And that, as they say, is that. We took him in this morning, and it was quick and painless, although very sad. Still, I’m glad it’s over, and that he’s presumably happier wherever he is now (or at least not unhappy, which is as much as one can ask for.) I’m envisioning a landscape made […]
Monthly Archives: December 2003
Well, after long consultation with the vet, we’ve decided that there’s not much we can do. Loki won’t eat, won’t drink, and is obviously seriously ill. Even hospitalization, because of his see-sawing diabetes, will cost nearly a thousand just to get him stabilized (his severe anemia makes over-hydrating very dangerous, since that’d lower his red […]
I have angered the gods. That’s the only possible explanation. Sure, Loki’s sick and decided not to eat again, but I can handle that. Sure, my root canal hurts like blazes, but that’s only pain, I can handle that. I was, in fact, sitting in my chair thinking “Okay, I can handle this.” And then […]
Guilt is the great motivator. For example, I am currently drugged to the point where it’s taking me a great deal of brain power to type, and I should probably be sleeping. I have an excellent excuse for not working–pain + drugs = day off. I planned to take the day off. I cleared my […]
Root canal went okay. Hurt a bit. Got more Novocaine halfway through. Dentist warns that because I was feelin’ some pain during, I will probably have “significant pain” tonight. Wrote me a prescription for MegaUberVicodin (i.e. take one every eight instead of two every six.) Part of the reason I like this dentist is that […]
Got Loki’s test results back. They weren’t good. They weren’t bad. Actually, nobody can tell what the hell they were. So far as the blood test shows, Loki isn’t diabetic. His urine glucose (what I test at home) is ungodly high, but his blood sugar is actually subnormally low, and a lot of the other […]
On a much, much happier note, Comixpedia did a year-in-review of webcomics article, which included some very nice things said about “Digger.” IwillnotchokeIwillnotchokeIwillnotchoke… (I think on some level I’m afraid that as soon as people start thinking my work is promising, the pressure will get to me, I’ll panic, and they’ll find me swinging from […]
So today I was moping and thinking about Loki passing this mortal coil, which of course he’ll do eventually, even if we weather this particular crisis. And I found myself glumly thinking that benevolence is undoubtedly the rarest commodity in nature, and thus it’s probably not terribly likely, if there’s an afterlife, that there is […]
I got a bad feeling about this. Day 2, Loki still isn’t eating or drinking. I tried everything. I lined up an array of soft food of exotic flavors, from chicken to lamb and kidney. I tried nuking ’em. I tried tuna water. I tried Royal Canin, which he ignored (although Athena was on it […]
Well, Loki’s sick. Again. This time, it seems to have been low blood sugar, combined with diarrhea from his latest food. Yesterday he stopped eating, and being diabetic, this dropped his blood sugar down to his toes and left him lethargic and gloomy. This morning he still wasn’t eating, and had black, sticky stool of […]