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Gitzie seems to be doing fine . I've started her on milk thistle, which isn't just used holistically but has been shown in actual clinical trials to help reduce liver tumors and restore function and has been widely used on pets and people and almost always yields great results. She's perked up, her respiratory infection is completely gone so we know that she does not have any tumor in her head, it's only the little specks in her misplaced liver that they believe is cancer (they aren't 100% sure what it is especially since she's such a RARE case). Hopefully this stuff will help her, it seems to already, and even the vet told me that it is very effective in felines (moreso than most western medicine she said, at least she's honest) and they take to it well with awesome results. She's been a miracle cat in the past, let's see if she can pull through and do it again. Even if she doesn't completely go into remission and eventually succumbs on her cancer, I have a good hunch that it will be maaaany years down the road. She's been feeling so good in fact that last Wednesday, on the full moon, she felt it appropriate to keep me up all night worrying about her when she didn't come home, only to stroll in around 7:35 the following morning like that was just fine to do. The following night I went out to have a cigarette and found a dead robin on the patio with his neck snapped. Yeah...I have a feeling she's gonna be just fine . Her appetite is 100% too, as a matter of fact she's been eating MORE in the past few days (probably because of the holistic medicine, since her liver is functioning better and her circulation is better, it's probably helping her metabolism also). So thanks to anyone and everyone who has been keeping her in your thoughts and prayers (it definately seems to be working ).

Yes, 89x is in Windsor but is probably not the channel you're thinking of. From the sounds of it you're probably talking about 93.9 The River. There's also 96.7 that is Canadian, probably Windsor, that plays some good shit every so often and is very random with what they play (almost like America's 93.1 Doug FM). But 89x is a BIG station that is very mainstream, much like MTV was awesome in the 90's but kinda sucky now (just the way music is heading in general) and they're self-proclaimed as the "new rock alternative". Usually they play screamo, emo, whatever kind of horrible rock category Seether, Godsmack, Creed, Chevelle falls into, some metal-ish stuff, 90's alternative still, indie, and that sort of stuff, so as I said that's why I was so shocked to hear not only Skinny Puppy but an older song of theirs.

So I'm driving in to work today and was bored with the CD I was listening to, and although the radio doesn't always play what I'm into every so often they'll put something on that doesn't totally suck, so I decided to give it a try. When I turned the CD off and flipped on the radio setting I seriously thought I was hallucinating because Smothered Hope was playing, causing me to question whether I had turned the CD off or not. What made it even stranger is that the CD I was listening to wasn't even Skinny Puppy...so why the fuck would it just start playing Smothered Hope out of nowhere? I hit the radio button again only to realize that it had been on the radio, 89x specificially, and well to cut the foreplay and get to the point: 89x played Skinny Puppy's Smothered Hope today, August 9th, 2009, at approximately 11:47am EST. Fucking nuts, huh? NEVER EVER did I think that 89x would play that song. Not only is it Skinny Puppy, a band that is totally badass to rivetheads everywhere yet not suited to the tastes of your average mainstream audience, but it is also one of their OLD songs on top of it. I wouldn't have been as shocked had it been, say, Pro-Test (which 89x played here and there when GRotR came out) or maybe something off Mythmaker...but it was a song from an album that came out in 1984 and was considered underground even back then. I mean dang, talk about obscure and out of the ordinary for what is usually played on 89x (i.e. emo bullshit ) Has anyone else witnessed radio stations going outside the box and randomly playing a song that was either so old, rare, underground/obscure, out-of-the-ordinary, etc that you thought your ears were playing tricks on you? If so, then what, and where did you hear it?

Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved

Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)

Because there are obviously 29 of her...I mean duh, Marc. Welcome GWT (ha, let me be the first to abbreviate your name as we have lazy typists here. I went from Chernobyl to Cherny to Cher and the next stop is undoubtedly "Che"). Your tail is getting me hott .

Survival of the fittest in modern terms translates to survival of the best educated with an ability to be highly adaptable. If you have to adapt to a thrifty lifestyle momentarily and work a dead-end job just to get by until something opens up that is looking for your specific educational/skill background, then so be it. If you don't go along with it, or concoct someway to become self-employed (even then you have rules to play by if you want to get business), then you die out. And now she took out a giant gun and shot herself in her own damn foot...well, her resume at least. She can kiss any future unemployment goodbye due to this whiny bullshit. At least she did any employer who may have hired her in the future a favor by letting them know that she is a lazy and incompetent whiner beforehand.

My Gitzie.

I'm sick of hearing whining about ficticious "ageism" on the board. It's like people look for stuff to bitch about now-a-days...geez. What ageism? If you show me examples of it then I'll be more inclined to take your side on this but I've been moderating this board for god-knows-how-long now and that's one of the subjects that has never surfaced in staff chat, nor have I seen any threads/posts to back up this notion. If you have a problem with members or a particular post and you believe that you are being wrongly discriminated against...that's why mods are here. Airing it out on the board just causes drama, everyone knows how this works. I'm sorry that you believe all of the people on this board discriminate against your age...although I will say it's silly since a good majority of the people on here who "discriminate against your age" happen to be your age. Just relax and be yourself man, don't focus on a number, we're such a gigantic mish-mash of styles, lifestyles, gender, age, religion, race, etc, nobody really can discriminate against anyone else on here, and furthermore, why would someone want to or even bother?

There is also no Uncle Otis on this board, and how can we be a crazy dysfunctional yet fun-loving caring family without a cooky ol' Uncle Otis up to his classicly illogical shenanigans? I'm just sayin'...

Messageboard hosts probably changed their bandwidth defaults and such. But I'm just speculatin'.

Name him Otis, please. I've always been partial to Kevin, Adam, and Trent as names too, not sure why.

Cancer.

Could be better could be worse, happy that we should be moving into our new little house in the quasi-ghetto in about two weeks, but unhappy still about what's going on with Gitzie's health. She seems very happy and not at all uncomfortable at the moment, so who knows, she may last a lonnng lonnng time.

About to get ready to go into work.

Fear itself.

This has been happening A LOT more lately than I've been comfortable with. Usually it doesn't bother me, but Kanye West ripped off "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", that one girl ripped off the Numa Numa song and it was HORRIBLE, someone ELSE ripped off "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" recently (heard it on the radio about a week ago) and lately at the Chinese Buffet last week they were playing 95.5 and a song came on that WOULD have been your average shitty pop song...however there was something DIFFERENT about this particular song: I knew the background melody from someplace. After three minutes it had dawned on me that she COMPLETELY ripped (without changing what-so-ever, as in used the ACTUAL recording of the ORIGINAL SONG) off the song "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap. The reason this makes me soooo angry is that all of the artists that I mentioned that had been ripped from are underground artists. It's not like what P. Diddy was doing in the late 90s and ripping the melody from very popular songs out of the 1960s-1970s that everyone KNEW were "stolen" from these old classics. These new "artists" are put together by record companies, have NO talent, and even worse...are ripping the ACTUAL talent of other hard-working artists that aren't as heard of, or are foreign, because they didn't get lucky and fall into some record producer's lap magically like they did. What makes me EVEN MORE PISSED is that all of my preppy friends NEVER liked shit like Daft Punk or Imogen Heap but the second Kayne Gayfish West comes out with it on the radio in a horribly botched and mixed version, it's "genius" according to the two brain cells most of preppy people have . It's soooo hard not to hate preppy people, I try not to, really I do and there are a few that are okay...but for the most part *blech* it's like hanging out with little kids or Juggalos all day . Sounds harsh but that's just in MY own personal experience from being alive 24 years, I still give everyone an equal chance until they prove to me why I shouldn't.

This made me feel much better. My aunt also had a cat, or has rather, that got liver cancer and went into remission on her own for some odd reason. It happens, it doesn't happen all the time, but it can. Gitzie is a special cat, she's special enough for her liver to be out of place and live completely fine all these years, I'm hoping she'll be special enough to pull through this. 7 years is not a long run for a kitty...but as odd as this sounds, I was comforted when the doctor told me about the thing with her liver being out of place and how she shouldn't have made it past age 2. I'm grateful that even with her congenital defect she's been a miracle enough to come this far and live a happy healthy live until now (and continuing, as I said she's still 100%) This does explain her odd build though. I've always wondered why her back part is "skinnier" than the front and now I know it's because towards the back she's lacking in organ and up by her chest there is too much. I always just thought this was how she was built due to no obvious signs of any health issues and attributed this to her mix breed. She was never supposed to happen, she was from an accidental litter which is why my ex got her for free. She is a VERY odd mix breed, her parents were show cats, and her mother was a Persian and her dad was an Egyptian Bosko (think I spelled it right), and well much like mixing a Pitbull with a Chihuahua, some breeds just DO NOT mix well. This also may be why, well most likely IS why, she has the defect in the first place. Persians and Boskos are SO different in build that her body probably got confused on where to put her liver. Persians are flat faced, rounded head, fluffy as all fuck, short stubby fat bodies with short legs whereas Boskos are like Ancient Egyptian cat statues and are practically hairless with long pointy faces, very slender bodies, LONG bodies, with very long legs and long tails. So she ended up, and this is cute this is why I always said she is special, with a long body, yet short legs, and a face that has a VERRRRY odd structure to it (yet very cute structure as you can see from the pics ) since her body probably didn't know whether to make her face long and slender or round and flat, it's kind of a mix and because of this her tongue is too big for her mouth and tends to stick out all the time. And she's not long haired, she's not short hair, she's medium haired. She's not white like her Persian mother and she's not black like her Bosko father...she's both . And whenever she lays on my black clothes trying to blend in, she never quite gets that she has white paws and it gives her away (that's why we started calling her "special" because, well, let's just say Gitzie is one can short of a six-pack in the ditzy department). And she is the SOFTEST and SILKIEST cat you can ever put your hand on, it's the most amazing feeling to pet her. Heh I named (or renamed rather, I didn't like the name my ex picked) her Gitzie in the first place because she reminds me of Michael Alig's girlfriend in the movie. Very trusting, kind of passive, kinda air-headed, and doesn't get enough of anything evar. *siiiigh* And thanks HW and Jynxxxed for your kind words and thoughts. I will periodically keep this thread updated with her status and pics and such for anyone who is interested or cares.

For anyone that has met her my kitty baby Gitzie is my life. Pestilence even thinks I <3 her more than him, so needless to say I'm devastated. She was breathing odd last week, nothing too weird figured maybe she had a respiratory infection, brought her in to the vet. Instead of just giving her antibiotics and sending her on her way this vet, who is solely a cat specialist, had x-rays taken of her chest. The doctor was troubled by what she was seeing. What appeared to an extremely large heart was, seemingly, POSSIBLY pushing on her lungs which was causing the breathing, not an infection. Of course this made me panic, but the doctor said it would be treatable and manageable and since she's been going her whole life that was that it isn't necessarily a death sentence. However, the doctor examined the x-ray further because there was something troubling about this "heart", it didn't look right and just didn't add up, which leads me to the next part of this horrible nightmare. I've always said my Gitzie is special, mostly jokingly, she does very odd things and is the most unique baby I've ever really come across. This is further confirmed by what the doctor then realized. The vet discovered that Gitzie's heart isn't enlarged and it is actually very strong. So what was the giant grey mass in the x-ray photo? Her liver. The vet said in all her years she has NEVER come across a case like this. Gitzie, apparantly, was born with her liver (or a big part of it) ABOVE her heart, as opposed to behind it. This is shocking, the vet says, because 99% of cats with this die in the first few years of life, but Gitzie is such a zesty little girl she has had the fight to live and be happy inside her so much that she has been going on for SEVEN years so far, COMPLETELY unaffected by this condition. The vet says this, in itself, is a miracle and cat's bodies hardly ever adapt to a serious congenital defect such as this and almost always die within the first few years, however not only did Gitzie adapt and overcome she's been living life to the fullest like nothing at all is wrong or out of place. The bad part about her liver, however, is that there were small white granules in the x-ray. The doctor said this was most likely cancer, however, she ahd no idea what kind of liver cancer it could be due to the fact that it was in small granules instead of one big tumor. At this point she started questioning whether Gitzie even HAD a respiratory infection...she had thought maybe it was a polyp/tumor in her little brain that must've broken off and traveled through her blood stream and planted itself several places in her liver since there was no one BIG tumor anywhere in her body to be found. BUT in case it was just a sinus something-or-other, she sent us home with an antibiotic regimen. The goodish-news: The sinus infection is gone This means that it WAS a respiratory infection and NOT a brain tumor, which the vet was ecstatic to hear. But the bad thing is the odd legions in her liver (only one or two lobes, cats apparantly have six lobes to their liver) that are so odd in form that the vet cannot place a finger on it. She would need to do surgury to the tune of $5,000-$7,000 which would most likely kill her anyhow due to the placement of her liver. If the surgeon tried to move her liver and put it back in place she can die instantly since her body has become accustomed to having it where it is, either a clot could be dislodged in it or just the shock alone could kill her (and most likely would). Also there a high chance that the anesthesia would also put her under permanently because although her heart is beating strong her circulation is slightly compromised. And after all this, IF (and a big if) she survived the surgury, if it did come back as a bad case of cancer, she would probably die anyways. Now, the mixed-news: The doctor is iffy about her prognosis, since it's very odd and very rare. She could, for instance be propulsed into failing health within weeks, but since she's had her liver oddly placed and it hasn't bothered her and these "growths" are so different and odd that we don't know if they're cancerous and how cancerous they really are for all we know she could live for months, years, or even go into remission. Hell for all we know these granules could be odd clots or something from having an oddly placed liver her whole life. She's absolutely fine and dandy also, which the doctor says is not very cancer-like, she's frisking, eating, etc. She's on antibiotics and getting over that sinus stuff so she's lethargic, but other than that she's 100%. She even stayed out until 3:30am last night killin' stuff and had momma worried all night. I am depressed more than I've ever been in my entire existance (or will be if she gets worse). I'm trying NOT to be depressed right now because she's still with me, she's still Gitzie, I <3 her and she <3s me, she's in good health at the moment and is still enjoying herself, but IF and when she begins to deteriorate it will hit me harder than anything I've ever been hit with in my life. If anyone sees me at the club and I look more gothily forlorn than usual, don't ask me what's wrong, just understand that I'm going through possibly losing my precious baby child. Please do not treat me differently than you have in the past, I'm trying hard to be happy around Gitzie and treat her 100% the same because I don't want her constantly knowing or reminded that there's something wrong, I want what could be her last days to be happy, so please do the same for me. I have my hope. It's not 100% a death sentence necessarily, God might me listening and send me a miracle....I need one so badly. Last night our friend Tim treated Pestilence and I to Chinese buffet. At the end of the meal our fortune cookies came, I grabbed the one that had the fortune cookie oddly sticking halfway out of the cookie, I grabbed it because it was the special one. When I opened this deformed fortune cookie I broke down right there at the table in front of everyone. It read: "Hope is the most precious treasure to a person" It seems that the "defective" fortune cookie was meant for me to pick, much like Gitzie was, and I'm sure it was no coincidence. What I'm asking for is anyone that may have ANY sort of medical/holistic advice for anything that could possibly help. If anything...I'm asking for your hope and a prayer, I really cannot do this...I can't lose Gitzie...she's my little girl. Thank you to anyone who cared enough to read this far and maybe say a little prayer for my Gitzie <3

Why's everyone nagging me about how much I play WoW? I'm not addicted to it, I swear, I can quit anytime I want...

Rofl Correct answer.

So, I have an offer accepted on a house at 9 Mile and Van Dyke and we should be in there by September. Now that I know where I'm moving too, I can start scouting out gyms in that area 'cause I am in dire NEED. Probably going with the Fitness USA on Van Dyke, I think like 16 Mile-ish, because I'll have to take the bus up Van Dyke for work, so I can stop in every day on the way back and start shedding weight again. I'm so glad that I finally have a fully-owned house with no mortgage payments and no way to be evicted