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Mostly planning on the normal. Don't really want to celebrate this year.
In other news, my mom is home from the hospital and is on medication.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Excellent! And even more excellent!
I can understand the lack of birthday celebration, but I'm glad it all turned out well for you mother - so celebrate that instead. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Growing older sucks, but is better than the alternative. 
Have some sort of celebration when your mother's recovery is complete.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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how I got to Wordle 423, I have managed to return to India this morning to continue my rehab therapy.
In the US, the rehab technicians work 5 days a week and that too not effectively. I realized I could hire a personal therapist in India at a far lower cost so I left the US on Aug 14 evening and am in Chennai now.
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Welcome back to India. Hope your rehab goes as per your expectation.
Have noticed that courier services like DHL also don't work on weekends in the US. Had sent a parcel to the US via DHL and it was stuck in transit for two days during the weekend. Not so in India.
modified 1hr ago.
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There are some advantages to living in a country that never had a god(s)-mandated day of rest...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Wordle 423 4/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Wordle 423 4/6
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 423 6/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Just made it.
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I went for that wrong word first as well! 
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Wordle 423 5/6
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 423 4/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wordle 423 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I suspect a few of us had the same penultimate. Describes the situation perfectly!
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This is always the hardest part for me, when a pet starts having health problems. We thought we might lose our cat last week over a chronic condition he has. He's on steroids daily because of it as it is, he had a flare up of his condition, which is a digestive inflammation thing and stopped eating, lost a ton of weight.
The condition eventually develops into lymphoma. It's pretty much a given, just a matter of time. He's 11, so he's probably going to die young, and the process is over time so there's some amount of suffering involved even now that he just has to live with. Luckily it's periodic and doesn't seem constant. In any case, I hate having to make the final decision to put a pet down, though sometimes I wish humans were afforded the same dignity. I try to let the pet decide when it's time, but I always second guess myself.
I'm not sure if it's harder on me than the actual death of a pet. Especially never being sure if we did the right thing at the right time.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Never easy ... but sometimes necessary.
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Very sorry to hear about your family member. I had to make that decision last March for our pup, she was just shy of 13. One of, if not the hardest decision I've ever made. I feel for you, your hubby, and of course your cat.
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It's a quality of life decision, it's never easy.
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The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
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I had the same problem with one of my cats. It developed when he was older and didn't take long before reaching lymphoma stage. Steroids helped for a short while but than it was just downhill. In the end I had to take him to the vet to put him down and held him while the vet gave the injection. It wasn't easy but I felt I owed him that much after he gave me 16 years of joy. In afterthought, I should have taken him to the vet earlier but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
Mircea
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For what it is worth, there are people that will come to your house and euthanize the pet. We found this to be good thing, not bringing our pet to the vet, as that always caused great anxiety. The people that came were very understanding and sympathetic, as I was a wreck. My pup was relaxed, laid in her favorite spot, it was as peaceful for her as it could be.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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We did that for my Maine Coon, Chairman Maow, when he got cancer. He hated car rides so bad, he broke out of the side of a cat carrier - leaving a big hole like the Kool Aid man. Poor thing bloodied himself in the process.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I'd never heard of such a service until someone told me about it at work, it really is the best way.
Quote: Chairman Maow,
Now THAT is an awesome name!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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My friend had two cats named Nixon and Reagan. I thought it was hilarious and somehow fitting.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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 I've known a cat where Nixon would've been very apt description of said cat, that look...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That title is slightly twisted, it should be sick pets and end of life, the way you say it one might think it`s about the death of a human added to a pet being sick.
It`s difficult to watch a sick pet, especially when you know he or she is not going to recover.
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