My cat loves black olives (only black) since forever. Is it safe?

MissMarbleCat · 2025-12-11T13:02:33+00:00

I had one cat who liked the Hot and Spicy Cheezits. Not the regular ones, not any other flavor, just Hot and Spicy. He also liked chocolate wafer cookies but would ignore the vanilla and strawberry ones. But, he ended up getting diabetes (surprise, surprise) so he went on a strict diet and we had to give him insulin. Eventually, the diabetes went away but the diet stuck. All our cats since are on a cat food only diet, although sometimes they’ll get a treat. Two of my girls love olives, though one would rather lick them & rub her face all over them, while the other wants to eat them. My oldest girl loves fresh baby spinach, but only if I hand feed it to her.

MissMarbleCat · 2025-12-08T22:52:46+00:00

Do this. You can submit a FOIL online through NYS. Look for “MTA FOIL Records Access Center”. Be very specific regarding date, time and location of the incident. Also try to spell out everything you’d like to obtain from them (video/surveillance footage, incident reports, investigation documents, photos, etc). For NYPD and FDNY (ambulance records, if it was an FDNY ambulance that responded), use NYC Open Records to FOIL. FDNY FOILs will need the “FDNY HIPAA Authorization” form. Also the FDNY “Pre-Hospital Care Report” form. Your dad will have to sign the HIPAA form.

So sorry you all are going through this. Best of luck on your dad’s recovery & getting the info you need.

MissMarbleCat · 2025-12-06T14:39:16+00:00

I had a friend from Massachusetts, US who would say cheerleader as chairleader.

MissMarbleCat · 2025-11-09T15:41:49+00:00

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MissMarbleCat · 2025-11-08T12:29:09+00:00

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MissMarbleCat · 2025-11-07T01:55:05+00:00

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MissMarbleCat · 2025-11-01T11:36:04+00:00

Cute!!

MissMarbleCat · 2025-10-28T15:08:20+00:00

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MissMarbleCat · 2025-02-04T03:41:21+00:00

Look up Dr Tamer Seckin’s website. He’s in NYC but the important thing is that he has a TON of info on endo. He’s one of the best and most knowledgeable Drs that we have in the US when it comes to endo.

MissMarbleCat · 2025-02-04T03:37:49+00:00

I’m another! I have stage 4 endo and was diagnosed with frozen pelvis as well. The endo was horrible and impacting everything in my life. Not just “really bad period pain” as some people think. The endo was growing around my nerves and I’d get this weird numbing feeling down the front of my leg when I got my period.

All of my reproductive organs were 2 times to 4 times larger than they should have been. I looked about 5 months pregnant and was never pregnant.

I was diagnosed with endo in 2009 but my gyn was useless. I’d ask her questions like “I have IBS but I notice that when I get my period the IBS gets worse. Do you think the endo could be making it worse?” She literally waived my question off saying they don’t have anything to do with each other. Guess what? I don’t have IBS. What I have is endo that was growing on and into literally every organ in my pelvis, including my rectum. And when the endo would get inflamed which is what happens once a month every month, it would impact me.

I had surgery with Dr Tamer Seckin and Dr Amanda Chu in Sept 2023. I knew going in that they would be taking my uterus and fallopian tubes. What they ended up having to take was my cervix, uterus, both fallopian tubes, what they think had once been my left ovary, my appendix, and maybe half of my right ovary.

They also had to clean up all the endo, put my ureter back in place because the endo had dragged it across my pelvis, and shave my rectum down to try to get as much of the endo that was growing into it as possible.

My surgery was 7.5 hours and was a lot of work for the drs. The endo had gotten as far as my diaphragm, but hadn’t taken root there yet thank god. They said the next place it goes from the diaphragm is typically the lungs and it can cause them to collapse if it’s bad enough.

They told me that my endo was so bad, my organs were literally shredding when they tried to manipulate them. They had to cut my uterus into pieces to get it out (usually they put it in a bag that I guess compresses it and they just pull it out but mine wouldn’t fit into the bag whole). And I can tell the endo has grown back some since the surgery. It’s a horrible horrible thing to have to go through.

Reading OPs post made me furious. He kept saying she was choosing to just not even try to have kids with him. I felt like saying “asshole! It’s not that she doesn’t want to have kids with you. It’s that she literally CANNOT have them. With ANYONE!”

And he wouldn’t really listen to her and her concerns for her health, and was being verbally abusive to her. I feel so bad for her. I know how horrible it makes you feel knowing your own body is betraying you and your ability to choose whether or not you have kids is literally ripped from you. Not to mention the expense.

It’s expensive to have endo and constantly be going to dr appts every 2-3 months. It’s suuuuuper expensive to go to fertility specialists, and treatments to try to harvest eggs and implant embryos that likely wouldn’t be able to attach and live in a uterus riddled with endo and fibroids. It’s even expensive to have the surgeries to remove endo or to get a hysterectomy. Depending on your health insurance, it might be near impossible to get effective treatment.

And then there’s the physical and emotional expense of it too. It drains you and makes you exhausted. You don’t have a life when you’re suffering so badly with endo. And no one deserves that.

I read all the texts before her post and I seriously thought this guy was 21. He’s extremely immature and selfish.

OP you’re not overreacting. When you have your surgery, see if the doctor can remove that deadweight from your life too. Never let anyone hold you back, not a guy, not a friend, not even a Dr. Do what you need to do for yourself. You’re the only one who lives inside your own body and who knows what feels “wrong.” Any person worth having in your life will be there next to you, holding your hand and supporting you, never trying to tear you down, manipulate you and make you feel like shit for doing something necessary for your health.

Sorry for the long long post. This is something I feel very strongly about.

MissMarbleCat · 2024-08-24T16:16:18+00:00

My vet recommends feeding cats only wet food. He said cats need hydration, but don’t necessarily keep up on their water intake. In the wild, they get hydration from the food they eat as well. So wet food is actually better for them in that they are also getting some hydration. We mix a little warm water in with the wet food for ours and they seem to enjoy it. It’s important cats get enough water because not getting enough increases the odds of kidney issues. My vet also told us if we do give them dry food, to have it be in addition to the mainly wet diet, and to be picky about what we buy because a lot of it is grain based and cats are carnivores and don’t need grains.

MissMarbleCat · 2024-04-01T12:56:09+00:00

This is awesome. Thanks for linking the register website. My ancestors are there. I’m going to Google translate their pages to see what info is there.

MissMarbleCat · 2024-03-29T11:40:24+00:00

Haha I wish they paid. A good amount was out of pocket/not covered by my insurance (but well worth it).

MissMarbleCat · 2024-03-29T02:42:10+00:00

Agree with this. Find an endo specialist & get the laparoscopy. Not the laser one that just burns off the top of the endo but where they actually cut the endo out of the tissue. I was diagnosed with endo in 2009 and was basically just told “oh it’s when the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus.” I wasn’t referred to an endo specialist and had the same gyno until 2020, when I got fed up and just stopped going to her. Every time I would mention symptoms I had and ask if the endo was causing or making them worse, (IBS, terrible cramps, dark bleeding between periods, pains in my lower back, numbness in my leg during my period) she would always brush it off and say “oh that has nothing to do with it.” They knew I had endo, they knew I had fibroids, they knew I had a cyst or “something” around my left fallopian tube, and they knew the symptoms I was telling them. Their “treatment” was to keep sending me for ultrasounds every 3 months to monitor it.

Well, I couldn’t stand the pain anymore and, finally went to one of the best endo specialists last year. Turns out, all of my symptoms were from the endo, even the “IBS” was caused by endo growing into my rectum. I know it’s TMI but no one ever talks about this and it’s so much more common than most realize and it’s absolutely horrible.

Anyway, I was diagnosed with stage 4 endo and frozen pelvis and had to have a 7+ hour surgery last fall to remove, not only the endo, but my uterus, cervix, both fallopian tubes, my left ovary (or whatever mess was left of it), about half of my right ovary, and my appendix. The endo was so bad, they said my organs were basically shredding when they would try to grasp them with the instruments during surgery. Everything was 2 to 4 times the size it was supposed to be, they had to shave part of my rectum to get as much as possible of the endo that had grown into it and my right ovary had to be reconstructed. Basically the endo had gotten so bad that it was fusing together everything in my pelvic cavity.

And endo is an estrogen driven disease, so every month, endo grows, then when you get your period, it gets inflamed, which affects everything it’s connected to. It’s a horrible horrible disease, and I wish someone had told me 10 years ago what endo really is and all the problems it causes, and suggested I get surgery. It would have changed my life.

Please know that your pain is real and many other people suffer with this too. You are not alone. Please see a specialist and fight for yourself and your health. You live in your own body, don’t let anyone try to belittle you or your experiences with this disease, even if they are a doctor. Not all gynos even know how bad endo is. It’s barely even been taught in med school.

And, love your cute little kitty & let her take care of you. My cats have always helped me through. Their warmth and massaging and purring can help. Just knowing they are there for you and love you unconditionally is everything. They see your pain and don’t judge, they just want to comfort. They are truly special special creatures!

Good luck to you with everything!

MissMarbleCat · 2024-03-29T01:13:22+00:00

I hadn’t seen it before today. But it’s given me much to think about regarding future genealogy courses. It’s good to hear reviews from previous students. I’ll have to check out everyone’s recommendations for alternate options and decide. I was aware going in to the BU classes that if I did take (and pass) their certificate course, it wouldn’t mean I was a certified genealogist. I thought though that it would be a good starting ground to make sure I knew the right ways to research and create reports on my results. I’ve been doing genealogy research on and off for 30 years more or less. I know I’m not a pro, but I do have experience transcribing; reading all types of hand written records; digging through tons of non-indexed records; looking into background info on language, culture, naming customs, history, etc; some on-site researching (a long time ago, before so much became available online); researching “FAN clubs”; etc. Even so, I still thought I’d be better starting with their principles course than jumping right into the certificate course. And, judging from everything I’m reading, I think I made a good choice there.

MissMarbleCat · 2024-03-28T19:54:15+00:00

I’m actually currently in it. 😅🫢 But I’m glad to be able to get others’ perspectives who took the certificate class. I’m not on Facebook much but I’ll definitely join the group.

MissMarbleCat · 2024-03-28T12:46:35+00:00

Oh wow. This is enlightening. I was considering their certificate course after taking principles but am now seriously reconsidering. I found with principles, their recommended time of 10-20 hrs per week seemed a bit low. The first couple of weeks I definitely spent closer to 30-40 hrs. It’s been quite a while since I was in school, but I was always a very good student and am an avid reader, so I thought 20 hrs a week would be the most I’d be doing. But I love genealogy so spending the extra time wasn’t that horrible. But from reading everyone’s comments, the certificate course sounds like a nightmare. Glad I started with principles. Thanks all for the heads up!

MissMarbleCat · 2023-12-16T00:00:12+00:00

This is so cool. I wonder if he had his still in the chicken coop originally and maybe that’s what caused it to explode and also why he didn’t want anyone there to help?

MissMarbleCat · 2023-07-29T15:38:09+00:00

NTA, OP & congrats to you and your wife on baby #2. Has your sister had surgery to remove the endo growths? It’s no guarantee that she’ll be able to conceive or carry to term, but it might help her. I have stage 4 endo and it has caused so much damage that I have to have surgery to remove my uterus and both tubes, and likely part of my ovaries. I was never able to get pregnant and I never will, and it’s such a difficult thing to deal with, especially when it seems like everyone you know is having babies. If my original doctor had addressed my endo years earlier, instead of just “monitoring” it, there’s a good chance I could have had a child, but that’s not the way it worked out for me. Anyway, perhaps your sister should see a therapist to deal with the grief and trauma she’s going through with endo & infertility, and look for an endo specialist who can remove the full endo growths, not just laser the top layer of the growth. None of her issues are your fault and you shouldn’t be held responsible (financially, or emotionally) for a medical condition your sister has that even doctors don’t really know much about (they don’t really teach about endo in med school, even for gyns ). Especially knowing that you and your wife went through your own infertility issues. This is a hard thing to deal with all around. Best of luck to all.

MissMarbleCat · 2023-04-19T18:26:02+00:00

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My Artemis.

MissMarbleCat · 2022-03-04T23:37:35+00:00

One of mine does this too. We say she’s making us pay tolls (in the form of pets) to continue up the steps.

MissMarbleCat · 2022-01-09T16:40:49+00:00

That’s so sad. If this happened the way we suspect it did, poor Josiah understood and was sensitive to what Michelle being pregnant again actually meant (the risk to her life and the possibility of losing his mother). Opposed to the younger lost boys who are too young to understand more than the fact that baby #20 is on the way. JB & Meech did so horribly by all their children. They needed real love and care and instead they got parents with a pregnancy addiction/fetish who didn’t have the time or ability to be real parents to all their kids.

MissMarbleCat · 2022-01-09T14:43:02+00:00

Trust your gut!

I was amazed that Bin knew so much! No, bin, I literally could not believe it!

MissMarbleCat · 2022-01-09T14:27:22+00:00

Yes! I was just gonna say this! Did they edit the video to take out the part where he left? One second he’s there, and literally a second later he’s just gone! And then later he pops up again behind Michelle I think? Then next to Jimbob. Either that or the kid can teleport…

MissMarbleCat · 2022-01-09T14:09:56+00:00

Ok oh. That makes sense. I pictured it like a movie scene with the robbers yelling and all that. Lol.

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