I have worked 21 hours in the past 2 days. My feet are killing me.
Yesterday we were busy all day. I was on my feet for 11 hours and had nothing to eat but chips and dip all day. I ended up staying a couple hours over my shift to help remove the remains of Christmas decorations from a dog’s stomach. He apparently ate a fiberoptic Christmas tree which we discovered on the x-rays due to there being metal wire in the assortment of stuff in his stomach. He also ate a bunch of stuffing from his dog bed. I got the lovely job of sorting through the stomach contents to see if we got all the wire (I wore gloves). We also took an x-ray after surgery just to make sure.
We had a cat with an intestinal foreign body waiting for surgery as well. He had a dense, likely plastic, cylindrical object show up on x rays. Before we could get him in to surgery the next shift came on and got a St. Bernard with bloat. The St. Bernard did not survive as his stomach was already necrotic (no blood supply = tissue death). The second shift did the cat surgery later and the plastic thingy turned out to be a thingy that goes on the end of lamp pull chains. The cat also turned into a nasty little snot today and put some holes in my skin when I was trying to treat it. Ingrate!
Today wasn’t as busy. The highlights were the extensive enema we gave to a poor old dog with a colon full of poop. A 4 week old brain damaged lab puppy that was surrendered to the SPCA. It was the runt of the litter and the owner had been bottle feeding it goat milk and cereal for 4 weeks. It’s head was shaped wrong and it probably has some congenital problem but the inappropriate nutritional supplement probably didn’t help. For the record, puppies are not baby goats and do not thrive on goat milk despite what many people think. I fed it some puppy milk replacer and cuddled it a bit. It may get put down eventually but I wanted him to get a real meal. It was very fussy but when you held it like a baby it would calm down and fall asleep.
I also diagnosed a Siamese for some people that were seriously worried that it had something major wrong with, it was dragging itself on the floor and crying as if in pain but it was an easy diagnosis for me as soon as I saw the cat. It was in heat. It was perfectly healthy but horny as hell. We can’t do anything for that so I sent them on their way with recommendations to get it spayed as soon as possible.
Hey folks! Making my second appearance in a Monday Morning Post on a Monday evening…I hope I’m not too late
Since this is my second appearance, I really don’t know anything to predict, except that everyone will be joyous all year long and I hope I’m included in that
Now…for the TMI part of the post (swampy authorized this in a previous post hehe) I figured I’d share a new game a couple of friends of mine are starting this year. We’re calling it Number 2 Horseshoes and it goes a little somethin’ like this. You’re sitting on the John, dropping the Browns off at the SuperBowl right? Just like scoring in horseshoes, a floater scores 0 points, a leaner scores 3 points, and a ringer (you all have an idea what that is) scores a whopping 5 points. Everyone is on the honor system and the final score will be tallied on New Year’s Eve, 2006. The winner gets a 24-pack of toilet paper.
Sounds like fun! Great MMP and I wish everyone a superb year and look forward to joining you all each Monday!
In other important MMP predictions, I predict I’ll post often enough in these wonderfully important and witty weekly salons that FCM will deign to predict me in 2007.
I predict that like a crystalline Phoenix, the tattered remnants of La Chandelier Du Fairy Chat will arise from the ashes of my office and appear in all of their prismatic glory in front of a window.
In a noble and valiant attempt to convince our dear picunurse of her coolkidness, I shall now invite her out for an evening of dancing at The Copa.
After which, we shall go for a lovely stroll along the Brooklyn Promenade, where we shall stop and talk in a quiet and romantical manner whilst gazing out at the Statue Of Liberty.
After which time, I’ll embrace her delicately and attempt to unhook her brassiere through her wintercoat.
I feel left out
Just because I’ve never MMP’d mean I don’t get a prediction? I’ve exchanged posts with most, if not all, of you MMPers - but this is the first one I’ve actually entered while it awas still only one page (being lazy and not wanting to read several pages within a single thread) (unless it’s a ‘Joan’ story from Maureen
2006 in review
Sun 1/1/06 I slept til 2pm, had some chicken soup, watched some more Twilight Zone eps, crawled back into bed around 9pm.
Meant to wake up at midnight and rush in here to be the first MMPer of the new year, but I forgot.
Mon 1/2/06 watched the 7am Buffy while I ate my breakfast, then went back to sleep until noon when a friend called to invite me to brunch (since I’d stayed home Saturday, we (my ‘homies’) all got together today)
Did some errands while out and about, came home and played a few rounds of Apeiron and surfed the boards (get it? surf board? hahahaha) :rolleyes:
Can someone post a prediction that I won’t have to be up watching something for work at stupid o’clock in the morning? Uggh. Curse people who put in software changes on the 22nd of December, and leave the rest of us to clean up after them!
I’ve been up since stupid-o’clock too. Except I haven’t been working, thank goodness. I stretched out for a nap early yesterday afternoon and before I knew it, it was today. I feel all fever-y though so I’m not going to go to work. Doesn’t take much to get me to stay home from work.
I’d tell you about my bra and panties for my TMI, but I’m not wearing any. Oh I know! My dog chewed a hole in the crotch of my sweat pants. But I haven’t done laundry for ever, so I’m wearing them. There’s your TMI, yes-sir-ee!
Stupid o’clock! I love it!! That would be when her Cattitude decided she needed to stroll across our pillows. The behavior that’s so cute at 8PM can be really annoying at 3AM. GAH!!
Cartooniverse, you still haven’t done anything with that chandelier? I know I shoulda sent it to swampy - at least by now it would be all faaaaabulous! I predict in 2006 that something else from my basement will show up in your mail. And since my darling daughter arrives today and one of our mother-daughter activities will involve organizing the big basement closet, well, you do the math…
And for all of you breathlessly awaiting kitty pics, I actually took some last night. In bed. As soon as I finish this post, I’m going to check them out, then upload all that don’t portray untoward nekkitude. But I make no promises - I took them by the glow of the TV and I didn’t have my glasses on. And I never claimed to be a photographer.
All righty, then. The long-awaited and much begged-for kitty pics!! I hope the thumbnails are showing by now - but even if they’re still the generic place holders, there are cat pics under them, I promise!
A very purty kitty indeed! I’m not one much for cats but she looks jake. I like her coloring. I like the bedspread too FCM. Oh, and just cause I know you live for this, semi-nekkid FCD, ROWR
Cite!
ivylass lavender is not my color. I’m wearing leopard print pj bottoms with a gold lame’ top.
Welcome anyrose! Crotchless sweat pants, eh. Try a leather thong underneath for a special effect.
Happy New Year everybody! I did nothing this weekend, and left the house only for two trips to Target on Saturday and Monday. I’d say the house is eighty-five percent packed, and I pronounce that good. I’d have more to say, but instead I have some tummy ickies, so I’m using one of my newly-replenished sick days to go on back to bed. I’ll return when I wake up and have the energy to think of something interesting to say.
Oh, and happy birthday to susan and ACBG, and anybody else I missed. I’m going to sleep now.
YAY! For taxi KeithT! Now we’ll have to start planning a wedding. Lissla get busy on those wedding dress plans. I say big lavender taffeta butt bows on all the bridesmaids’ dresses! And sequins. Plenty of sequins. Let’s see, we need a hall, a caterer, flowers, oh so much to do!
Bud do keep us posted on how you’re doing in the contest. We’re all counting on you to win. Are there extra points awarded if you get splashed while dropping a particularly large and hard floater?
