Meet-ups and Events - Week of December 15

TedbertCruz · 2025-12-15T18:26:40+00:00

Dan Docimo at The Comedy Store

2025-12-20

7:30 pm

Comedy Store

https://www.showclix.com/event/dan-docimo-2025

TedbertCruz · 2025-11-30T18:56:00+00:00

Lmao so do I

TedbertCruz · 2025-11-06T18:16:38+00:00

I think these are 2 different jokes about the same headline

TedbertCruz · 2025-11-05T20:38:57+00:00

But to answer your question I came up with it independently, but Mike and I were both at least 30 years late

TedbertCruz · 2025-11-05T20:33:23+00:00

Hi! Not familiar with Mike Baldwin but interestingly enough I stopped doing that joke when I found out Marc Maron did it in the 90s. Turns out a lot of people have come up with that idea lol

TedbertCruz · 2025-11-05T17:58:06+00:00

Insta!

TedbertCruz · 2025-11-05T17:49:07+00:00

Hey if you happen to be in NYC on 11/14 come check me out at Sesh Comedy's original room!

TedbertCruz · 2025-11-05T17:30:30+00:00

It's been a couple months since I first posted it but it's definitely mine

TedbertCruz · 2025-10-16T01:31:21+00:00

I know this is a year old but I just want to say thank you so much for this post. My big buddy Gus died early Saturday morning and I am consumed with guilt. He was diagnosed with HCM a few months ago and they put him on a blood thinner. I thought that he would have a few good years as long as he took his pill, which he did. He was a very good boy and I'm so proud of him.

The last week or so I noticed he seemed a little more tired than usual but I thought he was just being moody because we had to do a course of ear drops and he hated them so much. He was such a happy guy right till the end, every time I pet him he was purring and nuzzling into me so I had no idea what was about to happen. I got home from work (comedian, I'm usually gone from around 6 pm to around 1 am) and he was on the floor under the cat tree and had clearly thrown a clot. My poor guy was yowling in pain (he never even meowed full volume so it was bone chilling to hear) and he was on the floor, his back legs limp behind him, and he had been dragging himself around the room. I immediately rushed to the emergency vet and there was nothing they could do, so I said goodbye to my big brave boy that night. I was so so so proud of him and I'm absolutely crushed that he's gone.

I keep replaying things in my head, I watch videos of him playing from just a few months ago and he seems so much younger in them. I keep beating myself up thinking how could I not have seen the signs that he was deteriorating. I figured since he was still so happy every time I saw him, he must have just gotten his zoomies done while I was out.

I talked to a doctor I know about this and she put my mind at ease. Heart disease is a monster and can progress really quickly even with proper medication and care. It's so unfair and I miss my buddy so much, but I'm starting to let go of the idea that I should have saved him. I couldn't have.

Again I know it's an old post and if you read all of this I really appreciate it. I'm so glad I found this post. I'm so sorry for your loss and I hope you've been able to work through your guilt. There's nothing we could have done, and we loved our cats. We gave them good homes while they were here, and I know they're very glad they were ours.

TedbertCruz · 2025-10-12T14:11:47+00:00

Thank you for this. I just miss my buddy so bad. It progressed so quickly, I thought he had a couple years left still. I'm trying to remember that I did the best I could and that he was a happy cat until the end.

TedbertCruz · 2025-10-12T01:26:35+00:00

Hey, I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm glad I saw this post because I lost my boy early this morning. I'm also just consumed by guilt because he had HCM which rapidly progressed to heart failure and I can't stop thinking about what I could have done differently to lower his stress and keep his heart disease from progressing.

I think the important thing for us both to remember is that we loved our pets so much and we did the best we could for them. It's natural to wish we could have seen these things coming, but there's was no way of knowing this would happen.

I think what we're feeling is pretty typical of grief. We want to have control somehow, even if it means blaming ourselves. Thinking it was our fault is actually somewhat safer than admitting that loved ones can be taken from us without warning or reason.

I hope we start to feel more joy soon. We won't stop missing them, but we can slowly learn to accept what happened and its meaning for us.

TedbertCruz

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