estradiol like a good girl in the morning; am I addicted to HRT and AD's, too? GIMME THE EFFING SLEEP MEDS. So I can, ya know, sleep.

Sorry. Trigger.

smaonster, you know how happy I am for you, and I feel kinda proud sister-ish of you right now!!! You did it!!


sj - Aug 12, 2011 1:39:27 pm PDT #27566 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Tons of nothing~ma for Kato.

TCG has been driving his one hour commute home for two hours and I'm not sure he's much closer to home than he was when he started.


Steph L. - Aug 12, 2011 1:49:24 pm PDT #27567 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Bartleby has a growing (pun intended,sadly) array of these fatty tumors. We get them tested, they come back as lipomas.

It is squishy, and when we feel it, he doesn't indicate pain or even discomfort, and he's getting on towards 10, so it may well just be a lipoma.

There's a non-profit arts organization in my neighborhood that provides all kinds of arts/crafts events at no cost for kids and their parents -- it's geared primarily towards low-income families, but no one is turned away if they're middle-class. They do all kinds of projects and stuff, like painting and mixed-media shit, but also video projects and photo journals. It's pretty cool.

As a fund-raiser, they're putting together a dog calendar, and anyone can submit a picture of their dog with a short description the pooch, and then a "panel of judges" (I assume the kids) will pick 45 dogs to have their pictures in the calendar.

OBVIOUSLY we entered Kato, and this is the picture we submitted: [link] He NEVER does that head-tilt. EVER. I think he knew I was taking the picture for the contest, so he played up his cuteness. Sly pooch.


DawnK - Aug 12, 2011 2:02:29 pm PDT #27568 of 30000
giraffe mode

he played up his cuteness

He sees the opportunity to chase his dreams as a calendar model! Don't mock his dreams, man!