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Darby's well visit alone ran $400, and Mister Kitty just racked up another $500 by getting himself in a dang fight and developing a dang abscess. To be perfectly honest, i pet this cat constantly. I pick him up and i fling him around like a baby and i squeeze him and squish him and give him kisses and massages, i never once noticed it. It's right on his bum, just at the base of his tail on his back. I never felt anything remotely strange there. All of a sudden, he won't put any weight on one paw. I take him to the vet thinking "fracture," because his paw is swollen and doesn't look good. The vet picks him up, looks at his paw, looks at his rump, shaves away a patch on his butt and BOOM. RIGHT THERE, abscess. I'm like "What the hell!" Veterinarians always make me feel like such a terrible animal mom. Darby gets ear infections, it's a floppy eared dog thing. You have to clean their ears like mad. Because they flop over, air circulation is bad and so their ears trap dirt and gunk in there, which leads to infections. Twice a week Darby gets his ears cleaned, and yeah i'm fucking human and sometimes i FORGET. We clean his ears Saturday and Wednesday evenings and sometimes, yeah, i'll miss a day. It seems like EVERY FUCKING TIME i slip up, BANG INSTANT DOUBLE EAR INFECTION. Literally every fucking time Darby goes to the vet she's like "He's got a minor ear infection." THIS DOG IS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF EAR INFECTION AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT I FUCKING DOOOOOO. We're just gonna have to up ear cleanings to 3x a week. In any case, back to the cat
$500 in X-rays, minor operations and exams later, i picked him up from the vet today.
His after-care instructions are horrible. I have to give him hot compresses on his booboos twice a day for about 5 mins, and i have to clean off any crust/gunk off the wound, and i have to squeeze out any gross goops from it as it happens. Deeeeeesgusting. I'm gonna try my best but i might have to make my aunt Annie come over and do this for me (she's a nurse with an un-turnable stomach).
What else? I've discovered i could fucking EASILY be a vegetarian, for real. I actually might just make the jump, i never thought i'd say this but i really fucking like Tofu and almond milk. I had fried Tofu in garlic sauce from the chinese takeout place last night and i ate the entire goddamn container. I've been looking at different tofu recipes lately and what i have learned is that Tofu is like an all-purpose meat. It absorbs whatever flavor the rest of what you're cooking has, and there's a few different ways to make it. Fried tofu, like fried anything else, is the best version in my humble opinion. The hardest thing to give up for me is gonna be cheese i think, cheese s'damn good. Also i will never, ever give up eggs.
NEVER. I will not substitute eggs for egg beaters, i will not change my mind. I spend the extra money, i give my money to local free range chicken farms and if that's not available i buy Nellies. Costs an arm and a leg but i'm happy to do it if it means the chicken who laid the egg gets to wander around a field all day with her chicken friends and eat bugs and be a proper chicken.
ANYWAY. I think that's about all the news i have? |
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