• Hallo! its raining so much here, will it ever end!?



• Last Thursday the Spice Girls announced their reunion and world tour and they all have aged gracefully and look like they are in their 30's! (I am sorry I don't believe Geri is 34! There is no way she is under 40! See also on this topic BB Ziggy, there is no way he is 26!). They all go together and all look normal, except Victoria who looks like a total freak!
  
  
  
  its like total freak (and not in a good way) and then normal looking women! you can read the full story here



• The problem with the current trend of reunions is that its great to see them back and then you realise they were so tedious and boring and wish they would go away again! Maybe they should make it international law that all reunions can release one single and/or album and do some concerts but have to disappear after 6 months lol. I love the Spice Girls at the time, but they seem so out of place now!



• I think I am too cynical for big event style concerts. I just thought the Concert for Diana was just pretty awful and next weekend is Live Earth. Surely more of the earths resources will be used for it, then not having it on, eg all the stars are flying in their private planes for the events around the world. With like 3 people to a private plane! I hope they offset all their carbon with buying forests which may or may not possibly die. The only good thing about Live Earth is Madonna!



• This is such a musical themed post! weird. Tomorrow the dog is having a specialist behaviourist come and visit. He has a penchant for chasing and barking at runners. The dog not the specialist. It seems to be a good career to be in, she is getting £150 and it 'may take more than one session'. He better be cured! Maybe we need a hypnotist! I must write about the old lady when walking the dog, that she needed an ambulance when she fell, it shall follow!
  

Tags: celebrities, environmental, music, pets, seamus the dog, world
Current Mood: cynical

Hallo!

• Thank you for all the lovely birthday greetings for my birthday, it was fabulous! Lets not go into the strange presents from my family!



• Last weekend (the weekend before last weekend, is that two weekends ago, or is that last weekend? oh its so confusing), My Mother and I looked after two dogs and a cat for some friends. My father was away with his university in Valencia and we decided we could not handle the two dogs over. They were fine and no one got maimed or injured!


here is some piccies...







They were so cute! More pics of them right here Its the only time you will see me licking my lips at a pussie!


• Ever since my birthday I have had the flu really badly. Its better now but I still have it! It seems to be going around everyone and lasts like 3 weeks! Although I was worse for a few days and not as bad now. I caught it off my dear father. I was debating with friends about flu and colds. To me a flu effects everything about you and you don't feel like you could leave the house or do anything, and a cold is uncomfortable and annoying but you can live with it. I never seem to get colds, always flu's! During this flu my nose started running and it never runs or gets blocked! In the worst days my nose was streaming and red! I felt shit but I was celebrating getting a cold in ages! Some alternative therapies believe that if you never ever get ill, its a really bad thing as everything is blocked up and some believe that with my condition my immune system could be too tired to handle flu, so I never seem to get it but my immune system is really fucked up! Having it is clearing, clearing I tell you! and gives you more energy / better health etc. I still feel more tired than usual but my nose is back to normal! At one point I did feel like death with a red nose! I don't know why but that makes me laugh!



• This weekend was just as crazy! On Sunday our dog Seamus had a dogs birthday party! A friend of his, was having her 3rd birthday party! So it was a dog party! with a dog cake made with dog chocolate and general mayhem! Seamus even got a party bag to go home with! Birthday parties for animals is the future! You can invite all their friends around and get drunk with the owners! Its socialising at its finest. Finally in the evening my parents had some friends around and had a bbq which involved a huge salmon in newspaper and water being frequently poured to keep the newspaper wet and not incinerate!



• I love how in the UK we have so little Summer days that if the sun is even out at all everyone is suddenly in summer outfits, cars have their roofs down and people run to the beaches! We went to Poole on the last bank holiday and it was freezing by the coast (but there was loads of hot bikers!) and my Mother and I were amazed at all these guys wearing just vests and girls in equal fashion and it was like 10 degrees! If you buy a car with a convertible roof you must only get to use it about 3 days a year! lol I think British people do go insane at the first sight of Summer and then when there is a heatwave no one can handle and the country collapses! or maybe its just me! I want government statistics on how many people got pneumonia the last time the sun came out! Although I am obviously not complaining about the hot guys in their vests/shirtless etc! It may be May, but its not SUMMER!



• Now I go sleep!

Tags: events, food, pets, pictures posted, uk, weather
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha (Radio Edit)

After my last update about our sick cat Rosie its not good news :( I last posted last Tuesday the 29th and sorry for the delay in posting an update, I kept thinking about how to write this out and word it.

We left her at home and did not really want to take her back to the vets. She would not eat anything and no one could get her to eat anything at all and we tried every variation of food, hot and cold :( The only thing the vet said is that she could go back to the vets and be on a feeding drip again and literally force feed her.

She died on Thursday the 1st of December at about 11pm. I actually felt a sense of relief when we found her dead under my bed :( She did not eat anything at all since the Monday we got her out of the vets. According to internet advice I looked up online it said that a healthy small thin cat can last about 24 hours without any food and large cats can last about 48 hours. She was not a big cat, but lasted from Monday evening till Thursday! I find that amazing, but she refused to eat and save herself! I found it very distressing last week and was very upset and I started getting iller and iller from the stress :(

I know some friends of mine on here have lost loved ones to illnesses that involve slow deaths and not eating etc and I really really feel for them now. Its horrid watching her slowly waste away and get weaker and weaker and there is nothing you can do! I kept thinking she wont be here tomorrow and I was thinking on Thursday how long can she last! I think I realised she was going to die the weekend she was at the vets before we got her home. She just had something majorly wrong with her and she knew it.

On the Thursday I had this really weird like feeling or freedom and relief. It was very stressful and she was constantly on my bed or under it the whole time. I feel more depressed now but she died at home and she was happy on my bed. Rather than in the vets. We were planning what should we do on the friday or weekend (last weekend) if she is still alive. She was not uncomfortable or in pain that we know of, but she cannot live like this forever and I am so glad we didn't have to make decisions to put her to sleep. I think we would have, if it went on any further.

I was really worried about her starving to death and if it was really painful, but the vet said that cats will tell you if they are in pain and will make sounds. If she was in real pain we could call the vet out, but she never was and I am glad.

The vets bill came to a total of around £500 ($871 US) but she could not live on a tube forever. Its amazing how she suddenly had really bad health. Apparently it was all to do with the heart and heart disease :(

It was not as shocking as our old dogs death and he died at the end of 7 from a really similar thing! But its sad we are left with her daughter and the dog. She will be missed especially as she lived constantly in my bedroom driving me insane!

The biggest irony of all is that when she was 1 years old in our house, she have kittens under my bed in this room (which was then my bedroom and now is a computer / spare / junk room), she had 4 kittens and died under my bed in the bedroom I am in now in the attic. I will miss her, but she is better now :)

old pic of her sleeping on my bed, taken by Rich

Tags: pets, rosie the cat
Current Mood: sad
Current Music: Deee-Lite - Somebody

After my post before which is linked right here, I shall write more about Rosie. Its a long post, so if you don't want to read it than that's fine.

Wednesday 23rd
Following on from my last post, I was waiting for my mother to come and then take her off to the vets. But as I waited she seemed to worsen and her breathing was getting wheezy and she was almost blowing bubbles when she breathed. Also she kept miaowing and it was really horrid situation alone! It was a long wait from about 5pm to 6:30pm when my mum was home. It was a really complicated evening because a decorator was coming to look at our house for re-painting all the hallways and so I had to stay at home and my mum went off the vet with her.

The vet kept Rosie in. The vet was not sure what was wrong with her but it could be not too bad and like an infection or virus. She is a small cat and she has been affected badly before years ago by one. But in the worst case it could be an organ failure internally :( She said she would take her in and try to get her stabilised on a drip and on a heated pad, because she was very cold. It was a bit touch and go.

Thursday 24th

The news was not all that positive but by the end of the day she had made some improvement! She had blood tests done and they all seemed fine, except from a very high glucose level. She thought it might be diabetes, but there was no glucose in the urine, so she did not have diabetes, and this can be caused by being under stress. When she came in she was breathing under stress and her heart was under stress. The X-rays that were done found she had some water in her lungs and around them. This was not a good thing. The plan is to keep stabilising her and give her medicine to clear her up

Friday 25th

The vet thinks its all done to her heart. All other organs are working fine. Her heart is enlarged and could have caused all the problems. She is given heart medicine. She has improved a bit.

Saturday 26th

She is better but can only be fed by a nurse with a syringe container plastic bit. She cannot eat for herself. Me and my Mum go and visit her at about 6pm, and my father is away in Germany. She was on a drip.

Rosie at the vets on a drip


another pic on the drip, and ignoring food :(

She looks really ill and miserable in those pics but actually she wasn't. When we got there she was miaowing a lot and then sort of laid down. She was still on a drip and would not eat any food offered!

Sunday 27th

Not really much happened that day but my parents have been driving me insane. They keep worrying about the cost of it all. We are not a poor family, we are not really rich either, we are middle class, but we have enough money to pay it. I was a bit worried myself how much it would be, because boarding overnight is expensive! But I think you have to pay and give her a chance. The question was how much longer should this go on? My mum decided that Monday was decision night!

Monday 28th

My Mum or I spoke to the vet on the phone each day and in the morning my mother spoke to her. She said she had tried everything really and maybe its worth trying to take her home. We went to get her in the evening. She is much better than when she went in on that Wednesday night. She is on heart medicine and its not thumping in her body and also she is no longer cold, which was caused by the heart. She was breathing okay and all water in the lungs was gone. Rosie was driving the vet insane, she had tried everything and still would not eat and she should be okay now! She even bite a nurse trying to feed her by hand! I thought she must be improved! lol

We took her home and she still had problems walking, she was really not a well cat. The vet had got everything improved but she still would not eat anything on her own. There is no point in keeping her alive if she cannot eat, its not good quality of life! So it was to see if she would eat at home. Also she would be more comfortable there and with people who loved her and knew her etc. Later on that evening she went on my bed, where she normally sleeps. Unlike before where she was always stretched out she curled up again, which was good I thought!

Tuesday 29th

So this is today, or yesterday now as its early Weds morning. She just constantly sleeps on my bed really. She does not seem to be in pain or anything or crying or anything but she will not eat anything. The vet tried every type of food on her and we have left a bowl. The vet said to give her 48 hours and then get back to her.

I guess we talk to the vet again tomorrow but I am not sure what to do from here. She is not living her normal life on my bed. She is sleeping but how long can a cat survive without any food or nutrition? I think its a way of telling us that maybe its time. I am just worried about her starving to death and is it horrid. So I don't know if she will just fall asleep or if we have to take her to the vets again. Its a really weird situation. I guess she is better than before but not living a normal life and cannot survive like she is.

Here is some photos of today, on my bed...

lying on my bed, not asleep, perked up!


Rosie ignoring all food still :(



Rosie wrapped with a blanket to keep her warm


I am not very positive about the situation :(
Anyway I am off to bed, more updates as they happen!

I am addicted to my LJ Scrapbook to put photos in! You can click any of the pics on this page to see a bigger one or see the whole gallery with some other pics right here

Tags: pets, rosie the cat
Current Mood: sad

trying this post again now l think l have got it working!
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ooh! trying to post pictures from my phone straight to my lj! its the future! Its just test photos of the woofer!

Tags: pets, pictures posted, posted from my mobile, seamus the dog

Trying to post a pic direct from my mobile again! Went to visit Rosie at the vet today and its not looking good :(

I will give an update tomorrow about her but I found this photo of her on my phone when she was well and annoying me in bed on the 21/11/05:-




omg it posted okay! :)

Tags: pets, pictures posted, posted from my mobile, rosie the cat
Current Mood: okay

My mobile pics post didn't work :( I will try it again after I have read through the instructions thoroughly. I think you have to upload a pic and start your lj scrapbook section of picture storage going and then when you send any pics remotely they are stored there!

Those of you who don't know, we have 3 pets living in the house (plus fish in a pond). Seamus the dog who is nearly 2, Rosie the cat who is 13 next April and her daughter cat Millie who is 11 currently. They are quite senior cats. The oldest my parents have ever had a cat for is 13 years so far on a cat they had when I was a child. I am always very worried about finding Rosie dead somewhere. Although she has a perfect bill of health when she is given an annual examination. Also they always say that dogs just go to sleep and pass away and cats live on and on and fight and go through cancers and horrid illnesses and keep fighting. We can say we have experienced that in the past!

Anyway Rosie has not been well the last couple of days. She mostly sleeps in my room and on my bed or under it. However she has been there constantly and hardly moved at all. She has this long position stretched out, and she normally sleeps curled up a ball :(

Here is some pics of her in her stretched out position...
(they were taken by my phone cam at night, and thus went weirdly blue!)





She has this weird totally stretched out position and her claws seem to keep getting stuck in the bed :( Also when she does get up she has very bad co-ordination and she is not eating and hardly drinking! I am deeply concerned!

Anyway she is going to the vet tonight and hopefully she will be okay! I have thought about every condition for her, is it this or this and really I have no idea! although today I wonder if its a mobility injury, like she has hurt her back and is in pain. So its about 3 hours to the vets and I keep hearing her crying out miaowing :(

Hopefully she is totally fine and its just something not to bad.

I decided if I ever move out I don't want any pets. As much as I love them, they are so stressful and you have to do all the vet stuff and medical payments. or is that just really selfish! i love animals but 4 people in this household have difficultly with all of ours! lol

I shall post more, in the words of Rusty from the block ho hum.

Tags: pets, rosie the cat