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Let's take my toddler out of the car to go pet a cheetaā¤ļø
Another one from the Netherlands:) this one is all the way back from 2017, believe it or not but people keep trying this shit..-_- (Footage from safari park beekse bergen located in the Netherlands.) **NO ONE WAS INJURED**
The Maiden, a child found frozen on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, The photograph was taken shortly after her discovery in 1995 [567x428]
22100 feet high on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, three frozen children's bodies were found together. The Maiden, the Lightening Girl, and the Llullaillaco boy were placed up there as a result of sacrifice 500 years ago in the Inca Empire. The Lightning Girl and Llullaillaco boy who were found with her are believed to have been her attendants. They were both young, aged around 4 or 5, when they died. The lightning girl was struck by lightning after her death. The Maiden was a 13 year old girl sacrificed around 1500 AD. She was in perfect health and likely chosen due to her beauty. She is so well preserved that it looks as though she simply fell asleep with her chin resting on her chest. Her hair is braided very elaborately and she was found with several artifacts. A feathered headdress, ceramic and textile items along with four female figurines made from gold, silver, and the rareĀ SpondylusĀ shell were all found with the three children. In the months leading up to her sacrifice, her diet changed from a peasant's diet to that of llama meat and maize. Along with the food changes, alcohol and coca had entered her system in high amounts in the year leading up to her death. She was found with a lump of coca leaves in her teeth suggesting she was slightly drugged when she was left and testing indicates she also had alcohol in her system. It's believed she died from the cold exposure after being sedated by the coca and alcohol. The younger children also had those substances in their systems. [Picture Source](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/sacrificial-ceremony/) If you're interested in hearing more about the children and some other ice mummies, you can listen to our podcast anywhere and on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5STvUlJLP8jA69Qq1cMEHT?si=7l1BllVgSGGE4VRNAbv2Uw) and [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-history-of-ice-mummies/id1828836975?i=1000739851310)
Due to blood loss & pain I was cold & dizzied as I pled with my doctor, "Please, you have to do something!"
He sighed & patiently repeated "These symptoms are completely normal for a woman your age, & if you wish to pursue surgical treatments you'll need to wait until you're at least 30."
Careful with cat bites
This won't be new information to some. I've been around cats most of my life, and have posted before about my adopted cat. 3 days ago he sunk his teeth into my arm. The following day I was getting IV antibiotics for cellulitis. The following day I was admitted to hospital with the infection tracking along my veins. Thankfully on the mend now, but just a reminder that a scratch or bite can need quick medical attention, especially with a cat that spends time outdoors. Always keep an eye out for infection. Pre-ampting some of the comments with this additional info. He is currently on medication that makes him very hungry, and when he is denied food every half an hour, he gets a pit ratty. I was stroking him in hopes to pacify and there were no indicators he was about to bite. He was a homeless outdoor cat who we took in so he has some legacy behaviours which we're ok with; for the most part he is the sweetest cat. And I took time to flush and disinfect the wound, unfortunately puncture wounds can take bacteria deep, despite best efforts. I'm just sharing to hopefully inform and prevent bad consequences for others š
The Kansas City Chiefs have lost their seventh game of the 2025 season, making it only the second time in the Andy Reid era that they have lost more than six games in a season.
The Chiefs, until now, had only lost seven games in a season once under Andy Reid's tenure as head coach: 2014. That particular team, which finished with a record of 9-7, remains the only instance of Reid missing the postseason with the Chiefs, and is the only team in NFL history to go an entire season without any wide receivers scoring a touchdown, had the following players on their roster: * QB1: Alex Smith * RB1: Jamaal Charles * WR1: Dwayne Bowe * K: Cairo Santos Travis Kelce, who was drafted by the Chiefs the previous year, is the only active player who played on both squads. If not for the NFL now having 17-game seasons, the Chiefs would have also lost the opportunity to extend their streak of double-digit victories to an 11th consecutive season. That streak remains alive despite tonight's loss to the Texans, but it is only attainable if they win out. [Additional Information ā *The Sporting News*:](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/nfl-teams-6-7-chiefs-danger-meme-week-14/118b6f7f7d33c5d2d237338c) >Kansas City's bumpy 2025 campaign has been Patrick Mahomes' worst with the franchise, and a seventh loss would mark the most losses on a season for the Chiefs in the Mahomes era.
Rat in need of shame
Grover had to have an emergency surgery yesterday to remove an abscess. We are going out of town for a few days so he was comfortably set up in a hospital cage with my niece who is great with our rats. He had been there 15 minutes when she called. Guess who chewed out all of his stitches?! So another late night vet visit (they don't even ask our name anymore, just which rat this time...) and he is stitched up and wrapped up like the silly sausage he is. It's just as well he looks like a creature from Jim Henson's workshop... Total no-stress start to our trip.
Alternate therapy has ruined a patientās life (people are dumb)
We had a patient diagnosed with classical type of papillary thyroid cancer a couple of years pre-Covid. He underwent surgery and then radioiodine therapy but the patient had a few lymph nodes positive for the disease and after a while the disease became radioiodine refractory. We kept the patient stable with minimal residual disease on thyroid suppression and he was fine for 8 years. Doing well and all was good. Then Covid happened and the patient missed his yearly appointment. As thyroid cancer is a very slow growing malignancy, nothing happened to him. Another year passed, he didnāt turn up. Nothing happened. So this person decided to stop his levothyroxine supplementation. Yaaaaaaay(it was the only thing keeping his cancer in check). Nothing happened still. He became lethargic and weak but still nothing major happened. Next this patient decided to go to a very famous ayurvedic centre in Rishikesh for his weakness and lethargy. They treated him?? With God knows what. And slowly but steadily he developed a lateral neck mass. 3 years from that time, the neck mass grew to the size of a volleyball and started bleeding. At this point he remembers that ohā¦. I could go back to the nuclear medicine department where I havenāt been in the past 5 years. So he comes to the OPD with that volleyball in his neck which is bleeding and starts pleading to be saved. Weāve started the levothyroxine supplementation again and a TKI and he has been referred for a resurgery. Though I am not sure if it would help. Itās just sad to see something like this happen when it could have been avoided with just a single pill. Thyroid cancer is the most innocent of all but nobody should be underestimating these slow growing tumours.
Deadlier than COVID-19, some fear bird flu could become the next global threat
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I donāt know what to do anymore
Five months ago I found an 8 week (approx) old black kitten crying outside of my place of work. Once I got him home and earned his trust, I discovered he had a rectal prolapse. I took him to the emergency vet as soon as I figured out what it was. They gave him a purse string suture and a round of anti-parasitics and antibiotics each. The purse string suture appeared to be unsuccessful from the moment the vet handed him back to me, but I took him home and gave him a few days to recover. He was so sweet, even though I knew he was still hurting. I tried to get an appointment that wasnāt the pricey emergency vet, but had no luck. We returned to have his sutures redone, and this time it stuck. Took him home, was diligent with his careā¦ even so, a week later, his sutures burst. Again, we were back. We did a fecal analysis and a radiograph to see if maybe it was something internal causing this. Both came back clean. He was given another sutureāit failed immediately. The vet took the stitches out and if I wasnāt ready to give up, told me I should wait a few weeks before attempting anything else. I found a more affordable vet. I was a couple thousand dollars in the hole for his emergency bills and related medical costs, but I couldnāt give up. Scheduled an appointment for a check two weeks after his last visit to the emergency vet. He was given another anti parasite medication (no fecal analysis, just precaution) and we scheduled a purse string for a week and a half later. This one FINALLY took. Made it past the 1 week bench mark. I was so hopeful. But then he stopped pooping. The area around the site of the purse string started bulging. I had followed directions to a T. He was taking lactulose (laxative) and gabapentinānothing that would have constipated him. I was feeding him still a little formula and wet food for kittens. A day later I was back at the country vet, having his sutures snipped so he could relieve himself. I was advised that, if the prolapse came back (and did not get worse), I should care for it and wait until he was a few months older and stronger, so that something like a purse string would work. It came back. I took care of him just as I hadācarefully, attentively. With so much love. He was such a firecracker. And I know some of this was down to pain, but most of it was just the kind of verve you see in young, wild things. Then, a couple months later, he started changing. Becoming more aggressive, territorial (more marking and peeing outside box), and destructive. His attacks on me lacked the playfulness that made me disregard them before. The end of October I took him back to the vet for a recheck, figuring he was big enough and strong enough to withstand surgeryāand I wanted to address my concerns about aggression/increased peeing outside of his litter box. They put him on a three month course of anti parasite medication without doing a fecal analysis. They dismissed my concerns about peeing outside of his box as litter box aversion, dismissed my concerns about aggression as him needing to be neutered and told me a few places I could have it done. I administered his anti parasite, I called around to figure out neutering. I got a second litter box and tried to train him with a large cage to use itāwith positive reinforcements. While I ran into endless roadblocks with neutering (no one would neuter with his prolapse) his litter box habits showed promise. But again he started peeing in corners and other discreet places with mounting frequency. I consulted the vet again, again they cited litter box aversion. I continued to try to find a solution for neutering hoping this would help his aggression and peeingāat last I found one, but this will be at least a week and a half from now. This last Tuesday night he peed on my bed. I thought it was possible that he scented his own urine on my comforter. I had just washed it after he peed on it (it had fallen off my bed onto the floorāone of his favorite things to pee on were fallen blankets and shirts that didnāt make it in the hamper. Now heās moving onto bigger things. Today he peed all over my couch. He soaked the couch cover (this couch had already been ruined by our trials with lactuloseācleaned, disinfected and covered with a heavy duty blanket, to be replaced a later day, once Ash, my kitten, had conquered his ails. I had to toss it, the coverage was so thorough and the smell so strong. Iām sitting on the floor of my living room as I write this (Iām in the process of replacing my bed). And thatās probably where Iāll be doing most of my writing for some timeāas I am genuinely nearly penniless at this point. This time, as I was attempting to clean his urine out of my now ex-couch, I noticed that it was a bit darker than it was on my bed. This was a deep yellow, bordering on brown (the thing is, my ex couch was brownāso itās a bit of a head scratcher). His urination has picked up recently. He goes as many as 6-7 times (this is not a joke I swear) a day lately. Usually the number is within normalcy, but itās enough to cause concern if it was his urine bordering on brown and not any color bleeding from the couch. I am genuinely at a loss as to what to do at this point. I know I should probably have a urinalysis to be safeāand I know I should just demand that my vet try a fecal analysis so we can confirm once and for all if he has parasites so we can get this hopefully last surgery under way. But I am totally broke and in debt as a result of all of this. I love this cat so much, but I am at the end of my ability to provide for his care financially. Iām a bus driver. Iāve given everything I have and more to try to save his life. I need helpāI donāt know what to do or who to turn to and I am considering surrendering him for his own good, but I donāt know what shelter or sanctuary would take him given his bevy of problems. I donāt want to give him up just for him to be put to death. He still has so much fire in him, and even though a fair amount of that is now directed at me (favorite target), I canāt conceive of relinquishing him to such a fate. Any advice or help is welcome. Thanks Reddit.
UPDATE: Vet gave incorrect medication and stuck with bill
My Koda passed away this afternoon. Iām the pug owner whose vet gave a high dosage of trazodone that was meant for another dog. There was some improvement yesterday, but they called this morning to say sheād gone downhill. More seizures, and aspiration pneumonia. They said sheād need at least 2 weeks in their care and even then she had a low chance of coming out of it without a scratch. Since sheās 16, we decided it was kinder to let her go. Our regular vet has been in contact. Theyāre devastated as well and are covering all costs. Thereās not much else to say. Thank you to everyone for the advice and those whoāve check-in since.
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