Diagnosis

[robinmckinley]

 
We went to the vet this morning-again.  Although this was the homeopathic vet*, and we haven’t been there since last autumn-although there have been a few emails between.**

It is surprisingly easy to convince yourself you’re just being neurotic unless someone is conspicuously bleeding.  Chaos-as long term readers of this blog know-was

Comments

[vikkik]

I'm so sorry to hear the diagnosis on the hellhounds, and will keep all available bodyparts firmly crossed for you that you can treat them successfully.

*leaving a big hug because it sounds like you need it*

[jgtanthony]

I think that "lazy slut" really means exhausted, worried 'mom' - going to bed early with a mystery of the sort described is an excellent idea.
I hope this all turns out to have been 'the winter of our discontent' with Spring already showering you with sunlight and health all round.
Jocelyn

[jonquil]

Hearty commiserations on the hellhounds, and don't blame yourself, for pity's sake. You are, at each step, doing the best you know how with the information you have. The only smart thing I ever saw in Robert Asprin was the statement, paraphrased: 'when you make a bad decision, BAD is an acronym for "best available data"'.

No matter how dressed I am when I go into the garden, I always wind up barehanded and barefoot. I call it Antaeus Syndrome.

Garden stuff from Saturday, with references to dirt

[robinmckinley]

Annual bedding plants will not spread much beyond the size in the six-pack.

************* **Not** my experience. Not if you get them planted out early enough, so they haven't decided they are in a six pack for life and don't notice when it changes. Either they're too root bound or your garden centre didn't plant them in good enough compost, if they don't spread better than that.

My fingernails are ALWAYS dirty. I can have just CLEANED them and they're DIRTY AGAIN.

I like 'best available data'. I've been muttering it to myself . . . thanks.

[bookiekat]

If the PIS does progress to diabetes, well ... I don't know if it's similar to what humans go through with diabetes. I was diagnosed in March 2001. I changed my diet, take my meds, and over the years I've lost some weight. I'm definitely healthier now than I was 7 years ago. I can only pray it will be the same with your lovely hellhounds, once you've got them under treatment and diet. But, that diagnosis, when it first hits, does lay you low. Please take care of yourself as well as of your dogs. We fans selfishly want you to be around for many years to come, writing all your lovely books. Yes, even the "tough" ones, like Deerskin, are lovely. Candles are lit, prayers going up.

[robinmckinley]

Thank you! I have a friend who was diagnosed diabetic and has gone that route. Her doc says that diabetics tend to fall into two categories: the ones that wind up healthier than most of the rest of the populace . . . and the ones who just throw up their hands, take their drugs, and try not to know. Which are the ones who end up in real trouble.

So, yes, a small forest of candles . . . :)

[ext_91778]

No sarcasm this time, I promise.

Poor hellhounds. I hope they (and you) figure out a way to get better--and keep enjoying your sun because we don't have it here.

And it snowed yesterday, too. Plant some flowers for me.

~Q