He’s never colicked before, and he’s 21. He’s choked 2 or 3 times (and now eats soup) but never colic. This was pretty mild , all in all, but still … I’ve dealt with it in other horses in varying degrees of severity, it’s always stressful.
So far the eyes aren’t bad enough for a catheter, so it’s drops and ointment for a few days and then a recheck on Friday.
Hope all goes well. We had a very old horse who who was eating a slurry (no teeth) but still managed to choke every so often. I got pretty good at passing a nasogastric tube.
I just got kinda scammed and I’m pissed off about it. This guy came to my house and AFAIC basically misrepresented himself as being from my gas company, Consumer’s Energy. He said I failed to take action on some prompt on my last statement and he was there because I was overcharged. Or something.
I’m very sick right now, I just wanted him to go away. He had me log in to my Consumers account so he could show me my own statement… It was really fucking confusing. I guess Consumers outsources its gas and his energy company is one of the options. So okay, he’s not from Consumers, he’s from this other energy company trying to get me to choose him as a gas source… through Consumers.
But he didn’t present himself that way. He presented it as if I’d failed to do something required by Consumer’s Energy. At no point did he suggest I was signing up for a new service.
I’m too sick for this shit.
Long story short I’m now signed up with a variable rate energy company I don’t want. So I guess I have to call and cancel that after I recover.
Could you call the gas company and complain that you didn’t want to switch, but you’re afraid it might happen? It might be easier for them to stop it before it starts.
Dammit, colicky horse is not all better. He’s now at the clinic overnight on IV fluids and pain meds.
And , to top off a stellar day, one of my trailer tires decided to let go of it’s tread 5 min out of the driveway. Luckily I have friends just down the road who could lend me their truck and trailer so we got to the clinic without too much delay. I saw my boy settled in and then headed home. Halfway back I suddenly lost all power steering and brakes! I was driving my friend’s dually 3500 with a 25 ft 2 horse gooseneck trailer behind me 
Thank god I was on my usual back roads route that has little traffic and where I was going 45 mph or so. If I’d taken Rt 78 I would have been doing 60, in other traffic, and there are always slowdowns as people turn off. I suddenly realized turning a slight corner that the steering was REALLY stiff, and so I tested the brakes (that barely worked) and slowed way, way down. If I’d been on straight 78 I would not have known until I needed to brake for someone in front of me, and that would not have happened.
I want all the wine. ALL of it.
I need a drink after reading about your experience. Hope your horse is 100% tomorrow.
Damn did you run over a sorcerer or something? That’s too much bad luck at once. 
Supergirl comics had Comet, a super-horse that was cursed by a sorceress.
… or something (it was from the early-60s “How Stupid Are Our Readers?” phase, I was going to add a link but it’s too creepy and idiotic…).
Supergirl actually dated the horse for a while. I really, really wished I made that shit up. 
See? Horses, nothing but trouble.
I’ll stick with a puppy, they’re cheaper and more affectionate. And they don’t turn into enchanted centaurs and ask you out on a date.
I seem to recall you only having something like 3 days to change your mind on a door-to-door sale. Knowing my memory, it’s probably even less. I’d be on the horn TOMORROW in case you just signed yourself up for a yearly plan you might not be able to get out of.
Thanks. The contract says I can cancel at any time. No fee.
Man, I’m so pissed at myself for this. I signed a fucking contract without even reading it. I thought it was a required thing, somehow. Makes no sense in retrospect. And there was nothing on my statement the way he claimed.
I hate being sick.
If the dude really misrepresented himself, he’s opened himself and his company to legal action.
“I’m looking for raw milk!” says one of my cousins on Facebook. Sweetie, if I’m remembering family history correctly, your grandfather and a couple of his brothers nearly died after drinking raw milk. Why are you messing with the stuff?
I looked them up in Better Business Bureau and it’s filled with complaints like these, so yeah, totally scammy.
The frequently unreliable nanny has been out sick with the stomach flu, while we have the other kind of flu, so we decided not to have her come back in this week because we cannot afford to get sick again. Which means we’ve decided we’re going to have to fire her over the phone. I can’t just wait weeks for her to get better and then come back just to get fired, it makes no sense. We need to move on, and the new nanny is slated to start Tuesday.
It feels completely shitty and awkward to fire her over the phone, but the alternative seems worse.
When I lived n a multi-unit apartment building, my response to these guys was to SCREAM “You’re trespassing (my building had an allegedly secure front door and prominent no soliciting signage), get out of my building you scammer!
Which might have seemed like an hysterical overreaction, but my intent was to warn any neighbors that were in earshot that one of these guys was loose in the building.
Now that I live in a single family house, I just tell them it’s not a good time, there will never be a good time and I don’t buy anything or change any services door to door. I offer them a mailing address and an email address and tell them that if they send me the info I’ll take a look at it. They are never interested.
The thing I always wonder when I read things like this is why do people answer their doors?
If I’m at home and the doorbell rings, I look outside. If I don’t recognize the person (it’s not a neighbor) I go back to whatever I was doing (after getting the dogs settled).
Am I missing out on something? Do unsolicited callers sometimes give you wads of cash?
There are no windows near our door so we can’t tell who it is without opening the door.
The last time we ignored a knock on our door it turned out to be police asking us to evacuate because they had a hostage situation in the house across the street. The guy ended up shooting himself and we missed it all.
But you’re right. I wish people would just piss off.
I’m always shouting at characters on TV shows “Look through the peephole!” but they never do, they just open the door to annoying salespeople or armed miscreants.
So to you I yell “Get a peephole!”
This is one reason I set up cameras outside my house. If the doorbell rings I can check an app on my phone for a live shot of the person.