The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

Pics
Date sort Score sort
Blooie said:
Not even gonna try to catch up.....tired tonight.

So doc turned out to be a gorgeous, blonde 15 year old girl, I swear!!! Smart, superb listener, asked great questions and....are you ready for this one?....had actually read my medical information and conferred with my primary long before my appointment day! Whoa...I ain’t used to that - after the first 5 minutes in there Ken and I both felt like she’d been treating me for years instead of just meeting me for the first time today!! She even asked about Kendra and what all I do for her, in order to better understand any stress or unusual physical movements I may have to make caring for her. Primary care doc has that stuff noted in my chart as a reminder to him that I can’t take certain meds that might cause me to lose focus when she’s here. He has also treated a few strained backs and shoulders from me from lifting her. So that gave me a ton of confidence in her! I couldn’t believe it! Please, Lord, let her stay at St. Vincent’s forever ‘n ever!! I wish all doctors understood how important those things are to a nervous patient.

Anyway, I do need the endoscopy and probably will need a throat dilation done too. She wanted to do it next week, but when I told her I wanted more time off the blood thinners before we did anything, she said - and I quote - “That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Would you like me to call your cardiologist and see how long he’d be comfortable with you not taking them?” He17 YES....so she did. Right there. In her office. Yep, not kidding! They talked about using Lovanox as a bridge when I stop taking the other blood thinners because if I had a bleeding issue, Lovonox is reversible. I got to make the choice! Me! So we are going to do the endoscopy on April 2 to give me max time off the thinners but well within what all of us think is my “safe zone”.

Now I’m not even nervous! Cool, huh??
Click to expand...

That's awesome! Fingers crossed she sticks around. She obviously realises the important of the personal touch. It makes such a difference, and does relieve a lot of that anxiety.
 
KDOGG331 said:
Exactly!!! That was my fear. Thankfully this owner shortened the leash up and was trying to hold her and didn't appear to be on his phone or have a flexi lead but still. They should work on training

It was this post except instead of the beginning I had why are people so annoying and why does no one train their dogs?

Probably not the best way to start it.

But people were saying I sounded stuck up or entitled, it wasn't actually on our property and nothing happened so what's the big deal, that at least he had the dog under control. Or like saying why am i getting mad for the dog sniffing at the corner not even near my driveway. And oh what if the dog is new to him or he's dog sitting or that everyone has bad days and I'm judging him or on my period or something. And also that because i didnt use my blinker that somehow means I'm a terrible driver and dangerous? Not even remotely relevant to the post. And yeah i should have used it but theres no cars on my road hardly and you have to be off the main road to get to our road anyway.

And also that I'm overreacting, being dramatic, nothing actually happened so why do I care and why so many what ifs, etc. Also mad about the middle aged means hard of hearing bit and tearing up over the do blinkers make noise bit.

We live near a busy road and i didnt want the dog getting hurt.

I get it, I could have worded it better and i suppose sounded pretty rude looking back but no need to be so mean. And I get it, the hearing thing and blinker thing were funny, i think I so too now, don't mind jokes, but to tear me up over a post?

I realize I probably did sound somewhat pretentious and dramatic and i shouldn't have started it with why are people so annoying if i was concerned about the dog but really?

Also people say i could've just honked or rolled my window down and said excuse me and it would have been solved.

Also said what the dog did was normal and I startled him. Yeah, even startled dogs shouldn't charge straight towards a car......

Reactivity isn't even that hard to fix. Usually.

Also yes I should have honked maybe but i don't like honking at people.

Also they were mad cause they interpreted it as dog was sniffing and guy didn't hear me right away and i freaked out? And no issue

I don't get how some guy was blocking my driveway and his dog lunged at ME yet i am the one at fault and a bad/dangerous driver and judgemental/snobby?????

But whatever, i need to stop thinking about it.

But do you think the below post is that bad???

I guess maybe it DOES sound a little rude and i couldve not posted it but it literally got like 200 comments.

And also we've had lots of people walk all the way down our driveway to where our yard starts, ignore the signs (no trespassing and dogs on premises), and sometimes let their dogs poop along our driveway or yard. So maybe i was a little bit harsher because of that but idk.
Click to expand...

Honking your horn or you talking to the person probably would've caused exactly the same reaction from the dog. And that's awful about people going up your drive!

I've had people on this site try and tell me I'm putting our health at risk by feeding our dog raw food. If nothing has happened in almost 6 years of us doing so I don't think we have too much to worry about. It's meat and it's treated like meat. Same hygiene applies! And the company we buy it from was set up by a vet. All meat can be traced back to its source.

So I totally understand your frustration at people's judgemental and narrow minded comments but it's best not to dwell (though I still struggle with that a lot of the time). :hugs
 
@CapricornFarm your quail baby is a cutie! How many did you end up with?

@KDOGG331 I don't think you said anything outrageous. Hope you don't let it bother you too much, people can be really dumb sometimes.

@Blooie your new doc sounds great, glad your appointment went so well!

@rjohns39 is there any chance you can just work from home and not have to travel so much?

@Michelle Farmer-Brown I have my fingers crossed your food truck idea comes to fruition, it sounds like you'd have an ideal place for it.
 
Sorry, probably didn't need to post the exact details of what was said or drag the drama on. Doesn't matter. It's over and I'm going to I think shower and do hw.

I just had pizza. :D

But I've been so distraught that I haven't done anything since then. I was actually in a pretty good mood before and wanted to do my hw but now I've wasted hours. Not anyone's fault but my own but I'm like really distracted. But I'm going to do my hw now. There's still time to do it. All I have to do is fill in a chart about vitamins and the info is all in the book already.

But between the drama there and plus some family stuff also happening and my mental health, particularly the anxiety, causing me to freak out and obsess over it, as well as also think some not so fun thoughts, I've been extremely distracted all night. Not to say that it's anyone's fauly but my own because it's totally not but still. I could have just put my phone down though or deleted the post earlier than I did and/or force myself to focus on hw and stop with the wallowing a lot earlier than now but it's hard.
 
N F C said:
@CapricornFarm your quail baby is a cutie! How many did you end up with?

@KDOGG331 I don't think you said anything outrageous. Hope you don't let it bother you too much, people can be really dumb sometimes.

@Blooie your new doc sounds great, glad your appointment went so well!

@rjohns39 is there any chance you can just work from home and not have to travel so much?

@Michelle Farmer-Brown I have my fingers crossed your food truck idea comes to fruition, it sounds like you'd have an ideal place for it.
Click to expand...
Right now i have 20 but i didn't cull the one with the bad beak yet. Who knows, those others may decide to hatch!
I am really tired tonight, yesterday took a lot out of me.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom