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Posted on 06/01/2005 7:12:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I thought I saw a thing of detergent in the closet - it's not mine.
I looked in there about a zillion times yesterday, but I just checked again.
It's yours - that "Free and Gentle" stuff.
I'm stoopid and blind, but not quite THAT stoopid and blind...
Heh. Guess what. They found termites in the walls of one of the pesticide laboratory offices.
Management is arguing with the Orkin Man over treatment options.
LOL! What...delicious irony...
Ah, sweet sweet irony!
Yeah, isn't it though? :)
They're trying to figure out how to treat the problem without contaminating the whole lab.
Termites drilled the thread!
I saw a racoon that tangled with a high-voltage transformer today. Burnt to a crisp (the coon, not the transformer). Totally charcoal, flat on his back with legs sticking up in the air.
Bwahahaaa! Priceless!
Thought you'd get a kick out of that. :)
Triathalon training? Cool... I'm considering whether to buy a bike or really good walking shoes. One or the other.
How's your shoulder?
Got out of the Portland trip!
Not that I didn't want to visit with you guys again but I've got to be around to medicate TheCat.
How is she doing?
Okay. Looks like we caught it early.
BTW Miss Cat has a hyper thyroid.
Oh dear...
'zat mean she has an excuse for being pudgy?
And what else does it mean, health-wise? She'll have to take pills from now on? Or else what?
Actually...a hyperthyroid cat loses a lot of weight, drinks a lot, and floods the catpan. She's lost only 4/10ths of a pound since the last time she had blood work done (which came out normal) in 2003.
They want to keep her on medications for a few weeks to get her thyroid hormone(s) down to the normal range and then do another blood test to make sure something else isn't going on in the background.
The long term treatment options are:
1. keep her on medications for the rest of her life.
2. remove her thyroid gland (don't like surgery, do we Precious?)
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3. Kill off the thyroid gland with the radioactive iodine treatment - this is the one we're aiming for.
None of the options sound like a barrel of laughs. Hope it turns out OK! Poor kitty...
At least it's something that's treatable. I even got out of giving her pills. They've got this medicine in a cream and all I have to do is get 0.2 ml of it in her ear twice a day. :)
Heh. The vet said that after the iodine treatment she'd have to stay at the vet's for about a week because her litterbox will be hot.
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