How do you pass the time during a flight? What do you bring in your carry-on?
i haven't been on very many flights lately but i normally just load up my ipod with podnetcasts and sit back and relax. if i get bored with that i usually have a book or two in reserve that i can turn to.
How many bones have you broken? Yours or someone else's?
To my knowledge, just 1. The last section of my middle finger on my right hand. Don't play flag football against someone wearing shorts with pockets. Its dangerous.
Okay, we hate to ask, but... over the roll or under the roll?
DefinitelyOver. I really am not particular about much when it comes to household items but I am about this one. There is no room for Under in my house.
Toby was a sick puppy yesterday. A week ago, he got out of the fence and was there to meet my truck when I drove up. I put him back in the fence and later found an empty box of rat poison in the yard. I suspected that he had eaten at least some of it but I wasn't sure. I watched him for a few days and he showed no ill effects. I figured that everything was OK. Yesterday when I got home from work, he was obviously sick and couldn't get up. I carried him to the vet and he got a half liter of blood and some vitamin K. His body temperature was very low (it seems that 101-102 is normal for a dog, his was 97) and he was struggling to breathe. After the blood transfusion I took him over to the E-vet for him to spend the night. They were giving him a 50/50 chance of making it through the night. I didn't get any calls during the night and when I picked him up this morning he was standing up but moving very slowly. I took him back to the regular vet where is has stayed today getting more vitamin K treatments to counter the poison that is in his blood. Apparently it isn't uncommon for rat poison to take up to a week to work. I didn't know it before but it works by inhibiting the vitamin K in the blood and keeping it from clotting. He was bleeding internally and it was in his lungs and intestines. If he wasn't so big (~90 lbs) and strong he wouldn't have made it. Hopefully he will be able to get well and be back to normal in a few weeks.
The moral of the story is don't let a dog eat rat poison. If you suspect that they have eaten it you can get them to throw it up by giving them a little hydrogen-peroxide but call the vet. I think that if it has had time to absorb into the blood they can give them vitamin K to counteract its effects.
My dad tells me that this is not unlike a human's reaction to overdosing on coumadin or warfarin.
What's on your "do before I die" list?
Submitted by Caroline.
i don't know of anything right now that i feel that i MUST do before i die. however, here are a few things i'd like to do one day. Trek around Europe, visit Australia, visit all 50 states, learn to weld, rebuild an engine, see a shuttle launch.
