Rosie, btw, has some sort of eye infection that I just noticed this afternoon. The vet was busy, so we are going tomorrow. Told my dad, and he told me to make a cup of tea, then let the tea bag cool down and put it on her eye and that would help it. I figured what the hell, I survived all his hillbilly black magic farm boy voodoo bullshit and made it to the ripe old age of 40, and that includes cod liver oil, Fels Naptha soap on poison ivy, getting liquored on hot toddies when you are sick, spit baths, and my personal favorite, merthiolate (WHICH YOU AND I KNOW TODAY IS POISON) to make sure that your cuts REALLY HURT because PAIN is what cleans out the dirt. At any rate, I survived all that and look how well I turned out, so might as well try the tea bag to the eye.
So instead of doing what I would normally do, which is stress about whether the tea bag should be green or black tea, whether it mattered if it was decaf or regular, I just said to hell with it and made a cup of tea. I waited until it cooled down, then got Rosie, put her on my lap while sitting on the floor, and was just about to administer the tea bag when she jerked her head quickly, yanked the tea bag out of my hand, ripped it open with her teeth and tried to eat it, then spit everything on to the carpet.
I’m going to just keep telling myself that Rosie is a good doggie and let the vet sort this shit out tomorrow.
wobblybits
Oh my, hahaha. Sorry John but it might have just been a reaction to you coming at her eye with a big ass tea bag. Hope all goes well at the vet tomorrow.
mr. whipple
Was that Mercurochrome? I remember that stuff…
Jason
That dog is badass.
JGabriel
Clearly, Rosie thought you were trying to give her merthiolate.
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Tom Traubert
Yeah. Well, my dog Charlie was just diagnosed with a cataract and glaucoma in his right eye. I now need to give him a total of six drops from three medications at three times every day.
Good luck with that.
Tom Traubert
Yeah. Well, my dog Charlie was just diagnosed with a cataract and glaucoma in his right eye. I now need to give him a total of six drops from three medications at three times every day.
Good luck with that.
Anne Laurie
The ‘folk logic’ behind the tea-bag routine is that tea leaves contain a mild antiseptic, and boiling the bag first kills most of the contaminants. And if it’s a stye, the warmth helps bring it to a head. As a method for producing a gentle, reasonably sterile eyewash in a non-medical setting, not so bad. Especially since, when used for a human, the teabag should discourage the sufferer from rubbing the infected area & making things worse.
P.S. Since I didn’t say this earlier, Cole: The Prozac was for Rosie, not for you! Since you’re going to visit the vet together anyways, hint hint…
wenchacha
Oh sweet Jesus. Start believing in Heaven, because that’s where your reward for rescuing her will be.
Hope she’s okay. I was all set to read that the hillbilly RX did the trick.
suzanne
What is it with old people? So many of them have this attitude. Whereas I am of the opinion that that which does not kill you probably hurts a sumbitch and therefore sucks and is in no way character-building.
Tom Traubert
sorry for the double; don’t know how that happened.
sukabi
the tea does help to soothe the eye… Tea contains bioflavonoids that fight viral and bacterial infections and can help reduce inflammation. Put a moist teabag of eyebright tea on the affected eye for several minutes. Repeat several times a day. If your eye is swollen, moisten the teabag with cool water. The tannic acid in the tea will soothe the itching….
and FWIW, while the cod liver oil you had to take when you were a kid “to keep you regular” was nasty stuff, the omega3’s in it do work to lower cholesterol, they are good for your joints and help with mood stabilization, so there’s that.
shortstop
Please. You tried to APPLY A TEABAG TO A TERRIER’S EYE and you’re criticizing her behavior? You so had that coming.
13th Generation
Glenn Greenwald!
Jane Hamsher!
Valdivia
Hey I grew up with merthiolate in lat am, had it on every cut, you’re telling me it’s poison???
General Stuck
Castor oil was the bane of my country childhood. My granny would bring out that shit and I skeedadled fast as my feets would take me. Always liked the likker toddies though, for some strange reason.
hilts
CNN continues dumbing itself down and pandering to the tea baggers
Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch Joins CNN
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KG
@suzanne: my grandfather has this tendency to hit you where you say you are experiencing pain. That is one I never understood.
JGabriel
@suzanne:
Or as I always say: No pain, no pain.
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Jeanne ringland
@suzanne: I’m 60. My mother held that opinion that medicine that hurt or tasted nasty worked better, but denied it to her grave.
Her objection to using Bactine, which did not hurt at all, was that it was advertised too much. Hmph. At school they used a green soap solution but at home it was Merthiolate and it hurt a lot when applied to an open wound. The neighbors used Iodine which was said to hurt worse, but there was a story that went around that Merthiolate had had Iodine added to it to make it burn because people wouldn’t buy it otherwise.
Jules
hahahahahahaha
Classic.
Our rat terrier would that do that but she would also act like a dog possessed with crazy eye rolls, teeth baring and wiggles of Satan. It is easier to get medicine into a cat (and i have a cat we have to zip up in a tent bag with just her head stuck out to shoot meds into her mouth.)
Belle also thinks that the camera is trying to steal her soul.
Kristine
I shouldn’t laugh, but I am anyway.
Jeanne ringland
@General Stuck: For some reason my mother did not do this to her own children; she remembered how much she hated it as a child.
Jeanne ringland
@mr. whipple: No, but they both have a connection to mercury and are no longer considered safe.
Lolis
Can someone fill me in? I thought John was giving Rosie away. I must have missed something.
JGabriel
@Tom Traubert:
My sympathies. Can you get him a weed card?
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Wile E. Quixote
@John Cole
There was a time, only few years ago, when that phrase would have had an entirely different connotation than it does today. I miss those days.
PTirebiter
Merthiolate is poison? Holy crap, When I was four, my southern transplant folks coated my thumbs with it every night for months. It was supposedly a cure for thumb sucking. As it turns out, starting kindergarten was the cure. I just needed a good reason to give it up.
General Stuck
@Tom Traubert:
Sorry to hear that. As I am partial to dogs named Charlie.
South of I-10
I remember constant applications of mercurochrome and merthiolate in the 70’s. That shit burns like hell. Thanks for reviving that memory!
Jeanne ringland
@KG: My grandpa used to ask us if we wanted him to slap our arm when we’d just gotten a shot and were still sore.
Er, not really Grandpa, and especially OhHellNo when it was a smallpox vaccine.
JWL
Rosie is fucking with you, daring you to go the distance. Laughing at you, just like every other human who has ever crossed her path.
She’s got your number, Slim.
Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)
May I second the recommendation that you discuss Prozac(R)(or fluoxetine the generic name)for Rosie? I think it could have be of great assistance to you both, when administered to her in the canine dosage. I’ve seen great success with other dogs.
Annie
Spit baths?
David Fud
My parents called that mercury stuff Monkey Blood. I still don’t know why we used that stuff except to build up resistance to electric shock, but there you go.
Another survivor of the parent voodoo healing magic who also just made it to 40.
Ruckus
My grandfather told me that a Dr. told him to put gasoline on a cut because it killed the germs. Asked him when he was told this and he said about 1910. I told him that sure it would kill the germs but would also kill the good cells too. And that we had much better things to put on cuts. Even in 1965 we had better.
suzanne
@KG:
Mine did that to me, too. And we weren’t Southern, he was just in the Army and thought I was insolent and mouthy and probably just needed to be slapped.
My nurse when I was in elementary school, when faced with a complaint like, “my knee hurts” or somesuch, would invariably reply, “DO YOU WANT ME TO CUT IT OFF?!” I was always tempted to smack her when she said shit like that.
asiangrrlMN
@suzanne: My best and I fiddled with the saying, “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” First we changed it to, “That which does not kill you does not kill you.” But, we amended it to, “That which does not kill you STILL FUCKING SUCKS!”
Cole, that’s just priceless. I’m sorry, but I’m laughing like a madwoman over here.
TOP123
HAHA! What Jason and Shortstop said. Her reaction sounds pretty awesome–from her fiesty little dog’s perspective.
I think Wonkette still has some of those ‘Don’t Teabag on Me!” Gadsden t-shirts lying around, not sure about her size…
South of I-10
@Annie: I was wondering about that one myself.
So my husband and I are trying to remember, which one was it that burned so bad? I remember it as being both, he says it was mercurochrome that burned and he would beg his Mom to use merthiolate instead.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
stupid Fox won’t let youtube post Simpsons scenes
asiangrrlMN
@Tom Traubert: Sorry about Charlie. I hope you are able to medicate him without too much trouble.
gravie
I just finished watching the HBO movie “A Dog Year” with Jeff Bridges. Kinda the same situation you’re in with a ca-razy foster dog. In the movie, it does end well.
morzer
Just wait until you try teabagging Tunch, Cole. You ain’t seen nothing yet!
suzanne
@asiangrrlMN: Yeah, I did the same. I had settled on “That which does not kill you makes you weaker”, but it didn’t capture the scope of the tragedy, so I went with “That which does not kill you sucks ass”.
After my older daughter was born, and the epidural didn’t work and my crotch tore like cheap sheets, I swore that I wouldn’t have #2 until I forgot how much that whole experience sucked. So when I was pregnant with Mia, I told my doctor about 800 times that GODDAMNIT I WANT A FUNCTIONING EPIDURAL and FEEL FREE TO START THAT RIGHT NOW, NO, I’M NOT BUSY FOR THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS, I HAVE TIVO. Upon checking into the hospital for the induction, they asked me what my pain goal was on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, “THREE.” The nurse laughed at me, and I was just like, “Well, it’s a GOAL!”
WarMunchkin
It disturbs me that there aren’t more people with a sufficient level of immaturity to make a more explicit “teabagging” joke. We’re slacking.
morzer
@WarMunchkin:
I tried, damnit!
Fucking liberal elitists!
Ruckus
@WarMunchkin:
I can be that immature, I just desire not to be.
TOP123
@Jules: That’s funny, my brother’s rat terrier is probably the only dog I have ever had in the extended pet family who could
be called calm and relaxedbe counted on to wear a napkin on her head and pose for pictures. She’s very much on or off, though; sleeping calmly in your lap or running through the screen door in hot pursuit–of something.gbear
The home remedy that got me in trouble as a kid was when my dad told me that I could get rid of athlete’s foot by soaking my feet in water with a little bit of bleach. He then left it to my 12 year old self to decide how much bleach was ‘a little bit’. That wound up getting me dismissed from gym class for half the school year.
burnspbesq
Outwitted yet again by your canine mistresses. John Cole, This Is Your Life.
asiangrrlMN
@suzanne: OUCH! My crotch expresses its sympathy to yours. And, 3 seems like a perfectly admirable goal!
Yeah, I am not much of a ‘look at the bright side’ kinda gal. I’m more of a ‘come here so I can club you if you tell me to keep my chin up’ kinda gal.
ETA: I do have a pretty high pain tolerance, though.
@gbear: Oh. Mah. Gah. OUCH! P.S. I read about your cat. I think you’re a good owner. That’s a long life! And, I hope you didn’t have the double-cheeseburger to celebrate eight years after the heart attack.
Jim, Once
I begged for merthiolate from my mom, because we knew it didn’t hurt. Iodine, on the other hand … OMG!!! Those were the only options for us.
I wish there were some way we could possibly take in Rosie … but grandchildren and daughter in law who are seriously allergic to dogs AND cats just doesn’t allow it.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
So we should approach you both with pessimism and caution?
handy
Is there any way you could turn Rosie into a pug? Cuz at least she would be cute in a damn-that-dog-is-SO-ugly-she’s-cute sort of way, and you would be laughing your ass off so hard you forget about how much of a dork she is.
Okay, so I’m really just describing my own relationship with my dog which is it’s own sort of tragic love-hate thing.
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Heh. If you approach me bearing chocolates and/or Alan Rickman, all is forgiven.
Jim, Once
@handy:
Tell us more. I love vicarious dog stories, since I can never have one.
merrinc
I remember those home remedies. I fucking hated whiskey and honey and my mother forced it down me every time I had a cold.
I am back in West Virginia for the first time since the 2008 primary and I have one thing to say: Do you people EVER wash your cars? Sweet Geezus, this place is a mess.
daryljfontaine
Rosie’s just overheard you bitching about the “goddamn teabaggers” so much she internalized a kneejerk reaction. TEAR UP THE TEABAGS BEFORE THEY TEABAG YOU, or some such.
D
Jebediah
@Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q):
And I will third that – have had several successes with doggy prozac.
Mercurochrome? Babies. When I was in high school, I go ta javelin thrown into my big toe. When I went home, my dad put iodine on/in it. Hurt way, way worse than the original injury.
He told me that his dad once got the web between his thumb and forefinger split by a shotgun hammer and poured iodine on it without flinching. I have no trouble admitting that clearly my grandfather and father were a bit more macho than I.
Vixen Strangely
Dogs have a great sense of smell, and tea is pretty tasty. The teabag probably smelled teh awesome to Rosie, and then–bleargh, LEAVES! (See….dog being doggy. The zen insight is a process.)
My grandfather and my father-in-law both practiced “old man medicine”. My grandfather though Noxema was good for everything. Sunburn? Noxema. Swampass? Noxema. The tingling meant it was working. For my father-in-law, it’s the green, mentholated rubbing alcohol. You need to rub that into a sting or some bramble-scratches. I think “smells like medicine” is also a big factor in how this works.
Wile E. Quixote
@WarMunchkin:
I was trying for something topical that would involve the phrase “teabag to the eye” and reference Chris Lee’s resignation and John Böhner’s orange skin but it just wasn’t happening.
Perfect Tommy
Our rescued greyhound was limping last week and the vet wanted to take some x-rays. The dog is so jumpy that they needed to sedate him to keep him still. While he was under, they did a teeth and ear cleaning. I was supposed to pick him up at 4:30 pm. I get there and they tell me he is still sleeping it off, come back at 6:00 pm. We call at 5:50 and they say wait until 7:30. Get there at 7:30 and they tell us that he had a bad reaction to the anesthesia or possibly a stroke, and there is little chance that he will recover. He was unable to stand and his eyes were sweeping left and right without tracking on people around him. They suggested we put him down.
At the sound of my wife’s voice he began struggling to stand but was legless. I asked if there were any other options. They said we could take him to an all-night emergency vet in Annapolis, but that they tended to be very expensive and there was little chance for a recovery. Seeing him struggling to stand every time my wife spoke, I decided to try everything possible. They strapped him to a gurney and carried him to the car. We drove to Annapolis with tears streaming down our faces expecting to have to put him down.
Vet techs carried the dog into the ER and we headed for the waiting room. After 10 minutes, a vet comes out and tells us that the first vet had punctured his left eardrum and the sensory overload of having the vestibular canal full of the cleaning fluid was giving the dog a major case of the “spins” hence the inability to stand and the flashing eyes. Within 12 hours he was able to walk enough to take him back home and today he was running around the yard chasing the deer outside of his fence.
TrishB
Slow and steady with Rosie. One of my mini schnauzers is a difficult diabetic. She became blind from cataracts before we could get her diabetes fully controlled. Some months later, she developed atypical-Cushing’s Disease. Pepper now has a regular vet, an internist and an ophthalmologist.
I’ll be kind to poor Pepper and call her feisty, but well-behaved. It took slow and steady pressure to let her decide that regulated feedings, needles full of insulin, multiple daily pills, and a routine that involves 3 different eyedrops were going to be part of her day. Then let’s add the various occasional medications for infections related to her pre-existing conditions.
She freaked out at first because I was stressing out. I was always afraid I was going to hurt her, or worse yet, kill her. After I became more comfortable with the routine, she calmed down considerably.
asiangrrlMN
@Perfect Tommy: Oh my god. So many emotions running through me as I read your comment. I am soooo glad your dog is OK! And, a pox on that first vet.
@gbear: Aw, good kitteh. It is pretty cold out there. Even I think so because I have the ague. I can just picture your feet after they’ve been dunk in bleach, and it ain’t pretty.
Wile E. Quixote
@WarMunchkin:
I was also trying to work something up involving this phrase “…was just about to administer the tea bag when she jerked her head quickly, yanked the tea bag out of my hand, ripped it open with her teeth and tried to eat it, then spit everything on to the carpet.” Joe Miller and Lisa Murkowski, but damnit, I just couldn’t take it anywhere.
gbear
@asiangrrlMN: Thanks. Old kitty is standing in my lap as I type this.
I did avoid going out for the bacon cheeseburger. Too freakin’ cold to go out so I made due with what was in the fridge, which was a Tombstone pizza. I need to go get some real groceries…
Oh, and my dad picked up the bleach ‘remedy’ while he was on ship in the Navy during WW2. My feet were a mess for a couple of months.
Jim, Once
@Perfect Tommy: What a wonderful. wonderful story. I’m so glad for your pup…and that you did what you did.
eemom
my doggie came into the room this evening with a GLASS in his mouth. (My son had left it on the floor and it contained ice cream.) With horrified visions of crunching teeth, mouthfuls of blood, swallowed shards and a night at the Emergency Vet with a five figure price tag, I narrowly managed to get it away from his growling self without getting bitten.
He had an eye issue too recently. Examined, washed out, no cause found, antibiotic drops administered. Took a while to clear up. Fortunately that was only a 3 figure vet bill. I never even thought of teabags.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Dude, WTF?!?!
As anyone who’s ever wiped out on a Schwinn Stingray or a Big Wheel can tell you, dirt has magical healing powers. Rub some dirt on that bloody knee/hip/elbow and you’re good to go.
frosty
@suzanne: Many years ago I was in the Baltimore Rowing Club and went to the Philly Frostbite regatta in November. That particular year it was bitter cold. I was in the first race: Novice 8s. We’d dip the oar in the water, pull, feather, and by the time we dipped it in again it had a skim of ice on it.
The Army team from West Point was on the water with us in T-shirts and shorts. The T-shirts said “Whatever doesn’t kill us makes us strong.”
They canceled the whole regatta before we even ran our race. They took the Army team away in ambulances.
merrinc
@Perfect Tommy:
oh, man! I think I was holding my breath reading that – can’t imagine what all of you were feeling. I am so glad he pulled through. And damn those people for giving you such gawdawful advice.
Is he a former racing greyhound? I have been wanting one for a long time.
Michael Scott
John, you crack my ass up.
My stepdad grew up on a farm in Elgin, IL, and his mother was from West Virginia.
So if I say I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about, you’ll understand.
In fact, I’ll bet your dad and my stepdad were cousins.
Or brothers.
Probably both.
fraught
Iodine hurts, Mercurochrome doesn’t. Both are red.
Mine was a family which used Mercurochrome but we had neighbors who used Iodine. We felt sorry for the kids in those families.
TrishB
@Perfect Tommy: I’m so very glad that your pup is recovering.
Jebediah
@Perfect Tommy:
So glad that story has a happy ending! I was distressed and sore afraid of where it was going. Your pup picked the right owners.
Roger Moore
@frosty:
That which does not kill me does not kill me. And I am grateful.
moe99
@Perfect Tommy: OMG what an awful/terrific story. Are you going to discuss the malpractice with the first veterinarian, or can you not go back because you might hit him/her?
scav
Only things I can remember my parents putting on cuts were either Hydrogen peroxide or Betadine although I supposed we had Iodine somewhere about the premises. Maybe they’d have just left us to bleed to death or collapse into gangrenous puddles. But my great aunt would pursue us with salt to put on wounds. Insisted it prevented scarring.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
I have to carry Alan Rickman to approach you? Damn, time for more 5×5 training at the gym!
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Did you not see the and/or chocolate bit? Dark chocolate, though, or I will cold-cock you (and not in a good way).
KG
@suzanne: yeah, this is my Cuban grandfather that would do this.
Jebediah
@scav:
The fuck?! What about the psychological scarring?
Waratah
Tea bags are supposed to reduce swelling under your eyes.
I could not tell if it worked but felt cool and refreshing.
My Mothers choice was hydrogen peroxide. Sometimes it hurt really bad
Other it did not. She was also a believer of cod liver oil and rinsing your sore throat with salt water and threatening us not to throw up
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
*chuckles*
I was considering a response with hot cocks involved, and then decided that I don’t even like dark chocolate that much. I’ll pour the stuff over in molten form, if that’s what makes you feel good. But, I still ain’t carrying Alan Rickman. I don’t have a piece of string long enough, for one thing.
Waratah
Tea bags are supposed to reduce swelling under your eyes.
I could not tell if it worked but felt cool and refreshing.
My Mothers choice was hydrogen peroxide. Sometimes it hurt really bad
Other it did not. She was also a believer of cod liver oil and rinsing your sore throat with salt water and threatening us not to throw up
Perfect Tommy
@merrinc: Yes, we got him though a Maryland group called Greyhound Welfare about five years ago. The adoption is an involved process requiring a home inspection and a waiting period. They try to weed out the “impulse” adopters how don’t have the dedication and resources to deal with a rescue.
Waratah
Sorry about the double post.
Waratah
Sorry about the double post.
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: You don’t like dark chocolate? You don’t like dark chocolate? Well, then, more for me. Especially if I can lick it off your….
@Waratah: Ouch. So much ouch in this thread!
@MattR: Why not? If he’s willing to bring me Alan Rickman, who are you to stop him?
And, I don’t squeal.
MattR
@morzer: Don’t enable her or do her dirty work. If she wants Alan Rickman that much then she has to figure out how to make it happen. Something more than just pointing and squealing.
@asiangrrlMN: It was very funny to get the following piece of advice in my first job out of college from a female coworker in her mid 30’s. “Be careful with chocolate syrup. There is only so much that you can lick off”
@asiangrrlMN:
Not even if he brought Tunch pictures?
scav
@Jebediah: Luckily, apart from that, she was a perfectly amazing aunt. We just learned not to get hurt or to lie about it.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Leave my nipples alone, you.. you.. no, on second thoughts, don’t leave them alone! Faster, faster, pussycat!
@MattR:
But..but.. she’s cute, and dirty, and sexy.. and I get all the milk chocolate. Anyway, nothing wrong with a bit of pointing and squealing. It’s the season for it,after all.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Leave my nipples alone, you.. you.. no, on second thoughts, don’t leave them alone! Faster, faster, pussycat!
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Leave my nipples alone, you.. you.. no, on second thoughts, don’t leave them alone!
asiangrrlMN
@MattR: SQUEEEEEEEE! TUUUUUUUNCHIE! Ahem.
And, yes. Chocolate syrup can be…fun.
@morzer: Tweak tweak.
Welcome, to Late Night Balloon Juice. Get comfortable. Grab a drink. Unwind.
morzer
@MattR:
Are you suggesting I would exploit an innocent cat in order to toy with Asiangrrl’s incredible erotic possibilities?
How do you know me so well?
MattR
@morzer:
No, I was talking about Tunch ;)
kdaug
My grandfather used to drink 4 oz of apple cider vinegar every morning. Might still. He’s 97.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
I can feel the air filling my balloon already….
Anne Laurie
@Perfect Tommy: I am SOOO glad your story had a happy ending! As the saying goes: The ‘expensive’ vet is the one who kills your pet out of carelessness / inattention! And you probably know this already (tho your ex-vet may not) but sighthounds are notorious for being really really sensitive to anesthesia — side effect of all those fast-twitch muscles & no body fat.
Perfect Tommy
@moe99: My wife and are considering asking Vet #1 to pay for Vet #2. The vet who x-rayed the dog went home knowing he was in distress. The owner of the practice was there that night but sent another vet that we had never seen before to speak to us. She told us that all of the senior vets had conferred about his condition and concurred that there was little to be done. It happens from time to time when dogs have anesthesia and particularly to greyhounds. While it is true that greyhounds are more sensitive to anesthesia than other breeds, I have to wonder how many otherwise healthy dogs they have put down.
Vet #2 said she knew immediately that it was not a stroke or brain damage because the eyes were moving laterally and brain damage causes vertical rolling. She keyed right in on his ears.
And Vet #1 works for a highly respected business in the community that just built a sprawling new building to house their practice.
morzer
@MattR:
I’m trying very hard not to juxtapose Tunch, Asiangrrl and molten chocolate. If Alan Rickman gets into the mix as well, I may need a cold shower.. and it’s below zero here in Boston.
Ole Phat Stu
So you’re a failed teabagger now?
asiangrrlMN
@MattR: Ha! Point to you. Well played, sir.
@morzer: Throw pizza in there as well. That, my friend, has all the makings for one hell of a night.
@MattR: Yes. To both your comments.
Perfect Tommy
@Anne Laurie: Thanks Anne. they were aware of the anesthesia sensitivity because we made them write it on his chart. From speaking to a former tech today, it appears that this place has turned into a factory type operation where multiple techs did the various procedures.
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: Chicago or New York style? It makes all the difference
@Perfect Tommy: I am so happy to hear your story had a happy ending. Personally, I would expect the first vet to cover any bills from the second vet (as well as not charge you for the initial visit that caused all of this).
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Perfect Tommy: Wow! Good for you for going for the second opinion. I’m giving you and your wife power of attorney over me. Where do I send the paperwork?
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Well, if pizza is involved, I shall permit you and your hellish entourage of satanic feline conspirators and warlocks to do as they wish. Bring on the most perverse erotic experiments and combinations you can imagine – provided that I get an extra-large with bacon as a key topping!
Jason Kuznicki, if you are reading this, try not to feel too sad about not being invited. Believe me, you’d be about as useful as fitting wheels on a tomato.
morzer
@MattR:
What no Brazilian?
Or were you talking about pizza?
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Boston, you say? I’m on my way. And, snort on your last comment.
@morzer: OUCH! NO!
Perfect Tommy
@MattR: Actually, Vet #1 waited for us to pay the $430 tab before telling us that there was a problem. Real fine treatment all around.
MattR
@morzer: Yes, pizza. I don’t think I want to know what Chicago style is otherwise.
@Perfect Tommy: Is there some way you can replace his belt with one made out of beef jerky? I am not a violent person and I doubt I would actually follow up, but my urges to punch the first vet in the face would be quite strong.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Are you waxing indignant, sweet thang?
asiangrrlMN
@Perfect Tommy: You’re kidding me. That’s outrageous. Man. I’m just glad your dog made it through that horrible experience.
@morzer: Not waxing at all. OUCH!
ETA: Not waking, either, apparently.
goblue72
@Wile E. Quixote: I haven’t given up on those days. As far as I am concerned, the Tea Baggers ARE a bunch of morons running around who’ve adopted a sexual practice from the gay community as a symbol of their “movement”. I think its apropos to think of them as a bunch of hairy assholes shoving their smelly balls in everyone’s face.
And to wit, Cole, if you tried to shove your nutsack in Rosie’s eyeball, then you get what you deserve!
Perfect Tommy
@asiangrrlMN: Yes, in Brooklyn we called it chutzpah. They really put us through the wringer. But in the end, having the dog back home is all I care about.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
merthiolate – I have not been able to explain to my kids the horror that is merthiolate.
asiangrrlMN
@Perfect Tommy: This is true. Still, that first vet is a jackhole. I was so relieved to reach the end of your story and discover that your dog is fine.
Rachel in Portland
My favorite part was John’s deciding not to wonder whether it should be black tea or green tea. Because you know he was.
Anne Laurie
@eemom:
Usually dogs will “trade” a dangerous item for something really, really desirable — grab a chunk of cheese or hot dog or chicken from the frig, show it to your dog, and be prepared to grab the glass as soon as he lets it go. Our accidental-adoptee Gloria should’ve been named Scarlett O’Hara… like the lady from Tara, a traumatic past made her decide she would never go hungry again, and like Scarlett, this decision has made her unfit for polite company. We do our best to keep her scavenging talents in mind, but she has a genius for scoring old sandwich wrappers, empty tin cans, frozen poop, unidentifiable street garbage, etc.
Since Gloria’s ‘issues’ also include occasional dominance spats with the other dogs, cat-scaring (she’s never tried to hurt them, but she loves to sneak up on our ex-ferals and go booga booga to make them scream & run), and barking insanely at the doorbell, we’ve got a nice comfy crate standing in the living room, and when she gets too wound up we say “Time out, Gloria” and she knows to march into the crate and get the door latched behind her for a few minutes. I learned this mediation method from other people with High Stimulus Response dogs (not always rescues) and it has saved all concerned a lot of unpleasantness…
Anne Laurie
@scav:
Betadine (povidine iodine 1%) is just half-strength iodine. It doesn’t sting because it isn’t as strong, but it’s still strong enough to kill most bacteria most of the time.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
OT (is there a T left on this thread?) Slavoj Zizek talks Egypt
Anne Laurie
@Perfect Tommy:
Might be worth asking Vet #2 to contact Vet #1 directly. You’ve probably already paid the second bill, but the jerks at the Factory Vet Practice should know that they’ve been busted, if only so they’re more careful with the next sighthound under their “care”!
scav
@Anne Laurie: Didn’t know that. Thanks. It is comforting to know they weren’t actually trying to kill us by neglect, however much we may have deserved it. I do remember being slightly freaked by the Hydrogen peroxide because I wondered about embolisms. Yes, entirely too much Emergency was watched in our household.
Jebediah
@Perfect Tommy:
That’s fucked up. Don’t they worry at all about bad publicity? If you make a mistake, own up and apologize, a lot of people can be very forgiving. Act like they did, and people are more likely to want to warn others away from them. And there’s an internet these days, with its Yelp and whatnot.
We had a much different experience with Otto getting ultrasound and x-rays. The place his vet referred us to is a short walk from the house. Otto was so traumatized that when we walk near the place, he drags me to their door and insists on going inside to say hello to his new friends.
Lesley
Rosie knows how you feel about teabag(ger)s, so maybe she thought she was doing you a favour.
suzanne
@Perfect Tommy: That is intense! So glad all is okay.
ERGH. All this talk of pain is making me want to take some of the narcotics I keep on hand just for these purposes. I took a pretty bad spill while running yesterday, then, because I’m an idiot, went running again today. WTF was I thinking? That’s Palin-level judgement right there.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@scav: In particular, practicing that with a clicker and treats and a command will help quite a bit.
When I first got my dog, I spent a lot of time working on the “drop it” command. Which has been invaluable. Like the time he picked up a dead frog that I didn’t want to touch. It’s pretty awesome.
Now when he gets something he shouldn’t have in the house, he just brings it to us and gives it to us. He busts himself. That is his own quirk though, I have no idea how to train that.
kdaug
Y’all probly wanna see this before they take it down.
Heh, indeed.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Heh. Trollop. I so proud.
morzer
@Yutsano:
I think you are supposed to slap her across the face with a satin glove, or some such.
Just sayin’.
Yutsano
@morzer: Nah, I’m not the violent type like that. Just a simple bless her heart will do.
morzer
@Yutsano:
Protocol must be followed, or else what will happen to our fine national morality? For the sake of decency, sir, stwike her, centuwion!
Yutsano
@morzer: I r also skeered of her. Mostly the damage she could do with her impressive tatas.
morzer
@Yutsano:
What better way to perish
Than fighting fearful odds
In the tatas of a beauty
While thanking all the gods?
Yutsano
@morzer: How’s about, oh I dunno, LIVING? Breathing does have its own merits, plus Allah only knows what my next life is gonna be.
morzer
@Yutsano:
Well, if I have to die, I’d rather croak en plein tata than wondering about the future….
asiangrrlMN
@morzer:
@Yutsano:
I leave you two alone for mumble mumble minutes, and look at the trouble into which you get. I do have the impressive tatas, though. I will admit to that. They are ‘take no prisoner’ kind of tatas.
@Yutsano: I love that word!
asiangrrlMN
For example. Here. Just a tease.
@Yutsano: How are you?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: :: whistles innocently and looks cute ::
That’ll sometimes work. And there is nothing wrong with embracing one’s inner trollop. Or outer one for that matter.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I really can’t do innocent. I just don’t have the face for it.
kdaug
@morzer:
You do. Choose how, or have it chosen for you.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I kinda sorta do. Lots of practice I think. Being a middle child kinda fucks you up in life.
I’m about ready to give a revenue officer in Arizona a nice long piece of my mind for leaving me her mess to clean up. Over an hour and a half on the phone just because she couldn’t be bothered. Ugh.
morzer
@kdaug:
Pessimist!
Yutsano
@kdaug: “He chose poorly.”
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Ugh! I bet you took care of it, though.
You’re a middle child? Of course you are.
@kdaug: Two dildi and a wetsuit!
morzer
@Yutsano:
If dying between Asiangrrl’s tatas is choosing poorly, I hope I make many poor decisions!
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: It was literally a situation where I could only do so much with the person I was talking to without her husband also being around. So it may yet come back to haunt me, and if it does, it goes back to the RO. She can clean up her own fucking mess.
Second of four boys. There is a reason my mom went ecstatic when my youngest brother married a smart one.
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Ha! Nice riposte. The jubleys are very comfortable–so I’ve been told.
@Yutsano: FRUSTRATING. But, you did what you could.
Second of four? Yes. That fits. So, only one of the brothers is married? I can’t wait to wear my Morticia dress for your wedding to the Dawg.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: My older brother is bisexual so doubt he ever will. My younger brother is very awkward around women. I think he’ll just have to find a woman who fits him. I only wish I knew where she was. I’m half-tempted to ship him off to Japan for a year just to see what happens. He knows the language and culture well enough to get by, though he’d tower over all of them.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Hey! You saying bisexuals can’t commit? Why, I…resemble that remark. Damn it.
Younger bro: Japan? I hear the women are FIERCE over there.
ETA: So if you do hitch up with the Dawg, that’ll pretty much be it for the marital relations in your family, eh?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: My sister-in-law would squee, my mom would probably eventually warm up to him, and my younger brothers would talk sports and shit and get slightly protective. It’s my dad that would be the big problem. There is nothing worse for an old Navy sailor than having your progeny marry a Marine.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Ooooooh! Yeah, I can see that Navy/Marine would not be a good combo. Where’s the popcorn?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I’d be sure that he didn’t show up in uniform, especially dress blues. My father does congenial very well, but he can cut you down like a santoku through warm butter if you’re not careful. And if my father decides not to like you…there is no changing his mind. But I bet the Dawg could win him over.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Eeps! Now I’m worried about meeting your dad.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Nah you’re a woman. He’d lurve you. Only thing is my mom might try to pawn you off on my younger brother. I am NOT letting my mom and your mom get together. Dowries might start flying.
Hate to cut things short, but gotta see the docs in the morning. Night y’all.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I’m outie, too. Night! And, doctor?
matoko_chan
lissen.
you will get along MUCH better if she is TIRED.
do you have a yard or not?
electricfenceelectricfenceelectricfence
Luci
@Perfect Tommy… I’m so glad your dog is going to be ok. What a horrible experience. Also, have you considered talking to the licensing board for vets in your state? Or, maybe telling vet #1 you are considering talking to them? I am not sure of the laws and such in cases like this, but the board can tell you if there is anything to be done, and sometimes a business will not want the hassle of having to deal with their board and will try to do more to make it right… like refund you some money, or pay for vet #2. It does not have to get confrontational if you do not like that, and you might feel better, or maybe you’ll get some satisfaction.
@John Cole… Again… kudos for being so good to Rosie. You really ARE a wonderful doggie companion, and at least your conscience will be clear. As I get older, and older, and OLDER, I value that more. ;)
@everyone…this looked like a really fun discussion. I am sorry I’m not a night owl so I might have participated in it last night. You guys are all great… and hilarious!
Phyllis
My momma’s people are from Bristol Tenn/Va. This was my childhood as well. We are likely cousins.
bookcat
@Perfect Tommy: Holy Crap!
I know which vet you went to Annapolis, we’ve gone there many times. Please tell me the name of your first vet! I want to make sure I never take me pets there.
bookcat
I should say that the Annapolis emergency vets basically saved my dachshund life. They are expensive but they really know what they are talking about. I’m up in Baltimore city and the closest vet to me is one that no one I know goes to, at least not twice. Something tells me this is the place you went to.