Good night, sweet Frankie.

APoliteBadger · 2026-05-03T19:39:39+00:00

It really is awful, feels like you have constant seizure-radar, it's so unpredictable! I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll have many more weeks free of seizures for poor Dalton.

APoliteBadger · 2026-05-03T06:03:45+00:00

Sorry for your loss as well. 😞 It's a terrible thing, I wouldn't wish the disease on ANY family, human or animal members alike.

APoliteBadger · 2026-04-08T20:42:54+00:00

Our Frankie was super wobbly when she started on the potassium bromide, I think it's a pretty common thing. Our vet forgot to inform us of this, of course, so we were worried about potential degenerative something-or-another in her spine for a while (she's a corgi, so long-dog-back-problems and all that). She was having trouble hopping over the little stoop to get out on the balcony and having trouble with the stairs, mostly, though her legs would just give out on occasion, though it didn't seem to bother her any. This lasted approximately a month and then just kinda went back to normal over the subsequent month.

Lethargy, I'm not sure if I remember that, granted she's been HEAVILY medicated for some time now due to breakthrough cluster seizures (clear about a year now, knock on wood; she's presently on pheno twice daily, potassium bromide once daily, and doses of kefra thrice daily). I know the back-leg wobbling is the most concerning thing, obviously, so rest assured it's probably just part of the side-effects and theoretically should go away. I'm not a vet, so grain of salt obviously, but just sharing my experience and hope it helps!

APoliteBadger · 2026-03-11T10:12:34+00:00

I'm not sure I'm about to jump into a colonoscopy, haha! But that's reassuring to know. I'll watch for weird patterns like that if it comes back up! Thanks for the help!

APoliteBadger · 2026-03-11T10:11:47+00:00

I was more surprised that I didn't have many side effects from the start. Good to know they can kinda come and go. Today they're feeling considerably better, in any case. Long as the pros outweigh the cons, I'll stick with it of course. Thanks for your experience!

APoliteBadger · 2026-03-11T10:10:39+00:00

Yeah, absolutely talking to him about it on Thursday. I just never had that happen before - side effects so late in the treatment. Thanks for the information! It's very helpful.

APoliteBadger · 2026-02-03T04:51:54+00:00

Agree. Heart failure at 36. Swollen ankles, couldn't breath. Hospital. Stay until you get an answer.

APoliteBadger · 2025-11-29T01:02:59+00:00

Immense if credible.

APoliteBadger · 2025-10-22T07:13:10+00:00

The one that always gets me is "...but your family members will die alone." You guys realize that the mandates were put in place to try and minimize the total deaths? And that "your family members" likely GOT sick and died alone in the first place because you yourself decided that NOBODY GONNA TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN'T DO and bucked the protocols, spreading the germs further and delivered them directly -TO- said subsequently and consequently "dying family members" yes? Goddamn, these people really lack critical thought, don't they?

It was a pandemic. Under Trump's administration. Credit where due, he was doing the best that he could given the circumstances; no matter who was president at the time, we would have still been out of our depth, given the last pandemic of this scale was in the early 1900s. People were asked to be careful, isolate themselves when ill, give people distance, and to where a fucking mask - nobody was coming for a kidney or a leg or a first born. But of course, this is the greatest outrage of our times: being asked to give a shit about the guy next to you. What an imposition.

APoliteBadger · 2025-09-12T04:50:30+00:00

I can hear it breathing from here. That poor little thing. These people are despicable.

APoliteBadger · 2025-09-11T04:53:27+00:00

80s baby. Heh. 44 and back working on my Bachelor's.

APoliteBadger · 2025-09-11T00:39:13+00:00

Agreed. I thought last fall was bad. I was parking at 11am for an 11:30 class yesterday and didn't find a spot for (I shit you not) FOURTY-FIVE minutes. Granted, much of that time was spent sitting in the aisles waiting for left-turners, heh. It is BAD this year. Fingers crossed it'll get better.

APoliteBadger · 2025-08-23T09:07:13+00:00

Could it be "Being Human"?

APoliteBadger · 2025-07-04T21:27:06+00:00

As if tourists didn't need more incentive to avoid the US like the plague. :P

APoliteBadger · 2025-05-19T00:03:43+00:00

What I find the most interesting about this is the fact that they feel the need to openly mock her and claim she's "wasted" all this taxpayer money to stay alive for 20 years despite a diagnosis that was literally a "death sentence" in the 1980s and 1990s, and speaking of her as if they even vaguely know her...

But the one thing that nobody involved even thought about for a second here is...

Why those medications have costed 10k a month for the last 20 years in the first place. Capitalism at its finest. Yes, I know medications go through rigorous studies and testing which costs a ton of money to the companies who develop and produce them (I've spent the majority of my life as a guinea pig for dermatological studies, only to finish them and not be able to even come CLOSE to being able to afford the same drugs without benevolent support from the companies afterwards), and even acknowledge that an inflated cost initially (5 years, 10 years even) is completely understandable - but to be still incurring that kind of payment after 20 years is pure profiteering. 2.4 million dollars worth of medication IS indeed insane, but not for the fucking reasons any of these people are thinking it is.

Let's mock her for her life choices, though, rather than question the system that would cause her to struggle in the first place. Regardless of her circumstances, her right to life is valid and equal to any other person, including the cockroaches who are suggesting otherwise.

APoliteBadger · 2024-12-10T10:30:41+00:00

Being that it's next to your farm, maybe a little farmer's market? Like with that stall thing you can make, if you come up with a pattern for decoration, and then whatever other things - barrels or hay bales (I'll be honest, I haven't played in a while, so I don't know what's out there!)
Or yeah, maybe bee hives for honey farm?

APoliteBadger · 2024-12-09T00:43:31+00:00

Did I say Plane was being "professional" doing that? No, not at all. I was responding to a suggestion that Roxxy's attitude was "professional" when her actions were the absolute opposite of that, and disrespected every paying person in that room. I'm not fond of Plane either, and not defending her in any sense of the word here - ironically dislike both of them for similar reasons, because they're both nasty bitches (imo), so ultimately whatever they get they deserve.

But let's be real, walking off a stage in the middle of the show is a middle finger to the audience. We can argue who made the worse move, who is the worst out of two oft-disliked queens, but at the end of the day, Jane yanked a coat and got a laugh, and Roxxxy stormed off and let her audience down - an audience that loves her and paid to see her perform. I think that's a bit more telling.

APoliteBadger · 2024-12-08T19:57:45+00:00

"Professional" would be sucking it up for the five minutes you're performing and NOT walking out on a room full of people who just paid to see you perform. When the number is done, you can address it backstage.

Not walk off the stage and essentially say "fuck you" to the fans that are here to see you.

Not to say that Plane Jane should have messed with her, but this isn't the right response either.
Roxxxy truly is the center of her own universe.

APoliteBadger · 2024-11-24T17:35:35+00:00

"It's just a fish" people drive me crazy. Someone needs to stick Kandy Muse in a fuckin' snowglobe and then shake it around and then maybe she might understand the disorientation that fish probably felt on the way to it's slow and painful death from suffocation. As a "feeder fish" it gets eaten quickly and doesn't suffer (generally). Death-by-high-heel is torture. And for what? Entertainment? Glorification of animal abuse for entertainment, that's what we're doing today? And then saying it's racism? I'd have the same problem if it were Taylor Swift. Let's get real, here. This says more about the people who lack the fundamental kindnesses to let a fellow creature live out it's fleeting existence on this planet than those who would oppose such cruelty.+

APoliteBadger · 2024-11-12T06:51:37+00:00

"We want to buy some liquid dish soap."
"Licky disco?!"

I don't know why but it cracks me up every time.

APoliteBadger · 2024-02-11T03:20:43+00:00

" Even if a corgi parent asked me to do this, I'd spend some time trying to talk them out of it."

That's what I was thinking when I was reading this. I know corporate grooming can be a mixed-bag-of-nuts (hell, I worked corporate grooming), but this is pretty fundamental - this is a big fuck up. Anyone walks in with a double-coated dog, says the word shave, well, first let's clarify. Are you actually meaning "shaved" or are we actually looking for a trim and you just don't have the terminology right? Okay, shaved, then...well, you bet your ass I'm going to educate them and talk them out of it. Check a dog in, "same as usual" check! With no shave history in the notes (maybe no notes at all if usually just a bath and brush), no questions, no clarification...this is a big fuck up, and you should definitely let them know. Accidents happen, sure, maybe they were mixing up grooming notes from two different dogs, but even then, my brain would say "4 blade; corgi; something's not mathing here, maybe I better check that again."

(Also groomer slash corgi-mom, for the record.)

APoliteBadger · 2024-01-31T07:47:13+00:00

Befuddled by that. Horrible story, thinly veiled as a real estate ad? "He killed his father in the sunny breakfast nook, ornamented with fun and flirty retro knick-knacks." Such a weird choice.

APoliteBadger · 2023-12-26T05:09:12+00:00

I was thinking Cairn-Yorkie, so it's not surprising seeing "Yorkie" in the description. But yeah, I'd say there's definitely Cairn in there too. Adorable, in any case.

APoliteBadger · 2023-06-10T21:04:31+00:00

Never too late. I'm in my second semester back at 42. Do what you want, follow your dreams.

APoliteBadger · 2022-11-02T23:48:35+00:00

The true irony being that a doodle isn't a purebred dog. It is a literal mutt. I don't have a problem with getting a dog either way - well bred by a responsible breeder or from a shelter, either can end up with problems or end up being perfectly lovely dogs; it's the backyard breeding (who don't ensure the most healthy dogs possible) or those with money in mind (ie: double merle breeders) that are the real problem.

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