Last night Pearl had either a seizure or a heart arrhythmia, and went stiff and howled in either pain or confusion. The vet is betting on heart problems and a cardiologist is looking at her tomorrow.

Sorry, UT.

Aw, Im so sorry for Pearls pain. I hope it doesn't happen again.

Sorry UT. It sucks when they can't tell you what's wrong.

The warbly howl was just terrible.

But I'm hopeful that all this vetting will get her a medication that will keep her alive and pain-free a while longer.

These dogs, they die too soon.

Ugh, that feeling gets you deep in your gut, when you see/hear your pet in pain or confused.

I hope she'll be OK, UT.

:(

Sorry UT. Hope the vet figures it all out.
Hugs to the lil one.

Oh, poor Pearl! Horrible when they go through something like that. Let us know how she gets on at the vets.

UT that is so scary! I hope everything goes well for Pearl!

shit shit shit!

Our first calf was born 6 days ago we found it odd he could not stand. The vet told us today he has a congenital defect, he was born without a quadriceps muscle and a patella tendon in one leg WTF? 1 in 100,000 The vet will put him down :(

Sorry, Nirv!

Weird. Sorry Nirv.

Poor calf. Poor cow too. She'll probably be pretty sad for a while.

Poor Pearl. I hope she's ok. My Sheba had an enlarged heart, but to my knowledge never had a seizure. She lived a long life. I'm sure Pearl will too.

Pearl is officially diagnosed as a heart patient, with congestive heart disease, and she is on a cocktail of drugs to maintain.

Hope she's feeling better.

:comfort:

Both Pilau and Dante first showed slight heart murmurs around the age of 5 or 6, and were on heart meds by the age of 8/9. Pil continued on to 13 1/4 and Dante is still going.

UT I am so sorry.
She's being treated and if she continues to be well than she's still having a good life.

Yes, she had her murmur diagnosed at 8 and they said she would probably make 10 or 11. Now she's 12. They say 10% of dogs become cardiac patients. I'm just hoping the various drugs keep her going for some time.

It's much better news that she's a heart patient than a brain patient. When Bean started having seizures he had only two weeks left.

Sorry to hear about Pearl, UT. Let's hope the meds add many more years for her.

man, that must have been so scary. I'm glad she's gotten a less serious diagnosis and that she has you and the rest of her family taking good care of her.

Hang in there Pearl!

Dead cat in the road on the way to the school bus. Hector saw it too :( poor kitty

Felt exceptionally grim yesterday.
Threw up twice at school then more after I was sent home.
Felt so nauseous all day - I sat up until 23.00 despite being shattered, because I worried if I lay down it might start off my coughing again, and if I coughed I'd puke.

Less nausea today but still not convinced I'm not going to hurl.
Had a cup of tea this morning, and two dry crackers an hour ago.
Aside from that it's just been water.
I have very bloodshot eyes today.

Poor me.

Poor Sundae :(

Sure you're not pregnant? hehe

Unlikely without sperm...

Sorry Sundae. You can blame it on the kids. Filthy creatures. :)

There's been a bout or Norovirus going around my son's elementary school. Many of the teachers have huge jugs of hand sanitizer on their desks.

Silly thing is this hit me on Monday. BAM!
I'd been on half term break and was really looking forward to getting back, as I was getting on Mum's nerves.

And yes, Norovirus was suggested to me.
My niece and nephew both had it over the hols. But I couldn't have caught it from them either, as we didn't see them.

Just a random encounter.
Without sperm.

As my cow orker said "they're dropping like flies." We've had people out sick a lot lately, me included.

We probably get it from students, then it passes through the office where we are packed in like sardines. Snotty-headed creepy sardines.

You can tell people to stay home when they're sick, all the really cool health organizations say that, and they'll even tell us that here at work, but there's some kind of weird honor in dragging yourself into the office. Unless what you have going on that day can make or break the world (or you don't have sick days and need the money and I feel for those people because I've been there) stay home so you don't pass it around, for pete's sake.

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Take your inspiration where you find it. These lads did.

I cut the ever-loving shit out of my middle finger today with a vegetable peeler--just a little ol' vegetable peeler!--and now half the fingernail is gone. And with the large hunk of gauze wrapped around it, it's now significantly taller and puts me in a perpetual state of flipping everyone off.

Plz be sorry about my finger.

finger, I can't be mad at you.

lol...I am sorry for you Clod. Those peelers are nasty pieces of kitchen equipment! I've done it before although not as well as you appear to have done.

Hope it gets better soon. xx

Sending finger love now.

Sorry about your finger I am.

Ha...I sliced the tip of my idex finger while peeling potatoes tonight. My finger is sorry for your finger.

I'm not sorry about your finger. You know why? Because now you can tell Mr. Fob that you can't wash any dishes because you have a cut on your finger. You can pawn that chore off onto him for at least three days.

(If you have any rubber gloves in the house, hide them.)

Ha! Mr. Clod actually does the dishes already, because it's his fault we don't finish eating dinner until 9:00 and by 9:30 I need to be getting ready for bed. He usually gets around to doing them about midnight, and says he really doesn't mind it because it's "contemplative."

Does he have a much older brother? ;)

Yes, but he's gay. :)

Story of my life, girlfriend, story of my life. :lol:

If all you want him for is to wash dishes then there's no problem.

Infi does not want to be a beard, thank you very much.

I'd be a moustache for the right guy, though. :eek:

omg was that ME? :bolt:

Inferred, my friend, inferred. ;)

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It's the falafels.

LOL!

That's a lot of falafels...

Today started foggy, but it burned off midmorning and felt like Spring.
So I went outside at lunchtime because neither of my teachers had an immediate need and I get restless with 70 minutes of lunchtime to fill.

Right before the whistle blew, I was talking to two of my Year Twos and they pointed out something that looked like faeces to one side of the Quiet Area (bark chips and benches etc). They told me it was poo, and it did look suspiciously like poo, but then it couldn't be. The playground was used for two Playtimes earlier in the day, so it couldn't have been there then, and an animal on the playground between 11.15 and 12.00 would be spotted! It was right ouside Class 6 for a start.

I went in before the children and wondered if I should raise it (and yes, I was thinking about clearing it up myself because it didn't look good regardless). Events got away from me. I needed to write a social story for Mars, because he shouted at one of our student teachers yesterday. We then had a one-on-one and by the time I came back in, the story had spread anyway.

Our HLTA sidled up and told me someone had done a poo on the playground, and could I keep an ear and a nose out to see if we could work this out. I felt a little relief that the matter was out of my hands (oof!)

Next I knew, our HLTA was talking to the HLTA in the class next door (my morning class - Tiger's class) and there was discussion about moist wipes and replacement clothes and all. It was a boy in that class. One who has bowel problems and one I have cleaned up after before. This was a bad one - what ended up on the playground had obviously tumbled through underwear and trousers. He was in a bit of a state. To say the least. But then this is a boy who has had to take his shoes home in a sealed bag after a previous explosive event.

I'm very sorry for him - he has a known condition. He must have been horrified and too scared to tell.
I feel sorry for Mrs J - crikey me I dodged a bullet there.
And for Mrs I, who from what I can gather was the outside pooper-scooper.

I really wish I'd done something or said something immediately.
Next time I won't sit and think. At the very least I'll raise a concern with a teacher and get their advice.

I wouldn't blame myself too much if I were you Sundae. These things happen.

I wonder about why the boy isn't wearing those larger nappies that fit like undies if he's still having accidents when he's school age. surely the humiliation of having accidents at school would be worth it?

SonofV asked me today, "Dad, what is this k-o-n-y thing?" He spelled it to me. I had no idea, and said so. He said it's everywhere. Oops, guess I live in a hole.

fast forward to this evening

My girlfriend, who I love very much, asked me "Have you heard of this Kony 2012 thing?". No, there's this hole and all... wtf? I told her about SonofV's similar query. She said it was the buzz the minute she walked in the door at work. Ok, ok, please help me here. Turns out there's a video.

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.


I'm not even done with the video and I have to post this. I'm not a chicken little kind of guy, but this is a great piece of film-making, please do watch it. It's thirty minutes and so far, totally worth it.

For those of you who need more text with your teasers, here you go:

So Joseph Kony is the hero of the story?

If you watch the movie, there's a description of what's going on that starts at about the nine minute mark. The film maker tells his very young son what he's doing, including a description of Joseph Kony. I don't want spoil it for you, just go watch the movie.

My kids and their friends are all talking about this clip.

Its all over FB. Has been for a week or so. I posted that same clip there yesterday.

There are a few mainstream movies that have documented this (or similar) issue. Blood Diamond is the big one, but Hotel Rwanda is another. The Last King of Scotland touches on it too.

It's amazing how common this practice is.

I first heard of this Kony thing about half an hour ago. There was a little article in the paper. Somebody in the article was saying that sure, Kony is horrible, but to blame all the central Africa problems on him is very unfair, because it's common practice there.

But I'd be in favor of somebody other than the US military putting a stop to the inhumane behavior in the world. Especial that done by this guy.