Poor Kitty. The foxes must have come through the yard again because Kitty turned tail to race inside but in her intensity of haste she didn't see that the sliding glass door was mostly closed. We heard a very LOUD =WHACK!= on the door and there she was looking dazed. She then came in, still with a big tail, and we comforted her. Her eyes stayed evenly dilated, but very dilated even in light at first. As we expected, a lump or "egg" is forming on her forehead. She is swishing her tail a lot which is a sign of agitation...understandable under the circumstances.
But what should we be watching for? At what point should we call the vet? I wish I could give her a pain reliever of some sort, as she must have a mean headache! I have brushed her a little and talked sweetly to her and she hasn't been upset with us at all. She's just not comfortable.
Catreona "Hmmm. Interesting, Alan. Did you see anybody you know after all?" >>>>>Well, two people I have had dealings with…
Cat--I too tire easily, but it is simple lack of exercise; I've been there before. Come October of next year I will have more time for physical activities. Hope it's nothing more than that for you. Tell Sis for me that the preparation for endoscopy/colonoscopy is far and away the worst part of it. And that I sympathize that it was not something obvious like H. pylori.
listener--prejudice is prejudice, but my prejudice for someone of your friend Margaret's age would be relatively mild herbal remedies rather than synthetic drugs if that is possible. For the elderly drug doses have to be lower because they have less albumin (protein) in their blood to bind the drugs, which means more free drug with the same dose as a younger person. And another thought--patients with depression often present with complaints of pain.
Cat--there is little caffeine in chocolate; but there is a related alkaloid called theobromine. Far less stimulating.
Hi. Our power came back on at 3 a.m. We got knocked off the grid at 9:45p.m. on Monday night by a bad, really bad thunderstorm. Sis and BIL stopped by yesterday. They had driven through the area just 3 or 4 miles north of here. Roofs ripped off two apartment buildings by straight-line winds, trees and utility poles down everywhere. After the storm there were up to 60,000 people without power. Crews were called in from Indiana and Tennessee to assist the 900 crew members working here.
We were able to get ice and already had stocked many batteries, so we didn't fare all that badly. I had two battery-operated fans, so we used them when the heat got to be too much.
I didn't realized how often I reflexively said, "Oh, I'll check it on the internet" until it wasn't there any more.
Anyhow, this time we escaped major damage and are grateful for it.
We were in the 90's here, but the heat really wasn't too bad in the house - at least on the first floor. I was quite comfortable without AC because the guys "need" the AC to be too cold for me. I usually wear a sweater indoors. Sometimes I go outside to get warm.
It was funny though; how you could feel the temperature climbing right along with you as you climbed the stairs. We opted to camp out in the living room. But when the power came on in the middle of the night we each jumped up and zoomed to our own rooms.
I did get some hand quilting done by candlelight though.
Last couple of days here have been toasty: they predict 90+ at their collecting station which is always 20 miles from where I am, then I drop that ten degrees in my mind, and am usually pretty close to what's showing on the big thermometer on my porch. If I'm running the A/C I can generally get it 6 or 7 degrees cooler inside than that. Most years, I never even turn it on, lol! THIS has not been most years. . . . Also have one overhead fan, which is great!
Wish I understood it, lol! Everything in a tiny squinchy window, everything always jumping around just as you get focused on it. But I don't understand IM or texting either. Or even cell phones: who is it that *wants* to be available ALL the time to everybody who knows 'em?
The chat window is pretty small and scrunchy. And it's hard with a screen reader, especially one that doesn't work right. However, one does one's best.
I grok the problems with cell phones. Sis has taken to the iPhone like a duck to water, but I, well, haven't got the hang of it. I also sympathize with the concept of not wanting to be available 24/7 to *everybody*. I guess that's what the Off button is for. But, remember how neighsayers said the same thing about e-mail? And it's not like that. You can take your time answering e-mail. I gather from Sis that text messages are the same; you can answer them whenever. But I agree that the concept of texting does still sort of blow my mind.
After all, I grew up with rotary phones that were either wired into the wall or attached to the wall with long cords, that you were constantly tripping over. And, those phones were substantial. If you threw one at someone, and they didn't duck fast enough, they felt it. You could throw an iPhone at someone and they wouldn't even notice. I have TV equipment remotes that are bigger than the iPhone...and heavier.
Lol! My kid adores his iPhone, and that's not exaggerating. I guess I came about the right time: too early for iPhones, but early enough for the nets. . . .
Cat, we only have the low-dose maintenance kind of aspirin, and I believe the proper dose for a kitty is 1/4 baby aspirin, but I don't know how many milligrams that is. Do you?
Fortunately she has done remarkably well! I would have been at the ER if my head had hit that hard! Kitties are amazing!
Thanks, Alan! I stopped at the health food store today and picked up a nice bottle of lavender spray that makes a fine mist. That way she can spray the air, her sock drawer or her wrists!
Yow. That was too close. Trust you to quilt by candlelight! That's exactly what I'll be doing if ours goes out. I didn't even know they make battery operated fans, but that does sound like something we ought to have here. What brand is good?
I went to my friend Holly's "celebration of a life" funeral today. Well, technically it was a memorial service because there was no casket. But I tend to say "funeral" if the service is the same week the person died, since a memorial service can even take place months later. Holly died one week after her 46th birthday. That is too young. Holly chose the readings and hymns herself. Her mother read a reading, which was heroic. Holly's young niece led the Prayers and her young nephew read a reading. Then Holly's two younger sisters gave the eulogy and they were magnificent...just the right combination of anecdote and seriousness, skillfully, poetically written and touchingly given. The priest got up to give the homily and we all knew he had a tough act to follow. But he was real and wise and just a little tearful, which came across as just right. There were so many of us that there was an overflow into the parish hall, complete with the service shown there as a huge video. As there was Communion too, folks then went into the church proper to receive. I used to attend church there years ago. It's a jewel and a gem, having windows made by Louis Comfort Tiffany (lots of warm yellows), as well as dark Tiffany woodwork. The floor of the chancel and sanctuary are mosaics and the walls are a deep, reddish mauve overlaid with metallic gold stenciling. It's gorgeous. The way the light falls there during the Vesper hour is my favourite time. It is the first place on Earth I ever felt a true sense of place and of coming home.
And what were the odds that the woman who happened to sit next to me remembered me from when I attended there. She remembered my name, and that we home schooled and that we had 5 children. Wow. I vaguely recalled her after she introduced herself and mentioned that she had two little girls back then. They had been in the Christmas Eve play I'd directed. I could almost go back to attend there again. Wow.
The sweetest thing of all was to learn that everyone else had the same view of Holly that I'd had. She was an avid birder and lover of wildlife and nature. She was very supportive back when I rehabbed the Pine Grosbeak. With her husband Mike she had also done respite care for dogs and draft horses that had particular needs. And she was a woman of faith and a great lover of books. In her last days, her mother and sisters read aloud to her the book The Wind in the Willows because she had always meant to read it. Her sister read aloud a passage from it, too, about Rat and Mole wintering together and Rat falling asleep by the fire while Mole quietly slips out on his own...
By the way, the family had the interment at the cemetery just BEFORE the service. Did you know that was allowed? I think it's a wonderful idear, because it gives the family the alone-moment they need with their dead before they have to face the throng. Then it gives them the larger community around them to wend them on their way from deepest grief to facing life again. It seems just right to me and I'm going to recommend it to my family, going forward.
Lovely and sad, listener, for us. I'm sure *she's* as happy as a clam to be home. . . . When I met Edwin in my dream, he was rushing, and busy and happy. He stopped long enough to lift me off my feet, literally, kiss me before placing my back on the ground, and then hurried away on what was obviously important business. Can't begin to say how comforting that dream was.
Just got my recently, listener. Didn't even know they existed before that, but they're a real lifesaver when the power is out. This one is just called "O2 Cool". From what I can tell from the packaging that's also the name of the company in Chicago. The Model #1041. I got two at Meijer's and one in the pharmacy department of my grocery store. Only costs $6.99 and runs about 55 hours on 2 D batteries. Originally got one for my daughter in NY. She has no AC and I wanted a little fan for her personal use. This one isn't huge, it's about 6" x 6", but effective for all that.
But to answer the question: I believe low-dose maintenance aspirin is very similar to baby asprin. Before this dosage form became available, the usually recommended maintenance dose was 1 baby aspirin/day.
Susan: The line of thunderstorms you got Monday night may have been the one the Chicago area got Monday morning. Not much to speak of in Oak Park, but in the metro area as a whole it produced the second-highest number of power outages in Com Ed's history. I believe some people may still be without power.
That it is hotter upstairs than downstairs is no news to me. Today, with the breeze, it was almost chilly outside and comfortably cool on the first floor. But in my second-floor office, which faces the afternoon sun and has quite a bit of heat-generating equipment, it was warm enough I turned on the window fan for several hours. (Once we get our new windows installed, I'll mount our one and only window air conditioner.)
Cat: You do know that I consider you a whippersnapper, don't you? I grew up with phones where you lifted the receiver and waited for the operator to say, "Number, please?" (And yeah, my mother was a telephone operator. Although she mostly worked Long Distance.)
puddle: You're only available all the time to everybody who knows you if you tell everybody who knows you your cell phone number. I don't. My family has my cell phone number in case they have an urgent need to reach me. If I'm at a con where I need to correlate with other people, we'll trade cell phone numbers. And probably delete them once the con is over because the need to talk to each other has passed. And I gave American Airlines my cell phone numnber so they could contact me with flight information. That's how they were able to tell me my flight would be two hours late leaving San Jose.
But in fact, I am pretty much available all the time to everybody who knows me. Most days I spend about 14 hours with the land-line phone at my right hand.
People sometimes say they hope a loved one is resting in peace. I suppose. I'd rather think of them dancing with joy, unburdened of all that weighed them down in life. I hadn't thought of busy. But, of course, if it's true that we remain connected to the great company of the saints in light, then maybe they're busy in our behalf. We sure could use all the help we can get.
Howard Dean and young lovers are First!
ReplyDeletePoor Kitty. The foxes must have come through the yard again because Kitty turned tail to race inside but in her intensity of haste she didn't see that the sliding glass door was mostly closed. We heard a very LOUD =WHACK!= on the door and there she was looking dazed. She then came in, still with a big tail, and we comforted her. Her eyes stayed evenly dilated, but very dilated even in light at first. As we expected, a lump or "egg" is forming on her forehead. She is swishing her tail a lot which is a sign of agitation...understandable under the circumstances.
ReplyDeleteBut what should we be watching for? At what point should we call the vet? I wish I could give her a pain reliever of some sort, as she must have a mean headache! I have brushed her a little and talked sweetly to her and she hasn't been upset with us at all. She's just not comfortable.
Poor Kitty. =^. .^=
How come things like this always happen outside of office hours?
ReplyDeleteOuch! Vibes for kitty!
ReplyDeleteCatreona
"Hmmm. Interesting, Alan. Did you see anybody you know after all?"
>>>>>Well, two people I have had dealings with…
Cat--I too tire easily, but it is simple lack of exercise; I've been there before. Come October of next year I will have more time for physical activities. Hope it's nothing more than that for you. Tell Sis for me that the preparation for endoscopy/colonoscopy is far and away the worst part of it. And that I sympathize that it was not something obvious like H. pylori.
listener--prejudice is prejudice, but my prejudice for someone of your friend Margaret's age would be relatively mild herbal remedies rather than synthetic drugs if that is possible. For the elderly drug doses have to be lower because they have less albumin (protein) in their blood to bind the drugs, which means more free drug with the same dose as a younger person. And another thought--patients with depression often present with complaints of pain.
Cat--there is little caffeine in chocolate; but there is a related alkaloid called theobromine. Far less stimulating.
Hi. Our power came back on at 3 a.m. We got knocked off the grid at 9:45p.m. on Monday night by a bad, really bad thunderstorm. Sis and BIL stopped by yesterday. They had driven through the area just 3 or 4 miles north of here. Roofs ripped off two apartment buildings by straight-line winds, trees and utility poles down everywhere. After the storm there were up to 60,000 people without power. Crews were called in from Indiana and Tennessee to assist the 900 crew members working here.
ReplyDeleteWe were able to get ice and already had stocked many batteries, so we didn't fare all that badly. I had two battery-operated fans, so we used them when the heat got to be too much.
I didn't realized how often I reflexively said, "Oh, I'll check it on the internet" until it wasn't there any more.
Anyhow, this time we escaped major damage and are grateful for it.
Susan, glad you made it through! HugZ! And *absolutely* understand that reflex!!
ReplyDeleteStunning how *quiet* it gets with no electricity. I'm acutely aware when my freezer and fridge cycle out at the same time. Bliss. . . .
We were in the 90's here, but the heat really wasn't too bad in the house - at least on the first floor. I was quite comfortable without AC because the guys "need" the AC to be too cold for me. I usually wear a sweater indoors. Sometimes I go outside to get warm.
ReplyDeleteIt was funny though; how you could feel the temperature climbing right along with you as you climbed the stairs. We opted to camp out in the living room. But when the power came on in the middle of the night we each jumped up and zoomed to our own rooms.
I did get some hand quilting done by candlelight though.
Last couple of days here have been toasty: they predict 90+ at their collecting station which is always 20 miles from where I am, then I drop that ten degrees in my mind, and am usually pretty close to what's showing on the big thermometer on my porch. If I'm running the A/C I can generally get it 6 or 7 degrees cooler inside than that. Most years, I never even turn it on, lol! THIS has not been most years. . . . Also have one overhead fan, which is great!
ReplyDeleteI added a link to the chat thingy to my profile. Will probably logged on there in a little bit.
ReplyDeletelistener, do you have any baby aspirin? If so, try giving her one half a tablet.
ReplyDeletePoor kitty♥ I hope she didn't get a concussion.
Thanks, Alan. I'll pass along the message.
ReplyDeleteThank God you're safe!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, when our Internet goes down for only a couple of hours I feel totally isolated. It's scary how dependent we've come to be on it.
Just had a little bit of a chat with Renee. Wonderful technology, that.
ReplyDeleteWish I understood it, lol! Everything in a tiny squinchy window, everything always jumping around just as you get focused on it. But I don't understand IM or texting either. Or even cell phones: who is it that *wants* to be available ALL the time to everybody who knows 'em?
ReplyDeleteThe chat window is pretty small and scrunchy. And it's hard with a screen reader, especially one that doesn't work right. However, one does one's best.
ReplyDeleteI grok the problems with cell phones. Sis has taken to the iPhone like a duck to water, but I, well, haven't got the hang of it. I also sympathize with the concept of not wanting to be available 24/7 to *everybody*. I guess that's what the Off button is for. But, remember how neighsayers said the same thing about e-mail? And it's not like that. You can take your time answering e-mail. I gather from Sis that text messages are the same; you can answer them whenever. But I agree that the concept of texting does still sort of blow my mind.
After all, I grew up with rotary phones that were either wired into the wall or attached to the wall with long cords, that you were constantly tripping over. And, those phones were substantial. If you threw one at someone, and they didn't duck fast enough, they felt it. You could throw an iPhone at someone and they wouldn't even notice. I have TV equipment remotes that are bigger than the iPhone...and heavier.
ReplyDeleteLol! My kid adores his iPhone, and that's not exaggerating. I guess I came about the right time: too early for iPhones, but early enough for the nets. . . .
ReplyDeleteCat, we only have the low-dose maintenance kind of aspirin, and I believe the proper dose for a kitty is 1/4 baby aspirin, but I don't know how many milligrams that is. Do you?
ReplyDeleteFortunately she has done remarkably well! I would have been at the ER if my head had hit that hard! Kitties are amazing!
Thanks, Alan! I stopped at the health food store today and picked up a nice bottle of lavender spray that makes a fine mist. That way she can spray the air, her sock drawer or her wrists!
ReplyDeleteThat gets sent off tomorrow.
Yow. That was too close. Trust you to quilt by candlelight! That's exactly what I'll be doing if ours goes out. I didn't even know they make battery operated fans, but that does sound like something we ought to have here. What brand is good?
ReplyDeleteI went to my friend Holly's "celebration of a life" funeral today. Well, technically it was a memorial service because there was no casket. But I tend to say "funeral" if the service is the same week the person died, since a memorial service can even take place months later. Holly died one week after her 46th birthday. That is too young. Holly chose the readings and hymns herself. Her mother read a reading, which was heroic. Holly's young niece led the Prayers and her young nephew read a reading. Then Holly's two younger sisters gave the eulogy and they were magnificent...just the right combination of anecdote and seriousness, skillfully, poetically written and touchingly given. The priest got up to give the homily and we all knew he had a tough act to follow. But he was real and wise and just a little tearful, which came across as just right. There were so many of us that there was an overflow into the parish hall, complete with the service shown there as a huge video. As there was Communion too, folks then went into the church proper to receive. I used to attend church there years ago. It's a jewel and a gem, having windows made by Louis Comfort Tiffany (lots of warm yellows), as well as dark Tiffany woodwork. The floor of the chancel and sanctuary are mosaics and the walls are a deep, reddish mauve overlaid with metallic gold stenciling. It's gorgeous. The way the light falls there during the Vesper hour is my favourite time. It is the first place on Earth I ever felt a true sense of place and of coming home.
ReplyDeleteAnd what were the odds that the woman who happened to sit next to me remembered me from when I attended there. She remembered my name, and that we home schooled and that we had 5 children. Wow. I vaguely recalled her after she introduced herself and mentioned that she had two little girls back then. They had been in the Christmas Eve play I'd directed.
I could almost go back to attend there again. Wow.
The sweetest thing of all was to learn that everyone else had the same view of Holly that I'd had. She was an avid birder and lover of wildlife and nature. She was very supportive back when I rehabbed the Pine Grosbeak. With her husband Mike she had also done respite care for dogs and draft horses that had particular needs. And she was a woman of faith and a great lover of books. In her last days, her mother and sisters read aloud to her the book The Wind in the Willows because she had always meant to read it. Her sister read aloud a passage from it, too, about Rat and Mole wintering together and Rat falling asleep by the fire while Mole quietly slips out on his own...
By the way, the family had the interment at the cemetery just BEFORE the service. Did you know that was allowed? I think it's a wonderful idear, because it gives the family the alone-moment they need with their dead before they have to face the throng. Then it gives them the larger community around them to wend them on their way from deepest grief to facing life again. It seems just right to me and I'm going to recommend it to my family, going forward.
ReplyDeleteLovely and sad, listener, for us. I'm sure *she's* as happy as a clam to be home. . . . When I met Edwin in my dream, he was rushing, and busy and happy. He stopped long enough to lift me off my feet, literally, kiss me before placing my back on the ground, and then hurried away on what was obviously important business. Can't begin to say how comforting that dream was.
ReplyDeleteJust got my recently, listener. Didn't even know they existed before that, but they're a real lifesaver when the power is out. This one is just called "O2 Cool". From what I can tell from the packaging that's also the name of the company in Chicago. The Model #1041. I got two at Meijer's and one in the pharmacy department of my grocery store. Only costs $6.99 and runs about 55 hours on 2 D batteries. Originally got one for my daughter in NY. She has no AC and I wanted a little fan for her personal use. This one isn't huge, it's about 6" x 6", but effective for all that.
ReplyDeleteWhew! Can I answer a question or what?
:-P
Glad to hear that kitty is better.
ReplyDeleteBut to answer the question: I believe low-dose maintenance aspirin is very similar to baby asprin. Before this dosage form became available, the usually recommended maintenance dose was 1 baby aspirin/day.
Susan: The line of thunderstorms you got Monday night may have been the one the Chicago area got Monday morning. Not much to speak of in Oak Park, but in the metro area as a whole it produced the second-highest number of power outages in Com Ed's history. I believe some people may still be without power.
ReplyDeleteThat it is hotter upstairs than downstairs is no news to me. Today, with the breeze, it was almost chilly outside and comfortably cool on the first floor. But in my second-floor office, which faces the afternoon sun and has quite a bit of heat-generating equipment, it was warm enough I turned on the window fan for several hours. (Once we get our new windows installed, I'll mount our one and only window air conditioner.)
Cat: You do know that I consider you a whippersnapper, don't you? I grew up with phones where you lifted the receiver and waited for the operator to say, "Number, please?" (And yeah, my mother was a telephone operator. Although she mostly worked Long Distance.)
ReplyDeletepuddle: You're only available all the time to everybody who knows you if you tell everybody who knows you your cell phone number. I don't. My family has my cell phone number in case they have an urgent need to reach me. If I'm at a con where I need to correlate with other people, we'll trade cell phone numbers. And probably delete them once the con is over because the need to talk to each other has passed. And I gave American Airlines my cell phone numnber so they could contact me with flight information. That's how they were able to tell me my flight would be two hours late leaving San Jose.
ReplyDeleteBut in fact, I am pretty much available all the time to everybody who knows me. Most days I spend about 14 hours with the land-line phone at my right hand.
Excellent! THANKS SO MUCH!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a good one, to be sure, puddle!
ReplyDeletePeople sometimes say they hope a loved one is resting in peace. I suppose.
I'd rather think of them dancing with joy, unburdened of all that weighed them down in life.
I hadn't thought of busy. But, of course, if it's true that we remain connected to the great company of the saints in light, then maybe they're busy in our behalf. We sure could use all the help we can get.