so long this day

[cornerofmadness]

so tired I am. Sugar keeps crashing. I ate like a million skittles today as part of my lab then ate 4 chocolate minis at the seminar and my sugar was still only double digits today. Everyone knew i was ill. I mean i looked it in a serious way. If i hadn't kept mainlining sugar who knows what would have happened. why the crash? Dunno.

I got the kitties back. Kanda has coccidiosis and in spite of what Sir Wiki says here humans can in fact contract these (though some you have tobe very ill yourself). Roy probably brought it in from outside. It's usually asymptomatic (and hell most humans will test positive for several of these) but Kanda is pretty sick. At first they couldnt' figure out anything since nothing had happened then he had a bloody stool before i came to get them. While I was waiting Doc, the huge australian shephard flung himself on my feet, all four paws to the sky PET ME. he was a muddy mess. thanks dude. Then Sparky the Pibbie tried to sit on my lap and since she was chasing barn cats she was a bloody mess (that'll teach her), i now have to medicate everyone liquid AND pills.

I had to rush home to get back today for the seminar. I stopped at Subways to get a sandwich which took forever. BUt THANK YOU to the ladies at the Rio Grande Subways. THey saw the kitties in the carrier and gave me scoops of tuna to take home.

I ran back to work to sit thru my friend's lecture on flipping the riboswitch which was a very interesting research seminar on gram positive bacteria T box riboswitch and the in silico research we're doing on campus. Naturally the only people asking questions were me and L. I'm pretty sure he lost the students. hell he lost me for parts of it. then again my sugar was going boom.

now i want to curl up and cry but hey hey now, i FINISHED all 13 Springkinks (that's right FINISHED) THANK YOU wonderful and varied betas. And I'm on the pivotal scene of my FMA big bang so I might get this done too.





the barn across from the abandoned house from sunday I think. It's falling down

Comments

[enemytosleep]

Why is your sugar so out of whack? Hope you keep food handy tonight so that you're not caught in a crash without something nearby.

Yay to finishing all your springkinks!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you know what's wrong with the boys. Hope they start getting better now that they're on meds!

I love the barn, as you knew I would.

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

It should also be noted that they seem to carry the "bug" (for lack of a better description...hey my brain is on ugh shut down mode tonight) in their intestines and develop a natural immunity to it...unless their immune system is compromised in some way. STRESS can trigger the development of the thing as well. Gee no stress amongst the cats lately...*snort*. I found it interesting to learn that it can be carried around by cockroaches and flies, then dropped off oh so conveniently to infect the dog or cat. I'm also of the opinion that Soul was the carrier of it.

another good reason to not adopt strays into the household.

OH I love that barn!!! Would be fun to explore it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah i hope so too. kanda is trying to sleep and soul keeps biting him.

yes i figured

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i have no idea. i ate bread and junk food it should be high. i still feel awful

thanks. i need to send a chapter or two to my artists who dropped off all communitcation so hopefully they're just working on their own...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

roy's the carrier. he's the one who goes in and out

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

Yes but it could have been Soul as well. Roy is just going to have to learn to be an inside cat...or else. Time to put your foot down hon. I know I know...it IS hard to do with a cat....I grew up around cats so I got to see first hand how stubborn they can be. And how a pitiful meow can make your heart melt.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Soul, stop being bad to your sick older brother.

You know me and my barns.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Glad you found out what it is and that it's treatable, but I do *not* envy you dosing three unhappy cats.

I hope your sugar levels out so that you can get some rest tonight.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks yeah thisw illbe a peach


i do too.i feel horrible

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

NO-soul - PLAY WITH ME

yeah and that's an ugly one

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Go away, disease bag.

hee, some of them are really pretty, some of them are...creepy and/or sad.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Poor kitties. I hope they actually TAKE their medication (instead of like Silhouette, who either scorns the food I put it in or throws it back up).

Nifty barn. Amazing how many people have been in the world...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

pretty much.

that one is sad

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah i hope this goes better than i think it will

i know right? and are no longer here. centerville is working on becoming a ghost town

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Poor sad barn.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Good luck.

I love ghost towns.

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon, and the poor kitties, too!

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

Awww, poor Kanda man. Ick, liquid and pills. That's never fun.

And that blows about the sugar crashing. :/

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Toxoplasma gondii is a coccidia species. Cat boxes are the leading vectors for the illness. (Cats are the main host.) This is why pregnant women are not to clean litter boxes.

Yay, Subway!

I would like to have attended the lecture.

*Hands you cream filled donut*

[jojo-kun.livejournal.com]

noo! I hope Kanda feels better soon! And I hope your sugar stabilizes!!! That's terrible! I'm glad you've been able to keep eating sugar, but that shouldn't be happening! D:

Congrats on finishing all of those springkinks!! At least that's a load off! What an accomplishment!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. he seems healthy until it's potty time poor dude.

i'm a littl better today. diabetes sucks.

thanks. It is nice to get them done. now i have 2 big bangs due within 3 weeks and probably some original fiction due. i need to check on that.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes indeed. in fact most humans test positive for T gondi by the time they're 5. that's what I told the cats. they should have waited til next semester so i could hve used this in my parsitology class.

the lecture was tons of high level biochemistry and genetics that I was occasionally going huh over.

whee donut

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

not it's not fun all around

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

they are interesting

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

What is this, a coccidosis epidemic among our pets? I just lost a bird from it, and now Kanda is pooping blood because of it. Then again, Psyche had something else wrong with her that allowed the coccidosis to make her sick, but Kanda seemed like such a healthy fellow.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Kanda has allergies so I'm betting his immune system is wonky. I know he doesn't have kitty aids.

My guts are gettng grumpy so i'm wondering if this is a nasty subtype of coccidosis and how long I can stand the side effects if it makes me lose weight then i realize I've gone around the bend and am one step from being those people who buy tapeworms on line

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, my dad didn't care for the constant peeing, but his 20-pound weight loss due to ridiculously high blood sugar got him all excited and proud. It's a good thing he doesn't know about online tapeworms or he'd be ordering them right along with you. Hopefully you won't have to resort to such drastic remedies, especially when the weather gets better and you can get out more.

Isn't coccidosis fairly easy to treat with sulfa drugs? Of course, my grandmother lost her hearing to a bad reaction to sulfa, so I'm leery of the stuff. Bloody diarrhea as a weight loss method doesn't sound much better, though. Hmm. Tough decision.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh geez. my diabetes only makes me fatter.

right now the only exercise open to me is swimming which i'm NOT allowed to do until after shoulder surgery. gah. I want a Wii or a PS Kinnect.

i'm not remembering what you use for coccidosis. i've been on sulfa many times. if you don't drink the water the way they tell you to, you will thik your kidneys DIED.

still maybe just a little diarrhea...

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feeling better.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

marginally thanks