herodyssey

My little Jack Russell has been sick for months. She's had an ultrasound, X-Rays and surgery. She is still sick. She is vomiting foam (and regurgitating it), most of the time it's just mucous and foam, occasionally with food in it. She has spells of strange lip-smacking and 'chuffing' and coughing, and then frantically runs around eating random things off the ground to induce vomiting. She is taking some ulcer meds for her throat, it calms her coughing/chuffing down but doesn't stop it. The surgery removed a huge wad of foreign objects (hair, elastic, battign from a toy, plastic bread-ties...) and we hoped that this was the reason for the vomiting, but we believe it is just a side effect of this condition.

We have gone to specialists... they want an additional $1,700 for scoping and possibly an additional $3,000 for surgery if needed. We simply cannot afford that. I don't want to give up, nor do I want to lose this precious little creature because fo lack of funds.

Constant vomiting/regurgitation with little to no warning. Foamy mucous. Chuffing/coughing. Excessive congestion and snoring. Sleepiness, lethargy. This little dog means everything to us. I'm at my wit's end. Please, if there's a vet out there with a conscience... help. I beg you.

It doesn't matter who's singing it, it sounds like the same four songs being cycled over and over again ...

I went to get a facial recently and the lady at the spa said I had the cleanest skin she's ever seen. I am not sure if I can be super-proud of that because the reason why my face is so clean is because I am obsessed with getting blackheads and zits out from under my skin. Almost to the point of mania. I cannot abide seeing blackheads. Just the idea of that little pod of greasy ick in my pores makes me insane. I spend inordinate amounts of time sitting in front of a magnifying mirror, squeezing out blackheads only someone with microscopic vision could see... if I squeeze out something vaguely juicy (which trust me, is RARE because hardly anything ever evolves into a zit or something with any quantity of pus in it on my face) I obsess about it all day... I'll wonder that if I missed that one, maybe there are more that are like that, just as full on my face somewhere. I am constantly running my fingers on my face to feel for little lumps or bumps that could be a blackhead or zit. There are days when my face looks like a WWII battle zone because I spend all this time squeezing any pore that has even a hint of something in it.

My skin is super-dry by my nose, my nose is often red and irritated, I have rosacea on one cheek, and my forehead scales too... all of which I imagine are probably side effects of my obsessive face-squeezing.

What is my deal? Am I the only one who is obsessed with making sure I never have zits and blackheads?

I also noticed that when I'm stressed, I am even more diligent about looking for the little buggers.

I don't see the appeal of having orange skin. Why are so many women doing this? It looks terrible!

I know this lady named Michelle. She's married to a guy named Tim who teaches at a high school in Connecticut. I don't know him. This Michelle is supposed to be a pillar of the her community, and they have kids and Michelle acts as if she's just perfection. A while ago, I was in Massachusetts at a mall, and I saw Michelle ALL OVER this other guy who is supposed to be a family friend but is apparently a lot more than that; I mean there was no mistaking that this is not a platonic relationship. They're both really gross by the way, it was not a pretty scene.

I feel like Michelle is kind of a P.O.S. for cheating on Tim. And I sort of am tempted to email Tim at his school anonymously and telling him that his wife is a cheating slut. However, part of me thinks it is not my place to do so. But if my spouse was cheating, I don't care WHO told me, I'd want to know. What would you do?

And then if I got caught, told the cop it was my Toyota that did it... do you think he'd believe me? ::smirk::

Why is it that people who are ethnically diverse, gay or disabled seem to have less value to society; and therefore deserve fewer rights and resources than the ones that are of the acceptable mainstream? Does being out of the norm make you somehow less human?