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davemerrillWhen last I posted here, Miss Kitty had some teeth out, I was about to do an Anime Hell at Eyesore, and things seemed to be moving along fairly normally.
Here, a month and change later, and things aren't moving along normally. Miss Kitty had a night of seizures on March 4 and passed away the next morning. We lasted a week about a cat, and now have Vice President Mewbert M. Mumphrey in the house, a 3 month old kitten we adopted from the Toronto Humane Society.
Meanwhile, the world is going to heck in a handbasket as COVID-19 moves into North America with a vengeance. Right now at this moment, 9am, March 24 2020, there are 392,331 cases, 17156 deaths, and 102972 recoveries. Here in Canada there are 2088 cases, 500 here in Ontario. Most of those are in the Toronto area.
Essential businesses here have been ordered to close, and I find out today if my work is "essential" or not. I have enough vacation time to cover a few weeks, but after that things get iffy in terms of paying bills.
The city has shut down bit by bit over the past few weeks as returning snowbirds self-quarantine, those that can work from home do so, restaurants move to takeout only, and all public gatherings either cancel or are banned outright. It feels like driving around on a Sunday out there, a public holiday Sunday.
The fan events started canceling around the first of the month and now we're up to May and June events canceling as force majeure clauses kick in. How far is this going to go? How far is any of this going to go? Nobody knows.
Stay safe out there.
Us, we're OK, we have the normal seasonal coughs and wheezes. No fevers or dry hacking coughs or shortness of breath. We've been staying away from other people for a while, and we might get out of this OK. So far one friend of mine is down with it and they're in Austin. My family in GA is fine, my parents are pretty much not getting near anyone for any reason and my sister's doing their grocery shopping; my sister in law is recovering from an unrelated surgery in a rehab center that's been locked down for three weeks so my brother can't even see her. And he works from home, so he's reasonably isolated, which usually isn't a good thing.
I'm just crossing fingers that we can all get through this.
Here, a month and change later, and things aren't moving along normally. Miss Kitty had a night of seizures on March 4 and passed away the next morning. We lasted a week about a cat, and now have Vice President Mewbert M. Mumphrey in the house, a 3 month old kitten we adopted from the Toronto Humane Society.
Meanwhile, the world is going to heck in a handbasket as COVID-19 moves into North America with a vengeance. Right now at this moment, 9am, March 24 2020, there are 392,331 cases, 17156 deaths, and 102972 recoveries. Here in Canada there are 2088 cases, 500 here in Ontario. Most of those are in the Toronto area.
Essential businesses here have been ordered to close, and I find out today if my work is "essential" or not. I have enough vacation time to cover a few weeks, but after that things get iffy in terms of paying bills.
The city has shut down bit by bit over the past few weeks as returning snowbirds self-quarantine, those that can work from home do so, restaurants move to takeout only, and all public gatherings either cancel or are banned outright. It feels like driving around on a Sunday out there, a public holiday Sunday.
The fan events started canceling around the first of the month and now we're up to May and June events canceling as force majeure clauses kick in. How far is this going to go? How far is any of this going to go? Nobody knows.
Stay safe out there.
Us, we're OK, we have the normal seasonal coughs and wheezes. No fevers or dry hacking coughs or shortness of breath. We've been staying away from other people for a while, and we might get out of this OK. So far one friend of mine is down with it and they're in Austin. My family in GA is fine, my parents are pretty much not getting near anyone for any reason and my sister's doing their grocery shopping; my sister in law is recovering from an unrelated surgery in a rehab center that's been locked down for three weeks so my brother can't even see her. And he works from home, so he's reasonably isolated, which usually isn't a good thing.
I'm just crossing fingers that we can all get through this.
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Date: 2020-03-30 12:53 pm (UTC)It was kind of the worst experience, watching her seize up and being unable to help. Current events have sort of diluted how bad it was, but it was pretty bad. She was still alive in the morning, unresponsive but still breathing, and we had to call around to find a vet who could, you know, put her to sleep, our local clinic was open but the actual vet vet wasn't in until much later in the day. Not a great day.