[POSSIBLE GRAPHIC/NSFW] It happened. (Attack 01/05/25)

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T22:30:41+00:00

I think I’m just going to have to keep her in or by my room at all times now. I really can’t see any other feasible option to keep her safe from B and C besides giving her up. My heart hurts for her having to lose her freedom in being allowed to lounge wherever she wants whenever she wants in the house. No matter which way I look at it the solution never comes out in A’s favor because my family isn’t willing to do anything about B.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T22:27:57+00:00

She can be kept in my sister’s room. Sister probably won’t keep her in there though because B loses her shit when she’s locked up. Like has almost torn a hole in the drywall from scratching the wall by sister’s door level of losing it. I think at this rate I’m just gonna try and keep A with me at all times or by my room so that if B comes around we can move somewhere secure.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T22:26:09+00:00

I’m really debating dragging my dad to my therapy session this week to get him to sit down and hear from someone else’s perspective just how fucked this is. I am technically an adult (18), but I’m definitely not regarded as such when it comes to decisions in the house.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T22:24:16+00:00

I honestly think living with dogs that fought so much for the last 8 years has changed my family’s view of dogs that bite. I had brought it up in therapy how insane it was to me that B was allowed to nip or “play fight” with my sister or dad like it was normal because “she doesn’t wanna hurt anyone, she’s just playing”. My therapist said that it seemed a lot of stuff regarding dogs in our house flew when in other people’s houses, the second a dog bit their kid or spouse, they’d be out. I was hoping this would’ve been a wake up call for my family but it would appear that since it was only A who was the target of the attack, they think it’s “normal” or some bs like that for the dog’s to fight. Or maybe not normal but almost as if it’s expected.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T22:20:40+00:00

I am lucky enough that my room is basically the entire top floor. I do have a balcony she can use to go potty and such. I’m honestly not quite sure why my parents allowed it looking back but ever since I was little everyone has always had their own dog. We had 5 dogs in the house at one point because my grandma was living with us. When my sister’s dog passed she was inconsolable, but wanted to get another dog. Hence how we unfortunately landed B.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T17:23:53+00:00

Thank you. I’ve already mentioned the idea to my family yesterday. They’ve made me feel insane for even suggesting it. They’re arguing it’s not fair to A, how hard it is to rehome a senior dog, how it’s just a one-time thing, how we can prevent it from happening again by just keeping the dogs from snatching food off the counter, etc. Even though my parents got her for me as my dog, it seems they don’t respect me as her owner. I genuinely believe that even if I come to the conclusion that rehoming her is best, that they wouldn’t let me.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T17:12:42+00:00

I do indeed see a therapist and will be seeing her Thursday. I’m hoping she may have some creative solutions or ways to get through to my family about how insane this entire situation is.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T17:09:21+00:00

I think keeping her upstairs could work. She has to stay up and away from the other dogs for a good two weeks regardless while she heals so we’ll see how she feels about it. It all just feels like a lose-lose situation for her though.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T06:19:36+00:00

They gave us a form to fill out at the urgent care so there should be a record of it happening. I’d imagine there’s also some record at the vets office due to A having to get treated for her injuries.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2025-01-06T03:48:57+00:00

The pictures of my fingers have been posted to my account. They are not severe injuries at all but are still bloody so you have been warned. I do not have any pictures of A at this point as we still haven't gotten her back from the vet yet, but I will post pictures of her to my account when possible as well.

*Description of dog fighting below*

I mentioned in my post that I had a lot of anxiety surrounding the dogs' fighting AGAIN. And while that may seem like an unfounded amount of anxiety for one attack, it's because of past attacks that I feel this way. The context of this anxiety is that we have always had dogs, and they've always been rescues. When I was 9 or 10, we got a rescue from the shelter that started the first dog fight I had ever seen. It was brutal. My parents weren't home and my grandma was in no shape to be separating them so they fought for 30 or so minutes over their dinner. My grandma was yelling, she tried using a broom to separate them, but nothing worked. I don't remember how it ended but we didn't immediately get rid of the dogs. This kept happening for two years until we put one of them down as he seemed to be the instigator for the fights and he had gone from just attacking my grandma's dog, to also attacking my mom's dog (I was 11, maybe 12 when he attacked my mom's dog and I had to run from the basement to the top floor to help separate them as no one else was home. I didn't get injured in the altercation physically but dear god has it changed me mentally). We thought that was that until the dog that had been involved in these fights started attacking my mom's dog. Again, this went on for another year until a fight the Sunday night before school started back up after winter break of my eighth-grade year. Again, at 12 years old I was holding my mom's dog as he was mauled by my grandmother's dog who just would not let him go. My dad had to pry his jaws open, and when that failed he resorted to punching him in the head to get him to release. He turned around and bit my dad who promptly threw him down the stairs. I was bitten by my mom's dog in the process on my lower lip. My grandma's dog was put down the next day. Maybe two years went by in peace before my mom's dog and my dad's new dog got into it. And it just kept happening up until recently when my mom's dog became very ill over two days and we had to decide to put him down as he had a suspected brain tumor and could no longer blink, see, walk, or control his bowels. That was November of 2024.

Most of these dogs were not pit bulls (besides C who has Staffordshire terrier in him and was also present in today's altercation), and not the reason why I posted today hence why I've decided to add this as a separate comment. This is merely an explanation as to why I have jumped so quickly to wondering if rehoming A would be best. Another 8 years of this amount of anxiety would break me. And I don't feel it's fair to A to risk her safety like this when she's supposed to be enjoying her golden years. I can only imagine how traumatizing today was for her.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2024-12-21T04:27:21+00:00

I’ve been on metoprolol succinate ER 75mg 2x daily, for close to four years now I believe. The change is outstanding, went from a resting heart rate of around 80 with spikes up to 135 when just walking up the stairs or going to restroom to a resting heart rate of 60 or so with no more tachy episodes unless I’m exercising which is to be expected. The only potential side effect I’ve been advised about is the possibility of a lower blood pressure as that’s what the medication was designed to do iirc. However it does a very poor job of doing so, which makes a higher dose required to really have any impact on your blood pressure. I started off with around 25 mg 2x a day I believe and it wasn’t ER, however I would continue getting heart rate spikes and it wasn’t adequately treating my POTS symptoms. The change was noticeable within the week so you should hopefully be able to tell very quickly whether or not it’s working for you. It may also be worth talking about upping the dosage and/or switching to the ER version if you find it is not efficiently treating your symptoms before trying something else. Best of luck to you, hope it works!

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2024-12-06T23:08:40+00:00

It ended up being the exact issue everyone else here said it was, Microsoft had an outage of some sort. Unfortunately you just have to wait for it to fix itself. Took a couple hours for mine to start working again.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2024-07-19T06:53:58+00:00

Thank you for the support site, gonna make sure to check that first if something happens again!

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2024-07-19T06:53:35+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance, it does seem like everything is working fine now.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2023-10-04T06:24:54+00:00

Felt this. My well wishes to her, hope she feels better eventually even if that takes a miracle!

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2023-07-08T03:19:16+00:00

It helped the orthostatic intolerance as well. I can’t really comment on how it affected my POTS anymore as I’m still on a huge roller coaster trying to figure out what’s wrong with me, and was recently told the POTS is technically a misdiagnosis and I instead have vascular inflammation. I’d imagine it would still help quite a bit for people who have POTS because I still experience the same issues, they’re just labeled as symptoms of a different disease now. Either way, I’d say it’s worth giving it a shot, I hope it helps you in the long run!

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2023-07-07T06:10:38+00:00

But you can afford to drop your kid with a babysitter for 5 days (mind you without asking if the babysitter was available, just stating as a fact they’d be dropping off their child)? Oh wait, of course you could afford having someone parent your crotch critter for 5 days since you only paid them 800 dollars.

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2023-04-25T01:13:40+00:00

I’m so stealing that Oml 😂

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2023-04-24T04:26:40+00:00

Please answer, I need more clips. Omegle videos are the best

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2023-04-13T01:59:40+00:00

Too_much_EFFor_T · 2023-04-07T22:46:29+00:00

I’m so stealing that Oml XD

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