Sorry Zippy.

I hope the surgery goes well and that you recover quickly.

Good luck with the surgery. Make sure you mark the wrong shoulder with a big No! Other one! In sharpie.

And make sure the use heavy duty American made parts. ;)

I bet it don't feel like sunshine right now.

Heal up quickly and completely, Zip.

Thanks all , i go under the knife tomorrow ,
WEEEEEEEEEEE !!!

Lay off the slider for a couple outings.

We will pray.

The 6 million dollar Zippy? RoboZip? FrankenZip?

Ask for a zipper rather than sutures. Next time, the doctor can simply open it up, push those parts back on place, and zip it up.

Or is that being too obvious.

Freanen Zip Ilike it
Damn this hurts

Ask for a zipper Har Har , oh to laugh

Sorry about the pain Zippy! :yeldead:

Owww that sounds painful Zip.

I've had calcific tendonitis in my shoulder and neck on and off for about 10 years, and when it flares up it's awwful - shoulder stuff is hella painful and debilitating. I really hope you recover quick and feel better soon.

Glad to see that you are back among us.

On the IR, though, done for the season. Rehab it and be ready for training camp 2020

I had three knee replacements in less than a year, I imagine it's the same pain. :thepain:

Christ man, how many knees do you have?

I have a participant whose had 3 hips done.

Left knee, right knee, wienee.:D

Lolee

Okay, now you guys are funny. In the face of adversities.

Lumberjim: penes. Really loooong ones, peeeeeneeeeessss.
Like in Beeeeeethoven.

Every time I seem to be doing ok and the month ahead looks ok and I am more or less straight financially - I get fucked up by a vet bill. So then I have to borrow to get through the month so the next month I start on the back foot - sometimes for a couple of months - get straight, all paid up and looking like I won' have to borrow to get through the month .....bang - vet bill

So - I started out today with an ok bank balance - we got our xmas bonus, not much but not nothing (£180 after tax) - I have bought most of the pressies and not gone mad, got carrot a new dog bed, looking ok for the rest o fthe month, even though it's always a longer month (early Dec payday means a 5 week month)

Was meeting mum down at the vets with me going straight from work and her bringing Carrot from her house - it was a follow up appt only - just how's he doing on his new meds and here's another month supply: 5 mins, £30 - £40 max....

Mum arrived at the vets with carrot and told me that while she was in the bathroom, he'd gone int her bedroom and stolen her hearing aid off her side table - chewed the fuck out of it and some of the pieces she couldnt find including the tiny battery.

So instead of a simple followup visit it was a 40 minute, induce vomiting visit that cost £156

The hearing aid is NHS but even so is £80 replacement (not that mum can get it replaced this side of new year, so she is going to spend the entire season struggling to hear)

I've gone from 'I'm ok, comfortable and can even maybe afford to go for a nice meal with friends over xmas' to ' I have less than £70 a week after bills for the next 5 weeks and no leeway for anything'

I dont know how he does it. Every goddamn time.

Last month on payday I treated myself to a new vacuum cleaner (after a year of borrowing mums at weekends) as I made the payment I thought - I know what's going to happen.... ' and yes - 2 days later we had to go to the vets and I spent the rest of the month penny pinching to try to limp my way to payday

I got paid this month 4 days ago. I bought the presents, went to the hairdressers for the first time in almost a year and then I ordered his new dog bed (£40 - not the cheapest but by no ,means an expensive one) and treated myself to a takeout meal - and as I did it, I thought, I know what's going to happen next...


Every. Fucking. Time.



*takes deep breath*

OK - am feeling somewhat calmer and less upset. Thank you for listening.

Also Carrot is now a very sad doggy. Poor poor Carrot. He doesnt know he did it to himself.

We Cat proof everything so the only vet bills we get are dental. They are usually around $700.00, usually Bootsy sometimes Chloe, sometimes both.

A further update ...

When I ordered his dog bed it said expected delivery 27th Dec.

I then get an email telling me it will arrive today - and then this evening I got an email telling me it had been delivered to my address and 'handed to resident'

I am the only resident human at this address so unless Carrot somehow took delivery of his new bed and then ate it, we have a problem.

We used to get pet health insurance when we lived there. Do Carrot's pre-existing conditions prevent that? Is it something you could ask for as a birthday gift (assuming it's too late for Christmas) ...and if not, at least you'd have a fixed amount each month to deal with?

He is insured = but there is a life time limit per condition and the first 15 months after he was diagnosed with hip dysplasia I had to claim about a third of that limit.

So,anything to do with his hips I dont claim for in order to keep the remainder of that per condition cover available for if his hip fully fails and he has to have an op.

So that just then leaves the non-hip related stuff to claim for -which is a much smaller cost across the year. With the excess (£90) and the age related copay (I think 20 per cent but it might be up to 30 now he is 8) it basically means it is not worth claiming for anything under £300 - £400

If he had needed an xray and sedation after eating the hearing aid, I'd have claimed and got some of it covered but would have been out of pocket by about £180-£200

And if this was the start of something that required ongoing treatment over several weeks I would possibly claim if costs looked like they would go above £300 across the year for that particular injury or condition (the policy year that is,which runs march to march), but I'd still have to cover a significant chunk out of pocket.

I daren't end the policy - because then he would have no cover for anything to do with his hips. The premiums are quite high because of the early treatment and physio he had when he was young - so,I pay his insurance premiums each month and also pay his regular pain meds, blood tests and hip checks to avoid whittling down the rest of the cover for that stuff, and all the other stuff that occasionally affects dogs and leads them to the vets tends to stay just below a claimable cost in any one insurance year.

Basically, the insurance (£55 per month) is there in case he gets hit by a car, requires surgery or has to go through several xrays or tests to diagnose something major

Its fine - I am fine - just needed to vent until I put it back in perspective

bummer re the insurance. I figured being in the industry ish you would, but then they say doctors make the worst patients....

Tbf I don't have home contents insurance so, fair cop

I'd probably have let Carrot's insurance lapse duriing the time I was unemployed a few years back had he not already been diagnosed with something by then. knowing he could at any point in his life need new hips is a fairly strong incentive to keep the policy live.

£55($71) is a big nut every month. X 12 = $852 X 8 = $6,816 :eek:

Sorry D. :(

Carrot is eight yrs old?! 8?!

Damn.

Upsetting? That doesn't even begin to cover the rage I have for fedex.
I always dread something coming by fedex because they always fuck it up.
They sent me an email last Thursday saying I have a package coming from Oak Park MI that will be delivered Sunday.
Friday I get another email saying the same thing. Saturday yet another email saying the same.
Sunday morning I click on the tracking and it says out for delivery. Fine, except it wasn't delivered.
Monday morning I click on the tracking and it says out for delivery. No, silly bunny, no package for you.
Of course the virtual assistant is no help so I call the fedex hotline and after convincing the AI answering the phone that I want a human, this guy says it will come Tuesday. Of course he's lying through his teeth and nothing on Tuesday. It's not coming Christmas either.

Today I get an email saying it was delivered at 2 PM on SUNDAY. No it fucking wasn't!!
Go to the tracking site, put in the number, it was delivered Sunday. No it fucking wasn't!!
Call the customer service hotline, give AI the tracking number, that was delivered on Sunday is there anything else? No it fucking wasn't!!
After going around and around with AI I finally get a human who says, Duh, Idunno. At last an honest answer, they'll probably fire him.
He said they'll investigate and call me. I ain't holding my breath.
Fedex is the worst, fedex is the pits, fedex is the dregs, lower than whale shit, incompetent liars.

I like how Amazon started taking pictures of items on doorsteps when they delivered. Once we were able to ascertain that the missing package had probably blown right off the porch and tracked it down in the yard

They didn't simply hand over information to the authorities for a minor crime without a warrant?

~ Well done, Amazon ~

Stealing Christmas a minor crime?

We'll need a Grinch Statute to make it a felony.

Dana you clearly need to go to vet school.

Yep. Clearly

I'm not so sure, if you became a Vet you'd end up with a whole house full of poor little babies need a home. Might end up costing you even more. :haha:

I'm just worried sick about Harry and Meghan. :sadpace:

How are they going yo make a living? Will they become desperate and appear in their own reality royality TV show? Would it have a cheesy name like Royals - Canadian Style? :(

We're talking Di's baby and Di's grandbaby's mother.

The pundits say their "brand" is worth a Billion dollars.

Gosh, I sure hope they'll be OK. They seem like nice people. They'll be far away from family and their adoring British citizenry though.

Security gonna be a thing, an expensive thing.

I hope they both get eaten by a bear.

I might change my username to Sussexobon.

Why are youze guys picking on this couple?
Eddie the VIII quit the royal rat race too.

Yeah, but I didn't have to hear/read about it every time I turned around.

But that's not their fault, they're not to blame.

I'm blaming them anyway.

I hope they don't give the bear indigestion.

Oh OK, I was just wondering if you had a valid reason. Carry on.

Youze guys, Kemosabe? I was being sarcastic about a royal family that has reportedly marginalized them and a public, especially the tabloids, that has ostracized them (supposedly because Markle is American and biracial).

https://sussexofficial.uk/

Heir today, gone tomorrow.

Wednesday evening I texted my Uncle asking if the neighbors are afraid of the dark as the shooting, in the dark mind you, was pretty continuous. He texted back that it had started early that afternoon and he was assuming it would eventually get too expensive. He suggested that they might be celebrating Tet. We made a lot of jokes about napalm, air support, and Agent Orange but my PTSD uncle celebrated Tet at the invitation of the North Vietnamese the fact that he brought it up instead of covering it up makes me wonder how bad his night was.

There's so much 'Merica reflected in that post.

Yeah, we don't have the bandwidth to figure all that out.

They were watching the muzzle blasts in the dark.

Nothing like a five gallon bucket o' flame with a big bang. In the dark.

Yes youze guys, aiding and abetting, fanning the flames, snickering and guffawing, is this shit really necessary...

Fake news.

Except for who broke up the Beatles.