Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
Apologies if this has been done, my memory is naff but I searched the first few pages and couldn't find anything.
My animals helped me after having the clot and they've really been a lifeline in my recovery. I have 2 golden retrievers, Shaylee 11 and Willow 8, both are so loving and as Cave said want to please you all the time. Gunner is a 4 year old german shepherd and a total goofball who makes me laugh many times a day. Salem the moggy is now 12 and I have 1 rat called Charm who is just over 3. Her sister died recently which is the only reason she is alone, I think she's too frail to introduce to new rats so just do the best I can at the moment to keep her busy and give her new things to do.
So what pets does everyone else have?
My animals helped me after having the clot and they've really been a lifeline in my recovery. I have 2 golden retrievers, Shaylee 11 and Willow 8, both are so loving and as Cave said want to please you all the time. Gunner is a 4 year old german shepherd and a total goofball who makes me laugh many times a day. Salem the moggy is now 12 and I have 1 rat called Charm who is just over 3. Her sister died recently which is the only reason she is alone, I think she's too frail to introduce to new rats so just do the best I can at the moment to keep her busy and give her new things to do.
So what pets does everyone else have?
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Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
Aww chillas are gorgeous, I did hear they have very strong personalities but have never been lucky enough to be around them.... yet :-)
Once I'd left a pair of shoes outside on the back porch and the next day, there was a butternut stashed in one of them.
So we did get about 6 inches of snow, but then on Sunday it rained all day, and everything turned to really scarey ice. So I can't let my dog go down the stairs by himself because he'll break something for sure. Winter can be really hard on animals. I live in the midwest and it's just sort of endless, the winter.
Snow is a novelty here but I live in a bungalow so no steps. Gunner is so excited when he first gets his lead on, he would be a nightmare getting down icy stairs :-/
I love it that you love your chinchillas for what they are---- not a pet that is to be bent to the owners fantasy of what a 'pet' should be. I'm sure they're fun to be with and fun to watch.
I will always love the dogs I've known - they've felt more like members of the family than anyone else, and the unconditional love they offer is beyond compare.
Living with chinchillas is different, but for me has all sorts of different sorts of joys and rewards. I mean, just the entertainment value alone (if you can laugh at the destructive power of these critters, too - yes, they can be every bit as destructive as those outdoor rodent types) keeps me laughing and on my toes. Both very valuable - especially on bad days
There was one time I let them out for their "run time" (I have chinchilla-proofed a room for this, though maybe "chinchilla-resistant" would be a better term), and when I left the room for a minute, I heard a loud BANG! Uh-oh. Trouble. Went back into the room. One of my girls was on a shelf at a little above waist height (a bit higher than they can jump on their own), munching away at the rat food that she had just tipped over (that was the jar that had gone "bang!"). She looked quite pleased with herself and it took me a few minutes to figure out how in the heck she had gotten there. This was a lucky instance in which the bang was not a sign of some sort of destruction, but merely "mischief" that was quite entertaining once I puzzled it out.
Ready for this? She had one and only one shot at this, and had to have planned this out very carefully. Here's how it went, as far as I could tell (I was pretty impressed):
1. Wait until TTB opens the gate to the cage ALL the way (so it's almost touching the file cabinets next to the cage) and leaves it.
2. Make sure that the rat food jar happens to be UN-latched
3. Wait, wait, wait, praying that TTB will leave the room.....
4. When she does, move FAST to climb the inside of said cage gate (about 4 feet) straight up- all the way to the very top, and then jump from there to the top of the stacked file cabinets. (This now becomes a one way street because the momentum pushes the gate away from her position. She's now "stuck".)
5. Jump from there to the shelves next to the file cabinet.
6. Jump down to the wider shelf/table below the shelf with the food so that you can then jump back UP to the one with the rat food.
7. Tip over the rat food jar.
8. Gorge until TTB stops you.
How can I NOT be utterly impressed and entertained by that, even though this chinchilla knows perfectly well that the rat food is off limits? This chinchilla, btw, is also one who generally backs down from whatever "bad" thing shes doing if I so much as look at her cross-eyed. THIS time I think she felt very entitled. Clearly she'd worked hard at her plan to get where she was. SHe was NOT budging. I had to physically remove her (with her looking at ME cross-eyed, thank you very much!). LOL.
Yeah. You won't get cuddles from these chinchillas. Not from most of them anyway. But you'll get plenty of laughs. PLenty of lessons in living in the moment, and appreciating others for exactly who and what they are, and loving THEM unconditionally rather than the other way around. It's pretty cool that way.
Not for everyone, but definitely for me. I'll take the unique joy and lessons and all the wonderful times that they've added to my life, especially when days have seemed dark. They bring light, and that's what it's all about, no? :)
"chinchilla-ly" yours,
TTB
Reminded me of one of my Siamese cats doing it's thing' (being a totally lovable jerk) on the computer. Now this was before the days of friendly computers. WAY before.
To reboot you had to perform the almost impossible task of pressing certain keys in a certain order while holding a couple of them down at the same time!
I walked away from the computer for a minute. Came back to see the cat wandering across the keyboard!!! Before I could catch him he was off------ and I watched in amazement while the computer re-booted!!!! He had stepped on those keys in just the right order!! Didn't know a cat could be computer literate. LOL
Speaking cats ---- YouTube ------ Simon's Cat. A bunch of very funny cartoons by a man who obviously lives with a cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbycvPwr1Wg
http://www.diynot.com/forums/plumbing/wc-cleaning-time-saving-tip.297632/
http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/
I was a little disappointed that a Doberman didn't win top honors, but happy that the breed showed 2nd in the Working Group.
What are your favorite breeds. It's o.k. to have more than one------ I have a gazillion of them. (grin)
I love all the misunderstood breeds... pits, dobies, shepherds, rotties
I love Great Danes and Mastiffs.
Love 'em all, but my heart is always with retired racing Greyhounds.