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semiotic_pirate) wrote2007-08-09 11:05 am
semiotic_pirate) wrote2007-08-09 11:05 am
Sincere Thanks
I would like to extend sincere and heartfelt thanks to those of you who responded to my post about Tato. The shots seem to have helped, he's eating again and not hiding under the bed. We're going to be putting him on regular shots of something our vet friend calls "depo" which is supposed to be a longer acting steroid. Using that we are hoping to extend his life a short amount because he will be more comfortable and relatively pain free due to the reduction of swelling. As long as I continually remember which part of him not to squeeze like a roll of Charmin he should be okay for a bit.
I'm not sure how long he will hold out, how far it is advanced or how quickly it will continue to grow. If he takes another turn for the worse we'll have his lymph nodes aspirated (the least invasive) as well as an ultrasound to visualize the area. I'm in a bit of denial while trying to face this which is why I'm not having both done now. All the evidence now points to the one diagnosis, to lymphoma, so I'm not going to fight it. I just can't face it completely yet.
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In other news, I got assaulted by trolls yesterday after commenting on ginmar's report about the feminist communities across the internet getting super-trolled. Apparently there are people getting targeted by some sort of whack-jobs who are claiming not to hate women but are attacking women who are just trying to even out the playing/living/working/existence fields. I'm not going to get into the semantics or details of it all. Most people on my f-list know approximately where I stand on the matter of equality issue. Getting slammed for being friends with, or at the very least the reading of, people who use their blogs as forums to discuss or diatribe against what they will is obviously not something that bothers me. *shrug*
And if that doesn't make them go away, I have a community of hacker friends who would be more than willing to track some of them down and make their lives pretty damned miserable. Not sure if ending on something that may be perceived as a threat is a good thing but it is what I have chosen to do.
I'm not sure how long he will hold out, how far it is advanced or how quickly it will continue to grow. If he takes another turn for the worse we'll have his lymph nodes aspirated (the least invasive) as well as an ultrasound to visualize the area. I'm in a bit of denial while trying to face this which is why I'm not having both done now. All the evidence now points to the one diagnosis, to lymphoma, so I'm not going to fight it. I just can't face it completely yet.
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In other news, I got assaulted by trolls yesterday after commenting on ginmar's report about the feminist communities across the internet getting super-trolled. Apparently there are people getting targeted by some sort of whack-jobs who are claiming not to hate women but are attacking women who are just trying to even out the playing/living/working/existence fields. I'm not going to get into the semantics or details of it all. Most people on my f-list know approximately where I stand on the matter of equality issue. Getting slammed for being friends with, or at the very least the reading of, people who use their blogs as forums to discuss or diatribe against what they will is obviously not something that bothers me. *shrug*
And if that doesn't make them go away, I have a community of hacker friends who would be more than willing to track some of them down and make their lives pretty damned miserable. Not sure if ending on something that may be perceived as a threat is a good thing but it is what I have chosen to do.