Anderrhea

Ugh

Yeah, so I was feeling a’ight about my shape (GBY Christina Hendricks) and then I saw the SI “swimsuit” edition. Yeah. See y’all later. I’m going to be locked under the stairs with a bag of Cheetos, eating my feelings.

Damn it. I can’t find my Japanese saw which seems to have up and disappeared. This means I can’t trim the pegboard sticking out from under the pig pen which is now in the way. Arrrrrgh, I busted ass getting this house organized and now I can’t find a large saw. How helpful.

I am cranky and annoyed. Clearly it’s time to make some nachos and regroup.

Pigs weren't using all the space

So we’re shrinking the pen. See y’all in a couple of hours. O.O

Today was a sad day...

meanmrmustard:

anderrhea:

meanmrmustard:

aubiewear:

With all the good comes the bad at some point right?  Today we had Aub’s appointment with the allergist and our suspicions were confirmed.  She is allergic to dogs and cats, more so with the cats.  This is bad because we have two of them, one newly adopted.  The allergist laid out our options.  Option A) Continue with her Pulmicort nebulizer twice a day, Claritin, Singlular and puffs from her albuterol when needed.  But now with the added medications Nasacort every day and allergy shots once a week.  Option B) The allergist said he’d “bet the farm” that if we did not have cats she won’t need all of these medications and maybe not even her nebulizer at all.

Having laid out the options he offered to help manage her whatever we decide but voiced his concerns about two important points.  1) That for not even being four years old yet she was being pumped with a lot of chemicals at this point in her life…and 2) managing her reactions to the cats means that her airways are always somewhat constricted already and since she is allergic to cashews/tree nuts if she was to also have a reaction to that it may be fatal.

Looking at the reality of it the decision is clear.  It breaks our hearts to have to do this but there really is no other choice.  If you follow meanmrmustard you can see pics of Toby there, Marvin must go back to the shelter we adopted him from per the terms of our agreement.

It was a rough day.

This lays it out more clearly than I did.

:( Poor kiddo (and fam.) That’s harsh. Would a second getting a second opinion help?

I doubt it. The circumstantial evidence was pretty clear before the appointment. When she gets licked by a dog, she swells up like a balloon. She had this chronic (read non-stop) cough last year for five months. Yes, five months. The doctors kept telling us “kids get sick”. Finally, after changing docs, the new one wanted to treat her for asthma (cough variant asthma, when the only symptom is cough). Once we started giving her the nebulizer twice a day, the cough stopped. That was last May. Then, in December, we got Marvin. Two weeks later, she had a 24 hour coughing fit. I locked Marvin up for a couple of days, cough went away. We let him back out, a few days later, the cough came back. Locked him up again, cough went away. And so on… So, one cat bothered her, but her asthma med kept it under wraps. Two cats, lots of coughing. I strongly suspected we would have to get rid of at least one, even before the allergist.

That sucks. Poor girl. :(

Hicktucky Ice Capades

First it snowed two inches. Eh. Then it rained on that and now there’s a nice mix of wet, heavy slush all over the place. The bottom is supposed to fall out with temperatures of -5/+5 with wind. What fun.

At least there’s a UK game on tonight.

Today was a sad day...

meanmrmustard:

aubiewear:

With all the good comes the bad at some point right?  Today we had Aub’s appointment with the allergist and our suspicions were confirmed.  She is allergic to dogs and cats, more so with the cats.  This is bad because we have two of them, one newly adopted.  The allergist laid out our options.  Option A) Continue with her Pulmicort nebulizer twice a day, Claritin, Singlular and puffs from her albuterol when needed.  But now with the added medications Nasacort every day and allergy shots once a week.  Option B) The allergist said he’d “bet the farm” that if we did not have cats she won’t need all of these medications and maybe not even her nebulizer at all.

Having laid out the options he offered to help manage her whatever we decide but voiced his concerns about two important points.  1) That for not even being four years old yet she was being pumped with a lot of chemicals at this point in her life…and 2) managing her reactions to the cats means that her airways are always somewhat constricted already and since she is allergic to cashews/tree nuts if she was to also have a reaction to that it may be fatal.

Looking at the reality of it the decision is clear.  It breaks our hearts to have to do this but there really is no other choice.  If you follow meanmrmustard you can see pics of Toby there, Marvin must go back to the shelter we adopted him from per the terms of our agreement.

It was a rough day.

This lays it out more clearly than I did.

:( Poor kiddo (and fam.) That’s harsh. Would a second getting a second opinion help?

Paula Deen is coming to the Durham Performing Arts Center this month.

meanmrmustard:

and-shesback:

mutebutton:

I needs me a ticket, y’all.

whut.

Bring your butter

I’ll round up the assassins. That woman has done unforgivable things to food and honor demands she be stopped.