On a more personal note
Apr. 9th, 2004 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hippybngstockngI hate vet assistants who can't be bothered to check the messages or answer the phone before "actual office hours" begin, when they clearly say on their answer machine that they open at 7:30. I got verbally bitch slapped if I didn't do that first thing when I worked for my vet, so I would assume it was procedure.
No I didn't get up, I was up already. I still don't know what's going on, and I am not very happy. The one ironic up side of this is that it gets me out of going to my mom's today, though that might change I guess if Tatsu doesn't make it. ugh, like I really want to see my mom... At least she is being pretty cool and understanding about it, though of course her first suggestion was to just give up right away and put him down because financially this is still pretty awful timing. If I had been more myself I would have shot back with "okay, then you go to the home and rub out grandma and then we'll talk" but I was crying too hard at the time so all I said was, "shut up". She tried to come back with the quality of life question, and my answer to that was to remind her how sick my Meerkat was when he got brought in under the same kind of circumstance, and he not only survived the weekend but another 6 months and almost seemed like he might have gone longer at times. Tatsu was in much better shape, and is probably only 5 years old (we don't know, he was a stray) so my hope for him coming out of this and being able to survive the same 6 months or maybe even years is still there. The problem here is the difference between what Meerkat ate and what Tatsu ate- Meer ate a Monstera Philodendron, and Tatsu ate the leaves of a Lily plant- Flowers are traditionally more toxic than other types of plants, so the chance Tatsu will still die is really seriously there because he went acute at a far more accelerated rate.
And we're feeling terribly guilty right now- for buying the thing without checking (because he IS an evil little cat and no matter where I put a plant he'd do something to try to reach it) and then not doing a better job of keeping it locked in the bathroom. I'm also feeling weirdly guilty that I didn't ask the confused NDP lady whether she had a cat, but I did manage to tell her the plant had likely killed mine, so hopefully she just took it back to her candidate's office. I hope it's not a bad thing to give flowers to Michael Prue, I seriously have no idea who he is. I've been in Canada 6 months now and I still have no idea about the politics, but I blame my inability to watch the news. Toddlers think the news is boring and don't make any secret about their feelings, so even if I tried I probably couldn't hear what they were saying.
Well now I am just whining and rambling, which I do when I am upset, so I am off to hover by the phone again... Maybe I'll give them one more try.
No I didn't get up, I was up already. I still don't know what's going on, and I am not very happy. The one ironic up side of this is that it gets me out of going to my mom's today, though that might change I guess if Tatsu doesn't make it. ugh, like I really want to see my mom... At least she is being pretty cool and understanding about it, though of course her first suggestion was to just give up right away and put him down because financially this is still pretty awful timing. If I had been more myself I would have shot back with "okay, then you go to the home and rub out grandma and then we'll talk" but I was crying too hard at the time so all I said was, "shut up". She tried to come back with the quality of life question, and my answer to that was to remind her how sick my Meerkat was when he got brought in under the same kind of circumstance, and he not only survived the weekend but another 6 months and almost seemed like he might have gone longer at times. Tatsu was in much better shape, and is probably only 5 years old (we don't know, he was a stray) so my hope for him coming out of this and being able to survive the same 6 months or maybe even years is still there. The problem here is the difference between what Meerkat ate and what Tatsu ate- Meer ate a Monstera Philodendron, and Tatsu ate the leaves of a Lily plant- Flowers are traditionally more toxic than other types of plants, so the chance Tatsu will still die is really seriously there because he went acute at a far more accelerated rate.
And we're feeling terribly guilty right now- for buying the thing without checking (because he IS an evil little cat and no matter where I put a plant he'd do something to try to reach it) and then not doing a better job of keeping it locked in the bathroom. I'm also feeling weirdly guilty that I didn't ask the confused NDP lady whether she had a cat, but I did manage to tell her the plant had likely killed mine, so hopefully she just took it back to her candidate's office. I hope it's not a bad thing to give flowers to Michael Prue, I seriously have no idea who he is. I've been in Canada 6 months now and I still have no idea about the politics, but I blame my inability to watch the news. Toddlers think the news is boring and don't make any secret about their feelings, so even if I tried I probably couldn't hear what they were saying.
Well now I am just whining and rambling, which I do when I am upset, so I am off to hover by the phone again... Maybe I'll give them one more try.
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Date: 2004-04-09 06:59 am (UTC)so sorry...
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