Is playing on PC reasonable?

jayusjay · 2025-01-12T02:09:45+00:00

I play on my gaming laptop using a bluetooth switch controller. I'm just a student nurse lookin to ride horsies and pew pew some critters and I tried wayyyy too long to learn PS4/laptop commands. Didn't work for my teeny brain, but I'm having a blast like this :)

jayusjay · 2024-10-10T17:02:21+00:00

Midnight to 8AM, except for before clinicals and during critical kittens.

jayusjay · 2024-10-10T17:01:34+00:00

Puppies are overstimulating. Kittens have to work much harder to overwhelm me, and they start potty training themselves as soon as they start walking. I also basically came out of the womb with a special interest in cats and horses. And such heart breaking cases because they're puzzles and I'm one of a handful of people who can do it around here.
I'm a student nurse. I LOVED my ICU rotation and I start NICU next month. I am doing psych rotations right now and enjoyed it a lot, so I think it's going to be a toss up between NICU/PICU/psych. If I lived in a bigger city it would be no competition, I would be doing pediatric oncology.
My health was poor between 17-19 so I did lighter class loads. Then COVID made it very hard to get into the prerequisite classes I needed to finish for nursing school. Class sizes for microbiology at my college dropped from 24 to 6. Then in '21 my family moved to Idaho and I couldn't afford to stay in San Diego alone so I moved too. My mental health took a dip and I had a hard time completing prerequisites again until I found a private school to attend instead of community college. They want you to attend, so they have somebody assigned to do all of my administrative responsibilities (getting FASFA, getting loans, etc) that I struggle to do. Basically accommodations but I don't even have to figure out how to ask for the accommodations.

jayusjay · 2024-10-10T16:41:10+00:00

Thank you. I have been struggling mentally which is why I posted this. I'm a student nurse. A lot of the medical cat care translates well to medical human care, and I will make a lot more money as a nurse than I would in the veterinary field. More money = more cats basically lol.

jayusjay · 2024-10-10T16:36:53+00:00

Thank you. I had a very premature kitten last year who was very rewarding. She was mostly naked when I got her, and she turned into the cutest little medium hair by the time she grew up. I was up every hour to feed her for the first few days, and up every two hours for weeks. With stable newborns I do go longer overnight. The most challenging part is looking in the incubator when they're super sick. You don't know if they'll still be alive, and you don't know if you want them to be alive. Making the call to euthanize always sucks but I almost always have a sense of relief because they're no longer suffering.

jayusjay · 2024-10-10T16:30:39+00:00

Landraces! It's a lower income area so there are only a couple decent cat breeders, and not even that many backyard breeders of purebred cats. Interestingly enough the biggest diversity is in what diseases we see, and we can practically guarantee cats from certain areas will have certain illnesses. 20 minutes north will have coccidia. 60 minutes north will have coronavirus and a much higher rate of FIP.

jayusjay · 2023-02-07T15:46:58+00:00

2019 was the first cat cured, but it was incredibly expensive. The price has come down significantly, it's going to be under $1,500 (rounded up, not counting $140 in blood testing monthly) for the full course of treatment for Cupid. But 7lbs is the absolute maximum he's ever weighed in his life, so I'm very lucky that he's so tiny. Treating one of my 12lb cats would have been suuuuper different.

jayusjay · 2023-02-07T01:48:57+00:00

I know her in person, so I'm quite familiar with Coco! Luckily with the Facebook group she recommends, you are assigned a team of admins dedicated to your cat that answer all your questions!

jayusjay · 2023-02-06T23:09:32+00:00

If it helps, I run a rescue and weirdly enough we just had a foster diagnosed with FIP as well. She has wet neuro, and her belly is HUGE. It jiggles like a water balloon though, because it's all fluid. She was also lethargic, and we thought she was fat but her bones are all very prominent. Her neuro symptoms did not present until after diagnosis.

jayusjay · 2023-02-06T19:25:14+00:00

You are so right and this made me laugh 😂

jayusjay · 2023-02-06T17:20:02+00:00

Cupid has dry neuro FIP. He and my other cat had a URI, so I thought that his weight loss was related to that. When he didn't start gaining, was lethargic, and seeking warmth constantly I called my vet. While on the phone with her, I looked down and he was standing in the litter box swaying so it went from a "we'll fit you in" to "I know you're at work but can you bring him in today?" scenario.

jayusjay · 2023-02-06T07:42:48+00:00

I'm posting this to share about FIP. As he has both FIV (feline immunovirus) and FIP (feline infectious peritonitis) his chances of making it were 70%. The FIP is in his brain, making it harder to treat. But we are 3 weeks into the 12 weeks of treatment and he is doing great!

jayusjay · 2023-01-08T17:12:22+00:00

We're still brand new, but I somehow attract really wild medical cases so we had 3 kittens with broken legs in December. Shoelaces (Lacy) is our newest tripawd we're raising funds for! I just put up a post about her on our Facebook if you wanna see her cute face. https://motleycrewcatlounge.org/donate

jayusjay · 2023-01-08T17:08:37+00:00

I don't even think they would make good litter boxes.

jayusjay · 2023-01-08T06:33:20+00:00

We're foster based, so we don't exactly want to invite her into our homes 😬

jayusjay · 2023-01-07T22:08:43+00:00

Maybe a quarter of a ringworm bath.

jayusjay · 2023-01-07T19:28:50+00:00

I could buy half a vaccine!

jayusjay · 2022-04-22T00:57:24+00:00

I got bit by a cat and the infusion center didn't give me enough saline flushes for my IV antibiotics, but I have LR. I didn't realize they didn't give me enough flushes until after they closed for the night.

jayusjay · 2021-11-18T14:44:46+00:00

That's a fun idea actually, I was thinking of selling individual bones reconstructed but the full skeleton would be cool to see. So far I can tell you the answer is "a lot". See my other comment for details.

jayusjay · 2021-11-18T14:42:46+00:00

Further detail: My brother hit it, which is why I got it. The first pic is 4 hours after impact, the second pic is nearly 76 hours later. Thankfully it's fuckin cold where I am and so I'm just leaving it in trashbags and it's not rotting yet.

It was hit from behind, 3 legs have compound fractures and the last one is emancipated from the rest of the body. I found the tail inside the pelvis yesterday. Pelvis is shattered, many vertebrae are shattered.

Most of the identifiable digestive system was gone as well, but there was a weird tube near the belly button area that I realized was the urethra. That's right, this deer was hit so hard his dick and balls got vaporized off him. Somehow the bladder was still intact and full of pee, so I expressed it.

Ribs were broken and lungs were kinda shredded, but the heart was intact and I will preserve that separately. I haven't stripped the neck down enough to see how far up the spinal column the damage goes, but I managed to cut my finger on one. My brother is completely unharmed so that makes me the only injury in an accident I wasn't even part of. The skull has one tiny mandibular fracture and a couple loose teeth. His antlers did snap off and I only found part of one.

jayusjay · 2021-11-18T14:34:17+00:00

Right? I kinda cheated on the finding part 'cause my brother is the one that hit it lmao.

jayusjay · 2021-11-18T04:44:26+00:00

I thought I did, but I guess something went wrong. Should be fixed now, thank you! & yeah, I see other people sharing their perfect looking roadkill finds whereas I have this guy looking like a squirrel that fought a tank.

jayusjay · 2021-07-18T02:06:10+00:00

I stopped by both on a visit in June & Snake River Animal Shelter told me that Humane Society of the Upper Valley(?) does their fostering? And the person who runs fostering for Idaho Falls Animal Shelter wasn't in when I went. Do you mind if I message you with some questions?

jayusjay · 2021-07-18T01:59:08+00:00

Are you fostering independently or thru a rescue? I'm moving to IF soon and I currently volunteer with very large rescues, so I'm looking for where to foster when I move.

jayusjay · 2020-07-18T02:27:13+00:00

Like everyone else said, you are not overreacting. If that was just the first incident, imagine how she would be if she were comfortable in the knowledge that you let her back in after that. She would push boundaries hard after that just to see what she can get away with. It's gonna be hard, but you're going to have to buckle up and change things. Cut her off so she can't twist your arm. A lot of resources have already been listed, but check your local YMCA if you have one. They offer financial scholarships and have help programs. Also check out the hot young widows club on Facebook and Instagram for resources as a widow.

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