Merry, um, Crossmas...
Dec. 25th, 2006 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
errantemberI awoke today after about five hours of sleep to my puppy whining and howling in his crate. Expecting that this was simply adjustment from our recent vacation during which he got to sleep with my Mom, I put in some earplugs and tried to go back to sleep. After another 45 minutes of the puppy-jamming-the-meat-grinder effect, I finally got up to see what was happening. I emerged from my bedroom to find him and his crate covered in baby food consistency dog shit. He must have had some gastrointestinal disaster during the night.
After spending the hours before Christmas dinner hand-cleaning dogshit out of Loki's crate, I managed to plane off a small portion of my fingernail and thumb while putting the finishing touches on my very-first-ever shoji screen.
After staunching the bleeding, I then proceeded with my friend to Lockhart to eat dinner with my father and his girlfriend. About twenty minutes into the meal, my father started having noticeable tremors, then start to shake all over. Worried, we put him into bed, where he shortly vomited up his poorly chewed dinner. His girlfriend called EMS while we tried to keep him calm and get his blood pressure. One reading, hopefully incorrect, put his heart rate at 190 beats per minute. The paramedics showed up shortly thereafter (great response time, and very glad they were working on Christmas!) and tested him for stroke symptoms, etc. He seemed mostly fine, but it's still very possible he had a small TIA-type stroke. He'd had vomiting problems the night before, but not the tremors. The paramedics didn't think it was very likely to be food poisoning that long after eating the night before.
We watched him for several hours after the paramedics left, and other than being on the surly side, he seemed fairly normal. We ate dessert together (Dad just had coffee) and then I came home.
While my father's medical problems were certainly the most serious and scary thing that occurred today, I think the saddest thing is that I didn't really feel let down by Christmas. Most of my Christmases have been (thankfully) a lot better than this, but at the end of the day I feel like this is exactly what it's reasonable to expect from the holiday.
In keeping with that sentiment, shared by millions of people world-wide, I took solace in reading the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special, festooned with the Warning:
"Contains bad taste in the form of ultra-violence, icon-bashing, and The Finger. More offensive than Christmas usually is."
After warming my heart with it's gleeful tale of elf-slaughter and infanticide, I was delighted to discover this (much less violent and graphic) fan-made film version.
Enjoy, and have a Merry Christmas!
After spending the hours before Christmas dinner hand-cleaning dogshit out of Loki's crate, I managed to plane off a small portion of my fingernail and thumb while putting the finishing touches on my very-first-ever shoji screen.
After staunching the bleeding, I then proceeded with my friend to Lockhart to eat dinner with my father and his girlfriend. About twenty minutes into the meal, my father started having noticeable tremors, then start to shake all over. Worried, we put him into bed, where he shortly vomited up his poorly chewed dinner. His girlfriend called EMS while we tried to keep him calm and get his blood pressure. One reading, hopefully incorrect, put his heart rate at 190 beats per minute. The paramedics showed up shortly thereafter (great response time, and very glad they were working on Christmas!) and tested him for stroke symptoms, etc. He seemed mostly fine, but it's still very possible he had a small TIA-type stroke. He'd had vomiting problems the night before, but not the tremors. The paramedics didn't think it was very likely to be food poisoning that long after eating the night before.
We watched him for several hours after the paramedics left, and other than being on the surly side, he seemed fairly normal. We ate dessert together (Dad just had coffee) and then I came home.
While my father's medical problems were certainly the most serious and scary thing that occurred today, I think the saddest thing is that I didn't really feel let down by Christmas. Most of my Christmases have been (thankfully) a lot better than this, but at the end of the day I feel like this is exactly what it's reasonable to expect from the holiday.
In keeping with that sentiment, shared by millions of people world-wide, I took solace in reading the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special, festooned with the Warning:
"Contains bad taste in the form of ultra-violence, icon-bashing, and The Finger. More offensive than Christmas usually is."
After warming my heart with it's gleeful tale of elf-slaughter and infanticide, I was delighted to discover this (much less violent and graphic) fan-made film version.
Enjoy, and have a Merry Christmas!
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