Rediscovery

Ok, I know I've been awful about this...mostly I just post on twitter now.

3 weeks and counting til the cruise. cruise, hotel, and shore excursions have all been covered. Need to call boarding house on Monday to take Sasha (I really should not have procrastinated this!!!!!!).

Started taking a class at MCC for work. Hopefully with any luck next semester I'll take 2 classes. I really need to get hustling on this.

My arthritis has been acting up a bit again. Need to get to the gym regularly and do the exercises for it.

Ok, that's my life in a nutshell.

*waves*

First off is directed at the local ladies who read this: Want to hit a Mary Kay skin care class/party with me? It's in Mesa near Alma School and Baseline at the Mary Kay center. Sat April 18th, 10am. They want us there 15 minutes early. A bit about it...they do like this mini-facial skin care thing and then a little makeup. It's fun...they give out prizes. Yes Mary Kay is a bit pricey, yes they do try to sell you stuff, yes they want you to become a sales consultant person. But you don't have to buy or do anything. Just come down, hang out, and have a little fun girly time!!! Eyes bettyshouse, darklingfae, & prettynhtpink...this does mean you too! It also means all of you locally!
Llet me know if you are interested/will be coming. Just comment or drop me a line on my phone. If you don't have my #, you can send me a text via my userinfo page, just tell me who you are so I know.

I have 2 things to say about the production of Cats that is in town right now. It's all about the alien furries from the heavyside layer. sorry. some of the set pieces looked like UFOs/Alien spacecrafts. I know Grizabella's accent into the heavyside layer should be an emotional scene. But I could barely keep from laughing out loud. 'Grizabella, the alien furry, could no leave her Jellicle furry convention without some Yiffing. Having had her Yiffing, she ascends to her homeworld, sated for another year.' I amused myself greatly with this. *shakes head*
Either way, Cats was awesome. I really enjoyed it, though I still havent' decided if I think the tap dancing is well coreographed fake or real. I am leaning twoards fake.

There were other things....
Ah well...

Late for work now.....TA!

I never get to use this Icon because no one is ever that stupid around me! rawr. But it's awesome! Of course there are others, because I have 120 icons and well can't use all of them all the time.

Firefox 2.????? had an add-on that would randomly assign a userpic when I commented or posted through Firefox. It was awesome. It hasn't been updated for Firefox 3 though. Makes me sad. I want random userpic selection!!!!!!

According to the vet's clinical analysis and the Lab's pathologist (who looked at his labwork), not only is Johnny's anemia non-regenerative, but he should not be showing any signs of improvement. On the contrary, he should be dead. Basically what the results show is that Johnny was barely alive when I took him in and his body was doing NOTHING to help/stop/etc what was happening.

He has improved by leaps and bounds. He is still improving more each day. No muscle car purring yet (that is my 'we are out of the woods' sign) but he's now getting up off the ground. For the last week or so Johnny hasn't gotten any higher than his litter box. Last night he jumped up on the low rung of their cat tree AND this morning he came and joined me on the bed. *squees*
Anyway, last night in my joy of seeing him on his cat tree, I took some pictures. Since it was a darker corner, I decided to try using the flash on my camera phone. The results were amusing to say the least!

"You know, we are so glad to have Johnny back with us. But I'm a little concerned about the fact that he glows in the dark since that run in with the radiation"


"Uh oh! I don't think he likes having pictures taken of him. The hairs are standing up on my arms and it's getting rather warm in here. Why is there a bluish dot on my chest? Maybe we should just back away slowly?"


"Panic!!!!! Johnny just went Nuclear. OMG! OMG! OMG! We're all gonna die! OMG"


"Whew! We're safe. He is aparantly placated by treats. Good to know. I fear the day when we are out of treats. *shudders*"



Anyway, I do hope he continues to improve and get better. *hugs* to everyone for the kind thoughts and messages.

So...it's complicated.

Official diagnosis: Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) with SEVERE anemia.

I have a few more questions for the vet that I'll get answered tomorrow hopefully. I was given a recommendation of Blood Transfusion or Euthenasia. *sighs* She is being distinctly unopen to alternative treatments or therapies so far.

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is doing better than he was. Still rather anemic (his usually pink & black nose is grey & black) I would guess, but in addition to my force feeding KMR (Kitten Milk Replacement...something nutitional with a high caloric count that is easily administered), he ate his regular food a bit today. he's been up and moving...drinking water from his bowl...eating treats, being responsive...he even played a little. He's also grooming himself right at this minute (first time in DAYS!!!). I've also started an Iron/B vitamin suppliment to see if that will help boost his red blood cell production/count.

What I need to know from the vet is this: is the Anemia regenerative or non-regenerative. Most of the websites I saw said FeLV usually causes non-regenerative due to how it works in the bone marrow. BUT!!! Some sites didn't say or said otherwise. Also, if it was non-regenerative a blood transfusion would only help him for like 1 week and then he'd need another.

So must find that out. I also want to check on Erythropoetin or Anabolic Steriod treatments....Both encourage the body to create red blood cells.

Either way, not giving up hope yet. Just taking it day by day. As I get more information I can figure out what to do. For the moment, Euthenasia is off the table until Monday. I want to at least see if he'll recover. Plus, FeLV has 2 stages. If he's in the first stage, his body could develop antibodies for it and he could become darn near perfectly healthy. If it's the second stage, he can still be happy and not wasting away sick. Most folks when their cats contract FeLV automatically euthenize, so there is no real data for recovery/treatments/long term effects.

So while I am not ruling out Euthenasia entirely at this point. I really want to see if my baby boy will get better on his own. he's a tough boy, I know he'll do his best!

Also, the FeLV test came back for Sasha as negative, though they recommend her being retested in about 2-3 months to make sure.

A younger Johnny in a drawer:


Johnny now:

Johnny has been a sick kitty. Took him to a vet, which of course meant that despite being unwell he had to act just as feral as he usually does. They had give him anathesia just to examine him.
No fever but there is chest congestion. He is pale, gums are pale, and he's not really eating. Nothing in his digestive system is blocked though. So they drew blood. 10+ pokes and 3 legs later, they had the blood they needed. Poor baby.

They gave me some antibiotics to give him and some food that hopefully he will eat. I really hope the antibiotics make him better but since he didn't have a fever they don't think it's an infection.

I'm terrified of what the results of the blood test might be.

I want my pain in the butt, fire engine purring, rough playing baby boy back.

*worries*

Ok, so I've been bad and haven't posted. Shame on me!

Just mostly working and trying to get over this cold of doom. 2 weeks, 1 round of anibiotics, daily Mucinex, uber cough syrup of doom, and I am STILL sick. WTF?

Had to file my taxes via snail mail....Federal has been recieved and waiting for the deposit to hit. State hasn't even acknowledged reciept of return. Meh. Want money now. Speaking of taxes...it always suprises me that others are suprised/pleased to be getting money back...like it is an unusual or abnormal thing. I've never not gotten money back. Once I only got $50 back from the state, next year I bumped up my withholding. I don't know. The idea of having to pay money at tax time is completely foriegn to me. Ah wells.
Which reminds me, I'm getting nearly $600 back from state. Time to drop it down a bit, plus could use the funds better on a monthly basis. Must figure out what the current percentage is so I can drop it down.

I have been staring at this open post for an hour or so...dunno what to say. whee.

been watching Dollhouse on hulu. makes me wish I had my TV hooked up to a cable stream so I could watch it on my TV, but then I'd get hooked again on the OMG number of shows I OMG can't live without OMG (or something like that! lol). It's not bad on hulu but the waiting for it to buffer is annoying. So Dollhouse...Not bad. I liked the first Episode better than the 2nd. I intend to keep watching for now.
Ugh, want Cold Case on DVD!!!!!! Want, want, want. Even without the soundtrack, cause I realize the soundtrack is what's stopping it. But come on....GIMME GIMME COLD CASE!!!! It's the one show I really miss that I can't get my fix with Netflix! *pout*

Goal for this year: save up at least $5,000. Hopefully next year that tax break will still be there and can get a house! *hope*hope*hope* maybe not....dunno. I'd like to see this housing market bottom out and the credit start flowing more for sure....

Anywho....I has a twitter. I tweet and such. I don't follow all the time. I turn my updates off at night and sometimes on the weekends. Depends on how much I feel like being bothered by it or if I remember to turn them off or on. I seem to be a celeb follower. Will, Brent, & LeVar are hilarious. Solieil is cute. Dr Drew is interesting, his wife more so. I had to drop Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry...They just tweet too much! OMG, they will spend 2 hours replying to tweets...and they post them by the hundreds in this time frame. It's like GAH!!!!!! So yeh....RDA needs twitter. His would be awesome to read, I swear! Speaking on Celebs on the web, LeVar's blog is most interesting. Of course I get a real kick out of it because he does audio readings of his blog entries which all end in his Reading Rainbow line. It's like a trip down memory lane with each blog post. Much with the awesomeness.

Saw Coraline 3D. Was awesome. the 3D still needs a bit of perfecting IMO. The blurriness anytime anything moved too quickly just really got to me. Currently in the middle of several books. I blame this for why I haven't finished either. Mulitple books at once is a bad influence!!!!!!!!!! Or something.
Called up the Production manager for KNIX and complained because on the Ben & Matt morning show they were doing the film review thing. The girl who's always the sidekick asked "Isn't it a Tim Burton film" to which they replied 'yes, it is a Tim Burton film" *insert murder death kill rawrs* I tried to call them up and correct them on air but they were not answering. So I just called the corporate line and told them that they owed Henry Selick an apology because Tim Burton had NOTHING to do with Coraline. yeh. Ah wells.

Need more books. Totally bummed that I forgot about the VNSA booksale. BAH! Didn't remember until Friday which was of course 1 week too late. rawr.

It's late...I should be in bed before I turn into a pumpkin or something.

P.S. I love you lots ngtmagicks. thanks for the flowers. they really made my day better. *snuggles*

Ok, so you all recall the 'd20 of Awesomeness' yes? Well, Wil Wheaton just blogged about it!!!!!!!!!

*squee*

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/02/one-of-the-most-awesome-things-ive-ever-signed.html

Srsly. Awesome and OWWWWWWWWWWW at the same time.