Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday

[stoutfellow]

I don't know whether what happened yesterday afternoon and evening was three separate bleeding episodes or a single protracted one with interludes.

I find that I no longer panic in the face of Ben's bleeding. The episodes are upsetting and very messy (and I'm glad I remembered that cold water is the thing to use in getting blood out of fabric), but Ben doesn't seem to be in pain - just discomfort. (He struggles so when I try to administer the epinephrine....)

When he had the first episode, the vet prescribed some pain medications, with a secondary effect of helping him keep calm. At the dosage she suggested, though, they made him lethargic, so, after some discussion, we cut the dosage in half. I've decided to go back to the original dosage, at least for a while, in hopes of preventing a recurrence of yesterday.

:sigh:

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Poor baby. And poor you. Wish I knew what else to say...

your Aug 15, 2005 journal entry

[canaacap.livejournal.com]

Hi, just curious about an entry you did Aug 15, 2005. Something about "strange things" and a list of things with numbers.

You indicated something about "alkali bogs" being more dangerous than quicksand. Now, an article in Scientific American in the 1950s about quicksand also added a bit on alkali bogs.

Do you know of any further information. It would seem to be information useful to have on public resources like Wikipedia. Do you know if alkali bogs are so dangerous that they are capable of engulfing a human being, or if the danger comes from some other complication of trapping?

Re: your Aug 15, 2005 journal entry

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you've got the right entry (or the right person)? Neither of my entries from that day says anything about alkali bogs.