[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We feel you :'(
Since 1.5 months we're fighting for the life of our cat Loki. He usually had 6-6.5kg and only has 4.25kg left because of his gastritis, after surgery of an unrelated eye tumour, when we're did a gastroscopy.

We tried to give him some stomach protector, which he hated. So I mixed it into his food, which only led to him declining his diet food more and more.
We switched the stomach protector to something more easily eaten and we started cooking for him - every 2h from 5 in the morning until 1 at night (sometimes also at 3, when he had appetite)
Didn't really help...
So he got daily subcutaneous infusions with antibiotics and after a week or two he was much better and even gained like half a kg.
He was happy, we were jumping in joy.
But exactly after the last control visit at the vet, he declined his food again and 2 days layer he was diagnosed with a pancreatitis.

So he would need to go for 24 hours stationary at the vet with IV infusions.
That didn't work out, as he wouldn't hold still without us.
So we went with him and did daily IV infusions for nearly 2 hours a day and he finally got better.

He gained nearly 1kg and we were happy as fuck - him as well, as he was enjoying just being outside again.

Then he started puking again...

So the vet told us, that we need to switch to a specific diet food instead of our low fat cooking.
He surprisingly ate 1-1.5 portions, but after that he declined it again - even with Mirtazapin to give him some appetite.

That was yesterday. So last night he like really proudly showed me his puke, with a face of "look what this new food has done" and we switched back to cooking.

I'm currently at the end of my wisdom and we're emotionally completely drained.
I'm self employed and haven't worked for the whole time now, because I can't focus anyway and with him being miserable I was just a 24 hours nurse. My wife luckily had a vacation now, so she could jump in a bit, so I could catch up with some sleep...

But it's a daily rollercoaster. Sometimes he has good days and wants to go outside, sometimes he just want to sleep and mostly he cuddles with us.

He is the nicest and bravest cat I've ever had and we'll fight however possible. But have my whole sympathy as we now how shit it is to see your loved cat deteriating and you can't do much but watch :-(

I actually wanted to add some pictures as tax, but I can't find an easy easy in comments (in my mobile app) now

At least feel hugged from very understanding other cat owners, currently facing mostly the same dilemma
(By now I could probably fill a book just with the shit that happened in the last month...)

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Keeping the older cars running would be quite some effort - like in keeping spare parts and so on

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Well hopefully, they deserve it at least just as much, for most of the them more, than the rest of us

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago

What the fuck is Woke?

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago

zero ~~media~~ literacy whatsoever

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 months ago

"Farted" in a Hotel bed, while arriving with a stomach flu. Was a business trip I couldn't get out of.

Was quite embarrassing to try to wash everything in the shower, and left them a note and a tip.
Luckily it seems that deal worked out, as I still had to stay for 2-3 weeks and nobody mentioned anything.
But wasn't fun... Especially while still having a fever and the bowels doing whatever...

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago

Reads like ketamine

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 months ago

Not even about user data, this is just the side dish. You have complete control over the system and spy on, and probably even can do, whatever

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

It seems to be more that houses in the USA were being built cheap and burn down easier. While Europe obviously had the same issue with fires (looking at you Brugge - how often do you wooden town need to burn down, until you place a fucking stone?), but they approached it with better, fire proof materials - like bricks instead of wood.

The regulations in the USA seem to include those zig-zag stairs (probably I mixed up the name), where 2 stairways are on the same place, cross crossing each other.
In case of smoke/fire or demolition of this block, I don't see how those 2 stairs make a better exit, when they are in the same place.

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago

My cat doesn't really care that much about food. Maybe it's not normal, I don't know. But he is much more concerned with the humans around him and food is more of a tertiary thing - after being around his favourite humans and comfort places

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just wait for the next stage as a libertarian socialist, without a leading communist party, because we can take care of us ourselves - it's usually called anarchy (which doesn't mean no social norms, just self-organisation without leadership)

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are some websites (or at least one website and maybe a Lemmy Thread or so), where they linked up possible alternatives to sub reddits

I'm not sure, if I can find a link, I'll try

Edit: ha, that went quick.
https://sub.rehab/

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