election day!

[arguchik]

hey everyone--
make sure you get out and vote today! i sent my ballot in (i'm a permanent absentee voter)... we get to vote for mayor and king county executive (offices currently held by greg nickles and ron sims), along with a bunch of initiatives, monoral board members, and port commission members. if you want to know who and what are being endorsed by organized labor, you can see the king county labor council (afl-cio) political endorsements here:
http://www.kclc.org/endorsements%202005.pdf

if you're not from king county, you can follow links to other counties from the washington state labor council website:
http://www.wslc.org/cope/index.htm

the housecall vet comes today. i'm very apprehensive about it...but i've spent the last week getting used to the idea, and i'm going ahead with euthanizing jester. she wants me to dose him with valium before she comes--10mg. (normally i give him 2.5mg, which is half a tablet, before a vet visit, so giving him 2 tablets will seem like a lot.) i think i'm ready. i'm averse to killing things (don't even kill spiders if i can avoid it), though, so no matter how ready i think i am, it will be difficult.

Comments

[marina-82.livejournal.com]

Hope everything goes alright with Jester...just remember that your doing the best you can for him

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

thank you. i just posted a new entry...it was very peaceful, and i definitely feel like it was the best thing to do.

[costco77.livejournal.com]

death is never easy.
But Jester's life would be harder.

I tried to save a spider who had fallen into my toilet the other day.
Tossed some toilet paper in so that it'd have a place to stand, maybe a way to climb out. I came back later to a very dead spider.

You can't save anything.
But you can modify the time it spends with you.
Applies to people too.

[evacado.livejournal.com]

***hugs***
What marina said - you are doing the best thing.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

thanks. even virtual hugs help a lot. i was apprehensive before, but it ended up really feeling like i was doing the right thing.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

yeah, the vet reassured me. said this kind of cancer kills cats within about a year of the tumor starting to form, whether you remove the tumor surgically or not (the recurrence rate is extremely high because this cancer is just so invasive). jester's tumor probably started a few months before i found it in september.

i feel that i did the right thing. he died very peacefully, and didn't have to go through too much of the downhill part. cats are so much about dignity and being in control of their lives, it just seems better this way.

lol--thanks for trying to save the spider. spiders everywhere thank you. (i get these spindly, almost clear spiders in my shower sometimes, and i always try to put them out onto a dry wall rather than watching them slowly overcome by the steam and the wet.) you should check out my friend L's blog--she has a picture of a dead spider in her toilet.