Update on Sammie
I stopped in to see her for a little bit this evening. They had a splint on her right front leg to keep her from messing with the IV catheter and had sedated her. Other than that she seemed fine and happy to see me. If the nausea and diarrehia is gone I can take her home tomorrow.
We came up with another possibility that is a lot more palatable to me than thinking this was from the stress of me being gone for a couple of weeks. She may have poisoned herself with toilet water. My wife has begun using those little chlorinated toilet cleaning tablets in the toilets and this may be the cause of Sammies problems. She isn’t beyond drinking from the toilets and I’ve caught her in my son’s bathroom recently drinking from his toilet.
We try to keep the lids down on the toilets because of this but my son isn’t as careful about this as my wife and I are. This vet visit is going to cost me close to $400 so he is going to start being more careful about dropping the lid in the future.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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I am very sorry to read about Sammie’s sickness. I hope she recovers quickly. That is a problem about the toilet water. Lucy would die if she encountered that danger, since she prefers toilet water to her water bowl.
I hope your wife was not injured in those falls. Barbara does not walk Lucy for just that reason. Last December one such pull down left Barbara on crutches for a few days.
Have a good Thanksgiving, I hope Sammie is able to enjoy it, too.
Ouch. We bought a little carbon-filtered continuously running fountain for our cat. She ignored it. We’re back to letting her drink out of the toilet.