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Took one of my guinea pigs to the vet yesterday because she had been having eye problems. Found out it was a rare form of cancer on her lymph nodes (it damaged the nerves to her one eye and side of her mouth) and now it's only a matter of time before it gets too bad and we have to put her down. So for now it's just a matter of medicine to dull her pain and keep her comfy for the short time I have left with her.

I've never been through losing a pet like this before, and she's always been a great companion to me. It's hard to see her state deteriorate so quickly. She was completely fine a week ago.
 
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I'm so close to finishing my bachelor's degree. I think I can finish after this semester, even. I just need to make an appointment with my advisor but I'm still a little anxious about important phone calls. I wish I could do it in person but that's not available because covid restrictions here. Plus, I need to see if I can fix some issues with my credits and things before I can do the graduation application. I just want this all to be over with.

I have another surgery coming up in a couple weeks so I've been trying to plan my life around it too but it makes things way more complicated. It's a dental surgery so if I have to call my advisor I need to, you know, be able to talk.
 
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gumshoe said:
Took one of my guinea pigs to the vet yesterday because she had been having eye problems. Found out it was a rare form of cancer on her lymph nodes (it damaged the nerves to her one eye and side of her mouth) and now it's only a matter of time before it gets too bad and we have to put her down. So for now it's just a matter of medicine to dull her pain and keep her comfy for the short time I have left with her.

I've never been through losing a pet like this before, and she's always been a great companion to me. It's hard to see her state deteriorate so quickly. She was completely fine a week ago.
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I'm sorry to hear about ya pal. It's not a great experience watching your pet who's pretty much been a friend for a part of your life start deteriorating in front of you and there's nothing you can do but try and make it comfortable for them.

Had the same experience last year with my Dog. Absolutely brilliant, friendly and smart lurcher with a funny attitude. Had her since I was a child and was bouncy and active at her old age till the very last couple of days. She got the Dog equivalent of Dementia. Slowly she would just stare at a corner, piss on the carpet, start losing her balance due to any amount of heat and her right eye would start slowly losing track but than bounce back again to her old self and start being happy and snarky towards me and my family.

Gave her all sorts of medication that costed me a fortune due to having no insurance at the time but it was worth it to keep her around as much as I could without inflicting any pain or misery to her remaining months. Only once she got a seizure that it was time to take her to the vet to put her down and made sure she was surrounded by the people that gave her good care so she wasn't scared. I'll remember her fondly for all the laughs she brought and to this day I still miss her.

It's going to be a tough time for you but trust me when I say that the best thing you can do is care for her and make sure she's well comfortable, content and given a lot of attention and love till the time comes. At the very least, you've been given time to adjust and gain a few more memories till the end.
 
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Yesterday I accidentally hit a raccoon while driving and now my car is making a rattling noise. Thanks, you fucking coon. Car problems were the last thing I needed.
 
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I am pissed of.
I am trying to help a customer but the instructions I have in the databas is fucking dogshit and I get angry as shit!
How am I suppose to do a good work if the instructions are shit!
 
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Feeling kind of angry but also starting to get depressed again. A surgery that was slated for next week got pushed back a month. I've been putting my life on hold and planning things around it and now I'm going to have to figure everything out again. I had planned to move out to my bf's place a week after the surgery, but my control freak of a parent keeps trying to force me to stay home 24/7 until then. Now it's likely another month of that. He's paranoid about me getting the coof, not for my own sake at all but because he acts like it's a 100% chance I'll kill him. Despite the fact the that where I'd be moving to has literally a fraction of the cases per capita than where I currently live.

I can do whatever I want being a legal adult and all, but he gets so fucking pissed and angry at me that my anxiety makes me physically ill. And he calls me the selfish one. Also I've barely been able to see my bf the past several months so I keep getting paranoid he's going to break up with me because I'm not trying hard enough. That's not like him, but my brain doesn't care.
 
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I'm getting older; and feeling it. My birthday is soon, and I have mixed feelings. Im not there yet, but 3-0 is in sight for me.
 
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Whenever this coof shit dies down I don't want to see facediaper muzzles or smell fucking lung searing disinfectant ever again. I'm fucking serious.

I catch a whiff of the cleaner section of dollar tree and I get Vietnam level flashbacks of my neighbor dumping a bucket of Fabuloso in our foyer common area, which she's done twice since Friday despite the fact I got the bathtub shitting heroin nigger next to her institutionalized months ago
 
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I'm pretty sure I'm just outright depressed now, not even anxious. All I fucking learned this year is I can't have nice things, like I'm a dog and jumping for a treat the owner keeps pulling away. 2019 was bad from a world perspective, but my personal life was about the best it'd ever been.

Don't give a shit about how well I do in school, how fast I graduate, whatever. Though a silver lining to the academic aspect is that I would've wasted my time and money getting a master's in CS had everything in my life continued to go smoothly.
 
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I'm pretty sure I'm just outright depressed now, not even anxious. All I fucking learned this year is I can't have nice things, like I'm a dog and jumping for a treat the owner keeps pulling away. 2019 was bad from a world perspective, but my personal life was about the best it'd ever been.

Don't give a shit about how well I do in school, how fast I graduate, whatever. Though a silver lining to the academic aspect is that I would've wasted my time and money getting a master's in CS had everything in my life continued to go smoothly.
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Go see a doctor, kid. It 99% certainly won't get better on its own and the way you've see-sawed on here, with some of the stuff you've said... It's worrying.
Just go see a doctor before you get too firmly stuck in a rut. As fun as this place is most of the time, it's not in any way a replacement for getting yourself help with feeling better.
 
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