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Little Steel is doing much better, except she absolutely refuses to eat. I've offered a lot of things. She gets upset and refuses with all her might. I don't quite suspect MBD as much as I did before, but it's still a very looming possibility because she just. won't. fucking. eat. At this point I'm ready to classify her as non-releasable, which means I'm about to start the process of finding a rehabber to be her forever home. EAT, YOU ADORABLE LITTLE SHIT. Tomorrow we take our cat Boog to get a weird lump biopsied so please send good vibes for that. I'm very scared. She's the first "real" pet I've ever had.
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Thanks y'all ❤️ Support like this means a whole lot. Gives me courage.
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Still waiting on that, they said doc should have results within 24 hours but the way the pain clinic runs i might not hear back until next week. I suppose "best" case scenario would be them deeming whatever's going on in there a candidate for surgery (in the past they've flat out said no, they don't want to do surgery on me for a myriad of reasons that boil down to it not really being worth it at that stage) but then again if that's the case I'm fucking terrified of having that done so whatever guess I'll fuckin' die I dunno I won't go too sad sack on here, but I'm stressed lol
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lol nah the MRI was for me and my fucked up spine sorry for the confusion
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I've had a doozy of a day. Had to go in for an MRI, had an anxiety attack during, so that was cool. Lived through that. Little Steel still isn't eating on her own and I'm having to face the fact that it's looking like she has MBD (Metabolic Bone Disease) which is a huge blow, because I was given her and told she was just undernourished but MBD is pretty serious and potentially devastating to the opossum. I'm such an anxious wreck today that I've lost it over this lil baby so gotta get some sleep and come at this potential development with more courage tomorrow.
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POSSUM WATCH 2019--- the new lil baby has a name. We've been talking about how "feathery" light she is because she came to me starving but I didn't want to give her a name that reflected that featherweight because we want a nicely fat lil poss! So her name.... is Steel. Because "Steel is heavier than feathers!"
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No name yet! Generally I don't name them until I feel like they've earned a name. Maybe earned is the wrong word, but until they just... HAVE a name to me I guess. Lee named Grimy! Only 2 out of the 5 littles (well, 6 including new girl) have names so far--- Honeybun and Pickles
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Yup! Right now the one that I "swapped" for Grimy is in some dire straights so I've got my hands full making sure she pulls through. She's cute as a button though! I love her. The others I have have reached the stage where all their eyes are open and they're cranky about everything because they're not quuuuite big enough to leave the "pouch box" still so the moment they see me they start chitting and swarm my hand like "MOOOOOOOOOOOM WE'RE BORED"
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Grimy update--- He's gone to live with my mentor now that his tail's on the mend because she has 2 others his size and I'm better with the tube feeder babies than she is so she swapped me another small one for him. NGL, I'm low key devastated I got SUPER attached to that idiot XD
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That whole place was a management disaster, yeah. The GM that hired me quit fairly shortly after she hired me on beyond seasonal and things just kinda snowballed worse and worse. When I left there was finally a new GM so maybe she whipped things into gear?
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Yeah, that sounds much better. It started being threatening ultimatums of "no one can leave until the entire truck is unloaded" which would mean there were 3 or 4 of us desperately trying to stock around active customers because we were a busy location and it'd really piss the customers off and we'd still not get everything done because we'd have to drop shit to help if asked. I do not understand management choices there
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Oh man, I used to do truck shifts for Ulta and that meant going and unloading boxes and putting out product at like 3am on Fridays and for a while it was pretty good, lots of the pros you mentioned... no customers, I had earbuds in..... but then they banned us from listening to music and the deliveries started getting STUPID ridiculous for what was mostly a crew of petite women (and then me with the bad back, but that was a whole other weird issue) and then they'd make us stay later and later and it was just...... no good. Sometimes I think fondly of listening to an audiobook while lining up eyeliner though haha
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Yay for productivity! Boo for ass o'clock shifts! Grimy is home, his tail tip amputation was successful! Right now he's chowing down on some food because getting surgery is hungry work.
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Man, going back to possum talk... I'm currently trying to choke down an anxiety attack about this possum. Last time I had a possum this age with a tail injury, the vet was very wrong in her diagnosis and that possum suffered needlessly until I was able to help her pass peacefully. It still devastates me when I think about it. The vet was not wrong this time, she made the call to give Grimy a bit more time to see if the bloodflow in the tail meant it could heal. With the tail tip dying, the next step is a very simple procedure to amputate the tip, cauterize and then see him through the healing. Should be just fine. He's having other issues from all the soot he inhaled, but seems to be doing well in those areas too. I am already deeply emotionally invested in this possum and while I have confidence in the treatment plan and his future right now I'm just hitting myself with all the what ifs and it fucking sucks
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ok but what if you did and it gave you the ability to fart a knife at someone twice a year
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Oh, as if MT ever does anything I say
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TIME TO TRY FOR A NEW RECORD, GO GET A BUCKET FROM HOME DEPOT
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that's not as outrageous as my first assumptions for whatever reason i didn't think you like.... chugged it but that it was consumed in a smaller sitting if that makes sense and i was concerned
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well no, then you'd just straight up be dead but like... in what time frame was this consumed was it stashed in the fridge for a break at any point stuff like that I NEED TO KNOW
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like.... in one sitting???
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I don't think it was quite that dramatic but I do have a good screaming story I don't remember why but as we pulled up to the speaker of the drive through of a Raising Canes I had been making a screeching noise or something at Lee as a joke and the Canes people have to say dumb stuff like "hey hey hey want some chicken today" when you pull up but apparently I threw this guy off because he just goes "..Welcome to Canes, AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH" and imitates the noise I was making It was perfect
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I once made the mistake of ordering a large shake from Jack in the Box and Lee just LET ME like some kind of monster I screamed when they handed it to us who on earth can drink that
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sonic large is like the child size from parks and rec and @webheadI dunno that looks a little too grimace-y
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just a totally neutral face and the react is called "reaction"
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Welp, Grimy's tail tip did die after all so he gets that bit amputated tomorrow. Luckily it's only a tiny portion of his tail and he has full use of the rest so this is just a temporary setback! He's a sweet little guy. He's asleep on my chest. Have I mentioned I love this little possum?
