How do you deal with uncertainty about what happens after death? I’m 99% sure there’s an afterlife, but that 1% haunts me. What if there isn’t one? What if my loved ones are just gone? How can I live without certainty of seeing them again?
This is driving me nuts, please tell me what's worked for you.
My cat's subcutaneous fluids bags seem to have some demonic ability to hold onto cold water no matter what I do - which then makes her squirmy and restless during fluids because she doesn't like the cold feeling.
Yesterday I put the bag in a bath of hot water for two hours and then between my belly and two wheat bags for two hours, so that's four hours in contact with warm things. And STILL the water was cold!
My cat got restless, the needle came out early, she only got 30ml of fluids *sigh*
Her restlessness made me suspicious that the fluid wasn't warm enough so I tested it against my wrist and it was cold! And yet, the bag itself was warm to the touch. I'm confused. What is this sorcery where after four hours of warming the bag can be warm but the fluid inside still cold
People who SCRAPE the bottom of the bowl, making that awful metal-on-ceramic screech, with EVERY bite
I understand tryna get the last bits for the last bite but EVERY BITE?!
My mother does this - multiple screeching scrapes for every single bite of every meal that comes out of a bowl.
People who do this: WHY?!?! I don’t understand, can you not hear it? 😭
My cat was extra squirmy today. I’d love to figure out why, so I can avoid it happening again. I think perhaps the fluid was a little cooler than usual. I felt the bag once it was done and it was room temp rather than body temp. Could cooler fluid make a cat more likely to want to move away during fluids?
I usually warm the fluids in a hot water bath but it requires getting up to fetch the fluids just before administering and sometimes that takes me from a sleeping cat in my lap to an awake cat who’s harder to put the needle in. So this time I tried putting the fluids bag in my bra, hoping my body would warm it, but it seems like it wasn’t warm enough. So I’d love to know: do any of you know of a technique for heating fluids while having them on hand for administering? I usually administer the fluids in bed, I have a ceiling hook I hang the bag from just above my bed (or rather, Nagini’s bed that I am sometimes allowed to sleep in)
Cat tax: picture of Nagini
Last night my cat was really squirmy and the needle kept coming out; it took three needle pokes to get 30ml of fluids into her. She yowled when I went to do the fourth poke and I didn’t have the heart to go through with it so I stopped at 30ml. She usually gets 100ml, once every three days, so for the next three days she’ll be running on less than half of her usual fluids dose. I’m worried that she’ll get dehydrated, and also worried than the next time I do fluids she’ll be squirmy again. She’s usually well behaved but I don’t know what went wrong so I don’t know how to prevent a repeat occurrence :(
People who go on and on, posting sympathy-seeking tiktoks about how much it sucks to not have friends, and then you look at their replies and learn they never leave their house, never tried joining a club or bonding with people over a shared hobby. At that point they’re shooting themselves in the foot and then crying about the wound online
Exceptions for the disabled, people with severe social anxiety, and people who live in tiny towns