Please be understanding about this

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"CatNipped" wrote:

Thanks, Jack - I didn't even think about whole fat milk - I LURVE whole fat
milk. I haven't been drinking unless I consciously think about it and
(pardon the bluntness) I haven't peed since sometime yesterday afternoon.
I'm so dehydrated I can't even make a mouthful of spit!

All good advice, and all advice it will be easy for me to take.

First, I'm glad to see you back. typing one handed is tough and learning
to type off-handed is even trickier.

Second: get yourself rehydrated. This may be a part of why you're having
trouble with food. The rehydration formulas that work with animals work
with people too. Milk is good, broth is good... something with a little
salt in it to help keep the fluid in you. Simple soups are good - if you
haven't been eating you want to have very small but very frequent meals.
Protein is your friend when you're sick or building back strength.

Please, set alarms if you need to, but keep sipping at fluids (too much
at once will make you sick).

--
minnow ^..^

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"bchan" wrote in message
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"jmcquown" wrote:

"Adrian" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
P.S. Also have Lee consider this. For weeks and weeks after Katrina
we
had no way to know if my brother and several other family members were
dead or alive, having stayed in St. Bernard during Katina. You think
losing *things* is bad? Try going that long not knowing whether your
loved ones are still among the living or one of the thousands who lost
there lives... as much as it creeped me out of my mind, we looked at
every single picture of every bloated, rotting corpse floating in the
waters for *months* afterwards because there were no way to get in and
respectfully recover the bodies. Trying to recognize a feature or
clothes in the almost unidentifiable corpse just to *know*!


Lee also lost her cat, Tiger, you're being very insensitive Lori.

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk



Lori, I'm sorry for all you and your family have been through. But
Hurricane Katrina was in 2004 and this is 2010. The world has had other
disasters and people have had other losses. Lee just lost her house and
everything she owned to a fire. And her beloved cat Tiger died. So get
over friggin Katrina already. Have some compassion for what is going on
in
the here and now. Understand Lee and her two days ago loss, please.


Actually it was 2005. If you lived in New Orleans you would understand
why we're still a long way from being "over it".


2004, 2005... whatever the dates. Lee had her house burn down and her cat
Tiger died Lots of people lost things in Katrina. I'm pretty sure my
former fiance, Ray, died in Katrina. I'm more concerned about helping Lee
losing her house and her right now. I like Catnipped, but everything
doesn't have to be about her.

Jill

"bchan" wrote

Actually it was 2005. If you lived in New Orleans you would understand
why we're still a long way from being "over it".

I live in Virginia Beach/Norfolk area. We fear this one here badly. FEMA
has studied us for the 5th time since Katrina and say the best news is we
are rarely a direct hit and if we are, it's rare to be over Cat 1. The
problem is the southside area of Hampton Roads. Northside is less
problematic but they already figured out it takes 2 days or more to get us
all out due to roads that block all interstates by high winds. All roads
inland will block trapping us in and yet there are so many of us, it takes 2
days to use them while still open to get us out?

How many of you live in a city where there are now drop down bunkers on all
interstates and side roads leading to them with a plan to turn all lanes
(including the inbound ones) to outbound, for 120 miles or so (they end at
the Richmond beltway).

Cheryl P. wrote:

wrote:
Sherry wrote:

My inlaws' home burned to the ground when they were both 80 years old.
They had no insurance. I thought it would be the end of their lives as
they
knew it and would end up in a longterm care facility. They didn't.
They
managed to get into another home, where they are still living at age
92.

Wow!! They're amazing!

Of course, this probably wouldn't happen today, but that wouldn't be
the inlaws' fault.

Why do you assume it wouldn't happen today? I feel like I'm missing
something here...sure, it's always been really hard to come back after
such a loss, and harder yet for the elderly who are more likely to have
health problems complicating the issues than younger people, and
sometimes financial issues as well. But all those would have been
problems years ago, too!

Well, there is that little matter of a recession.

(Yes, we've had them before, and will no doubt have them again. But
this one seems particularly bad.)

Joyce

--
What I look forward to, is continued immaturity, followed by death.
-- Dave Barry

bchan wrote:

"jmcquown" wrote:

"Adrian" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
P.S. Also have Lee consider this. For weeks and weeks after Katrina we
had no way to know if my brother and several other family members were
dead or alive, having stayed in St. Bernard during Katina. You think
losing *things* is bad? Try going that long not knowing whether your
loved ones are still among the living or one of the thousands who lost
there lives... as much as it creeped me out of my mind, we looked at
every single picture of every bloated, rotting corpse floating in the
waters for *months* afterwards because there were no way to get in and
respectfully recover the bodies. Trying to recognize a feature or
clothes in the almost unidentifiable corpse just to *know*!


Lee also lost her cat, Tiger, you're being very insensitive Lori.

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk



Lori, I'm sorry for all you and your family have been through. But
Hurricane Katrina was in 2004 and this is 2010. The world has had other
disasters and people have had other losses. Lee just lost her house and
everything she owned to a fire. And her beloved cat Tiger died. So get
over friggin Katrina already. Have some compassion for what is going on in
the here and now. Understand Lee and her two days ago loss, please.

Jill


Actually it was 2005. If you lived in New Orleans you would understand
why we're still a long way from being "over it".

I don't live in NO, but I do *not* expect anyone to be "over it". At
the same time, when someone posts about a traumatic event that has
*just occurred*, that is not the time to compare their loss with your
own, regardless of where you are in your recovery process, or whether
you have good reasons to still be grieving, angry, or whatever other
emotions are called for. I think it's pointless to compare such things
anyway, but to do so when someone is in the midst of it is heartless.

Catnipped says she only meant to provide inspiration, but it really
sounded to me like she was saying "Stop complaining, other people have
far worse problems". I guess I'll have to take her word for it, but I
totally understand why anyone would interpret her comments that way.

Joyce

--
What I look forward to, is continued immaturity, followed by death.
-- Dave Barry

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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Do you find that there are more people than ever there who are having
serious illnesses than before Katrina? One of the reasons we were so
shocked by Brooke's non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma was because in my family, we
all lucked out and have a SERIOUSLY good gene pool (my children are both
approaching forty and neither have had a single cavity or even a bad case
of the flu their entire lives - the grandchildren were well on the way to
repeating that until Katrina). Between the flooded, overturned oil
refinery tanks, the toxic mold, and the 25 foot tidal wave of water with
all the general pollution of the Gulf at the end of the Mississippi (the
"tail end of the alimentary canal of America - funneling all its sh*t
there from every factory from Canada on down") - nobody was even allowed
back in for months and then had to wear partial haz-mat suits to clean up
in, in the southern heat that was killer (again, with nowhere to even go
to buy a bottle of friggin' water).


All environmental catastrophes can have an impact on health, I'm imagining
(no cite, sorry). The government is just now admitting that agent orange
testing in the 40s probably caused cancer in people who were exposed, and
that was here in the US. Toxic mold and all of the nasties in the flood
water probably did cause health issues further down the road than just the
immediate concern they told us about.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:43:44 -0500, CatNipped wrote:

As I mentioned, I'm down to 91 pounds and don't have the strength to sit up.
I also *can't* eat (it's not annexure, I very much want to eat but
everything tastes like putty in my mouth and it won't go down unless I force
it with a large drink of water).

I would very much appreciate some "restorative" recopies - I can't drink
ensure, anything sweet makes me vomit which leaves me even worse off.

I've finally migrated from Google Groups' version of RPCA to
news.individual.net's presentation of the newsgroup, so I'm only seeing
this now.

Now that the docs know to focus on how your kidneys are behaving, it will
help on several levels. It'll help them treat the problem of getting
unwanted content out of your blood stream, which will make you feel better,
and it will help them focus on a kidney-friendly eating regimen for you
while all this is going on.

Purrs and purr-ayers are continuing for your speedy recovery. In the
meantime, I think now that the docs have a clearer idea of what's going on,
they'll be able to give you some medical and dietary treatment that'll make
you feel better and put weight back on.

I saw this thread on the heels of reading something on FB from a pregnant
friend who's expecting twins, and her doctor is concerned that she's not
gaining weight quickly enough. Oh, if only I could dole out my extra pounds
to anyone who wanted them! I'd willingly share the wealth, believe me! ;-)
But in the absence of the ability to do that, I'll just send out purrs and
purr-ayers for everyone to arrive at a size that we and our doctors are
happy with.

Donna, Captain, Stanley, and Mini

"CatNipped" wrote:
ROTFLMAOWTIME! When was the last time I told you how much I love you, Tak?
Will you pretty please marry me - I'll go get Ben packing right now!

I would, if only I deserved you more than the man you married and
raised your children with.

On Aug 18, 5:36*pm, Takayuki wrote:
"CatNipped" wrote:
ROTFLMAOWTIME! *When was the last time I told you how much I love you, Tak?
Will you pretty please marry me - I'll go get Ben packing right now!

I would, if only I deserved you more than the man you married and
raised your children with.

Ha ha. You are so well-thought-of that most of the group here would
probably marry Buster just to be part of your family. :-)

Sherry

There was talk of 'trivial' candles, and a lot of people are going thru SO
much,
so I put up a candle site for us
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/...?l=eng&gi=RPCA
Light one if you like, don't if you don't want to.
I apologise if I have offended 'anyone'.
Love, Peace, Purrs and Prayers
Kyla

"Granby"
I am afraid I would come down on the side of lighting too many candles. I
like the idea, it gives me something to do. The words people write when
they light one are thought out. Maybe only because you have so little
space you have to make each one count!!!!
"Takayuki" ...
"CatNipped"
Actually, *I'LL* post every single "hate mail" and let people decide for
themselves if that equates to harassment. Here...

So I looked at this and went - They're arguing about candles?
*facepalm*

Ok, ok, I don't mean to trivialize, and I realize that this is an
important topic for you both. I'm just grateful that you've both kept
it to email, and will now go light a candle saying such.