Dogs, critical overflow, and grown meat

[crowdog66]

Note to people in my neighborhood who own dogs:

To Whom It May Concern:

When, in the winter, your dog takes a shit at the edge of the sidewalk, the Crap Fairy does not come along and magically take it away after you cover it with a little snow. It STAYS there, waiting (when the snow melts, as it did today) for someone like me to come along and almost step in it. >.<

Sincerely yours,

A Fellow Resident of the Street

*sigh*

Last night was awful. I bled SO much... I mean, more than I've ever bled in the course of a few hours during any period in my entire life. I passed a good cup and a half of dark gelatinous clots at one go (thank goodness I was wearing a Tena pad and not a regular maxipad, otherwise there would have been blood all over the seat of my chair), along with a quantity of fresh bright blood, followed over the next half hour by another half-cup of clots and still more fresh blood. By the time I crawled into bed I was wracked with dull uterine cramps and feeling distinctly pale, and every time I turned over in bed I could feel another gush of blood... the good news: when I woke up this morning the flow seemed to have pretty much ceased, and I'm passing only small quantities of blood now. I suspect I got everything out of me -- the entire flow that normally seeps out over 3-5 days -- in one horrible shot.

My biggest concern: what if, one day, the bleeding just doesn't stop? Could it be dangerous?

Now feeling shaky, crampy, and a little bit weak. I'm skipping out on the DBT session this afternoon because of this, but also because the Hardy Boys editor just emailed me with a panicked request for four of the later pages of the book (they need the art for the back cover), and I have to get them done this afternoon. Before I do that, though, I have to run out and pay the internet bill (running on the very edge of disconnection) and renew those exercise tapes I took out from the library (they charge $2/tape for every day they're overdue). This in spite of the fact that right now I'd much rather be horizontal than vertical.

And now, to make this post more than just poor-little-me bitching, a note of real scientific interest, first brought to my attention by squirrelly42:

Scientists can grow frog and mouse meat in the lab, and are now working on pork, beef and chicken. Their goal is to develop an industrial version of the process in five years.

If they succeed, cultured or in vitro meat could be coming to a supermarket near you. Consumers could buy hamburger patties and chicken nuggets made from meat cultivated from muscle cells in a giant incubator rather than cut from a farm animal.

Now, how cool is that?

Next entry: a hilarious parody poem by moon_very_thin. I promise.

Comments

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

Again, I say.... You aren't using the uterus and it is only causing a shit load of problems.... you should just take it out ;)

*HUGS* Feel better soon!

(I'm just trying to lighten the mood a tad... not overly serious.. :)

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

I've considered that option, but I doubt my doctor would go for it, lol. Putting someone under general anaesthetic is serious business -- not to mention hormone replacement therapy afterwards.

But yeah... I DO kind of wish I could just yank it out and be done with it. ;-)

(BTW, we did charge up that soap for you at the last Full Moon, and I'll be sending it out the next time I go to the post office. I would have sent it sooner, but it got packed away in the Emergency Cleanup from Hell a couple of weeks back and I just discovered it again! Sorry for the delay.)

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

lol no worries! it actually slipped my mind :) *hugs* I look forward to mail.. ^^

[cockatiel-art.livejournal.com]

Grrr@ dog shit on the sidewalk. That's one thing I'm paranoid about when walking any dog. I ALWAYS carry a plastic bag with me, and if I forget, I try to move it under a tree.

Your Uterus sounds like mine. I think the tap on mine broke years ago and hasn't clogged yet. It's genetic on my dad's side of the family. Yaaaay. :-|

RE: The meat in vitro... pretty cool, eh? Then we don't have to kill critters to get the protein we need. I heard there were some problems getting the texture right. It was rather rubbery the few times they've tried to cook/eat it. But still trés cool, oui?

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

It runs in your family? Wow. That is interesting.

Also interesting that the in vitro meat was rubbery. I wonder if that has to do with it not getting any exercise? (Mind you, they could probably solve that problem by applying alternating electric current to "flex" the artificially created muscle tissue.)

[metisbutterfly.livejournal.com]

hey laurie
yeoch...grimaces..sounds awful hon. It is common for women in menopause or peri menopause to have heavy bleeding, but mention it to the doctor for sure. Bleeding that heavy could mean a hormonal imbalance or a cyst.
Hope u feel better
ps. did you know your period starts on the new moon, which is around when mine does too? Wierd..

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

I'm going to consult with my GP the next time I see him about the hormonal imbalance/cyst possibility. Thank you for pointing that out.

And it's funny, but a lot of the women I know start around this time -- even the ones I know at a considerable distance. Strange...

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

To answer one question: Yes, actually, if a woman starts bleeding and it *won't stop*, it can be dangerous. If this happens again, or lasts more than one day, get it checked.

Dog crap; there's one place on oen street where they let to dog out onto a tiny run (10" x 2 1/2") when they get home, so it can do its business. It *seems* to live indoors and get taken care of otherwise (Seeing the tiny size of the run, and its winter condition, has meant I've been watching it for signs of worse than unsanitary-ness), and in summer that run is cleaned frequently. But in winter, they don't clean it if the snow's fallen. Said dog does almost all its business at the far end of the run from the house door (Closest to the sidewalk, yay!), so that while much of the run is relatively clean, the area nearest me is yellow-sodden snow peppered with 3-4 piles of crap that, once the snow has started to melt, get close to a foot high. one of which is currently partly seeped through the chain-link fence. Ewww.

(and no, I'm not normally this gross).

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

... the area nearest me is yellow-sodden snow peppered with 3-4 piles of crap that, once the snow has started to melt, get close to a foot high. one of which is currently partly seeped through the chain-link fence. Ewww.

EWWWWWWWWW! *shudder, twitch*

That is truly... bleah!

Another "bleah" doggy-doo story... a person once walked into the Humane Society outlet at Eaton Place and was very proud about the fact that he SAVED his dog's poop and put it on his vegetable garden during the summer months.

I leave our reaction to your imagination. ;-)

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way -- may I friend your LJ?

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

I went ahead and Friended yours. So of course, yes, you may. (I have a pretty open door policy, but it's extra nice when the person is someone I know and like.)

(I ramble a lot right now about wedding plans and writer's neepery. IN case either subject bores you to tears.)