I have been in the mental hospital for the past week. I just got discharged yesterday. Also, my boyfriend and i decided to break up. I am going to delete my tumblr. SO if you want to talk on a different social media then feel free to message me.
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Can you see? Love didn't change a thing.
Someone took the spring out of the Easter Bunny’s step >;(
Ostara blessings.
#xwitches-gardenx ~ #Autumn #Breeze #AutumnBreeze #BreezyAutumn
I went to Jack in the Green today for Beltane! It’s wonderful and fun, lots of people were wearing antlers/horns/bones/feathers/furs (I of course thoroughly enjoyed wearing skulls, leaves and painting myself green)
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My boyfriend and I got into a small argument a few days ago. I was needing reassurance and I have trust issues. I broke down, sobbing and absolutely manic over something so small. I didn't want to lose him. I love him so much. Finally, I looked him in the eyes and apologized. I loved him before, but I knew I loved him when he did this:
It was late and I was exhausted so I went to sleep in our bed. He thought it was best for him to sleep on the couch. Before he left, he covered me up with the blankets, kissed my forehead and said "i love you". Later on I woke up and found him sleeping next to me. I knew I loved him before we had an argument and I knew I loved him after. One single "fight" could of blown out of proportion and lead to us potentially breaking up. In a relationship, shit gets hard. It's not always sex, cuddling and lovey shit. Sometimes you have to be an adult and apologize. You have to move on. You have to push past it.
Recognising silent acute pain in animals - assorted species grimace scales:
Pain is subtle - we cannot depend on vocalisations or extreme abnormal behaviour to determine if an animal is on pain - animals can cover up pain while going about their daily life. Grimace scales have been found to be reliable indicators of pain (full text available)
Unfortunately, I could not find a clear visual grimace scale for dogs, cats or birds :(
Which is a shame, because perhaps I could have recognised my own dog’s discomfort for the acute pain it was sooner:
(left: dog in pain. See eyes, tension, cheeks, whiskers, ears compared to the multiple species grimace charts above. right: tired but not in pain dog)
Perhaps my new books that arrived today might have some on dogs at least. There’s this visual blog post of a stressed dog at the vet - stress in the absence of a trigger looks very much like pain.
Here is a small comparative cats, with the link going into more detail. Not a scale but better than nothing:
Bonus round - you can get free A3 posters on recognising pain for Rabbits, Mice and Rats from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research. My rabbit specialist vet has the rabbit one!
Being able to recognise pain in our patients is really important! We often use the modified Glasgow pain score which I will find a link for when I’m not on mobile. I know metacam definitely does a cat grimace poster. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog one though.
