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Well I was pretty much on the mark as to how much it was going to cost to have Sam at the vet when it came to tests and such. I really need to get off my ass and post a whole bunch of stuff I've been meaning to sell. Need to earn some money for all the vet bills.

So bubba brings Sam home later Fri since he had to stay all day to get blood & pee samples as well as an x-ray. Once Sam was let out of his carrier, he went straight to eating and so far at the time he didn't puke (of course that came later). We wouldn't have his results back till Sat morning. I was going to stop by the vet's anyways after I got home from work. So before I got there, the vet calls the house and leaves a message about Sam's results which he says one thing and tells me something different when I go to the office. I tend to believe what I was told than what bubba tried to remember what all the vet said on the message (he deleted it so he couldn't back up his story).

His blood came back okay. His pee had a tiny bit of blood in it but nothing to where it was enough to worry. He had a few tapeworms and I think this was the part that the vet said was caused by fleas not so much as of right now but from past flea problems that this can occur. Which doesn't surprise me since Sam had a bad case of fleas when we first moved into the lake house and I heard that fleas can cause problems with animals organs. They de-wormed him twice for two different cases I guess. For as long as we had Sam we never had to de-worm him either.

Course the vet started to talk in BIG WORDS that a simple human can only shake their head and nod pretending to know what the fuck they are talking about. For the x-ray, his organs look good but there is a slight black splotch I think somewhere around/in his intestine. I can't remember what kind of blockage it might have been cause it dealt with a big word. I also think that this splotch was what the vet said about future surgery if it causes any problems or if the blockage doesn't go away. They would either have to go through his throat or his belly (which said the belly would be easier to see things better).

Even though the tests came back okay, he said it was still kinda hard to diagnose what he could have that would make him puke since it still could be a variety of things. The vet is hoping that perhaps with the de-worming, it could help aid whatever might have been making Sam sick. We're also going to look into changing their food again to a high fiber.

Oh yeah, the ear problem that Sam had the last time, well it came back but not as bad. I had a feeling it did too just cause of the way he had some build up in his ear. I have to resort to putting that cream in both ears again. The vet said that it was normal for it to come back once an animal has had it before.

Poor Sam was so mopey on Friday and I asked the vet if they had to sedate him in order to get the samples they needed. He said they did just a little cause of all the poking and prodding they had to do to him. At least Sam wanted affection that evening when he came home. I went to scratch under his chin and thought something was missing. They shaved a small patch of fur under his neck in order to use that main vein for the blood. I'm wondering if Smokey didn't have his blood work done right before we bought him cause he was missing a patch of hair too in the same area.

Sam did puke a little I guess sometime late Fri night. Then when we got back from the weekend on Monday, I found a bit more puke but thank god its only been a little, not like the huge piles from before. I have yet to find any new puke from yesterday but I'm crossing my fingers that there is none. Seems like he still pukes after he eats.

Sam almost has to be over 10yrs old and for the slight problems he's going through, the surgery is out of the question. In fact, any more vet stuff is out of the question cause not only has bubba said so, but I have agreed as well. Though bubba has been talking smack about putting Sam down so he can quit spending money we don't have on a pet. My housecat back home who as a kitten came from our farm, lived to be over 13 yrs old and she was both an indoor/outdoor cat who had no shots or de-worming. If she lived that long (she would've lived longer if there wasn't a careless accident that took her life), Sam can too without all the vet mumbo jumbo.

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Hope those on my flist had a better holiday weekend than I had. Talk about a crap-tastic boring weekend. It would've been better on just staying home by THE POOL and cooking out there. We were at bubba's sister's and pretty much our time was wasted. Sat evening we did go out on the lake in the boat since my niece wanted to go tubing. That was pretty much it when it came to the water or boating. Sunday....UGH....ALL day Sunday was spent moving my nephew's belongings to storage since they had to be out in two days. Good thing they already had their shit packed. It was sooooooooooo fucking hot that day and I think it got even hotter by the evening. But at least Chris paid for everyone's lunch and we got nearly a brand new dryer out of the deal too. Chris, who doesn't use his brain's very much (and its sad cause he's 24 going on 4), rented a 10x10 storage shed O____________O and we BARELY got all their shit packed into that tiny space. But bubba and his b-i-l managed to make everything fit. We got done around 7'ish, ate dinner, and bubba crashed out pretty quick. I was looking forward to Monday since that Sat. And cause of us not doing anything, we didn't see any fireworks either.

Bubba had so many calls Monday night between grass fires, bon fires, etc. that he didn't go to work till later. Plus with him waking up in the middle of the night to go to these calls messed my sleeping up as well, I felt like shit the next morning.

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Regarding AX. It never fails that the time that I DIDN'T plan on going to this yr, they have a whole bunch of guests that I would've fawned over so much. From the sounds of it, one of the special guests was Hellsing's creator *weeps!!!*. I'm STILL hoping and praying that I can attend next yr's AX, that will be a first for me. I was checking out fansview and noticed that there are just too many FF cosplay pics & Narutards. I was hoping to see more Bleach cosplayers but what little fansview took, I guess sated me for the time being.

I'm posting the links under the cut (except for a few). Sometimes you might have to copy and paste the link in order to see the pic.

First and foremost...........

Gungrave & GG Overdose!!! *squee!!!*