please read me, something to be REALLY thankful for

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Noah & me (GA)

Noah & me (GA)

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Yesterday I noticed I am now a "Well known member". That reminded me of things that can be more a curse than a blessing, like being "Good with animals". I actually have climbed a ladder to get a cat out of a tree. The woman with the ladder was in her 80's, what else could I do? I've been mauled by a suspected rabid cat (the vet misplaced the body), attacked by a squirrel that had been run over, saved a fox that was waiting for the SWAT team (typical in Toronto) and now we have two cats that we were going to foster for a week. That was three years ago. "Hey, this guy is a well known member, I'll ask him". No no! Please don't, I have no idea.
What to be thankful for? The commercials for Wix and GoDaddy make it look so easy. But that's for sites with a few pages. I'm certain sites like this cost a lot more to operate, the greater the number of pages the more you pay and we're talking Terabytes. I also know this site runs on some kind of software I've never heard of and it's not Windows 95. If you dig back in Grief Support the last entry was December 31, 2009. Would it save the board money to just hose out some of these pages? Of course it would but they're just as sentimental as the rest of us.
How big is this site? Twelve new members have joined since yesterday morning! So I'm a big-shot because I have over 700 likes. Hah! Do this; click on any member and then "member's profile". Near the top left is a tab for Members, click on that. Most messages is 41,734. Most likes is 13,567. Some of these people have been here since before my house was built.
The Board I know of Janet and Binky and Jill and Alex. They joined December 2009. Are they millionaire's who do this just for fun? Think of the posts they have to scan for foul language (oops, I tried this in Swedish last week), the interventions they make when someone is giving bad advice. They're no just leaning back in a chair.
Okay, enough preaching. But.... I highly encourage people to visit the main page and read Austin's story.
http://www.felinediabetes.com/austin.htm It is really sad and now you'll know why this place exists. If it disappeared tomorrow how many of us would be completely lost? Even though we're already running a charity at home I finally coughed up a few bucks for a donation a few months ago. What took so long? I just took this place completely for granted. What a schmuck eh? That was a long post, thank you for reading it.
 
@Noah & me , you are so right. I am going to donate right now, in gratitude for all of the incredible advice, support, and resources that I could not possibly get *anywhere* else. I have a great vet, but she has nothing to match the level of personal experience with managing diabetic cats that I have found here. And she would (perfectly legitimately) have to charge me for her time if she were advising me constantly--the cost of that would be substantial. I would pay it, if I had to, because I would do anything for my kitty--but instead, I am receiving all of the personal help that members here give with such great generosity. The least I can do is contribute to the cost of maintaining this site.
 
PS: if you shop at Amazon, DO THE LINK THING. It is incredibly easy. Once you set it up, there is literally nothing you have to do to maintain it, and you are not charged anything. You just use the url smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com. (And if, like me, you can be forgetful, there are web browser extensions called things like "always smile" that will automatically redirect you to the "smile" url!)

I have my link set up to benefit an organization that researches treatments for the kind of cancer I have (which is fortunately in remission) and will probably leave it set that way rather than switch to FDMB, selfish human that I am...so far I have donated $30 to them by doing absolutely nothing that I otherwise wouldn't have done. That's not a huge amount, but if everyone does it, it adds up! Even pennies add up.

There is a tab right at the top of this page that says "Amazon link"; check it out!
 
@Squeakycats When Noah's brother Nigel was diagnosed we were the definition of freaked out. "Stick this where? There's going to be blood?". Our vet was on the phone with us EVERY day, before she left for work and before she went to bed. She would not accept money so all we could do was bake for her and her staff. She has also taken in overflow from shelters at the risk of infecting her other guests and hated it when that story appeared in the newspaper. Nigel was the last of eight cats we had that died in less then three years. They sent us flowers. Her Dad was a vet too, no surprise there.
 
This place has been a priceless place to be. You have people that understand, give suggestions and are willing to stay up with you as you shoot your first low and your heart is racing out of your chest.

Amazing place and worth the donation.
 
Squeakycats said:
What a wonderful vet!!!! That must have been such a comfort!
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Kismet, Karma, great luck? I had a great vet in Edmonton that recommended a vet in Toronto. Bingo! And this guy made women swoon over him. "I don't have an animal but I think I have a virus, can I come in?" Then that vet recommended the vet I have now had for 15 years. In that time we've had 14 cats and a dog. Her partner was a woman and every person working there was a woman. It wasn't some anti-guy thing, it just worked out that way. One of the kindest things anyone has ever said to me? We kept 4 kittens with health problems, (the mom, dad and 3 of Noah's brothers are all gone) and when we kept the kittens Suzanne whispered to me "You know you've done the right thing". The other vet helped us put our oldest cat down just hours after her own cat died and also came in on a Sunday morning with a tech on our dog's last day. Making her wait until Monday would not have been right and I detest emergency clinics.
@Tracey&Jones You've always made me laugh. I knew what a fur shot was, I just never knew there was a name for it until I met you. Speaking of Kismet, Karma etc. do the rest of you know Tracey and I were born in the same hospital? (She's old though, and what's with the mug?)
 
Thank you for the reminder, made my donation today. It's funny how you just think things just appear, magically for free. Like the dishes are always magically done. My grandson doesn't know how or care why the dishes just appear.
You crack me up @Noah & me. And just in case you ever wonder if you matter on here..I will never forget you said to me "The sun comes up Saturday and Phoebes will be chasing sunbeams. She'll surprise you." Made me bawl like a baby in a "there's hope, she's worth it." Thank you for that.
 
Tracey&Jones said:
panic sets in.
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1) The last syringe just rolled under the fridge
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2) What do you want? Tuna? Salmon? Cheese? You're doing this on purpose aren't you stupid cat?
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