Things are going good
Cleaned the room properly today. Usually I only clean the cage and swip the floor for rat poopoo unless its my turn to clean the whole house. I've decided I'm not going to live in a pigstye no anymore so I dusted, wiped, swiped and washed the room, besides the weekly cage cleaning and am now in a perfectly clean room.
Spot's eye's getting better. The wall of blood which has been covering the inside of her eye is breaking down and now only half of her eyeball is veiled. I think she's also starting to see in it again.
You have no idea what a gigantic relief it is for me, as I feared she might lose that eye. The medication helped a huge bunch and, now that it's almost a week since I got her to the vet, she's almost done with the meds, too. Though I'll stop the antibiotics, I'll keep giving her the pain killers until its over because she might still be in some sort of discomfort and it helps reducing any swelling which might accur and it's swelling that does damage to the vision.
She's got a checkup appointment with the vet on monday and I'm taking Liebgott with me to have his skin condition looked at and his breathing listened to. He's becoming an old man and needs a closer eye on his health, particularly since he's not the friendliest rat and mushing him by hand to check for lumps is not easy as it is for the other members of that gang.
Today on the weekend news I've seen a report on a group of ancient battle reenactors. Mostly russian-originated (predictable, really), they managed to create outfits and even armor and weaponry resembling that of bizentine knights and of jewish and roman soldiers from the great rebelion period. They were (sort of lamely) reenacting the battle of Mesada (minus the suicide bit, obviously) and practiced fighting techniques.
Mom and the news guy seemed very scornful, but I think it's endearing. Not only do these guys take studying history seriously, but they help preserve an aura of respect and essentiality to our people's history which is valueable, in my opinion. Quite a bunch of nerds, they are, but nerds are these days' salt of the earth.
Spot's eye's getting better. The wall of blood which has been covering the inside of her eye is breaking down and now only half of her eyeball is veiled. I think she's also starting to see in it again.
You have no idea what a gigantic relief it is for me, as I feared she might lose that eye. The medication helped a huge bunch and, now that it's almost a week since I got her to the vet, she's almost done with the meds, too. Though I'll stop the antibiotics, I'll keep giving her the pain killers until its over because she might still be in some sort of discomfort and it helps reducing any swelling which might accur and it's swelling that does damage to the vision.
She's got a checkup appointment with the vet on monday and I'm taking Liebgott with me to have his skin condition looked at and his breathing listened to. He's becoming an old man and needs a closer eye on his health, particularly since he's not the friendliest rat and mushing him by hand to check for lumps is not easy as it is for the other members of that gang.
Today on the weekend news I've seen a report on a group of ancient battle reenactors. Mostly russian-originated (predictable, really), they managed to create outfits and even armor and weaponry resembling that of bizentine knights and of jewish and roman soldiers from the great rebelion period. They were (sort of lamely) reenacting the battle of Mesada (minus the suicide bit, obviously) and practiced fighting techniques.
Mom and the news guy seemed very scornful, but I think it's endearing. Not only do these guys take studying history seriously, but they help preserve an aura of respect and essentiality to our people's history which is valueable, in my opinion. Quite a bunch of nerds, they are, but nerds are these days' salt of the earth.