Poor Conan

"kitkatluna" wrote in message
m...
I cant sleep either. Cant say it has to do with Conan, but at any rate.
Since I have no thryoid and am not currently on thryoid meds, my body is
just f*ed up big time.

I'll be on Synthroid next week, right after I have the RAI (radioactive
iodine treatment)!! Im getting nuked! zoiks!


Both the wife and I have been on synthroid for about ten years. Typical age
related hypothryroidism. Wife needs 225 mcg while mine is 125 mcg daily to
keep TSH in range.

Mary wrote:
This little cat had an asthma attack the day I brought her home
from the shelter. The woman instantly said she would take her
back. (I just called to ask if they had seen her have an attack
before.) I could not even imagine it. And though I have to watch
her, not wear perfume, be careful about cleaning products and
get her the Depo shots every few months, she is the sweetest,
funniest, smartest creature I have ever known.

Sounds very much like my Meesha. I can't imagine ever giving her up,
ever. Her having asthma only makes me want to take care of her that
much more. I know you feel the same about Cheeks.

Lauren

"PawsForThought" wrote in message
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Mary wrote:
This little cat had an asthma attack the day I brought her home
from the shelter. The woman instantly said she would take her
back. (I just called to ask if they had seen her have an attack
before.) I could not even imagine it. And though I have to watch
her, not wear perfume, be careful about cleaning products and
get her the Depo shots every few months, she is the sweetest,
funniest, smartest creature I have ever known.

Sounds very much like my Meesha. I can't imagine ever giving her up,
ever. Her having asthma only makes me want to take care of her that
much more. I know you feel the same about Cheeks.


I had terrible dreams last night and tried to pull myself out
of them (I lucid dream sometimes) and could not--until I
heard this meowing. She heard me having the nightmares
and woke me up. Then when I lay back down and
closed my eyes she meowed her head off, like "don't
do that, it got you into trouble before!" She had never
cried that many times in a row so for a minute I thought
she was hurting or sick, but she is fine. Just making sure
I'm okay!

She has done this before when I was
not breathing properly, when I had asthma myself but
had not been diagnosed. What is interesting is that Cheeks
got asthma before I did--so in reading up on it I knew
what to expect when I was diagnosed. Yeah. she is
special. Assholes like Philip would call this just so much
"female" nonsense though.

"kitkatluna" wrote

Glad it was just a scare.


Thanks, I wish yours had only been a scare. It was hell waiting
for the MRI results, but I sure was happy once I got them. (Because
I had parents who died young primarily because they did not go for
preventive care, or even really when they needed to, I am really
careful about screening. They died suddenly. I want notice!

Make sure they put you on one of the synthetic thryoid preparations,
or be very careful about storing your medication. Animal thyroid goes
bad easily.

I'll be on Synthroid next week, right after I have the RAI (radioactive
iodine treatment)!! Im getting nuked! zoiks!

Kid, you are going to feel so much better. And if you have ever had
trouble keeping a couple of pounds off (you do not look like you
have) those days should be over. They can just regulate the amount
you get until your metabolism is perfect. Tell me, how do they
protect you from the radiation, given that you are so young and
will likely want children? (Perhaps there is no danger, I don't
know. My mother was post-menopausal when she had the
treatment.)


Dayum, Payum! (As we say down south!) I hope you don't have
to go to work tomorrow. Did you catch that crap in the hospital?
Those places will kill you.

No more work til August. Gotta love the life of a teacher.

How could I forget?!

Didn;t catch it at the hospital. But my immune system is definitely
whacked out right now. In prep for RAI, they keep you off meds and
induce you into a severely hypothyroid state. That way the thyroid
tissue that remains will suck up the iodine like crazy. (I think you
already know this stuff). I get to start synthroid next week and I have
NEVER, EVER been so excited for a drug in my entire LIFE! Hopefully,
I'll start getting back to normal soon. Whatever the hell normal is...

You will. And I know you feel lousy right now. Feel free to sleep the
time away, if that makes you feel better. Get some good books or
movies, take the cats to bed, and pamper yourself. And go in every
single year from now on for a physical. If your insurance will not
pay for a Mammogram every year since you are so young pay
for it yourself. My mother was completely cured of her thyroid
cancer. Yours will likely never return. But take no chances.

Mary wrote:

I'll be on Synthroid next week, right after I have the RAI (radioactive
iodine treatment)!! Im getting nuked! zoiks!


Kid, you are going to feel so much better. And if you have ever had
trouble keeping a couple of pounds off (you do not look like you
have) those days should be over. They can just regulate the amount
you get until your metabolism is perfect.

I must photograph well, cuz I am definitely overweight. It has been a
struggle for me ever since I left high school, was a big stoner, and ate
a lot of late nite pizza.
I *really* hope they can get my metabolism under control!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell me, how do they
protect you from the radiation, given that you are so young and
will likely want children? (Perhaps there is no danger, I don't
know. My mother was post-menopausal when she had the
treatment.)


Studies show that the RAI has little to no effect on fertility! I have
read of some women that seemed to have early menopause after RAI, but I
think I am luckily still a bit too young for that. (I'm 33) Basically, I
just have to wait a year after any radioactive treatments and then can
go ahead as normal. The biggest bummer is taht Tim and were gonna start
working on babies this summer, but obviously that all came to a
screeching halt.


Didn;t catch it at the hospital. But my immune system is definitely
whacked out right now. In prep for RAI, they keep you off meds and
induce you into a severely hypothyroid state. That way the thyroid
tissue that remains will suck up the iodine like crazy. (I think you
already know this stuff). I get to start synthroid next week and I have
NEVER, EVER been so excited for a drug in my entire LIFE! Hopefully,
I'll start getting back to normal soon. Whatever the hell normal is...


You will. And I know you feel lousy right now. Feel free to sleep the
time away, if that makes you feel better. Get some good books or
movies, take the cats to bed, and pamper yourself. And go in every
single year from now on for a physical. If your insurance will not
pay for a Mammogram every year since you are so young pay
for it yourself. My mother was completely cured of her thyroid
cancer. Yours will likely never return. But take no chances.

Insurance will cover yearly body scans now because thyroid cancer has a
high level of recurrence. (30%) So, some people say that once you are
treated, you are watched so closely for the rest of your life that
nothing gets by them. I hope that's true. After my treatment dose next
week, I'll have a body scan a week later to see where the uptake is and
hopefully it will just be in the thyroid bed and the few icky lymph
nodes it went to and no where else. Then, I just have to sit back and
wait for the radioactive stuff to do its job.

This is hardly how I imagined spending my time as a newlywed, but at
least I am not alone. And at least we have Jasper and Luna.

"KellyH" wrote in message
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"Candace" wrote in message
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I feel certain that Conan's return to a high-kill shelter has probably
resulted in his death already. Let's all hope that there is something
like the Rainbow Bridge or that cats have an afterlife, too, so that
Conan finally feels love and happiness now after an earthly life of
being dumped and put in shelters repeatedly. It's such a sad, sad
story.

Candace


I wish Conan wasn't on the other side of the country or I would get him
into
the shelter I'm with. I think Phillip is in So. Cal, I'm in MA. He's
probably gone so it's too late


I would take him. I would pay to have him transported.

"Diane" wrote in message
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In article ,
"KellyH" wrote:

I wish Conan wasn't on the other side of the country or I would get him
into
the shelter I'm with.

Does anyone know that this story is true, or could it be trolling?
--

It's true. I wish it were a troll. And the worst thing is, this asshole
Philip does not even see anything wrong with what he has done.

Mary wrote:
"Diane" wrote in message
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In article ,
"KellyH" wrote:


I wish Conan wasn't on the other side of the country or I would get him

into

the shelter I'm with.

Does anyone know that this story is true, or could it be trolling?
--


It's true. I wish it were a troll. And the worst thing is, this asshole
Philip does not even see anything wrong with what he has done.


Maybe there is a way the folks on this group could band together and get
in touch with the shelter? Pay for his health care until he is better?
If Philip would be willing to let us get in touch with them, I'd be more
than willing to spend some money to help Conan.

"kitkatluna" wrote
Maybe there is a way the folks on this group could band together and get
in touch with the shelter? Pay for his health care until he is better? If
Philip would be willing to let us get in touch with them, I'd be more than
willing to spend some money to help Conan.

Is anyone in the SoCal area? Could they pull him out of the shelter at
least while we get something together? I would help contribute too.

--
-Kelly

kitkatluna wrote:
Mary wrote:
"Diane" wrote in message
...

In article ,
"KellyH" wrote:


I wish Conan wasn't on the other side of the country or I would get him

into

the shelter I'm with.

Does anyone know that this story is true, or could it be trolling?
--


It's true. I wish it were a troll. And the worst thing is, this asshole
Philip does not even see anything wrong with what he has done.


Maybe there is a way the folks on this group could band together and get
in touch with the shelter? Pay for his health care until he is better?
If Philip would be willing to let us get in touch with them, I'd be more
than willing to spend some money to help Conan.

I would. That is a good idea. Like putting the proverbial money where
the mouth is. I wonder if the shelter would let us "sponsor" Conan
until he is adopted, and pay all his expenses.

Sherry