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All my pictures are too large up download here. I use Chrome and don't know how to shrink them! Yea... unless the seams start to leak, and your blood pressure is sure to spike LOL. Last fall my 55 gal hexagonal tank started leaking. What a job I had to scoop out the fish and drain the tank before it let go and spewed all 55 gallons of water on my hardwood floors. Fortunately I had a 10 gal tank at the office to take them to. I never replaced the tank as it was 30 years old and we had had it repaired twice already.

Coffeecup - Got to do this without quoting, otherwise this will get merged again! YES! Joe felt bad for 3 days too! At least it showed your physicians something to go on. Yes, I no longer have cats, because I have the birds! Didn't think it would be fair to either species! I have had cats with the hunter instinct as you described; my persians were like the Fancy Feast cats and wouldn't be bothered to hunt a mouse. Joe and I witnessed it with our own eyes when we were building an addition onto our last home. A mouse got inside and Honey just watched it go... never untucked his feet from underneath him to be bothered. My daughter has two cats and they LOVE to watch their fish, but they just watch. Argus is a character to be sure.

thank you! I love this hamster. I forgot I had them when I was young - 13-17. One day while at school my mom said she was in the dining room of our old Victorian, folding laundry. Somehow my hamster had gotten out of his cage (they are real escape artists aren't they?) she she said said she screamed because it startled her. I recall because she said she grabbed the nearest item, a large pair of her underwear to scoop it up and carry it back to its aquarium! She said she secured the top really well after that! No on the disability, not long term. Short term is the law here in NYS. that will bring us a whopping $160.00 a week. Can they stand it? Better than nothing I guess. Won't help with my mortgage but will buy me food and gas. At least the company has to pay his insurance due to the family leave law. His company has more than 50 employees. Thank you.

Yes, he is bonded to me, thus he HATES Joe. We have a small bathroom off the LR and the other day Argus was still out because I did not expect Joe home so early. He chased Joe into the bathroom and paced the bottom door frame where there is like an inch spacing, trying to squeeze under! As soon as he got to the farthest side I called Joe out who ran the opposite direction and into the kitchen. If you are wondering why *I* did not simply get Argus, he would have bitten me. Displaced anger. Amazon bites are the worst. Joe is great with Argus, not many men would tolerate it. I had a Abby GP too! So cute. They want the lettuce in the refrigerator! :) Makes me smile just thinking about them now. You should! They really are wonderful pets. I have had them and rabbits, and I love rabbits, but the personalities of the GP can't be beat. Never owned a mean GP either. While I had many (4-H) probably my favorite was like this one pictured. His name was Peanutbutter.

Funny note.... I came home from work yesterday after a morning at the hospital. One my way to work, went through a war zone... literally, trees falling as I drove through a bad thunderstorm. I am driving, wondering if there will even be power once I get to work. Well... just as I am climbing the last incline to the intersection I need to make the final leg of my trip, firefighters stop us and we all have to turn around and take a LONG detour. the storm brought down trees onto power lines. Ugh. Last night I attempted to go back home this way, no go. This morning, still nope. Anyway by the time I get home last night at 6 pm I am DONE. FINIS. I usually spend an hour at least with my male Double Yellow Headed Amazon, Argus. I covered him and apologized that mamma had to go to bed at 6:30. HE CRIED, WAILED for 15 minutes like a baby. We still do not know how he learned this as there are no infants in this house. It was heart breaking. Animals are just amazing to me. They will do this. Anyone else here have guinea pigs who did this? One summer I brought my GP to VT where we would spend time with our cousins. We are best buds even now. Well we were about 12 - 13 and my cousin had a female and I had a male, and we thought... why not? babies would be cute. Let me tell you, again, if you have ever had GPs... they made a DISTINCT call when they are going to do the deed! All of a sudden we hear our mother's voices coming from the other bedroom... "What are you girls doing in there!?" Ha. It was funny. No babies made that night.

I love them all; kinda like the title of this forum. I had cats for years, Cricket was my Himalayan as is my avatar. Honey was my cream Persian and Kelly was my calico long hair. Always been partial to German Shepherds, Max died last August and the new one will be 4 weeks tomorrow. We get pick of the litter, and looking forward to this dog, which will be named Cody, for Joe's recovery. We have a palomino horse named Sadie, chickens and one rooster, and salt water fish. I also have 4 large parrots and 1 small parrot. I love guinea pigs too, had them many years ago. Loved how they would squeal whenever the refrigerator door would be opened. My vet loves me.

My late soul sister Diana had one of these cats named Mitzi too. I spent many hours with her myself. Thank you for the pleasant memory in both of their memories.

Wow. Your adventure was stressful. Joe and I just looked at one another when the tech brought two boxes marked radio active in on a dolly. Using the Geiger counter was jarring as well. They injected Joe, not sure if he had to drink something, probably. I know he had to eat a high protein, low carb dinner the night before. I had to leave once they injected him. Like you said, he was supposed to keep all his muscles extremely calm and the technician said that mere talking to me would be bad for the test, so I left. I went to the waiting room where I prayed. He, like you, said he felt awful afterwards... mostly the next day and the following. He held his humor though, sending his brother a picture of himself with lazer beams shooting out of his eyes. His brother told him he was a sick puppy! My mom and dad both had COPD, my mom had sarcocidosis (sp) too which looked like nodules in her lungs. Praying for the best results for you. Bronxbabe - How are you doing?

Hello all! I have A LOT of reading to do to catch up on this forum and the other! Update on our meeting with Joe's new surgeon yesterday in regards to the PET Scan - I was so completely exhausted I was in bed at 6:30 and slept through the night. I went to work from the visit down with the surgeons at Albany Med. They kept us waiting for one hour and 15 minutes in the exam room while both surgeons reviewed the CD of the Pet scan. The only sure cancer was that on the liver which has enlarged to the size of a golf ball. They originally told us it was a fatty spot and nothing to worry about! They said no other spots of cancer showed. Praise to Jesus for this. They are going to have Joe take his next chemo as scheduled on Monday, then stop so he can go into surgery again, on July 13th. Dr. Nigam will remove the tumor on the liver and Dr Valerian his colon cancer dr. will remove the ostomy bag is is wearing now and reattach his GI system to his colon. He will be out of work for another month and there will be no more income coming in from him as he has used up his vacation and sick time. This is a worry of course. Dr Nigam said the tumor is not affecting the large veins and arteries in the liver at the moment so he wants to remove it ASAP and not wait till the fall and I am happy about this. Then after surgery, he will resume Chemo.

Than you, SL. I never slept so hard in my life last night. I think this is the most emotionally exhausted I have ever been

Meant to add this is SEAHAG celebrating! Yay! SEAHAG is the victorious one here! (not me!) I messed up

Zoemom - We have a landline still; through Vonage. Had it for years now, love that company. Occasionally a number will come over Joe and I have no idea about. I will say. "Do you know who is calling from Nebraska?" he shakes his head and we ignore it. Not too often though. If it is important, they leave a message. None of these occasional oddball numbers never leave messages.

am celebrating my 35th anniversary of being cancer free. That is great news! I think I said the rosary 6 rotations while I waited. I picked up the CD in the afternoon and took it to St. Mary's to bless it with Holy Water and prayed. It is in my bible now in Matthew 9:20 because I do not want Joe to put it in the computer to look at it. He did that when he had a MRI last fall. We will bring it to his newest surgeon down at Albany Med on Monday. He was radioactive for 5 hours after this test. Anyone here get a PET Scan before?

Good evening, all. BB- Thinking of you. First few days, weeks afterwards it the worst I though. Prayers welcome... Joe goes in for the Pet Scan tomorrow to search for cancer other than the liver. We take the disk to his surgeon to hear the results Monday. Another weekend to stress... I have determined that since I have always struggled with patience, this is my ultimate test from God. I watch a lot of Weather Channel, Q (for comedic relief) and HGTV and Yankee games just to limit my news intake. I don't think it is healthy to take in too much negativity.

You're welcome. You're a brave woman to share your soul with us all. I wish I had that strength as things with Joe's cancer is not going as hoped. I am terrified and not at all brave. I think you did an outstanding job in all of this. I wish we could hug and share a cup of coffee or tea with one another. Being a grown up is sometimes overrated... I think we need to embrace out inner child more.

Love the WC and Weather Underground... was happy to see there was a forum for it, is it very active? I talk to myself plenty already....in the car.... !