Harvey is allergic to both fish and chicken, so I'm planning on making some homemade turkey or beef broth. The principle is the same, just a smidge more effort required. But Harvey is worth it.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[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.
WindSparrow - Jun 15, 2015 10:55:19 am PDT #19933 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
erikaj - Jun 15, 2015 11:05:12 am PDT #19934 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
Aw, Harvey. Feel better, buddy!
lisah - Jun 15, 2015 11:39:00 am PDT #19935 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
Glad you made it through the day, askye! And that you have a day of to recover. I hope it all starts getting easier.
Andi, I know how it is when an animal won't cooperate with getting the meds they need! (Or, in my old cat Swifty's case, cooperate in letting me test his blood so I could know how much medicine to give him!) So frustrating. I'm glad you have a couple of other options for getting fluid in him!
Burrell - Jun 15, 2015 11:45:32 am PDT #19936 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm glad that the nice human could help you, WS. I know how stressful it feels, we had a cat who was too old and frail for subQ fluids.
Beverly - Jun 15, 2015 11:48:08 am PDT #19937 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Nice humans are good people, WS. And I'm glad there's a workaround for Harvey.
Sophie Max - Jun 15, 2015 1:03:14 pm PDT #19938 of 30002
delurking to say - Windsparrow, I also had an old, cantankerous (but lovely) boy who I just could not give the subq fluids to. I'm single and didn't know a lot of folks in my neighborhood, and I simply could not hold both him and the needle. I even tried rigging a fancy thingie to hold the fluids but he simply wouldn't stay still. It made both of us miserable every time I tried, and I finally stopped trying. It honestly felt like I was doing violence to him - I couldn't keep doing it to him.
He lived almost two more years and was fine until the very end. You've done your best by Harvey. I think however much more time Harvey has (and may he have a good long time), he and you will be happier knowing you did your best but that measure is just not an option.
sj - Jun 15, 2015 2:25:19 pm PDT #19939 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
WS, best of luck with all you're doing for Harvey.
I made dinner for the first time in ages tonight, but I made the mistake of trying a new recipe, and it was mostly a fail.
WindSparrow - Jun 15, 2015 3:30:07 pm PDT #19940 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Thank you all for the encouragement.
Hil R. - Jun 15, 2015 5:28:48 pm PDT #19941 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm glad Harvey is feeling better.
I'm looking at Cincinnati apartments. I still don't have the official offer letter from the university, which is making me a bit nervous, but the person that I've been talking to in the math department there said that I should have it "soon." I hope that "soon" means within the next few days, because my plan is to drive out to Cincinnati on Wednesday and then look at apartments on Thursday and Friday, and I can't sign a lease until I have the official offer. And many thanks to both flea and Steph for answering all the "Is this an OK place to live?" questions I've had, since I don't really know the neighborhoods at all.
Steph L. - Jun 15, 2015 5:43:48 pm PDT #19942 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And many thanks to both flea and Steph for answering all the "Is this an OK place to live?" questions I've had, since I don't really know the neighborhoods at all.
The thing with UC is that there is a VAST geographical range you could live if you're okay with a 20-minute commute. But closer in, I think you'd be happiest in Oakley (lots of development going on there, lots of shops, right near the highway), Hyde Park (next neighborhood over from Oakley, more upscale), or Clifton Gaslight (which is going to put you closest to campus). I've lived in all of them, and really loved living in all of them. Definitely safe. Not, you know, gated-community safe, but in all the years I lived in those 3 neighborhoods (probably a total of 11 years between the 3), I never felt unsafe.
Neighborhoods that I've lived in, but can be dodgy depending on the part you live in: Pleasant Ridge (loved it, but some parts are SUPER nice and other parts are SUPER sketchy [I lived on a sketchy as hell street, but it was okay]), East Walnut Hills (again, some parts are nice but some are sketchy as hell), and, as much as it pains me to say it, my beloved Northside. I don't feel unsafe in Northside. My street, the general area of Northside we live in, does not feel unsafe to me. I know my neighbors and feel 100% fine walking by myself. That said, the east side of Hamilton Ave. does see more drug-related violence, which pains me.
And the house you looked at on my street is the white one, not the yellow one (I walked up to check the actual address, since I couldn't see it on Google Street View). Looks like a nice little house, and the neighbors down that way are very nice folks. The people on my end are nice, too. Our street rocks.
(I'm happy to delete actual neighborhood names if you like, if that's too much information to have out there.)