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December 12, 2010 9:09 pm
Posted in: Pet Rescue
45 Comments
45 Responses
mr. whipple - December 12, 2010 | 9:14 pm · Link
Sight?
General Stuck - December 12, 2010 | 9:15 pm · Link
Oh goody, I get to correct the blog owners grammar.
site, not sight, because it can’t sea.
General Stuck - December 12, 2010 | 9:16 pm · Link
@mr. whipple:
Drat, you spoiled my fun.
qwerty42 - December 12, 2010 | 9:16 pm · Link
Yeah, John.
sight
site
cite
Jewish Steel - December 12, 2010 | 9:22 pm · Link
IGMTU (I got mine thank you!)
The Dangerman - December 12, 2010 | 9:25 pm · Link
Pondering deep thoughts, such as, would Tunch be this patient?
mr. whipple - December 12, 2010 | 9:30 pm · Link
@General Stuck:
Nitpicker.
bostondreams - December 12, 2010 | 9:53 pm · Link
OT, and not sure if anyone else caught this, but here is a story for the 21st century: a woman documents the last days of her pregnancy, the birth of her child, and, well, you have to read it.
The last couple made my wife and I cry like a Boehner.
Comrade Kevin - December 12, 2010 | 9:57 pm · Link
@The Dangerman: Loved that, thanks for the link !
rootless_e - December 12, 2010 | 10:35 pm · Link
I’d like to know when Black America is going to apologize to white progressives for failing to recognize their brilliance or appreciate their “tough love” approach. I mean, after all the times the blogosphere has laid it all on the line to support Obama. Like that, time, you know? And the other time when they said what they said? It was like something out of a film clip of some union strike in the 1930s. You know when the workers are picketing and those other people go in try to help them by doing their jobs for them while they are picketing. It was a healing thing – which is why they called them “scabs”. That’s the kind of support the white progressives have given President Loser and what appreciation do they get for it?
Joseph Nobles - December 12, 2010 | 10:37 pm · Link
Idle thought: if Julian Assange is a terrorist, and all the right Villagers are saying he is, then why are they gearing up to try him in America? I thought we couldn’t try high-profile terrorists in America. The security details, the threat of future revelations – I mean, terrorist attacks – etc. If we can try Assange here, why not KSM?
Martha - December 12, 2010 | 10:40 pm · Link
@bostondreams: Wow. Just wow.
Just Some Fuckhead - December 12, 2010 | 10:40 pm · Link
Someone wanna explain to me how comment #10 is not trolling?
Carnacki - December 12, 2010 | 10:44 pm · Link
I bought two, one for myself and another for a gift.
I took a photo of mine hanging up already in my kitchen and meant to email it to you.
Emerald - December 12, 2010 | 10:48 pm · Link
@Just Some Fuckhead: Looks like satire to me.
rootless_e - December 12, 2010 | 10:52 pm · Link
@Emerald: satire? against people who take themselves so seriously? That would be wrong.
Corner Stone - December 12, 2010 | 10:55 pm · Link
@Just Some Fuckhead: He’s actually a performance artist.
Him and Greenwald have a shtick they run on a regular basis.
Chuck Butcher - December 12, 2010 | 11:02 pm · Link
I used your Amazon for the grandkid. Just doing my bit, and all that…
DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective - December 12, 2010 | 11:08 pm · Link
@General Stuck:
John’s grammar posts here? The poor old dear.
DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective - December 12, 2010 | 11:09 pm · Link
@Just Some Fuckhead:
It’s actually John McCain.
Bmaccnm - December 12, 2010 | 11:09 pm · Link
@bostondreams: Avery good friend, Nellie Brown, died of peripartum cardiomyopathy ten days after giving birth to her third son. She got steadily weaker from congestive heart failure and was repeatedly sent home from hospital ERs, until she went into cardiac arrest in front of her ten year old son. Her son was my ten year old son’s best friend, and he called my son because he didn’t know any other telephone numbers. It was truly, truly tragic , and I still cry when I think of her.
Yutsano - December 12, 2010 | 11:13 pm · Link
Teh Iggles is winning. And my house smells like roasted garlic.
WarMunchkin - December 12, 2010 | 11:18 pm · Link
@General Stuck: isn’t it “owner’s”?
General Stuck - December 12, 2010 | 11:23 pm · Link
jesus christ on a pogo stick. I missed the 60 minutes interview with Boehner, but reading the transcript, it is a comedic motherlode. I bet TBogg is beside himself with glee.
I mean you talk about big fat softballs on a platter.
And then there’s the crying over Obama hurting his fee fees.
General Stuck - December 12, 2010 | 11:26 pm · Link
@WarMunchkin:
Nope, there are many Coles, therefore many owners. We probly out to start calling him The Sybil of the Blogs
burnspbesq - December 12, 2010 | 11:35 pm · Link
Speaking of strange Christmas music … it is spectacularly well performed by The King’s Singers and the WDR Big Band, but the idea of the Bach Christmas Oratorio rearranged for a choir of six male voices and big band takes some getting used to.
http://www.theclassicalshop.co.....=SIG%20215
jeffreyw - December 12, 2010 | 11:53 pm · Link
@Yutsano: Roasted garlic with a certain sour overtone.
Yutsano - December 12, 2010 | 11:59 pm · Link
@jeffreyw: Take your bread, combine it with my spread, and we gots ourselves a party methinks.
I made a smoked salmon schmear too. It’s for a work party tomorrow.
Dee Loralei - December 13, 2010 | 12:12 am · Link
@bostondreams: That made me cry. 10 days after my son was born I developed deep vein thrombosis/ thrombolphlebitis. But I thought me slipping had injured my hip. Caused a bunch of pain, talked to my OB and she prescribed pain meds. Went to the ER they prescribed pain meds. Talked to the OB’s partner and he prescribed pain meds. And told me to quit calling them for pain meds. Accused me of being a drug addict or drug seeker or Doc shopper, and that if I needed more help for my “hurt leg” I had damned well better call an orthopedic Doctor next time. An ugly phone call it was. A few days later, I got up in the middle of the night and fell down because my leg was too weak to support my weight. Luckily I got an emergency appointment with an ortho later that morning. The Intern ran me through the usual paces of moving my leg one way or another. I was in tears at the end of his exam. He went and got the Ortho, Ortho took one look at my leg, by this time my thigh was bright red and swollen, looked at my patient history, saw that I had given birth a few weeks before , made me lie down, told me not to move and called an ambulance. While he was out of the room getting me admitted to the hospital, I left to go to the bathroom and he came back while I was gone and OhMyGod did he ream me when I got back! That’s when I got really scared, he made sure my mother and I knew how dangerous my blood clot was. I was in the hospital for a week while they fiddled with the blood thinners and on them for a year. It cause a metric fuckton of nerve damage in my hip, knee and big toe and I still get pain to this day 20+ years later. And it took a hell of a lot of work on my part to get anywhere close to normalcy. A few weeks after I almost died it was big news that some pro basketball players wife had died from deep vein thrombosis after giving birth. And my ex hubby was mostly worthless during my recovery and recuperation, which is mostly why he’s an ex.
But even now, I still find it amazing that I talked to two OBs on the phone telling them of my leg pain a few weeks after giving birth and both immediately thought “drug seeker.” And I went to the ER and they took an X-ray to see if I had injured my hip, because at first that was where the main pain was, KNOWING I had just given birth. And not a fucking one of those MDs thought about DVT!
Even today 20 years later every time I’m in pain and have to ask for pain meds, I still feel fucking shame and embarrassment.
So yea, that story made me sad, and reminded me of my own pain. But damned I feel sorry for poor Isaac , growing up without a mom and you know when he finds out why she died, he’s going to take the blame. He’s going to place it on himself. I hope his dad and other people in his life will make him realize that for his mom, his life was worth it, even if she didn’t get to share it.
suzanne - December 13, 2010 | 12:24 am · Link
@bostondreams: Goddamnit. I’m supposed to be induced next week. Fuck.
Chuck Butcher - December 13, 2010 | 12:28 am · Link
@Dee Loralei:
My wife kept having spells of weakness in her arm, then sometimes in her leg, headaches, and some confusion and tangled speach. Her GP sent her to a neurologist in Walla Walla who sent her home with a bill for $2K and an “it’s all in your head” diagnosis. Later that year her GP moved to the hospital and she got a new one. On her initial exam he put a stethoscope to her neck and came unglued. A week later she was in the hospital in Boise getting her carotid reamed out and a week later the other one – both almost completely blocked. Her symptoms were TIAs (mini-strokes). I get a case of the ass everytime I think about paying that guy $2K to miss something a GP caught with a stethoscope.
If that had been the end of it, well, it wasn’t and by the time it was all over I was $150K in unsecured debt and banko’d. She’s still kicking and onery as ever, not much in the memory department though.
Yutsano - December 13, 2010 | 12:29 am · Link
@suzanne: Which you will get through with flying colors and you and your hubby will have a great new life to love and nurture. I shan’t think anything else but the best for you in this situation. And remember that women have done this for millions of years and you’ve already done it once. So get the space invader born and liveblog it dammit! :)
Chuck Butcher - December 13, 2010 | 12:31 am · Link
@suzanne:
Best thoughts go with you.
suzanne - December 13, 2010 | 12:34 am · Link
@Yutsano: @Chuck Butcher: Awww, thank you for the words of encouragement. I’m getting scared. Arghhhhhh.
Dee Loralei - December 13, 2010 | 12:34 am · Link
@suzanne: Don’t read me @29 then, either. Yikes sorry. Look most pregnancies end with a perfect baby and perfectly healthy mother. A few bad stories have absolutely nothing to do with your particular situation. You will give birth to the most beautiful baby ever, and he/ she will be healthy and happy and obedient and kind and good, and smarter than anything. You will go home a day or two after giving birth to this most perfect baby and your life will be filled with more love and contentment than you can even imagine now. And even if your baby does look like Winston Churchill, she will be beautiful. And you’ll fit into your size 5 jeans in 6 weeks, MAX. I promise. Because that’s the way it always is! Seriously! Would I lie to you??
I think not.
And please email John with updates and new photos of the darlin’ babe. You know we haven’t had a birth here since SamKitten, and this place needs one!
suzanne - December 13, 2010 | 12:39 am · Link
@Dee Loralei:
Too late. Oi.
Rationally, i know I have every reason in the world to expect things to go perfectly.
But still. Oi.
Yutsano - December 13, 2010 | 12:44 am · Link
@suzanne: You plan for the worst and hope for the best. It’s why I’m still hip on birthing in hospitals despite the expense. And my old boss was expecting her third child and she has MS, so you’ll see that it’ll all be fine.
Dee Loralei - December 13, 2010 | 12:45 am · Link
@Chuck Butcher: I hear ya Chuck, I’m glad she was finally seen by a good diagnostician. And yea, I get that medicine is an art and a science. It’s amazing how much they miss or just get wrong. And yet, I’m so glad we live here now. Any other not first world country and your wife and I’d be dead prolly. And I’m so glad we had insurance, my illness cost us many thousands of dollars, not anything like what it cost you. But you’re a good and decent man for staying with her, bad memory and all.
taylormattd - December 13, 2010 | 12:48 am · Link
@suzanne: You’ll be great sweetie, ok? :)
Yutsano - December 13, 2010 | 1:16 am · Link
@suzanne: Oh and pictures. There shall be many many many pictures.
Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century) - December 13, 2010 | 2:28 am · Link
Here’s a photo of Obama meeting with Glenn, Jane, Kos, Arianna, Atrios, etc. at the White House
http://tinyurl.com/2fhkcqv
chaseyourtail - December 13, 2010 | 3:54 am · Link
@Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century): Ha ha ha ha! Now, that was funny!
rootless_e - December 13, 2010 | 4:21 am · Link
@Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century): that made me cry.
SiubhanDuinne - December 13, 2010 | 5:14 am · Link
@Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century) #41:
I almost didn’t click on the link. Glad I did. Well played!
Josie - December 13, 2010 | 6:27 am · Link
@Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century): Love it!