Sunday, September 17, 2006
Great Night at the Cherry Pit
Current mood: amused
Category: Blogging
Loved last night at the Cherry Pit. There was a little bit of drama but I guess I have just lucked out the last several times avoiding that. Brought a new friend into the swing scene and I was glad to see that he fit right in and was having a great time and still was having one when I left. LOL.
Got to socialize after the party and just hang out. Havnt done that in a long time. I came home this morning the pouring rain to my loving ferrets. Got woken up a couple of hours later to one of my babies nibbling on my feet and bouncing around on the bed wanting to play. It has been a great 24 hours and I havn't had "great" that many hours in a row in a long time.
Thanks Guys, Till next time.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
RIP Zorro
Current mood: blank
Category: Blogging
Zorro moved on an hour ago. He is now with his friends, Mischeif, Rocket and Renetta. The "Rat Pack" is back together and Zorro is the big cheif of his domain again. The vet said it was old age and depression. Run and play with your friends my big man of the house, it's your turn to have fun instead of taking care of everyone else. Love Mommy.
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Caring Hurts
Current mood: distressed
Category: Blogging
You know what I am saying if you are a person who REALLY cares. I spent the night in the hospital Saturday Night, having to cancel a date I was looking forward to, for severe dehydration. It is either a virus that is not allowing me to keep things down or Gastrointeritis due to stress.
I came home and slept through the day. Missing Group Conscious Elections, which I was up for one of the Secretary positions that I really wanted to participate in, and since I could not be in attendance I could not be elected.
Around one in the morning on Sunday, I got up and around to check up on the ferrets and dose out medications only to find Rocket had passed away cuddled up, indicating he died in his sleep. He was just sleeping with me on my sick bed hours before. Unknowingly to me, he was saying good-bye.
I have spent the day trying to rehydrate Zorro. The first ferret I have every owned. My big alpha male. The man of my house. You see, ferrets bond with one another. Rocket died from depression because his life long buddie Renetta died the week before from the ravagages of illness. Zorro's buddie Mischeif passed away several months back and he barely survived the depression but what kept him going was Rocket and Renetta, they took him in and he had a new ferret bond with them. Although never the same after Mischeif's death he bounced back. Now that they are both gone, Zorro is refusing food and is declining rapidly. I had to give him subqutanious fluids an hour ago to keep him going. But at the end of all this, if he does not find the will to live, he will die. It is up to him. All I can do is cuddle him and let him know he is loved and needed and hope that is enough.
So I am sick, my lovely "pink clouds" of pleasure are dying at my feet and I am holding on by a very thin thread at this point. People say I care to much about these animals. I can see how they would think that but when the chips are down, when I am down, they are there, they are a constant, they need me and I can give them more then I can give to any human being. Even now, the others still bring me out of the depths of darkness with a little nibble on the ankle and a hop hop hop saying "chase me momma, chase me, weee wwwweeee, come on come on, gotchya ankle again, whatchya gonna do about it, come on, CHASE ME MOMMA!" How can I resist that! I cant.
Let's face it. The higher the joy in your life the deeper the sorrows and vice-versa. Some would call that bi-polar (LOL). But in this case, it's is just a case of terminal caring.
Love you all, Keep Zorro and Me in your prayers.
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Good Bye Rocket...I love you
Current mood: sad
Category: Life
Sept 11, 2006
Rocket passed away in the wee hours this morning in his sleep. He just could not be without is beautiful Renetta. Rocket and Renetta came to me as my first fosters a little over a year ago. I dont have a recent picture of him because he was too lively to get a good shot of him. He loved Renetta so much that he came to me as a package deal. Renetta needed meds twice a day but Rocket was healthy but could not be seperated from his women without severe depression setting in. They followed each other in life and now in death they are reunited. I guess one week without her was just too much for his broken heart to bare. Now he is with Renetta in a time and place where they are both young and healthy and able to enjoy each other even more. Fly Rocket Fly. You will always be in my heart. Zorro misses both of you terribly.
Patrice D.
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Come join me on LostCherry
Category: Friends
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Renetta's struggle is over.
Current mood: loved
Category: Life
Renetta passed away in my arms about an hour ago. I have spent the last 3 days during her demise holding her and snuggling with her. She slept in my bed beside me and when her heart stopped I was there. My kisses on her face was the last thing she she felt.
Renetta and her mate Rocket were the first fosters I took into my home 1 year ago. I placed Rocket by her side and he said goodbye in his ferret way.
I feel honered to have taken care of this precious, precotious and beautiful tiny ferret in her remaining days. She got to be spoiled rotten and never spent a day of her last year of life in a cage.
I can now picture her young and romping in fresh grass and trees, the perfect temp for her and the fallen ferrets before her, playing like a new kit. Play Renetta Play! You have earned it. You will forever be in my heart.
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Sunday, September 03, 2006
Prayers for Bert
Bert has an enlarged spine and it may be two months or days or years before it becomes deadly but he seems very uncomfortable. Please send him some pleasent thoughts of comfort.
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Prayers for Renetta
My little Renetta is very sick. She is very young but has always had to deal with the diseases that are prevelent in older ferrets. The ferrets at my home are dealing with virus that ferrets only get once in their lives and then they never had it again. Renetta's fragile body is being beaten on by this virus and it does not seem as though she will survive.
Send your prayer out for her. And if it is her time ...may she go in peace.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
I delivered my neighbors baby this morning
I delivered my neighbors baby this morning
I woke up this morning to a man banging on my front door screaming for help. When I answered he was pushing me into his apartment hysterical stating his wife was having a baby.
She was standing in the hallway on the phone with 911 and holding up her underware cradleing the head of her baby.
I told the husband to hold the babies head. Got some clean towels, put them on the floor between her legs and told her husband to gradually lower his wife to the floor while I held the baby.
When she laid down the babies shoulders came out. When I lifted the babys head and he opened his eyes the rest of him just slid out into my hands.
I wiped him down with a warm wash cloth to start his breathing and he let out the most wonderful scream I have ever heard in my life.
The parmedics came and cut the cord. The baby is healthy. Mom is healthy and father is dazed. All are at the hospital now. A new family.
I will be high on this miricle of life at least for today and probably the rest of my life.
I have no idea, how I knew what to do. My Goddess just took over and with total calm and serenity I went into auto-pilot as if I had done it 100 times before.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Radar
Category: Life
Well, My Wyatt Earp scraggly retirement man has passed away. He is the only ferret we ever had that lived into the double digits and he was ready to go. He will always be in my heart and I am sure he is with Mischeif, Lula, and my mother frollicking in a meadow with their youth.
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