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I dropped the cat off for surgery this morning. The vet just called me and said the labs came back and they now think the stone is dissolvable. The problem is that sometimes cats have mixed stones that may or may not dissolve entirely. So now they want to wait on surgery and have me discuss it with the senior vet on Wednesday. This is potentially good and potentially bad. Cheaper if we don't go in and they dissolve; more expensive over time if we try disolving and it doesn't work, or we do an ultrasound to see the stone position and then decide to do surgery. The constant gamble of money and cat health here is exhausting me. I asked them to board Little for two days (which they are doing at no charge) so they can watch her as we wait to make sure she doesn't obstruct and to be sure she gets her full dose of medication. I'll meet with the other vet Wednesday to make a decision. I love that these folks are so conscientious, BUT I AM LOSING MY MIND HERE. Also, Kitty!

Meanwhile, saw my dad yesterday. It's hard to know when he's crazy or if he's senile; when he's experiencing serious illness or being a hypochondriac. After all, most of my childhood was punctuated by him threatening to throw himself under a bus for various reasons.

Among other things, yeserday, my father sent me on an errand to buy a product at a health food store earlier today for the sprain he's convinced he has in his leg. Problems with this theory:

1. the store was not called what he thought
2. the store was not where he thought
3. the store did not have the product in stock, despite his certainty that they had told my mother they did
4. Sprains involve swelling. There's no swelling.
5. But the really, really best part? The part where he rips pages out
of health food books so my mom can buy him random products like
"oxygen pills". This CAN'T be good. I'm all for alternative medicine, but I feel like we're one step away from colloidal silver here, folks.

Have not heard further from Patty, hoping for news and contact info soon.

I finally just decided to see what the fuck Kings is about. It's either going to be awesome or awful but seems like it might be a fun subject for criticism. I mean, I can't even process this insanity yet. The Biblical story of David, set in modern times, filmed in NYC and just rife with ridiculous militaria? Oh yeah, and there's a random gay subplot (that might, in fact, be really awful, lame queering of the villain from rumours I've heard). Seriously. Who pitched this shit? Because they are a genius, but very, very scary. http://www.kings2009.com

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Oh, bleh all around! It's good that the vet is being thorough and not just putting her through surgery when she could just pass the thing, but yeah, it's a gamble. Not to mention stressful waiting to learn the outcome. *crosses fingers for Little and your bank account*

I wonder if some older men are just naturally prone to that sort of thing. I have a friend whose dad has become a total metrosexual in his late 60s/early 70s, and he sends her out all the time to buy him whatever fab personal care product he's seen on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (no, I'm not kidding).

I hope Patty's well and getting settled at the dig. Good luck weathering the chaos and recovering from the holi-daze!