Sometimes I find my job repetitive, stressful and/or annoying.
And then there are golden days like yesterday, when a colleague stopped by my office to say “You’ve got to come see this cool malformed fetus!”
It was indeed a sight to behold.
Not long after that, I was summoned to see the world’s champion trichobezoar that had been surgically removed from someone’s overloaded gastrointestinal tract (it looked similar to this, only even more gross).
I took a cellphone photo to memorialize it.*
*I threatened to send it to Mrs. J. in retaliation for her texting me a photo of Hillary Clinton at the inauguration in a white pantsuit, which rivaled the trichobezoar for grotesqueness.
I hate google’s new look and feel. Stupid-ass boxes, integrated pictures, other searches in the middle etc. Why the fuck change what works ? Input term, receive results in easy to read form, click link, not a complicated process.
Does anybody know if there is any way to get results in classic format?
My anti-rant for the day in response to all the American medication payment woes: I am so glad for universal health care. We pay nothing out of pocket for any prescriptions, so I don’t even know what the several pills I take every day would cost over there, much less the actual visits to the doctor. Got my tax breakdown for the past year, and I paid £422 in health care taxes. Well worth it, I’d say, given that I’d probably spend more than that per year paying premiums to an insurance company and still have to pay a deductible and then have them deny treatments they don’t wanna pay for. Cut out the middleman!
Why do I start a coughing jag at twice a day at 3 o’clock? And yes, I mean a.m. and p.m.
Every day, I wake up at 3 in the morning to cough for 5 or 10 minutes. Every day at 3 in the afternoon, I cough for 5 or 10 minutes.
Seriously? My lungs have a 12-hour timer?
Plus the ENT poked a hole in my ear drum yesterday to let out the built-up fluid, and it keeps refilling. So every time I cough or blow my nose, my ear drips.
ETA: Yes, Yllaria, trichobezoar are human bezoars.
Trying to understand the noise I am hearing above with just two people inside the apt:smack: I know it’s saturday night and I am not going to sleep anytime soon but it’s still so fucking annoying to hear constant thumping:smack:
As I am sure everyone knows, our old sick cat is old and sick. As is common with hyperthyroid cats in kidney failure, his appetite isn’t as good as it could be. Its a constant struggle to keep his weight up and I’m always looking for different food treats to give him.
A co-worker’s elderly cat passed and she gave me her left over cat food. In the bag, I found pouches that I hadn’t seen, read the ingredients, thought it was crap and opened one. It was disgusting looking and smelled even worse. Lucky LOVED it. He licked the bowl and asked for more.
Of course I asked my co-worker where she had gotten it. Walmart. I hate Walmart. I don’t think I’ve been in one for over 10 years. I’m not even sure where the closest Walmart is. I looked at the package closer to see if I could maybe order it online. Its made by Hartz. I HATE Hartz. Hartz kills pets, I never buy Hartz products.
Is one old sick cat worth compromising my principles just for the pleasure of watching him clean his bowl. Fucking cat. I’ve ordered some online and will be going to Walmart tomorrow to be sure I have enough to last until the shipment gets here. Goddamn cat.
(This is the stuff in question. Should anyone think it sounds good for their own old and sick cat, do be warned that it doesn’t have Taurine. Its not a complete food, a regular diet of this will make kitty go blind. This is a snack food only, don’t give kitty more than 2 pouches a day.)
And wait til you find out he only liked the first bag, and will be completely over it by the time you get more… Cats’ favorite pastime is screwing with your mind.
So far, he still loves it. He actually does a little dance when he sees me open a pouch. He’s just luring me in. He will dance for it until I order a month’s worth. The day it arrives, he will start snubbing it. Goddamn cats.
Flatlined, thanks for the recommendation. I’ll be trying some with my own old sick cat (cancer in multiple organs, starting with the pancreas). The problem is, he’s always hungry, since most food just goes right through him and he doesn’t get the nutrients.
Waves at Morgyn. For some reason, its always fun to see that someone I like is posting at the same time as me.
I won’t be mixing the treat food in with his regular food because I think that its the texture that he really likes. He’s missing a part of his jaw and most of his teeth on that side of his mouth. He gets ticked off when he is eating and food falls out. When he gets ticked off, he stops eating.
He will still be served his regular gooshy food on the regular schedule. Of course it is a pate mixed with a little warm water. Poultry or seafood, not beef. Until he suddenly decides that beef is just the cat’s meow. Asshole cat.
This is just a treat food. Fucking cat has forced me to compromise life long boycotts just to watch him polish a bowl.
I am so sorry for you and your kitty panache45. Its horrible to watch a beloved pet be hungry while you can’t do anything. Lucky has been eating 2 pouches a day since Thursday and while his output has changed, its not all squirty or anything.
I wouldn’t recommend this food to anyone who has young and healthy cats. Its expensive, the portions are small, the pouches are messy (store them upside down and use scissors to cut the bottom off), it smells gross and looks like puke.
I know I’m stating the obvious but of course I can’t have peace of mind without saying it anyway - I’m assuming regular meat baby food isn’t to kitty’s liking?
I also hate Hartz products and not only boycott them but voice my opinion to anyone I see looking at them at the store. I try not to be the crazy lady about it, but can’t just let it go when I have an opportunity to educate if they’ll listen for 30 seconds.
Also another suggestion to try if the treat food gets snubbed (or to supplement with full nutrition food), and it could very well be just my particular old cat’s quirk, but I’ve found that the higher-end retail limited ingredient foods are pate style and turn into a fine meat soup when some warm water is added, and the old fur-lady of the house likes it very much. Like, Friskies pate style is still chunkier than she would like, it’s still kind of lumpy like broken up meatballs, but stuff like Natural Balance turns into more of a bisque texture when warm water is added and stirred in. It has chicken, salmon, duck and venison. I use 3 to 4 teaspoons per each half can.
Of course you had to bring it up. Us Hartz haters never get tired of warning people about how bad Hartz is. Hartz kills pets on a daily basis, but a lot of people don’t know.
At this point in time, all meat baby food isn’t to Lucky’s liking. He could change his mind tomorrow, but I fully expect him to wait until I’ve stocked up on that Hartz shit.
I could be very wrong, but I feel that cats who eat nothing but kibble go into kidney failure faster than cats who eat canned food. I personally feel that the cheapest gooshy food is better than the high end kibbles.
This is because cats are obligate carnivores. They aren’t designed to eat grain and get most of their water through their food. Kibble is at least 50% grain. Like humans, most cats don’t drink unless they are thirsty. Again, like humans, if they are thirsty, they are already in a state of partial dehydration. This is not good for their kidneys.
Our feline overlords get watered down gooshy food twice a day. They do also have kibble available 24/7, but I like to think that I’m getting enough water in them to keep them healthy.
Sorry for the sidetrack, but yes, I have also advised random strangers in store to NOT buy Hartz.
