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Zavikon Island (formerly Aspasia Island up to 1988) and the “Little Zavikon Island” are part of the Thousand Islands archipelago consisting of 1864 islands straddling the Canada-US border on the St. Lawrence River. These two islands joined by a small bridge that spans only 32 feet (about 10 meters) are located between Leeds in Ontario, Canada and New York State. The smaller one, known as "Little Zavikon Island," is situated just north of the international US boundary. The bridge was built by the island's owner Donald Rickerd, and his wife Julie Rékai Rickerd, to connect the larger one to their backyard. They added flags from Canada, Hungary (in honour of Julie's heritage) and United States. It gives the false impression that the footbridge is straddling the Canada–US border and that the small island is within the US territory.
The Thousand Islands tourist industry is largely contributing to this misconception. The boat tours are promoting the claim that this bridge is the “smallest International Bridge” in the world on their websites and guides are telling the same story to tourists aboard cruises. When I was doing my research about Zavikon Island, I came across information on the web confirming that it was a false claim. To be sure, I checked two official geographical databases from Ontario and Canadian governments as well as the USGS Topographic Map, plus the Google Earth map, and they all show both islands well within Canada by approximately 450 ft (140 metres) from the turning point of the US boundary.
Apart of the misinformation about the Zavikon Island, the Thousand Islands cruise to see the Boldt Castle on Heart Island in Alexandria Bay, New York State, was a remarkable experience worth the money.
Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada
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L’île Zavikon (anciennement l’île Aspasia jusqu’en 1988) ainsi que la « petite île Zavikon » font partie de l’archipel des Mille-Îles, composé de 1864 îles qui chevauchent la frontière canado-américaine sur le fleuve Saint-Laurent. Ces deux îles, séparées par un étroit pont de 32 pieds (environ 10 mètres), sont situées entre la ville de Leeds en Ontario, au Canada, et l’État de New York. La plus petite, connue sous le nom de « petite île Zavikon », est située juste au nord de la frontière internationale des États-Unis. Le pont a été construit par le propriétaire de l'île, Donald Rickerd, et sa femme, Julie Rékai Rickerd, pour relier la plus grande à leur jardin. Ils ont ajouté des drapeaux du Canada, de la Hongrie (en l'honneur de l'héritage de Julie) et des États-Unis. Cela donne la fausse impression que le pont chevauche la frontière canado-américaine et que la petite île se trouve sur le territoire américain.
L'industrie touristique des Mille-Îles contribue largement à cette idée fausse. Les compagnies de croisières vantent sur leurs sites Internet que ce pont est le « plus petit pont international » du monde et les guides racontent la même fausse histoire aux touristes à bord des croisières. En faisant mes recherches pour rédiger cette description, je suis tombée sur quelques informations à propos de cette fausse affirmation. Pour m’en assurer, j’ai consulté deux bases de données géographiques officielles des gouvernements de l’Ontario et du Canada ainsi que la carte topographique de l’USGS et la carte Google Earth. Elles montrent toutes les deux îles situées à l’intérieur du Canada, à environ 140 mètres (450 pieds) du point de retournement de la frontière américaine.
Mis à part la désinformation sur l'île de Zavikon, la croisière dans les Mille-Îles pour voir le château de Boldt sur l'île Heart dans la baie d'Alexandria, dans l'État de New York, a été une expérience remarquable qui valait le coup.
Mille-Îles, Leeds et Grenville, Ontario, Canada
badly decaying music room at the long abandoned Oddfellows Complex in Liberty,MO.The complex was once one of the biggest in the US,boasting a hospital,school,retirement home,and an orphanage closed for good in the '70s . This was shot in the old nursing home which,according to employees and paranormal investigators, is the most haunted of the remaining buildings. There is a morgue in the basement here, and if I had known that, I might have walked a little faster while I was "exploring in there...
The healing power of the Everglades is never more self evident when in the presence of its wildlife: It’s a fleeting moment but seeing one of the residents of the environment you are in is always an affirmation of the diversity of life found in the park and the luck you’ve had in intersecting with nature. For me, that’s enough to heal any wound caused by places that are NOT the Everglades. The Everglades and its denizens reminds me of the beauty and fragility of the world and how lucky we are to be able to see it an enjoy it… and preserve it.
Standing under this tree, the blossoms buzzing with bees, was very life-affirming. Everyone should try it sometime.
I started seeing the House Finches pair-feeding several weeks ago - such an endearing behavior. Andover, NJ
Audrey’s Affirmation- Today will be interesting.
Life may not happen just the way you expect, and that’s okay. Roll with the punches. Embrace the chaos. We are living this together.
If it is true that the date of foundation of the current center of Rotonda can not be affirmed with certainty, it is also true that it existed at the time of the Lombards, to whom the country owes its origin to the need for fortification manifested by the people in order to oppose the Goth invaders.
In the Middle Ages Rotonda fell under the rule of Roberto il Guiscardo and from the 8th century underwent the domination of several families.
The decisive role in the history of the town was undoubtedly that of the Sanseverino di Bisignano (XV century), which was responsible for the construction of the castle of which only the ruins are visible today.
"Affirmation"
I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe forgiveness is the key to your own happiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse TV evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
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Il était peut-être dédié Apollon ou plus vraisemblablement à Zeus Olympien, puisque l'inscription retrouvée affirme la suprématie de ce dernier. Il devait en outre servir de salle du trésor de la cité. Ses colonnes ne sont pas cannelées, et les chapiteaux très larges sont nettement archaïques.
L'étendue des ruines montre l'importance du temple.... la colonne dressée ici est bien pour en marquer l'origine
Detoured down a back alley and rewarded by a surprise appearance of the first blooms to usually grace the lengthening winter days. Yes!
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I didn’t become who I am alone.
The people I’ve let close - the rare few - have shaped my architecture. Some challenged me and forced me to grow sharper; some offered quiet stability and taught me how to rest without vanishing; some widened the inner horizon I didn’t know could hold so much light.
And others, in their own ways, taught me refinement through fracture; not because they intended harm - though sometimes they did - but because not everyone is capable of seeing someone clearly, even when standing right in front of them. Every bond - tender, volatile, brief, or breathtaking - has become part of my design.
I still believe in beauty, not as decoration, but as something constructed with intention, protected with discernment, and chosen again and again in spite of everything that may try to dismantle it.
THE INNER WORKINGS OF MY MIND:
Laura made this her profile pic, which I always get jazzed about. When folks feel I've captured 'em well, post the photos I've taken of 'em, it's a warm fuzzy flavor of affirmation.
But then there are the times when folks obviously don't care for the shots I've taken.
I MERELY ASSUME THEY'VE AWFUL TASTE AND GO ON MY WAY.
It has recently occurred to me that there is perhaps value in asking people how they like to be portrayed, before we shoot. Is there something they'd like to try, do they prefer certain angles or expressions.
And hell, if they still don't like 'em? I WILL ASSUME THEY'VE AWFUL TASTE AND GO ON MY WAY.
I am growing accommodating in my old age.
Affirmation:....... a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
Here are two affirmations that are my very favorites....
I will love my self completely today, regarding myself with pride and honor. Because my soul and my spirit come from God, I cherish myself too much to let anyone deface or defame me in any way.
I am from God. I am part of God, and God is a part of me. Therefore I cannot be diminished. I am strong, I am loved, and I am loving, because I am living in accordance with God's great plan.
LARGER IS BETTER
All that is beautiful comes from the Beauty of God; says a hadith.
Moslems readily affirm the link between beauty and love and show little inclination to dissociate these two elements which for them are but the two faces of one and the same reality; whoever says beauty, says love, and conversely, whereas for Christians mystical love is almost exclusively associated with sacrifice, except in chivalric esoterism and its prolongations.
The hadith just quoted really contains the whole doctrine of the earthly concomitances of the love of God, in conjunction with the following hadith: 'God is beautiful, and He loves beauty'; this is the doctrine of the metaphysical transparency of phenomena. This notion of beauty or harmony, with all the subtle rhythms and symmetries which it implies, has in Islam the widest possible significance: 'to God belong the most beautiful Names; says the Quran more than once, and the virtues are called 'beautiful things'. 'Women and perfumes': spiritually speaking these are forms and qualities, that is to say, they are truths that are both dilating and fruitful, and they are also the virtues which these truths exhale and which correspond to them within us.
'Everything on earth is accursed except the remembrance of God; said the Prophet, a saying which must be interpreted not only from the standpoint of abstraction but also from that of analogy; that is to say, the remembrance of God is not only an inwardness free from images and flavours, but also a perception of the Divine in the symbols (ayat) of the world. To put it another way: things are accursed (or perishable) in so far as they are purely outward and externalizing, but not in so far as they actualize the remembrance of God and manifest the archetypes contained in the Inward and Divine Reality.
And everything in the world that surrounds us which gives rise to a concomitance of our love of God or of our choice of the 'inward dimension; is at the same time a concomitance of the love which God shows towards us, or a message of hope from the 'Kingdom of Heaven which is within you.'
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Frithjof Schuon
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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Image: Kano Eitoku - Cypress Trees
Holy Week: 12 of 12
May the world continue to surprise us,
Love continue to astonish us,
Life continue to captivate us,
Faith continue to sustain us,
And may God go with us always, now and for evermore,
Amen.
from Prayers for all seasons by Nick Fawcett
"Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion. Through love we imagine a new way of being.
If love is an act of imagination, then intimacy is an act of fruition. It waits for the high to subside so it can patiently insert itself into the relationship. The seeds of intimacy are time and repetition. We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.
There is a complex relationship between love and desire, and it is not a cause-and-effect, linear arrangement. A couple’s emotional life together and their physical life together each have their ebbs and flows, their ups and downs, but these don’t always correspond. They intersect, they influence each other, but they’re also distinct.
It is too easily assumed that problems with sex are the result of a lack of closeness. But … perhaps the way we construct closeness reduces the sense of freedom and autonomy needed for sexual pleasure. When intimacy collapses into fusion, it is not a lack of closeness but too much closeness that impedes desire.
Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. One does not exist without the other. With too much distance, there can be no connection. But too much merging eradicates the separateness of two distinct individuals. Then there is nothing more to transcend, no bridge to walk on, no one to visit on the other side, no other internal world to enter. When people become fused — when two become one — connection can no longer happen. There is no one to connect with. Thus separateness is a precondition for connection: this is the essential paradox of intimacy and sex.
The intense physical and emotional fusion [new lovers] experience is possible only with someone we don’t yet know. At this early stage merging and surrendering are relatively safe, because the boundaries between the two people are still externally defined. [The lovers] are new to each other. And while they are migrating into each other’s respective worlds, they have not yet taken full residence; they are still two distinct entities. It is all the space between them that allows them to imagine no space at all…
In the beginning you can focus on the connection because the psychological distance is already there; it’s a part of the structure. Otherness is a fact. You don’t need to cultivate separateness in the early stages of falling in love; you still are separate. You aim to overcome that separateness."
« Des affirmations sans système jaillissent soudain, pareilles à des explosions, à des incandescences isolées, d’un éclat aveuglant. » (E.C.)
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NOT a superimposed script, but a neon affirmation, illuminated on an inside back wall of a coffee shop, as seen through the front window.
Decatur (Cortland East), Georgia, USA.
11 December 2022.
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▶ The coffee shop, unfortunately, is not doing 'amazing.' It has closed for business.
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Excerpt from aht.ca/who-we-are/our-history/:
Anishnawbe Health Toronto (AHT) is a vision of the late Elder, Joe Sylvester.
Initial efforts began with a diabetes research project, which realized that a more comprehensive approach to health care was needed by the Aboriginal community.
In response, Anishnawbe Health Resources was incorporated in 1984. One of its objectives stated, “To recover, record and promote Traditional Aboriginal practices where possible and appropriate.”
In 1989, having successfully secured resources from the Ministry of Health, Anishnawbe Health Toronto became recognized and funded as a community health centre.
Since then, AHT has and continues to grow to meet the needs of the community it serves. As a fully accredited community health centre, AHT offers access to health care practitioners from many disciplines including Traditional Healers, Elders and Medicine People. Ancient ceremonies and traditions, intrinsic to our health care model are available. Our work with the homeless has evolved from early directions of crisis intervention to our current efforts of working with those who seek to escape homelessness. Training programs offer community members the opportunity to learn and grow in a culture-based setting.
Today, AHT not only promotes Traditional Aboriginal practices but has affirmed and placed them at its core. Its model of health care is based on Traditional practices and approaches and is reflected in the design of its programs and services.
Well the last one of the year had to be a waterfall, obviously.
I'm not one for New Years Resolutions, I've never really revelled in failure.
Should you be the one committing to make life-affirming changes, then good luck and here's a track for you.
Mise à jour vendredi 29 septembre :
Aujourd'hui, les nouvelles ne sont pas vraiment bonnes ... Le test des anti corps sanguins pour la PIF indique que les valeurs sont hautes mais ne peuvent pas affirmer à 100 % qu'elle est atteinte de la PIF donc elle va redemander une nouvelle analyse et les résultats de seront livrés que dans le milieu de la semaine prochaine.
La cortisone ne semble pas réduire l'inflammation de son oeil gauche, elle peut augmenter un peu la dose mais il y a un risque que cela aggrave son rhume ....
L'endoscopie sur son nez faite aujourd'hui a montré des parois bien enflammées, normal elle est enrhumée ! Le rinçage du nez a été fait aussi.
J'ai demandé si elle souffre ? La vétérinaire me dit qu'elle ne semble pas avoir des douleurs mais qu'elle est très gênée par son rhume.
Je n'aurai pas d'appel ce week-end et donc il faut attendre lundi pour savoir si le nouvel antibiotique qu'elle reçoit depuis hier fait effet pour stopper ce rhume.
J'ai dit que chaque jour les nouvelles m'attristent et que bientôt elle m'annoncera peut-être que Jade a un cancer .....
Alors je prendrai une décision en début de semaine à savoir la maintenir en vie avec un si gros rhume et un oeil pareillement enflammé et ne plus pouvoir manger par elle-même sans cette sonde dans l'oesophage.
Merci pour tous vos messages tout au long de ces jours.
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Mise à jour jeudi 28 septembre 2017 :
L'hôpital m'a appelée à 19 h pour me dire que le nez de Jade coule encore beaucoup malgré l'antibiotique depuis une semaine, alors demain la vétérinaire va changer l'antibiotique (je me suis dit que c'était peut-être le moment !)
Demain ils vont l'anesthésier pour lui faire un rinçage du nez et une endoscopie pour aller voir plus haut ses muqueuses.
Ses intestins ont enfin fonctionné, quelle chance !
Le résultat de la prise des sang et des anti corps pour savoir si elle a la PIF ou non n'est pas arrivé !! Depuis 3 jours que j'attends cette réponse ! Elle va appeler le laboratoire demain et faire revoir Jade par l'ophtalmologue.
J'espère que ce rinçage du nez et des nouveaux antibiotiques font faire cesser ce rhume et qu'ils pourront lui retirer la sonde pour manger.
Croisons les doigts pour que demain je ne reçoive pas des mauvaises nouvelles, j'ai eu mal à la tête aujourd'hui avec notre conversation d'hier.
Merci à tous pour votre soutien, je le dirai à Jade combien on l'aime ici.
Bisous à tous.
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Mise à jour mercredi 27 septembre :
Les résultats des tests sanguins pour savoir si elle a la PIF ou non ne sont pas encore arrivés.
Je rappelle que ce test des anti corps a été faits car l'inflammation de son oeil pourrait être un symptôme de la PIF.
Donc si elle n'a pas la PIF (ce que j'espère) de quoi vient ce décollement de rétine de son oeil ???
Jade reprend de la vigueur, mais elle est toujours très enrhumée ce qui veut dire qu'actuellement les antibiotiques n'agissent pas et nul ne sait quand ils feront de l'effet.
La vétérinaire me dit que je pourrais aller la chercher demain, mais comme elle a encore une sonde dans l'estomac depuis son oesophage pour la nourrir et qu'il faut lui donner des antibiotiques et de la cortisone par voie orale et des gouttes de cortisone dans les yeux, comment arriverai-je à lui administrer tout cela ? Cela va être trop difficile pour moi car Jade n'est pas facile à soigner. Alors j'ai demandé s'ils ne pouvaient pas la garder encore quelques jours car si son rhume guérit, elle pourrait peut-être à nouveau manger d'elle-même et ainsi la sonde serait retirée.
Vous savez que je suis impatiente de la récupérer mais pas dans ces conditions, chez moi ce serait l'hôpital !
Donc on rediscutera demain avec cette vétérinaire.
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Mise à jour mardi 26 septembre :
Jade avait de la fièvre hier aujourd'hui elle n'en a pas eue et elle est plus vive qu'hier.
Ils lui mettent des gouttes de cortisone dans les yeux et vont aussi lui en donner par voie orale.
J'ai demandé si je pouvais aller la voir mais ils me le déconseillent car c'est compliqué puisqu'elle est à l'isolement et ensuite Jade va croire que je viens la chercher et elle sera triste après que je ne l'emmène pas avec moi.
Malgré les antibiotiques elle est toujours enrhumée, ils disent que parfois cela peut agir au bout d'une semaine (on y arrive bientôt) cela dépend des chats.
Les résultats du test des anti corps dans le sang pour la PIF ne sont pas encore connus.
Voilà les nouvelles du jour. Qu'elle soit plus vive est un bon signe alors ce soir je reprends un peu espoir.
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Mise à jour lundi 25 septembre :
L'hôpital m'a appelée ce soir, Jade semble un peu plus éveillée, mais le rhume est toujours là et l'état de son oeil semble s'aggraver avec une inflammation de l'iris et un décollement de la rétine. J'imagine quelle perd la vue. ...
La vétérinaire pense que l'état de son oeil pourrait venir de la PIF (maladie mortelle pour le chat) , elle va reprendre du sang pour des nouvelles analyses et voir les anti corps. Il se peut qu'elle ait une infection bactérienne.
Le test du calici virus est négatif, mais il y a plusieurs familles de coryza.
Elle ne mange toujours pas d'elle-même, bien sûr elle a une sonde de l'oesophage à l'estomac et n'a probablement pas de sensation de faim, mais il est risqué de retirer la sonde si finalement elle ne mange pas puisque son nez est toujours bouché par le rhume.
La vétérinaire me rappellera demain soir pour donner des nouvelles.
Cela devient difficile de penser positif avec tout ce que cette vétérinaire m'a dit aujourd'hui.
Bien sûr un chat peut vivre avec le coryza mais au moindre stress il peut se re-déclarer, et si elle a une PIF (Péritonite infectieuse féline) je ne ferai pas d'acharnement ......
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Nouvelles infos :
Aujourd'hui 22 septembre, l'hôpital m'a appelée pour me dire que l'anesthésie s'est bien passée et que le scanner ne révèle pas d'abcès, ni de tumeur, ce qui est une bonne nouvelle au moins pour une tumeur, ils pensent qu'elle a une sévère rhinite un calicivirus de la famille du coryza ou de l’herpès. Je n’ai pas tout compris, cette dresse ne parle pas bien français. (Berne est en Suisse allemande).
Ils n'ont pas encore le résultat des analyses.
Hier ils excluaient le coryza et aujourd'hui ils en reparlent ou du moins de ce virus de la famille du coryza.
Elle ne mange toujours pas, ils ont posé une sonde depuis l'oesophage pour la nourrir. Ils continuent la perfusion et les antibiotiques.
Un ophtalmologue doit revenir examiner ses yeux puisque l'un des deux est devenu vert et enflé.
Elle va rester au Tierspital à Berne encore ce week-end et j'aurai des nouvelles informations lundi.
Je ne suis pas encore rassurée hélas .....
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Ma Jade est très malade depuis le 10 septembre, elle est enrhumée et donc sans odorat un chat ne mange plus. Mercredi dernier elle ne pesait plus que 2 kg aujourd'hui elle doit encore avoir perdu du poids car elle ne veut pas manger.
J'ai consulté 3 fois son vétérinaire le 12, le 15 et le 19 septembre, il lui a donné des antibiotiques qui n'ont fait aucun effet, et je suis passée par divers diagnostics différents : d'une rhinite à un corps étranger coincé dans son nez qui serait la cause de ses éternuements, puis au coryza et hier à peut-être un abcès..... Le coryza ayant été éliminé de la cause de sa maladie hier soir, parce qu'un oeil qui enfle ainsi ne figure pas dans les symptômes du coryza.
Elle est au Tierspital à Berne depuis mercredi et ce matin elle passera un scanner car hier un oeil est devenu vert et il enfle de plus en plus et il lui fait mal. Ils vont lui poser une sonde pour la nourrir. Elle est perfusée depuis mardi matin.
Berne est à 100 km de chez moi donc je ne l'ai pas revue depuis mercredi quand j'ai effectué son transfert là-bas.
L'hôpital m'appellera dans l'après-midi pour me donner le résultat du scanner.
Je suis bien triste et angoissée et elle me manque beaucoup ma choupette.
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Last Updated Friday 29 September:
Today the news is not really good ... The anti blood test for PIF indicates that the values are high but can not say 100% that she is infected with BIP so she will ask for a new analysis and results will be delivered only in the middle of next week.
Cortisone does not seem to reduce the inflammation of its left eye, it can increase a little the dose but there is a risk that it aggravates its cold ....
The endoscopy on her nose made today showed the walls well inflamed, normal she is a cold! The rinsing of the nose was also done.
I asked if she is suffering? The veterinarian tells me that she does not seem to have pain but that she is very embarrassed by her cold.
I will not have a call this weekend and so we must wait until Monday to know if the new antibiotic she receives since yesterday has effect to stop this cold.
I said that every day the news makes me sad and that soon she will announce to me that Jade has a cancer .....
So I will make a decision at the beginning of the week to keep it alive with such a big cold and a similarly inflamed eye and not be able to eat by itself without this probe in the esophagus.
Thanks for all your messages throughout these days.
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Updated Thursday, September 28, 2017:
The hospital called me at 7 pm to tell me that the nose of Jade still flows a lot despite the antibiotic for a week, so tomorrow the veterinarian will change the antibiotic (I thought maybe it was the moment !)
Tomorrow they go to anesthetize it to make a rinsing of the nose and an endoscopy to go to see higher its mucous membranes.
His intestines finally worked, what a chance!
The result of taking blood and anti bodies to know if she has the PIF or not has not arrived !! For 3 days I have been waiting for this answer! She's going to call the lab tomorrow and see Jade again by the ophthalmologist.
I hope that this rinsing of the nose and the new antibiotics cause to stop this cold and that they will be able to withdraw the probe to him to eat.
Let's cross our fingers so that tomorrow I do not get bad news, I had a headache today with our conversation yesterday.
Thank you all for your support, I will tell Jade how much we love him here.
Kisses to all.
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Last Updated Wednesday 27 September:
The results of the blood tests to know whether she has the PIF or not have not yet arrived.
I recall that this antibody test was done because the inflammation of his eye could be a symptom of PIF.
So if it does not have the PIF (which I hope) what does this retina detachment from its eye ???
Jade regains strength, but it is still very cold, which means that antibiotics do not currently act and no one knows when they will make the effect.
The veterinarian told me that I could go and get her tomorrow but as she still has a probe in her stomach from her esophagus to feed her and that she must be given antibiotics and oral cortisone and drops of cortisone in the eyes, how shall I manage to administer all this? This is going to be too difficult for me as Jade is not easy to care for. So I asked if they could not keep it for a few more days because if her cold heals, she might perhaps eat again on her own and so the probe would be removed.
You know I can not wait to get it back, but not in these conditions, at home it would be the hospital!
So we will discuss this tomorrow with this veterinarian.
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Last Updated Tuesday 26 September:
Jade had a fever yesterday today she did not have and it is more lively than yesterday.
They put cortisone drops in his eyes and will also give it orally.
I asked if I could go see her but they advise against it because it is complicated since she is in isolation and then Jade will believe that I come to look for her and she will be sad after I do not take her with me.
In spite of the antibiotics she is always cold, they say that sometimes it can act after a week (it arrives soon) it depends on the cats.
The results of the antibody test in blood for FIP are not yet known.
That is the news of the day. That it is more lively is a good sign so tonight I take a little hope.
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Last Updated Monday 25 September:
The hospital called me tonight, Jade seems a little more awake, but the cold is still there and the condition of his eye seems to get worse with inflammation of the iris and detachment of the retina. I imagine what loses sight. ...
The veterinarian thinks that the state of her eye could come from the PIF (deadly disease for the cat), she will take blood for new analyzes and see the anti-bodies. She may have a bacterial infection.
The calici virus test is negative, but there are several families of coryza.
She still does not eat of herself, of course she has an esophagus probe in the stomach and probably does not feel hungry, but it is risky to remove the probe if she finally does not eat since his nose is always blocked by the cold.
The veterinarian will call me tomorrow evening to give some news.
It becomes difficult to think positively with everything this veterinarian told me today.
Of course a cat can live with coryza but at the least stress it can re-declare, and if she has a PIF (infectious feline peritonitis) I will not be fierce ......
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Update :
Today, September 22, the hospital called me to tell me that the anesthesia went well and that the scanner does not reveal any abscess or tumor, which is good news at least for one tumor, they think she has a severe rhinitis a calicivirus from the family of coryza or herpes. I did not understand everything, this set does not speak French well. (Berne is in German-speaking Switzerland).
They do not yet have the results of the analyzes.
Yesterday they excluded the coryza and today they talk about it or at least of this virus of the coryza family.
She still does not eat, they put a probe from the esophagus to feed her. They continue the infusion and antibiotics.
An ophthalmologist must come back to examine his eyes since one of the two became green and swollen.
She will stay at the Tierspital in Bern again this weekend and I will have news on Monday.
I am not yet reassured alas .....
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My Jade is very sick since September 10, she is a cold and so without smell a cat does not eat any more. Last Wednesday she weighed only 2 kg today she must still have lost weight because she does not want to eat.
I consulted his veterinarian three times on the 12th, 15th and 19th September, he gave him antibiotics that had no effect, and I went through various diagnoses: from a rhinitis to a foreign body stuck in his nose that would be the cause of his sneezing, then to the coryza and yesterday to perhaps an abscess ..... The coryza having been eliminated from the cause of his illness last night, because an eye that swells thus does not does not appear in the symptoms of coryza.
She is at the Tierspital in Bern since Wednesday and this morning she will pass a scan because yesterday an eye has become green and it swells more and more and it hurts. They will put a probe to feed her. She is infused since Tuesday morning.
Bern is 100 km from my home so I have not seen it since Wednesday when I made his transfer there.
The hospital will call me in the afternoon to give me the result of the scan.
I am very sad and anguished and I miss my little heart.
I suppose I post these kind of images to get some kind of affirmation be it people liking them or comments. Not that I am actively after either.
As confident as i am I still have the odd self doubt demon on my shoulder saying "what do you look like"
"You are just a MAN in a dress" Or not a dress in this case lol
No matter how much i know i look darn good (sorry about that big headedness) I still think other wise at times.
Anyway I also enjoy doing this look at times its rather liberating I think. right early night tonight Ive just remembered i am meant to be going out tomorrow night,