ECF Refugee Thread All welcome

[AndriaD]

If you ask me, it was a lot better before obamacare was shoved down our throat.

With the ex, her daddy was a criminal. He wasnt very good at it either. Needless to say her family was dirt poor. They didnt have any insurance other than Medicaid and they still dont to this day. Anytime they needed to see a doctor they went to the emergency room, was seen, treated, given free medicine and sent home or admitted depending on what it was. The ex's daddy came down with cancer. Full cancer treatment, free. We had to drive him to New Orleans a couple times a week for months but still the medical cost was free. Towards the end of his treatment he caught pneumonia and was hospitalized in a charity hospital. Then he was moved into an ICU. Then he was dead. Final bill $0


Now years later I am wondering just who was obamacare suppose to help. Here is a family that was dirt poor yet they never had any problems getting medical treatment. In my opinion it did far more harm than it did good. I heard a while back that over 70 mill peeps lost health care because they plain could not afford it with it being obamacare yet all we hear on the news is how less than 20 million peeps will be without insurance with it canceled. I say so what, they can still get all the medical attention they want. And I really dont care if a cross dresser has to pay for their own sex change. I really dont fuckin care at all but I do care that insurance is screwed for garbage like that.

ok, rants over

You're right! That's why I STILL don't have med insurance -- because I can't fucking afford it! When my appendix went nuts, I went to the ER, told them I had no insurance and no job, and guess what, they operated on me anyway. Afterward, there was a lot of tedious paperwork, financial papers and checklists and whatnot, proving our household income and outgo, and the hospital's portion of that affair, which would have been $25,000 if I'd been insured, suddenly became $998. The lab and radiology completely forgave their portions; the ER doc's bill went from several thousand to several hundred. The surgeon was the only one who didn't substantially reduce their bill, but did make a big noise about knocking $900 off the bill -- leaving me still owing them over $3k, which I'm STILL paying, but I can't complain too much; they also handled my complete aftercare, made sure I had anti-nausea meds, antibiotics when one of my incisions became infected, and I survived with no health issues whatever.

This obamacare shit is for the fucking BIRDS... or the fucking RICH, because they're only ones who can afford it! You cannot force people to buy something they can't afford, and we've gotten the exemption on our taxes every year since that shit went into effect. GA is one of the few states still fighting it, and my congress critter assures me that the fight will go on until that blasphemy is wiped out.

Actually Andria, I think health care is mainly concerned with profit over anything else.

Yep that was my point entirely; there's no money in helping people stay healthy -- hence insurance not covering the nutritionist. Docs have no interest in healthy people; they only make money from sick people! And BP has no interest whatever in people ACTUALLY quitting smoking, hence their hatred of vaping -- it really works! They just can't stand it!!!

Andria

 

[Atchafalaya]

I thought being whiney was part of getting older?

Well then I'm ancient. Hehe

 

[Atchafalaya]

I read it and just my worthless opinion you did the right thing.
Had to do pretty much the same to my son.
he wound up like my first wife, who is his mother...
Used babies as bargaining chips, etc.

Ohh 30-50K less in my wallet I finally convinced the current wife unit.
His habitual lies got to her too.

yeah it sucks but my life has been better since then.

Your opinions are far from worthless. And, I appreciate them.

I dont know when outrage was ever considered whiney. You should of left it.

I wish I would have left it now.

Sometimes adult children fail to act like adults towards their parents - they have the same selfish motives towards their parents when they are 30 that they had when they were age 8; they don't act that way towards other adults, but somehow their mind never grows up and they fail to have a mature, adult relationship with their parents because they can't stop acting like 8-year olds
My BIL was that way with my in-laws - drove me crazy - as a 50-year old, six figure income businessman, still put dumb demands on his one-legged father and couldn't see that dad needed help and never once in all the years I've known him would he recognize old-age infirmities or understand why his dad, in the end, could not even take care of himself and owed his son nothing outside of fatherly love

Wow, that's really pitiful.

 

[Atchafalaya]

It's the insurance companies that are getting on board with healthy lifestyles since they don't want to pay out. (Well, at least mine) Ours gives us incentives now, if we lose weight, quit smoking, walk, etc. It's all about money. BP wants you sick, Insurance wants you well. Vicious circle.
I'm not sure what kind of change this country needs. All I know, is that there's something wrong when people have to die because they can't afford health care.
It really was pretty good until Obamacare came along...........

 

[AndriaD]

It's the insurance companies that are getting on board with healthy lifestyles since they don't want to pay out. (Well, at least mine) Ours gives us incentives now, if we lose weight, quit smoking, walk, etc. It's all about money. BP wants you sick, Insurance wants you well. Vicious circle.
I'm not sure what kind of change this country needs. All I know, is that there's something wrong when people have to die because they can't afford health care.
It really was pretty good until Obamacare came along...........

If insurance wanted well people, they'd cover nutrition docs, because not 2 people out of any ten actually know the correct ways and things to eat, and what to NOT eat if they wanted to stay healthy. Though it's not entirely the populace's fault, since the Talking Heads change their silly minds about what is good or bad for you about every 5-10 yrs. They're discovering that for most folks who are currently healthy, a low fat diet isn't actually that great an idea; the body needs certain fats quite desperately, since some vitamins/nutrients are fat-soluble, and some healthy fats protect against the damage of less healthy fats -- and also, if you remove almost all the fat from foods, then you gotta add sugar to make it palatable... and now we have a diabetes epidemic! It's only folks like me with temperamental gallbladders that really NEED a low-fat diet.

Andria

 

[Atchafalaya]

If insurance wanted well people, they'd cover nutrition docs, because not 2 people out of any ten actually know the correct ways and things to eat, and what to NOT eat if they wanted to stay healthy. Though it's not entirely the populace's fault, since the Talking Heads change their silly minds about what is good or bad for you about every 5-10 yrs. They're discovering that for most folks who are currently healthy, a low fat diet isn't actually that great an idea; the body needs certain fats quite desperately, since some vitamins/nutrients are fat-soluble, and some healthy fats protect against the damage of less healthy fats -- and also, if you remove almost all the fat from foods, then you gotta add sugar to make it palatable... and now we have a diabetes epidemic! It's only folks like me with temperamental gallbladders that really NEED a low-fat diet.

Andria

You are a wealth of information Andria. You need to do your own nutrition blog from what you have discovered over the years. Seriously.

 

[LynnNC]

If insurance wanted well people, they'd cover nutrition docs, because not 2 people out of any ten actually know the correct ways and things to eat, and what to NOT eat if they wanted to stay healthy. Though it's not entirely the populace's fault, since the Talking Heads change their silly minds about what is good or bad for you about every 5-10 yrs. They're discovering that for most folks who are currently healthy, a low fat diet isn't actually that great an idea; the body needs certain fats quite desperately, since some vitamins/nutrients are fat-soluble, and some healthy fats protect against the damage of less healthy fats -- and also, if you remove almost all the fat from foods, then you gotta add sugar to make it palatable... and now we have a diabetes epidemic! It's only folks like me with temperamental gallbladders that really NEED a low-fat diet.

Andria

So true Andria! And I agree with Atcha in that you need to start your own nutritional blog. I've got a conundrum going on so I'm hoping you can give me a bit of insight. My doctor said that I need to follow a high fiber diet to keep 1-polyps at bay and 2-to keep my diverticulosis from going into diverticulitis. My PCP says I need to put on weight. High fiber diets are conducive to weight loss. I lost 8lbs doing the bowel prep for the colonoscopy. I really feel like I'm being pulled apart. Lol

 

[chopdoc]

Around 20 years or so ago I read the Atkins diet book. When your stuck on an offshore oil platform for a week you will read anything to kill the boredom. A few things from that book resonated with me and really made a lot of sense. One of the things is our bodies are more like the Neanderthal, where real whole foods and meats are best for us and we was not designed for all the molysaturated garbage we consumed. We are designed for red meats and fat consumption. Our bodies needs fat in our diets in order to burn fat.
Another thing is that history really didnt have much to say about heart attacks. Now it is common. What changed? A lot of things have changed. People didnt use to eat all the preservatives in food. Also people ate very little sugar compared today. I cant remember the amount the book said but I want to say it was around 5 lbs a year. Now we consume over 100 lbs a year. That alone causes our bodies all sorts of problems.

 

[The Cromwell]

It's the insurance companies that are getting on board with healthy lifestyles since they don't want to pay out. (Well, at least mine) Ours gives us incentives now, if we lose weight, quit smoking, walk, etc. It's all about money. BP wants you sick, Insurance wants you well. Vicious circle.
I'm not sure what kind of change this country needs. All I know, is that there's something wrong when people have to die because they can't afford health care.
It really was pretty good until Obamacare came along...........

Obamacare is pretty much tax payer funded price support for insurance companies.

HC costs have been rising at double digit rates for decades.

 

[AndriaD]

So true Andria! And I agree with Atcha in that you need to start your own nutritional blog. I've got a conundrum going on so I'm hoping you can give me a bit of insight. My doctor said that I need to follow a high fiber diet to keep 1-polyps at bay and 2-to keep my diverticulosis from going into diverticulitis. My PCP says I need to put on weight. High fiber diets are conducive to weight loss. I lost 8lbs doing the bowel prep for the colonoscopy. I really feel like I'm being pulled apart. Lol

Hmm... Are you one of those who can't handle bread products? If not, then wheat bran is one of the best high-fiber foods available, and since there are no seeds, it shouldn't irritate the diverticuli too much, but just keep things "moving along". I always buy the double fiber bread that Nature's Own makes; it's very tasty and does a good job! And always with high fiber... LOTS OF WATER!

Dairy products are a post-menopausal woman's best friend, for the calcium, and they'll also help you gain or retain weight, if you choose the full-fat versions. Unless of course you're lactose intolerant, but I think there are some milk products available for the lactose intolerant.

See, it's kinda like with vaping -- not everything is going to suit every body -- most of y'all prefer high VG, but it suffocates the shit outta me, so I have no choice but to use 85%-87% PG in my vape. This is really the major problem with all the "recommended guidelines" -- they can't possibly be applied perfectly to every person, because every body is different -- what I said about fats is perfectly true for most healthy people, but gallbladders like mine pitch a hairy shitfit about cholesterol, and all fats to some extent if I over-indulge -- I love the hell out of peanut butter, but the low-fat version of it is just too damn dry, and also contains added sugar... so I either avoid peanut butter, or eat it very sparingly. The real key to both good nutrition and reasonable weight is to find the correct diet for one's own body... and most folks just don't want to go to that much trouble, just like with vaping.

This attention to nutritional aspects of health is just one of the reasons my mom always called me a hypochondriac. She was very much of the "stick it in your piehole and enjoy" mentality... and now she's dead of diabetes complications, because she couldn't be bothered. Every female in my family over the age of 35 is either obese or working really hard to get that way... except for me, and my aunt -- she also takes care with her diet, though mostly because like me, she has a lot of digestive issues.

I probably could do a daily rant about nutrition in a blog... but much of what I may have to offer isn't going to apply to a lot of folks, so they'll dismiss EVERYTHING I say. Over at asshat-central, I started a thread at one point about dehydration, electrolyte problems, and why coconut water is a great thing for vapers... and was shot down immediately by those high-VG vapers who don't get the mouth dryness, so they assume that vaping ISN'T dehydrating -- even though VG and PG are BOTH hygroscopic in about equal measure; they don't get a dry mouth because VG also has emollient properties, so they think dehydration from vaping is a myth. Then there's the morons that just as soon as I mention electrolytes, start comparing me to that hyper-thyroid idiot Tripper. It's kinda like 19th century doctors' response to microbe theory -- they can't see it or perceive it, so to them, it simply doesn't exist. The guy who found out that childbed mortality decreased by FIFTY PERCENT just by the doctor's washing of hands prior to sticking them into the woman, died broke in a lunatic asylum. Just call me Cassandra.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

Meet the newest member of our family... Miss Annabel!



This lil beauty is just 3 months old; just fixed today, so we were able to bring her home. She's currently acclimating in my son's room, since she's really intended as his cat. Tuxie is bemused, terrified, befuddled... and really irked that the door to the son's room is currently closed to her.

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

Ohh that look

 

[AndriaD]

Ohh that look

Because he had just snatched her up off the floor so I could take her pic... I don't think she was amused. She's a feisty one! I first thought her name should be "Scrappy" but my son insists that's a male name... it fits her, though.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

Here's another new member of the family, though it currently lives on my desk as I get to know it better... say hello Moto!



Last week when my phone was trying to update apps, it informed me that I had to delete some as it didn't have enough room to update them all. Can't be having that, so I told the mate that I needed a new phone, this one with THREE GB's of RAM instead of a measly 2. This sucker FLIES! It's a Moto Z2 Play. 3GB RAM, 32GB internal ROM, plus my usual 64GB microSD chip.

Andria

 

[JuicyLucy]

Meet the newest member of our family... Miss Annabel!

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This lil beauty is just 3 months old; just fixed today, so we were able to bring her home. She's currently acclimating in my son's room, since she's really intended as his cat. Tuxie is bemused, terrified, befuddled... and really irked that the door to the son's room is currently closed to her.

Andria

 

[inspects]

Here's another new member of the family, though it currently lives on my desk as I get to know it better... say hello Moto!

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Last week when my phone was trying to update apps, it informed me that I had to delete some as it didn't have enough room to update them all. Can't be having that, so I told the mate that I needed a new phone, this one with THREE GB's of RAM instead of a measly 2. This sucker FLIES! It's a Moto Z2 Play. 3GB RAM, 32GB internal ROM, plus my usual 64GB microSD chip.

Andria

I had to buy a phone a couple days ago, my battery was shot, and it's about as old as me....

Bought the Google Pixel 2, nice phone, easy to navigate.....

 

[LynnNC]

Meet the newest member of our family... Miss Annabel!

View attachment 111287

This lil beauty is just 3 months old; just fixed today, so we were able to bring her home. She's currently acclimating in my son's room, since she's really intended as his cat. Tuxie is bemused, terrified, befuddled... and really irked that the door to the son's room is currently closed to her.

Andria

OMG!!! She's beautiful!!! Since she's a tabby she should be pretty laid back. Both of my tabbies are. I'm so glad you decided to get a 2nd kitty.

 

[JuicyLucy]

Here ya go Fugees

Vapor Joe lookalike contest: Chance to win a $50 gift card !!!

 

[LynnNC]

If I disappear on y'all again it's because my iPad and phone have both started freezing up again. It’s taken me almost 10 minutes to get this posted. I’ll still be reading just not posting much.

 

[AndriaD]

OMG!!! She's beautiful!!! Since she's a tabby she should be pretty laid back. Both of my tabbies are. I'm so glad you decided to get a 2nd kitty.

She was caged with another tabby at the shelter, which I think was her sister; really too bad we couldn't take both, but I'm already afraid that a 2nd cat might challenge my allergy... but the other one was also a tabby, but much more subtly colored, like a russian blue with very subtle tabby stripes. But when I saw that lil silver face, I knew she was the one. I actually wanted to name her Athena; instead of "gray-eyed Athena," she would be "gray-furred Athena". The spawn countered that with Artemis, goddess of the hunt, always a good choice for a cat, but the mate thought he meant "Artemus", like on the old Wild Wild West. The mate said, how about Tabitha, and call her Tabby... the spawn said we already have one "generically" named cat, we don't need 2. So then the spawn said "Anna", short for Diana, which is the roman version of Artemis, but I said it was too close to Andria, too confusing... so then I thought back to my mom, drunk, quoting Poe, and the "beautiful, beautiful Annabel Lee." That seemed to go over well with everyone. And we'll call her Belle, I suspect. The spawn said "Bella", but I know him, he'd be calling her "Bella Swan," so I said no fucking way are we naming this beautiful kitty after a girl who looks constantly pissed off.

Tuxie isn't sure what to think about any of this, but is still peeved to be shut out of the spawn's room.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

I had to buy a phone a couple days ago, my battery was shot, and it's about as old as me....

Bought the Google Pixel 2, nice phone, easy to navigate.....

This Moto was the only one that was a substantial step up from my ZTE, which didn't cost a goddamn fortune; it'll be $10/mo for the phone, for 2 yrs, and the plan is $35/mo for 2GB (Verizon), which is better than my metroPCS $30/mo for 1GB. Though I have never even come close to the 1GB mark, it's nice to know it's there if my AT&T internet goes somewhere again, so I can do the hotspot thing and not worry about how much data I'm using.

Tomorrow I have to contact metroPCS to find out my acct number, so the phone number can be ported to the new phone... and I'm not looking forward to that, talking to them on the phone is like treading water in quicksand.

Andria

 

[inspects]

This Moto was the only one that was a substantial step up from my ZTE, which didn't cost a goddamn fortune; it'll be $10/mo for the phone, for 2 yrs, and the plan is $35/mo for 2GB (Verizon), which is better than my metroPCS $30/mo for 1GB. Though I have never even come close to the 1GB mark, it's nice to know it's there if my AT&T internet goes somewhere again, so I can do the hotspot thing and not worry about how much data I'm using.

Tomorrow I have to contact metroPCS to find out my acct number, so the phone number can be ported to the new phone... and I'm not looking forward to that, talking to them on the phone is like treading water in quicksand.

Andria

The retail price of my phone was about 800 bucks, I got it for 475 with my business account at Verizon.

 

[AndriaD]

The retail price of my phone was about 800 bucks, I got it for 475 with my business account at Verizon.

This phone really is a big step up for me; the regular price is $408, which is $17/mo for 2 yrs, but they're running a promotion on it right now, which knocks $168 off the price, making it $10/mo for 24 months -- very hard to beat. I end up paying about $9-$10 more a month than I am now, but that's not a problem, so I figure it's entirely worth it. And it really is FAST! I run Nova launcher so I can customize the user experience completely, and just now I was doing a screen cap of the Kindle opening screen, so I can create my own icon for that app -- and on my old phone, that image stays on the screen for quite a few seconds, while Kindle loads -- with this one, I had to do it twice, it loads Kindle so fast, I wasn't prepared to do the screen cap that quickly!

Andria

 

[chopdoc]

Meet the newest member of our family... Miss Annabel!

View attachment 111287

This lil beauty is just 3 months old; just fixed today, so we were able to bring her home. She's currently acclimating in my son's room, since she's really intended as his cat. Tuxie is bemused, terrified, befuddled... and really irked that the door to the son's room is currently closed to her.

Andria

I love that "someone gonna pay for this" look on her face

 

[Atchafalaya]

I love that "someone gonna pay for this" look on her face

I know, right? Good enough to make a meme!
Love the name too!

 

[AndriaD]

I went into the spawn's room a while ago, to check on the lil gal, since he has a class this morning. She apparently adopted me as her mama on the spot, I could barely get out the door again! She's got a hellacious purr, for such a lil sprite. I picked her up, to try and start her socialization -- Tuxie has never been socialized properly, due to her first few months as a feral stray, but Annabel seems to be taking right to it -- I picked her up and held her close to me, and she was just purring up a STORM! Her lil belly seems to be healing very well, and to judge from her activity level, I don't think she has much pain from it.

Then, after making my tea (I finally escaped from kidly's room by putting the kitty on the other side of the bed, where she apparently found something interesting!), I played with my new toy.. er, phone, some more. Awesome speaker! That was the only really bad downside to that $99 ZTE, the speaker was CRAP, you could barely hear it when on full volume. No such problem with this one.

Andria

 

[LynnNC]

I went into the spawn's room a while ago, to check on the lil gal, since he has a class this morning. She apparently adopted me as her mama on the spot, I could barely get out the door again! She's got a hellacious purr, for such a lil sprite. I picked her up, to try and start her socialization -- Tuxie has never been socialized properly, due to her first few months as a feral stray, but Annabel seems to be taking right to it -- I picked her up and held her close to me, and she was just purring up a STORM! Her lil belly seems to be healing very well, and to judge from her activity level, I don't think she has much pain from it.

Then, after making my tea (I finally escaped from kidly's room by putting the kitty on the other side of the bed, where she apparently found something interesting!), I played with my new toy.. er, phone, some more. Awesome speaker! That was the only really bad downside to that $99 ZTE, the speaker was CRAP, you could barely hear it when on full volume. No such problem with this one.

Andria

Have you allowed Tuxie any interaction with her yet? We allowed my other cats a little interaction with Luna from day 1 with supervison. Now, the other tuxedos take turns grooming and playing with her but Bella and Onyx still, and probably always will, hiss at her. Luna just moves on. We can't allow Luna any interaction with Nala the dog. She's still too small plus Nala looks at her as a chew toy.

 

[AndriaD]

Have you allowed Tuxie any interaction with her yet? We allowed my other cats a little interaction with Luna from day 1 with supervison. Now, the other tuxedos take turns grooming and playing with her but Bella and Onyx still, and probably always will, hiss at her. Luna just moves on. We can't allow Luna any interaction with Nala the dog. She's still too small plus Nala looks at her as a chew toy.

Well, they "met" when we first brought the new kitty in, still in the cat carrier; Tuxie shrank away, terrified as per usual (Fraidy cat to the MAX!). Seeing her fear, the new kitty started growling at her! A quarter her size!

The spawn just got home, and he's letting her check out the living room while Tuxie is in the garage on her usual perch. Just had to yell NO! at the new baby when she started into my room -- the one room in the house totally off-limits to cats. Not that it does much good; I bring their hairs in, on my clothes. But it's good for cats to know their boundaries. Since she IS so new and so young, I just pushed my door to; I don't think she's strong enough yet to push it open.

After I went in and petted and held her this morning, I went out and petted Tuxie, to start getting her used to annabel's scent. We also bought another bottle of the pheromone spray, since there's very little left in the original bottle. It seemed to help Tuxie a lot, accepting our son's presence, so hopefully it will help her chill out about the newest family member.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

Bought the Google Pixel 2, nice phone, easy to navigate.

"Okay Google, create blueprints for a Iroquois style lodge for me." ...

"Here's what I found on the web for irradiated eye lozenges, ...."

"Okay Google, Go Fuck yourself!"

"Would you like lube with that?"

...

 

[AndriaD]

Well, dammit, the new baby apparently has a post-op infection. She pooped and barfed on kidly's bed, and now is just extremely subdued, just lies in her box. Kidly's taking her to a vet this afternoon. Tuxie had the same, but it was because she licked out her stitches; these appear to be super-glued to keep the kitty from doing just that, so I dunno why infection has set in. Poor lil baby.

Andria

 

[chopdoc]

Well, dammit, the new baby apparently has a post-op infection. She pooped and barfed on kidly's bed, and now is just extremely subdued, just lies in her box. Kidly's taking her to a vet this afternoon. Tuxie had the same, but it was because she licked out her stitches; these appear to be super-glued to keep the kitty from doing just that, so I dunno why infection has set in. Poor lil baby.

Andria

Hope the vet has that baby bouncing off the walls in no time

 

[LynnNC]

Well, dammit, the new baby apparently has a post-op infection. She pooped and barfed on kidly's bed, and now is just extremely subdued, just lies in her box. Kidly's taking her to a vet this afternoon. Tuxie had the same, but it was because she licked out her stitches; these appear to be super-glued to keep the kitty from doing just that, so I dunno why infection has set in. Poor lil baby.

Andria

I hope the vet has her up and running in record time. Poor baby

 

[AndriaD]

She came out of her box and out of his room a bit earlier, checking out the house a bit; still subdued, but maybe feeling slightly better than earlier. They're gone to the vet now, which gives Tuxie the chance to come in from the garage and grab some crunchy nibbles, water, and use her box. We're keeping her in, mainly because the fucking weather is just psychotic this week, and also so she doesn't just run off. She's a weird cat in every way, so we don't want her getting the idea that just because there's a new kitty in the house, we don't want her -- we love her!

Andria

 

[chopdoc]

Teen develops 'wet lung' after vaping for just 3 weeks

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/heal..._term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social

 

[Atchafalaya]

Well, dammit, the new baby apparently has a post-op infection. She pooped and barfed on kidly's bed, and now is just extremely subdued, just lies in her box. Kidly's taking her to a vet this afternoon. Tuxie had the same, but it was because she licked out her stitches; these appear to be super-glued to keep the kitty from doing just that, so I dunno why infection has set in. Poor lil baby.

Andria

Oh no! I hope she'll be ok.

 

[AndriaD]

They just got home from the vet, who said that although she does have a slight fever, maybe a mild post-op infection, they think most of her distress is due to post-vaccination syndrome; she's only 3 months old, and on the same day, had the spaying and every freaking vaccine they could think of. So they gave her some shots: benadryl, and a steroid, and a mild antibiotic for us to give her. She's now resting in her towel-padded cardboard box in kidly's room. They said she should be a bit more lively tomorrow, and continue improving over the next week. Right now it's probably the benadryl making her sleepy. She's so little, it wouldn't take much to knock her out completely.

And it only cost $67 for all this, a big relief.

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

Yaay!
Kitten should be OK!

 

[chopdoc]

Before ya know it Andria, the baby will be climbing the curtains and and doin all the fun stuff wild kittens like to do

 

[The Cromwell]

Before ya know it Andria, the baby will be climbing the curtains and and doin all the fun stuff wild kittens like to do

Yep kitchen counter, knocking things off tables, etc

 

[AndriaD]

Yep kitchen counter, knocking things off tables, etc

There will be no climbing on ANYTHING in the kitchen, a firm rule along with no access to my room. She'll be bellowed at till she learns the rules, same as Tuxie was.

Tuxie hasn't been a knocker-offer, hopefully Annabel won't be either.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

Anyway, I went in to check on her earlier, we all have been, from time to time, and she seems to be feeling a bit better; she came out of her box and gave me a few headbutts, loud purring and meow-squeaking all the while, and she even ate a bit of her crunchy food that the shelter sent home with her, some Science Diet kitten food. The soft food we bought was what seemed to disagree with her, which is weird; it was the 'spensive kind -- "Er mah gerd, furncy furst!"

Andria

 

[chopdoc]

Anyway, I went in to check on her earlier, we all have been, from time to time, and she seems to be feeling a bit better; she came out of her box and gave me a few headbutts, loud purring and meow-squeaking all the while, and she even ate a bit of her crunchy food that the shelter sent home with her, some Science Diet kitten food. The soft food we bought was what seemed to disagree with her, which is weird; it was the 'spensive kind -- "Er mah gerd, furncy furst!"

Andria

I dont know about cat food but science diet is some of the best dog food on the market. My vet told me to feed that and Rascal been eating it his whole life and is as healthy as can be. He had his check up last week and the lil shit scared the vet lol but vet always says he is in great shape. The cat food might also be that good. Just dont go down the can cat food route. Once you even try that there is no going back.

And as for kitty only will go where allowed.........yeah, I hear ya

 

[The Cromwell]

Some cats do not like wet food. Go figure.

 

[LynnNC]

Some cats do not like wet food. Go figure.

All of mine love it but with 6 of them there's no way in hell am I going that route. Nope! Mine get the dry stuff and can either eat it or starve. So far, eating it has been the idea since the bowls are empty every morning. The kitten gets kitten food in her room but will nibble at the big cats food.

@AndriaD I'm glad Miss Belle is going to be ok!

 

[AndriaD]

Tuxie gets: 1) Friskies dry food in her bowl in my husband's room, for her to nibble at will thru the day; 2) either minced up lunch meat (chicken usually, the good deli kind from kroger, which is actually for my husband's lunches but he's got this enormous soft spot for pleading eyes) or one of those Meow Mix little plastic cups, for dinner; and 3) "breakfast", which is at midnight (my husband got tired of being batted in the face at 2-3am), which is half a can of Friskies canned food, about an even split between the regular and the indoor-cat variety with the green lids -- she really likes some of those, and they seem to help with hairball control, since they have "greens". But she's a full-grown mature cat who gets a fair bit of exercise since she goes outdoors most days during the daylight hours unless it's raining (or really cold, in the winter). I call her my fat cat, but she isn't really, just full-grown and well-fed, with a lot of hair!

We bought a couple cans of Fancy Feast for kittens, and a couple of those metal pouches of something called "Bisques", maybe also Fancy Feast, also for kittens. It was the canned FF for kittens that disagreed with her, but it may not have been the food, but just her general malaise, that caused the gastric distress. We'll wait a few days and try her with it again after she's feeling better.

Andria

 

[AndriaD]

And as for kitty only will go where allowed.........yeah, I hear ya

Tuxie's pretty good about it, though she does occasionally sneak in and take a lap around my room if I'm not careful. As far as the kitchen counters or tables, that's totally non-negotiable, and she got knocked off the counter a time or two and screamed at in stereo sufficiently to teach her to NEVER try that again. She's a very good girl. The new one... I dunno, she's feisty, but hopefully some stereo screaming will have a similar effect on her.

Andria

 

[chopdoc]

Tuxie's pretty good about it, though she does occasionally sneak in and take a lap around my room if I'm not careful. As far as the kitchen counters or tables, that's totally non-negotiable, and she got knocked off the counter a time or two and screamed at in stereo sufficiently to teach her to NEVER try that again. She's a very good girl. The new one... I dunno, she's feisty, but hopefully some stereo screaming will have a similar effect on her.

Andria

Some cats have owners and they are cool with that. Other cats have slaves. With the look on that little girls face in the pic you shared, I find it hard to believe anyone will own that cat. Give her six months and all yall will be wrapped around her lil clawed finger and as far as she is concerned, her slaves

 

[AndriaD]

Some cats have owners and they are cool with that. Other cats have slaves. With the look on that little girls face in the pic you shared, I find it hard to believe anyone will own that cat. Give her six months and all yall will be wrapped around her lil clawed finger and as far as she is concerned, her slaves

I think that look on her face was because she was still half out of it from her surgery! And maybe in pain, too. She was active, walking around, but she walked like she was drunk! They were giving her an opiate pain med.

She's very subdued today, just lying in her box. I'm still a bit worried about the lil mite.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

@AndriaD

I'm glad to hear you little kitten is doing better. The weather our way seems to be pretty wacky as well. Ah, but that's how she goes.

Had a chuckle last Sunday. We had gone up for supper at her mom and dad's. Her mom told me that "old Man White" was raising Hell to Sam & Rusty, our / their neighbors that let him live in a camper on their land, that the dogs were just too loud for him to sleep at night.

Told her mom, "well tell him he can go on in the pen there and get them to shut up, if he can find 'em." Her mom laughed. Me, wife, her mom all kind of figured he was hearing the coyotes baying around his camper. They're not our concern any more. Her dad just laughed about him 'hearing dogs' too.

He said he could go tell Tim & Julie up the way to keep their sheep dogs quiet. Said Julie would probably run him off the property with a gun, Tim would just chuckle at him. Of course, they're so dag blame to do they need to spend money on new vehicles every year or two so as to get the taxes right, nothing for them to hire a lawyer.

That's life a going on as she does. Got upstairs and down dusted, vacuumed today and dishes done. Yay. Reckon now, I'll figure out something to do even if it is wrong.

 

[chopdoc]