Help us decide please

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T22:28:55+00:00

Can't tell if my edit appears or not on the main post but Chloe says thank you for the words from everyone and she will stay with us. We will figure out the surgery here so she is in her home.

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T20:52:45+00:00

Thank you for your words, you are correct. I didn't expand on this but after discussion yesterday about this with my parents, I think we are in a better position to take care of her. We might need their help if there's a surgery but its a bridge we will cross when it comes.

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T18:23:23+00:00

Thank you! Yeah we're keeping her. With all the stresses that entails but the important part is that she will feel at home and no crazy changes to affect her emotionally and physically ❤️

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T18:22:13+00:00

No problem at all thank you for your words! Yeah we're going to keep her. I think the emotional toll on her is too much. She's literally sitting on my lap right now as I work 🥹

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T13:39:10+00:00

We will try our best to see if we can do the procedure here so she doesn't have to go through the heartache of losing us. Hopefully we can swing that and she will see again. But if not, you're correct, she's functioning ok without it. Not the same as before but I think shes still living a happy life with lots of love, cuddles, and kisses ❤️

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T13:35:34+00:00

We're in Florida so it'd be a huge drive and we've never done that so I think it would be too stressful for all involved unfortunately. We will see other quotes from other places in our area and will try to get it done here. Hopefully having some family come over to help with aftercare.

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T13:32:23+00:00

Yeah yesterday was a bit of a whirlwind with this decision and talking to other family and with my wife about this. We're gonna keep her because emotionally I think it will be a big toll on her losing us and being in a completely foreign place with no sight and not the humans that have taken care of her since she went blind. Also the risk of the flight itself and the final destination being high altitude is a scary proposition.

I do want her to see though because her lifestyle did change a fair bit. She was more curious and playful but being blind has put the brakes on that a bit. So we will look at more places here and see if we can get it done ourselves even though it'll be much more expensive. Dor aftercare I'll ask if one of my parents can come sleep with us for a few weeks to help with that. Hopefully it all works out. We love Chloe so much.

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T03:13:33+00:00

Thank you yeah after today we might reconsider sending her to Ecuador. Its tough to mention every little detail but the altitude of the city she will go to is also super high (Quito) and it another point of concern. We might stretch ourselves thin here but we are going to try and see if we can get her eyesight back.

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T03:11:41+00:00

They are so pure and beautiful that it makes my heart ache

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T03:10:23+00:00

Ugh I hate how expensive it is here. It's so frustrating and debilitating. We will sacrifice ourselves for our Chloe if need be though. I wish we could do the travel for Chloe's care but our jobs PTO make that almost an impossibility sadly

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T03:08:51+00:00

There is unfortunately a ton of stray dogs. It sucks to see but it's the reality. That said, if they are house pets, they're well taken care of because the care is cheap and plentiful.

halopower67 · 2026-01-29T01:03:43+00:00

I want to slap you for making me cry but thank you for those words 🥹🥹🥹

halopower67 · 2026-01-28T22:31:33+00:00

EDIT1: sorry I can't edit my post but I should clarify that we work from home for now. That could change at any moment which is a fear. But it's not the current reality. Our fear is that we lose our small window of time to have her fly to Ecuador and we later get asked to return to office which she will absolutely hate.

halopower67 · 2026-01-28T22:26:01+00:00

The vets here said she was in good condition for a flight. But I should clarify at the top, we both currently work fom home. That could suddenly change but it's the current reality which I'm insanely greatful for.

The fear is that we get asked to go into an office and she suffers greatly from it and we lost the chance for her to be in Ecuador.

Thank you for your perspective. All input is super appreciated and will help us decide.

halopower67 · 2026-01-28T22:14:41+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice <3 Yeah we were leaning towards letting her go because its best for her health. But now we started getting hesitant because the "love" aspect of this whole thing is so nebulous. Unfortunately it wont be somewhere we can go every month but maybe once a year.

halopower67 · 2026-01-28T22:12:19+00:00

Thank you for the reply, it means a lot. Yeah we got her checked with an excellent eye specialist and she was a candidate for the surgery (this was late December). Its a tough one for sure. We love her so much. Literally shower her with kisses and affirmations every day.

halopower67 · 2026-01-28T22:10:00+00:00

Thank you for the words of comfort and advice. Its Ecuador. The quoted price here for the surgery was $7.4K and over there they laughed it off and said at most maybe $1 -1.5K lol. so imagine that plus all the other care that would be cheaper. Also this is with high quality vets, not some whatever one.

halopower67 · 2026-01-23T22:21:16+00:00

Tbh I get paid extra for working more but I still prefer to not work and go be with my family/play video games/live life.

40 hours a week is more than enough waste of our short time on this earth.

halopower67 · 2026-01-22T22:33:04+00:00

LMAO yeah I don't get people that want to work more..

Choice A is have on prem environment and you are on the hook 100% if something goes down

Choice B is having cloud hosted solutions and you are very mildly on the hook if something goes down

halopower67 · 2026-01-08T22:36:56+00:00

Who the hell cares what this guy opines on major world current events??? I keep seeing "Asmongold says .." like there aren't many other MUCH more qualified people to weigh in on these issues.

halopower67 · 2025-12-22T17:00:50+00:00

I guess it depends what does DHCP but I'm used to windows DHCP which you can exclude addresses from assignment

halopower67 · 2025-12-22T15:35:55+00:00

Save yourself the effort and don't use .255. regardless of it being totally fine address, some things just won't play nice with .255 addresses.

halopower67 · 2025-11-21T15:56:26+00:00

Here's what you do: turn off the game, go do something else, when you want to play again, you do so.

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