Thursday, December 01, 2005
New Picture: It's colder in the new apartment
Gas guy's coming on Saturday, yay!!!I think that's why Tink's made a whole bunch of little nests instead of squashing up against the glass of the aquarium, since she's been here. Different behavior always makes me wonder....
But she looks pretty cosy, doesn't she? I suppose it could be because it's brighter in the new place...maybe she's trying to block out the light, more than stay warm. As usual, dunno, dunno....
Good friends, good food...old sickness, new month, new place
It's been a while, hasn't it?There was the Thanksgiving holiday, of course--when I got to spend fabulous quality time with Clara! And Tink spent fabulous quality time in Chansoo's closet! I think that that somehow had a really good effect on her--she slimmed down and seems ten times calmer than before--despite the fact that she did, in fact, bite him once over the holiday. (Oh, and she DOES like turkey! Not as much as chicken, though.)
Strangely, her ketone/glucose readings remain essentially the same. So, the Glipizide is having no measurable effect. I'm almost out of the crushed tabs anyhow, so I need to talk to the vet about trying a different formulation--even if I have to pay a little more, and find a place that sells animal medicine.
Oh, and I moved to a new apartment. (This picture is from the old one. Don't have any from the new place yet.)
And I've been really really sick. Been trying not to face the facts, which is why I haven't mentioned it till now. But, unfortunately for me, and Tink, and the future of this blog--it's looking like I may be deathly allergic to hamsters. Will know next week when I take the hamster-allergy test. Something weird has been happening to me, since last May. I've developed a chronic sort of cough, with asthma, and my whole head and chest seem to be constantly filling up with fluid/gunk. Got it under control after two severely ill months this summer, once I graduated (yay!) and could focus on my health, and getting to the doctor regularly. The doctor put me on this medicated inhaler, the Advair diskus. Then I was back to breathing normally for two months. When the diskus ran out, the doctor said to see what happened then--if the cough and congestion came back, then it was likely to be an allergy of some sort. And it did, alas...four weeks later, I was back to asthma and coughing. And since there's nothing else new in my living environment this year, except my poor diabetic hamster, it's looking awfully suspicious, isn't it? Unless it happens to be the bedding, or something like that, which I could actually control.
Sigh. I don't want to give her up, but if that's what's making me so so very ill, I guess I have to. Clara already offered to take her in to her home, so at least she'll stay in the family, and I'll get to visit her every couple of months. Hopefully.
But it's all very sad. I hope Tink doesn't know, or guess. She must know something is up, since I haven't held her or played with her very much since I got back. I've been avoiding her, I guess. I'm just afraid of going back to being really really ill. I can't stand it. Life is so extra miserable when you can't breathe properly!
