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Sunday, July 13, 2003

friday five - 06:36 PM
(filed under 'memes')

i'm becoming a bit of a casual with the friday five it seems. i like the questions this week. hmm it is sunday, not friday, but hey, do i look worried? *wink*

  1. do you remember your first best friend? Who was it?
    her name is carolyn. used to be carolyn seto then her mum remarried & it changed to gail, i think. that was a long time ago when i was grade in one. she was really nice.
  2. are you still in touch with this person?
    the last time i heard from her was when she sent me a picture of herself with her new baby sister. that was at least ten years ago, at a guess. we lost contact, unfortunately. i'd love to know what she's up to these days. possibly has a partner & children herself by now.
  3. do you have a current close friend?
    yes, but i hardly get to see her due to circumstances. i miss her friendship a lot. hopefully one day we can be good friends again.
  4. how did you become friends with this person?
    online, of course, like most of the people i now count as friends. *smile*
  5. is there a friend from your past that you wish you were still in contact with? why?
    aside from the one friend i mentioned above, not really. there is one other friend whom i would originally liked to have stayed friends with, but she decided that she didn't want to be friends with me anymore. the reasons she gave (only after i finally tracked her down to find out what on earth had happened to her) were that i wasn't interested in her problems & that my supposed obsession with piercings bothered her. after that surprising revelation i was a little less impressed with her. *hmmm*


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meeting the neighbours - 05:42 PM
(filed under 'general')

one of the neighbours invited us over to her house for afternoon tea, so we went over there this afternoon at about 2:30pm. it was quite nice, she seems like a nice lady, her boyfriend a decent & normal guy, too, & her thirteen year old son is a bit of a laugh.

i'd spoken to her previously over the fence about the lawn here & how we didn't have a ride-on lawn mower yet. she said that her son would always be willing to do it on their ride-on for a bit of pocket money, so when he mentioned it today we teed it up with him to do it tomorrow. shroom asked, "how much are you charging?" & he responded with, "how much are you paying?" *chuckle* clever kid. *chuckle*

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unconscious mutterings - 04:53 PM
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this week's unconscious mutterings. i missed last week's, what with my computer dying & being busy with house stuff.



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diary entry from this page - 04:48 PM
(filed under 'site stuff')

i've posted a new diary entry, but it's just a repeat of the last two items about mcgarnicle which i posted here earlier today. i want to keep a record of it in the diary which is sort of more permanent than the items on the news page. anyway, it's here if you haven't already read it below.

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dopey mcgarnicle - 12:10 PM
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well, sparny is back home. he's not quite with it at the moment from the sedative they gave him so they could x-ray him. the brain has been a bit ahead of the body since i picked him up. when he tried to jump into the car he fell back out onto the ground, the poor little thing. he was staggering around the car like a drunk too & didn't seem to figure that it might just be better to sit down & wait for the ride home to end rather than try to put his paws up on the arm rest & put his head out the window while i was driving. he tried his hardest & got there eventually, but fell back down quite a few times.

now he's lying around having a rest. he was sitting near the front screen door before, looking out with glassy eyes. as long as the pain killer they gave him doesn't make him sleepy he should be back to his old self within a couple of hours, i imagine.

in the x-rays you can see a small bend at the base of his tail, right near his bum, which we're assuming is what was hurting him, but it's funny you know, because a couple of years ago we saw a bend downwards in his tail right about that same spot, which didn't seem to cause him any pain at the time. it must have righted itself on its own, because we didn't do anything about it since he wasn't suffering at all.

they sent me home with some painkillers for him to take for a week with the expectation that he should be as right as rain by the end. if not, then we take him back to that same place, or perhaps we can suss out a new vet a bit closer to where we are around here. signs of improvement also means stopping the whining which he's been doing for a number of weeks which we took as a stress & attention thing from moving house.

i feel kind of bad if the whining was from pain, but he really didn't seem to be showing any sign of pain, just wanting attention, because if we played with him then he'd stop. well, we'll see how he goes over the week.

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poor mcgarnicle - 07:22 AM
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there's something wrong with mcgarnicle. last night, after going to bed, where i left him sitting on the floor at the bottom of the bed, he woke me up at about 1:30am with a short whine when he got up to change positions. he then came closer to the head end of the bed & whined again, curling up with his tail between his legs. he was obviously in some sort of discomfort.

i got up to pat him & he took off into the lougeroom, tail still between his legs, with more whining, where shroom was still up playing computer games & curled up under shroom's desk right near his legs. he's usually acted this way when he's eaten something which hasn't passed qite through & ends up half way out his bottom, so i took a look but nothing seemed to be there. he did show signs of pain when i lifted his tail though.

we tried to encourage him to play to see if he would forget about whatever was worrying him, as he often will if we accidentally step on his toe or something, but he wasn't interested. shroom took him out to the porch to try. mcgarnicle then walked outside away from our view. he stayed there for a few minutes so we walked around the other side of the water tank & he was curled up on the wet grass, just sitting there looking miserable. this was not like him at all.

we decided to take him to an emergency vet place about thirty minutes drive away which he'd gone to a year or so ago when he had a paralysis tick. i got dressed while shroom actually had to pick mcgarnicle up & carry him to get him to come inside.

on the way there, even on the way out to the car, he sort of perked up a bit, but he was still much quieter than usual & still kept his tail between his legs. shroom commented that he was acting like a normal dog finally. heh. poor little bugger.

anyway, the vet looked at him, checked his heart etc, gave him an internal examination, maniuplated his legs a bit, felt along his back & could find nothing unusual with his insides, his legs or his back. the only sign something was wrong was when he bent his tail to the right, then mcgarnicle would wine or show signs of discomfort.

at the vet's recommendation we left him there overnight & they sedated him & took some x-rays. there have been no signs of mcgarnicle hurting his tail recently, although he has been whining a lot more than usual, but we put that down to stress with packing & moving house, so the vet thought maybe it was a relatively rare thing called myositis where the immune system attacks the muscles. the whining & the unusual amount of extra attention to his back end, which has been occuring over the past two months or so, would be in line with this.

we got back home at about 3:45am & i set the alarm to call the vet at 7am as asked. he's taken x-rays, has seen a small .. umm .. something not quite right, but is going to get a second opinion at 8am before prescribing any drugs for him. i'm to call back at 8:30 & then hopefully we can go to pick him up & bring him home.

right now i'm going to go back to sleep for another hour until i have to call again. poor little mate. i hope we can sort him out. *hmmm*

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