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[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Callie was presenting pretty much fine prior to diagnosis. That always seems to be our luck, go to the vet for something routine or minor and get hammered with some awful diagnosis out of the blue.

fwiw, I didn't mean to jump straight to chemo quite so abruptly (was overly stream of consciousness for me to hit that topic immediately).

I really just wanted to make the point that it can actually be legitimately productive & helpful, that there really is a good quality of life possible during & after. Remission does happen, although with cats it's sadly rarely (almost never?) permanent.

The expense is a really tough call to make (IIRC, about $3000 for just the chemo course, plus the visits, tests, etc.) In our case however it was no question, this was the cat that stayed within arms reach of my wife at pretty much all times as she recovered from her own cancer surgery. She was simply too loyal & loving for my wife to do anything other than try to repay that as best we could.

Our dog just went to the vet and they *always* seem to find something. Instead of a simple boarding and checking her ears (chronic infection), they found a polyp that needs to be taken out in order to treat the infection. And while she's under, she should have her teeth cleaned. And there's a mass that can be removed.

Of course, then they want to check out the mass...which is another $200 (on top of $800 already). I just called back and asked - to what end? If we find out that the mass is cancerous, what are we going to do with that info? This is a dog who we've had for about three years and was a rescue; at the time we adopted, they figured her for 10 or 11 years old. They figured she had some sort of neurological issues and likely had some other trauma to her hips/legs (she doesn't get around all that well). Oh, and she's more or less blind. So what, we're going to aggressively treat a cancer on a 13yo dog who is half-blind, half-deaf, and largely immobile?

I mean, we want her to be comfortable - hence the operation on the ear, and even the teeth. But we're not going to go to great lengths on extending what has been a decently long but pretty hard life.

[molson]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

This is a dog who we've had for about three years and was a rescue; at the time we adopted, they figured her for 10 or 11 years old. They figured she had some sort of neurological issues and likely had some other trauma to her hips/legs (she doesn't get around all that well). Oh, and she's more or less blind. So what, we're going to aggressively treat a cancer on a 13yo dog who is half-blind, half-deaf, and largely immobile?

I mean, we want her to be comfortable - hence the operation on the ear, and even the teeth. But we're not going to go to great lengths on extending what has been a decently long but pretty hard life.

If you're awesome enough to adopt an older dog and give her a few great gravy against-the-odds years, it's more than reasonable not to empty the back account to keep her plugging along. Like you said, every dog that age is going to have medical issues. And sometimes an older dog in the right environment can surprise you and do quite well for a while even without dramatic medical intervention for those issues.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by molson

If you don't think that kid creepily pointing to his package in BTTF3 isn't a solid easter egg, I don't know what to tell you.

Creepy Kid from Back To The Future 3 points to his flux capacitor - YouTube

I had not seen that before and now I can't unsee it

SI

[Logan]

Looking more like a Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) diagnosis for our cat, which is somehow even worse than cancer, as there is no treatment.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I had not seen that before and now I can't unsee it

SI

What a little weirdo.

I did notice the Lone Pine thing before though. I thought it wasn't really hidden that much.

[Critch]

Originally Posted by Logan

Looking more like a Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) diagnosis for our cat, which is somehow even worse than cancer, as there is no treatment.

Good luck to the little guy, fingers crossed the final diagnosis is better.

We had the same worry with one of our guys, weight-loss, "loose stool" and an increase in barfing so the vet was thinking lymphoma. He's an old guy, almost 17, so we'd already made the decision not to go for chemotherapy. Didnt seem fair to the old guy to put him through that for an extra year or so, especially since he's already on twice-daily medication for heart problems.

For us the final diagnosis turned out ok, no lymphoma or anything worse, just a form of IBS affecting his digestion. He now gets pumpkin mixed into his meals for the roughage, and a nightly peptide pill and he's got his appetite back.

He can still destroy the cat box though, the sounds and smells are amazing.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Logan

Looking more like a Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) diagnosis for our cat, which is somehow even worse than cancer, as there is no treatment.

ugh, I'm sorry to hear that Logan

[Logan]

Thanks guys. What's extra sad is that if it is FIP, it could be as little as a couple months between diagnosis and when he goes. And this is something that's very possible he's already had for a couple months and we just didn't realize.

[Lathum]

sorry to hear Logan

[JonInMiddleGA]

Logan, I wish I had the words

[PilotMan]

Sorry to hear that. It's never easy dealing with things that are so close to our hearts.

[Kodos]

Wow. So sorry to hear this, Logan. Hate seeing stuff like this happen.

[ColtCrazy]

Feel for you Logan. We had to put down our cat, Alex, at age 14 just last week. His mouth got swollen up in a matter of days and it was an abscess. But after a week it was revealed behind the abscess was cancer. He was a huge, six-toed cat and though we tried to fight the cancer, where it was at just effected his eating and he was losing weight hand over fist. I found him on the side of the road as a kitten just after buying my first house. He let my oldest son use him as a pillow when my son was younger. Great cat and a huge loss to our family. I really feel for you. Animals become such a part of a family.

[Logan]

Thanks guys. What's been really tough is thinking of how he's still really a baby and we've gotten such a short amount of time with him, and how we had thought of him and his brother as being the beginning of the family we were building. Still will of course, he'll just need to live on through pictures and stories.

[cuervo72]

Aw, man. Sorry Logan.

[terpkristin]

Ugh, I hate news like that, Logan. I've got to take my cat to the vet for his normal checkup and I'm always afraid, as he gets older, what they'll find. I'm not sure why, but I get more choked up reading about pets than children sometimes.

/tk

[JonInMiddleGA]

Logan, I'm going to put this out here fwiw. I'm loathe to even mention it but at the same time I don't know how common/uncommon knowledge such things are so I'm doing this publicly in case it might be worth something to some other FOFC'er down the road.

The first time I ever heard of pet cremation & permanent memorial "rocks" I was a little weirded out by it, just to be honest. Seemed a bit too new age-y or something to this old backwoods boy.

We were truly blessed to have an experienced funeral directior (for humans) handle the remains of the first one we lost while here (he'd gone into the pet area after marrying the widow of a long-time veternarian). The remains of two of our three are not more than 10 feet away from me right now, which is about the distance both of them stayed when they were still with us. The third rests safely on the dresser in the bedroom, her favorite room in this house. And that's comforting to our whole family.

For those who face that situation someday the decision of whether it's right for you is certainly your own to make, I simply felt like it was worth mentioning as an option for those who might be as unaware of it as I was.

[Logan]

Thanks Jon (and the rest of you guys, again).

[stevew]

I'm not sure how I really feel legal issue wise about the topless "free the nipple" protests that have been happening lately. But if they want to keep this issue at the forefront for a long long long while I won't complain.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by stevew

I'm not sure how I really feel legal issue wise about the topless "free the nipple" protests that have been happening lately. But if they want to keep this issue at the forefront for a long long long while I won't complain.

like lesbians, yoga pants and open relationships, the way I picture it in my head is much better than the way it actually looks in real life.

[Matthean]

Comfort Foods of Every State in America - Thrillist

[cuervo72]

Brian Windhorst looks like he should be related to Art Donovan.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Brian Windhorst looks like he should be related to Art Donovan.

He looks like Jonah Hill at his original weight but with his new hair.

[clemsonfan]

This person bought Guy Fieri's domain and posted this parody menu.

[Bobble]

If Erik Bedard has a fan club, they should be called the Bedard-a-tards.

[Matthean]

Watch: André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in trailer for All Is By My Side | Consequence of Sound

Not seeing the amazing performance by Andre 3000 in the trailer, but it might be worth a spin on Netflix.

[Suicane75]

A good broom is a severely under appreciated thing.

It occurs to me over the past few days that although they are pests, things like spiders, crickets, ants & bees can be dealt with rather easily. Flies though, that's a whole different game of wax.

[molson]

My mother had some kind of problem with her Yahoo email account, she called customer support, and they tried to sell her a $299 premiere account/business listing. Fortunately she didn't buy it. I mean, seriously Yahoo? I told my mother that any of her 4 kids can offer fine internet customer support and that she just needs to call us.

[Kodos]

"Game of wax"?

[JonInMiddleGA]

The older I get (or the longer I've been doing it) the less comfortable I am with the shift between slow/frantic pace of my work responsibilities.

It's either next-to-nothing or wide open, gets on my nerves a bit now whereas it used to not really bother me.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Kodos

"Game of wax"?

Ball of cards, whatever.

[stevew]

I love it when you get some wild random thought and Google it and find answers...

Apparently Racoons can make love to cats.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by stevew

I love it when you get some wild random thought and Google it and find answers...

Apparently Racoons can make love to cats.

My wife (after we stopped laughing): "Oh, internet, is there anything you can't tell us?"

SI

[stevew]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Brian Windhorst looks like he should be related to Art Donovan.

I dislike Windhorst a ton but apparently he has some serious medical condition

[cartman]

Originally Posted by stevew

I love it when you get some wild random thought and Google it and find answers...

Apparently Racoons can make love to cats.

Rule 34, man. It's an internet truth.

[Logan]

I found this way too captivating. Not sure if non-city people would agree.

A Day in the Life

Story behind it: Visualizing a Day in the Life of a New York City Cab | FiveThirtyEight

[korme]

$583.50 in fares and $62.70 in tips seems pretty fucking shitty. I usually drop a $5 at minimum, does not look at that prosperous.

[korme]

Apparently I have posted over at OOTPDev 38 times and I registered in 2006. If only fofc could be so lucky.

[cartman]

Might have a strong candidate for bonehead move of the year.

On Sunday, I smoked a couple of racks of ribs. I had quite a bit of meat left over from trimming the ribs before putting them on the smoker, so I decided to put the trimmings in a ziploc bag and freeze it to use later to grind with some other meats.

Flash forward to last night. Something smelled a bit off in one part of my kitchen, but it wasn't too strong, and I didn't find anything. Then today the odor was much worse. I looked around, and opened the drawer where I keep my ziploc bags. Turns out I never put the bag with the pork trimmings in the freezer. They were sitting there, sealed up in the bag, incredibly disgusting looking, and even worse smelling. I used the entire arsenal of kitchen cleaning products. Thank god garbage pickup is tomorrow.

[Critch]

A couple of weeks ago I was on another board (sorry, I was weak, it meant nothing to me) and one of the threads was "If you combined the last two games you played, what would the new game be like?"

My two games were Banished and Football Manager making a game where you city build then manage their sports team. I'd play that game lots and lots and lots.

Banished + Kerbal Space Program is also intriguing.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Critch

A couple of weeks ago I was on another board (sorry, I was weak, it meant nothing to me) and one of the threads was "If you combined the last two games you played, what would the new game be like?"

My two games were Banished and Football Manager making a game where you city build then manage their sports team. I'd play that game lots and lots and lots.

Banished + Kerbal Space Program is also intriguing.

Heh. I'd get Don't Starve and FM 14.

I guess a plane load of soccer players crashed in some remote wilderness and one heavily concussed survivor tries to survive by himself.

[Barkeep49]

The Wolf Among Us and FM14. I am guessing those fables would have some extreme ratings. Not to mention in both games I out in lots of thinking about how I'm going to talk to people.

[Draft Dodger]

Magic 2015 and FTL. I haven't the foggiest how that would work but it probably wouldn't be pretty

[Izulde]

Final FantasyXIV: A Realm Reborn and I forget which version of DDS: Pro Basketball.

A couple different ways to go with this really - my favorite would be a basketball text sim where you have Moogle point guards and big ass Primals (or Espers as I still call them) as centers.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by korme

$583.50 in fares and $62.70 in tips seems pretty fucking shitty. I usually drop a $5 at minimum, does not look at that prosperous.

It's only recording credit card tips since those go through the same system.

[panerd]

So I was driving behind a truck hauling rocks today and noticed the sign we have all probably seen a million times... STAY BACK 300 feet, not responsible for damages. It got me thinking if this is a private company how the hell do they get away with that? Can I just put a sign on my car that says not responsible for damages if I cause a wreck? Does this actually stand up in court or is it just a way to get you not tailgate them?

[CU Tiger]

Hell no it wont hold up.
But it probably discourages a lot of people from trying to sue.

Ive always wanted to contest whether I could read the sign from 300 feet.

Or let one of those pass me on a multi lane and say they forced me to invade the 300' halo.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by Critch

A couple of weeks ago I was on another board (sorry, I was weak, it meant nothing to me) and one of the threads was "If you combined the last two games you played, what would the new game be like?"

My two games were Banished and Football Manager making a game where you city build then manage their sports team. I'd play that game lots and lots and lots.

Banished + Kerbal Space Program is also intriguing.

Wolfenstein and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for me. Would still be fighting Nazis but instead of an Army Ranger shooting them you'd be a cyborg cutting them into hundreds of pieces with a sword.

[ColtCrazy]

Watching ESPN and they bring in a Bleacher Report analyst? Really? Of course, the "analyst" says nothing that hasn't been said before.
What's next ESPN, guest appearances from the D celebrities from TruTV?

[NobodyHere]

Insane people can publish websites too!

hxxp://www.bombshell201x.com/

I mean, just wow.