What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[marurun]

Not ticked of, but sad, and frustrated:

Our 15-year-old cat is suffering from acute pancreatitis. She spend 3 days in cat emergency care, and we decided to bring her home to see if she would eat. It was not good. Within a couple hours, my wife left to take her back to the emergency care place. Those places are not cheap. I wish we had some kind of ability to predict if the cat was going to be able to be relatively healthy and happy for another year or was just going to be a miserable mess of constant health issues going forward, because that would help us decide whether to double down on her care or back off and give in to the inevitable. The cost is annoying, but I'm more worried about caring for the cat, and whether the cat will even be remotely happy or comfortable.

Not only is this frustrating and stressing us out, but the other cat, 11 years old, is starting to groom bald spots on his rump from the stress of having the cat sick for 3 days, then disappearing for 3 more, then magically coming back and disappearing again. Nobody in this house is untouched by this.

[noiseredux]

Maru, I am sorry man.

[Key-Glyph]

Aw, marurun, I'm sorry too. Our cat is getting to be an old lady as well and some of her habits are changing, so I feel like I'm constantly checking up on her in anticipation of the worst. She's a svelte little peanut (four pounds) and she was losing weight and over-mowing this summer. She's all right, but my mammacat paranoia got bad enough that one night I woke up completely inconsolable over the loss of my childhood dog. Point being, I can relate to the stirred emotions you're feeling.

Hang in there and take care of your babies. They know you'll do what's best for them, even if what's best involves a thermometer in the bum.

[MrPopo]

Poor kitties. A friend of mine had to put one of hers down because she developed a chronic heart condition that was sending her into comas.

[samsonlonghair]

Yo Forlorn, It's a good idea to speak to a professional. I did. It helped me. It works best when you take your medicine AND go to your therapy appointments. Doing one without the other is mostly a crutch. If you do them both together, you can improve your life a lot.

Standard disclaimer: I'm not a mental health professional, and I'm not professionally qualified to give anyone mental health advice. I'm only speaking from my own personal experience.

[fastbilly1]

Ticked - Last night I was welding and made a rookie mistake and now have no hair on large chunks of my arms. So far no blisters, but everything is red and sensitive. If they ease down today, I am just going to have to shave them.

Smile - I was working on a pump control panel I salvaged from the fire engine when we were retrofitting it. It is going to make an awesome towel rack for the pool. All the control rods for the pump have been cut to length and the monitoring panel was removed, it was the monitoring panel that got me...

[Erik_Twice]

I'm way beyond busy lately. French is taking me a lot of time, specially since I arrive very late from class. This pushes other activities into the days I don't have classes and the end result is that I don't have enough time or energy to do other stuff. For example, I've been meaning to finish an article for the last two weeks and I didn't even notice two weeks have passed because I've been so busy.

Being busy isn't bad

[Forlorn Drifter]

Yo Forlorn, It's a good idea to speak to a professional. I did. It helped me. It works best when you take your medicine AND go to your therapy appointments. Doing one without the other is mostly a crutch. If you do them both together, you can improve your life a lot.

Standard disclaimer: I'm not a mental health professional, and I'm not professionally qualified to give anyone mental health advice. I'm only speaking from my own personal experience.

I'm planning on it. I have to get the insurance sorted out, get tested, all that jazz. Would have already done it, but there's tests (school tests) going on, so I need to focus on that until I'm done.

Still not sure about the whole medicine thing, but if I have depression or anxiety it won't bother me too much. The other things I might have don't have medicine available for them, although they may prescribe anxiety meds for some of the symptoms.

[KalessinDB]

Poking my head in for one thing: if you start on meds, please please do not stop them without first talking to your doctor. My dad got on anti depressants a couple months ago when we lost mom. Two weeks ago, he goes "well, my prescription is just about out, let's see if I can do without" and now he's in the hospital with heart problems that, if not caused by the withdrawal, were at least aggravated by it.

So that's my frown for the week. Good news is, once they get his heart rate stabilized, this is likely to be very treatable and something he can live the rest of his life with without much inconvenience. The bad news is, he's most likely going to have inconvenience for the rest of his life because of it. Rookie mistake, but there you have it.

[MrPopo]

And sometimes you just need to stay on meds the rest of your life. My sister has a seizure disorder, and she's going to be on anti-seizure meds the rest of her life. If she goes off them then she runs the risk of having an episode (she doesn't really have a specific trigger). The first time she had one was when she was ice skating. Every time she has an episode she has to wait 6 months before she can drive again to not run the risk that she has an episode while driving.