What's Bothering You?
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Reginald Fairfield
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I don't like having to ask crackheads to leave, but I don't want them to stay.
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I genuinely want to know how you normally get rid of that.Woke up with that migraine nausea
I have like two projects due tomorrow that I'm kind of behind on, and I can't even focus right now. I live away from my parents but visit on the weekend occasionally. My mother was going to pick me up after her work tomorrow, but apparently she and my father were trying to give our cat a pill. We've never had to give him medication before so this was a first, and it went horribly wrong.
Our cat ended up biting my mother near her eye. My brother was out at the time, but was telling me what he was told, and apparently our cat went for our mother's eye/temple area twice, and there was blood dripping down her face. For more context, my parents are notoriously bad at pilling our cats. We've had many cats who grew older and needed medication eventually, and my mother does some of the worst things such as putting our cats on their backs, not wrapping our cats in a blanket, towel, etc. when she should, yanking their jaws open instead of using easier methods (ex: applying pressure to the corners of their mouths to get them to open naturally).
My mother also creates such a stressful environment for our cats when trying to give them their medication, it's hard to explain. They always end up very stressed and aware of what's going on so they go into fight or flight, if that makes sense. Me and my brother have tried to tell her how she comes across as intimidating/stressful to the cats and better ways to lead into giving them their medication, but honestly it doesn't work. I've also demonstrated how to pill our cats properly to her and my father, but they don't absorb the information and it seems they just reverted back to their usual ways.
From what I was told by her and my brother, it seems she handled the whole situation very poorly. She tried pilling our cat on the floor of our living room I'm guessing since it's her usual spot, but couldn't do it alone so she was holding our cat in one arm while trying to wake my father who was sleeping on our couch. Our cat was not in a wrap and was hissing at her (which he rarely does, he's 10+ years old and I could probably count on my hands how many times I've witnessed him hissing), and I know he can get rather squirmy when he doesn't want to be held in general, so I can only imagine the force my mother was using to hold him with one arm. Before my father could help, I guess that's when our cat attacked her. Of course I wish my mother wasn't bitten, but with all these things happening and my experience with our cat and my parents history, she was basically asking to be bitten. I just can't fathom why she handled it all so poorly.
My brother has been texting me about his concern about the whole situation. We don't know how bad our mother's injury actually is because she went to bed before my brother got home. I guess he also learned that their attempt was unsuccessful when he got home. When my mother texted me about being bitten, I assumed they had eventually pilled our cat. But about 2 hours later my brother texted me when he got home and said our father was unwilling to pill our cat (I assume because of the failed attempt from my mother). Thankfully, my brother convinced our father to hold our cat and it was a success. My brother told me that our father said he was scared, and mentioned the blood. Our cat is okay right now and I hope our mother is too, but I'm stressed out and not sure what's happening tomorrow anymore. I have such a busy day ahead, but my mind and heart are racing.
It's incredibly frustrating that my parents, especially my mother, can't seem to grasp the things I teach them about caring for our cats. This medication thing is just one of many things. I had an argument with them regarding our cat two weeks ago, so this is just another thing piling up on that issue. I'm concerned about my father being unwilling to pill our cat after seeing what happened to my mother, and claiming he was scared. I really hope they don't end up resenting our cat because of this because it's not his fault and he's one of the most gentle cats we've had. If they just took the time and care to fix how they do these things, it would be easier for everyone involved. I don't live there all the time, and my brother isn't always home, so they really need to learn how to do these things themselves. I've already been having a difficult semester and it's been a struggle to keep on top of my school work. I just hate how so many things have been piling up, and have been incredibly stressed for the past few weeks.
My mother also creates such a stressful environment for our cats when trying to give them their medication, it's hard to explain. They always end up very stressed and aware of what's going on so they go into fight or flight, if that makes sense. Me and my brother have tried to tell her how she comes across as intimidating/stressful to the cats and better ways to lead into giving them their medication, but honestly it doesn't work. I've also demonstrated how to pill our cats properly to her and my father, but they don't absorb the information and it seems they just reverted back to their usual ways.
From what I was told by her and my brother, it seems she handled the whole situation very poorly. She tried pilling our cat on the floor of our living room I'm guessing since it's her usual spot, but couldn't do it alone so she was holding our cat in one arm while trying to wake my father who was sleeping on our couch. Our cat was not in a wrap and was hissing at her (which he rarely does, he's 10+ years old and I could probably count on my hands how many times I've witnessed him hissing), and I know he can get rather squirmy when he doesn't want to be held in general, so I can only imagine the force my mother was using to hold him with one arm. Before my father could help, I guess that's when our cat attacked her. Of course I wish my mother wasn't bitten, but with all these things happening and my experience with our cat and my parents history, she was basically asking to be bitten. I just can't fathom why she handled it all so poorly.
My brother has been texting me about his concern about the whole situation. We don't know how bad our mother's injury actually is because she went to bed before my brother got home. I guess he also learned that their attempt was unsuccessful when he got home. When my mother texted me about being bitten, I assumed they had eventually pilled our cat. But about 2 hours later my brother texted me when he got home and said our father was unwilling to pill our cat (I assume because of the failed attempt from my mother). Thankfully, my brother convinced our father to hold our cat and it was a success. My brother told me that our father said he was scared, and mentioned the blood. Our cat is okay right now and I hope our mother is too, but I'm stressed out and not sure what's happening tomorrow anymore. I have such a busy day ahead, but my mind and heart are racing.
It's incredibly frustrating that my parents, especially my mother, can't seem to grasp the things I teach them about caring for our cats. This medication thing is just one of many things. I had an argument with them regarding our cat two weeks ago, so this is just another thing piling up on that issue. I'm concerned about my father being unwilling to pill our cat after seeing what happened to my mother, and claiming he was scared. I really hope they don't end up resenting our cat because of this because it's not his fault and he's one of the most gentle cats we've had. If they just took the time and care to fix how they do these things, it would be easier for everyone involved. I don't live there all the time, and my brother isn't always home, so they really need to learn how to do these things themselves. I've already been having a difficult semester and it's been a struggle to keep on top of my school work. I just hate how so many things have been piling up, and have been incredibly stressed for the past few weeks.
xSuperMario64x
love of my life 💙💜
kind of petty, I do appreciate that it's still daylight into the evening now but I really wish it would be daylight in the morning as well. it's 7am and I'm struggling to get up out of bed because it's still dark outside (plus my bed is warm and cozy hjfjkgdh). in summer the sun rises at about 6am, that'll be nice.
On the bright side (no pun intended), at least it does get brighter in the morning in summer.
ZeldaCrossing64
Dog Man is go!
I'm still sick and my symptoms have worsened. Last night I almost threw up because I was feeling really nauseous. I only got 3 hours of sleep and I, frustratingly, can't go back to sleep. Thankfully I've been able to stay at home, but I don't wanna miss too much school again. After everything that happened with my mom back in autumn, sick days and missing the bus, I've been away from school for longer than I'd like.
If I don't feel like crap mentally, then I guess I have to feel like crap physically. Thanks to whoever got me sick.
If I don't feel like crap mentally, then I guess I have to feel like crap physically. Thanks to whoever got me sick.
Goldi Locks
Hot Porridge
The moody eyeliner guy who occasionally comes in the pub I work at, who sits at the bar huffing and puffing, but if you ask what's wrong he just sighs and says nobody can possibly understand what he's going through, before proceding to tell whoever asked anyway, about how his ex girlfriend broke his heart. It's been maybe 8 months now and he's still on about it, but in such a horrible way, like completely slagging her off and being all like "How DARE she break MY heart!" with absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever that maybe..MAYBE it's because he's just walking misery and it probably wasn't fun for her.
We call him Drago Lord of Darkness when we're talking about him and I can't actually remember who started it, but he has no idea we do that lmao.
We call him Drago Lord of Darkness when we're talking about him and I can't actually remember who started it, but he has no idea we do that lmao.
To this day I haven’t found anything that really helps, I just have to wait it out
Reginald Fairfield
Senior Member
Exedrin migraine and a sprite used to help me, a bit.To this day I haven’t found anything that really helps, I just have to wait it out
daringred_
✧ ghost lesbian ✧
just read this letter that the mental health services sent to my GP and i'm in tears ngl. they're out here trying to blame my depression on me taking birth control despite the diagnosis being from long before i started it, asking for ANOTHER blood test when iron deficiency and thyroid issues have already been ruled out, claiming i'm not giving my antidepressant "enough time" when i've been on it for MONTHS and then just recommending therapy again when i've already been THREE times and the last therapist said it obviously wasn't working for me. i am SO angry, it should not be this hard to get help. what more am i supposed to do?
Halloqueen
Just a dreamer who dreams of better days.
I'm a banana trapped in a mango's body. Seriously, they seem so rare and they're the only collectibles I want from this event now that I have all the normal balloons. Wish I had banana as my island fruit so I could just buy them directly.
Pretty light for this thread, but yeah.
A whole lot of other stuff's been going wrong this year, but rather not get into talking about it right now.
Pretty light for this thread, but yeah.
A whole lot of other stuff's been going wrong this year, but rather not get into talking about it right now.
Millysaurusrexjr
standing on business
Fingers crossed that all the new fruit eventually get added to the shop permanently
Would be kinda weird if they weren't!
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