u/dazzleunexpired

My father kept telling me that I needed to get away from him because of what it was a venomous snake? (Please note I was 6 ft away anyways). How could anything this derpy be Venomous? I used this photo to educate him about "happy eye" snakes. He had never noticed that some have round pupils.

Edit: haha You guys I can identify the snake. I did not use eye shape to identify the snake. I use the eye shape to explain to my 60-year-old father who was so afraid of snakes that he kills every snake and would have tried to kill this one. If I did not find some type of way to show him that the snake has a harmless cute animal, I decided to use the round pupils. It's very hard to get through to this man at the animal is not going to hurt him. My actual conversation with my father discussed the eye ridging as well, but I didn't realize you guys would need to be told that. It seems that Orange got what I meant.

The area this photo is taken in is within range of three venomous snakes: the prairie rattlesnake and the copperhead, Occasionally a Massasauga Rattlesnake ends up in the surrounding prairie lands so I'll go with 3 not 2, but not in KC itself.

Don't ID snakes based off eye shape but feel free to use range, eye ridge, eye shape, color, and markings all together like I did before talking to my dad.

Thanks!

Sparkle likes raw corn. Grabbies grabbies.

If you guessed the dog who waa so afraid of life she wouldn't even leave her kennel a year ago, you're right!

Then she didn't know what to do when I was ecstatic she played with me. She was playing "bedtime whale", where she play bites and rolls around and paw smacks with me and my husband before bed so she's nice and sleepy. It's my favorite part of the day and she wags her lil nub so hard. Today I realized I should incorporate her toys to see if she will learn to use them when she is bored or with me. She caught in but then I was too excited and she was flustered.

She'll get it. She can do big things. 🥹

Ft: her spot in bed that she will now NOT give up. Not pictured is HER bed, at the foot of MY bed that she sleeps in. 😆 It's a baby mattress & a pregnancy pillow. She still prefers a) my spot in my pregnancy pillow (not pregnant. They're just comfy.) or b) my bed (her bed?) between Dad and me. 😆

Lunch: pot roast, gravy, egg noodle, pita & hummus snack size (didn't eat, hummus had red bell pepper in it, which I absolutely hate, I had hoped for garlic!), cranberry juice x2. 6/10. This had a good flavor and the texture was flaky which is good for this meat. Portion is 4oz this time.

Dinner Grilled Chicken & gravy, egg noodle, green beans, butter, apple juice x2. 5/10, the chicken was flaky which I don't love for this meat, but it wasn't horrible. I think the chicken was probably also 4oz. Both meat dishes filled me up this time.

The noodles are a 10/10. They are not too soft or too hard, they have butter, and they're clearly cooked to order vs microwave. They will be in every meal now. The penne they offer isn't as good imo.

I do wonder if the dinners are worse than other meals on the weekend. It appears the kitchen staff leaves after lunch clean up on weekends and Friday evening. My Turkey last night was a major issue, it was only about 2oz or 3oz, even with corn and mashed potatoes with it, I had to have someone bring me outside food. Will determine if I'm still here overnight Monday. Probably will be.

My hospital changed to premade precooked foods. I am so sad. My wife went and got me some food from the cafe which is much better, but we Can't sustain that, it's expensive.

The US governments new food plan has affected this hospital. They have removed most red meats, they replaced them with beans or mushrooms in pasta and chili dishes. They don't allow real milk (only non fat skim or soy) or yogurt (only non fat), or cheese (low fat only, cheese in most entree is vegan cheese). Nothing grilled with oil (dry chicken does exist) or breaded or fried. No breads except breakfast and a roll option. Meats on entrees are less than a child sized portion (about 2-3oz). Unfortunately, this menu is genuinely not compatible with my needs but I really don't have an option other than to not eat most of the time while here. Hopefully I find something I can handle! Mort of the meals are too high in fiber but the low fiber menu is the clear liquid diet. So I'm not gonna say anything to them cuz I hate the clear diet.

"this is criminal crimes. Pet me again" - Carli

Worth it.

Princess noodles from the food pantry (Kraft donated TONS of left over noodles from Mac and cheese boxes to my pantry!), tomato's & tomato paste from the food pantry, garlic cream cheese from EBT

Looks awful, tastes great

We cut hair and whiskers to keep after they cross and bury their bodies. This is a new thing and the first few rats don't have much hair taken, the rat I put down today was my personal favorite and I took a good bit of her fur while I cried with her on the way home from the vet.

Each rat gets their own font that fits them, Moli has a sunshine next to her name, too. My Lil Golden Girl.

Grimly (rex who's molting and patchy), Oat (the one that looks like Grimly in the last photo, but less rex and with a back spot), Lemur (powder blue starred) and Possum (roaned blue agoti of some kind with a blaze)

Bonus bawls

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Tw: infant loss. Please leave now if this is going to harm you. I have tried to block the first bit. If it's broken I'll try to work on it as soon as I post it.

>!My baby was born 10 years ago today (well. For 5 more mins today. B 6/24/16). My baby died 36 days later. Today, only one person remembered my baby who wasn't obligated to. It took 10 years. Not 9 but 10. The person who remembered had an alarm set and has it set forever for every year. Only 10 years!<

>!I miss my baby!<

>!Will you miss my baby with me, please?!<

Tell me if your favorite memories with your babies? Or Pets? Or funny kid stories? (I do have a surviving 8 year old)Tell me if your loss babies if you want? Cry about pot loss or parent loss with me? Be with me? I have family, they're here but asleep. I will be too, soon. Before too long. But is really love to wake up to stories and people to talk to, and fall asleep that way too. Or cute animals?

I'm going to include pictures of my child in the comments. Please, no one get upset. She's very much dead.

Her name was Cambridge "Cammi" Armstrong. If you think you know me from this comment and had HG, you do know me. Hi. It happens a few times a year someone will.

I had bread and butter (it goes on the bread I promise) and a Mt olive pickle and red onion pickles eta: o that's pepperoni too. Aldi.

Anyone got any advice or just wanna talk into I can manage to sleep or let me wake up to wonderful things? I'm sorry I'm asking so much. My son is away at camp and I'm sad.

#edit Oh. My. God. Almost 900 comments. I am responding to as many as I can but I am reading all of them. If you have lost a child and want to talk or need advice please please please dm me if I didn't respond to you.

#edit 2: The metrics of this post make me want to sob. Over 650,000 people have seen this post. The top three countries are the United States, UK and Canada up at 11% of the people who have read this post are not from the United States, Canada or the UK. Over 500 people have shared his post outside of Reddit. I don't have the words for what it means to me that this many people acknowledged my child's existence. I can't. I thought maybe 15 of you would see this. This is crazy.

Oat and Grimly enjoy the oat snack. 😂 They won't let the babies (see at bottom corner) on

I remain confused about her color lmao

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Is she Agouti? She has an English Irish, can Agouti have Irish? Pretty sure they can. She's silvered for sure (almost all the rats from this feeder location have silvering) but like. Her entire litter was black? ...or so I thought? She's a feeder rescue like most of our residents. We do own an Agouti (silverfawn) from this location, but I've never seen a wild type in their bins.

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I remain confused because INDIVIDUAL hairs are not banded? As she gets older, she gets REDDER. The fuck Charcoal. What are you. Can husky/roan happen on a black base? Black would roan this color, wouldn't it, if they did?