Kingdom of Knuffel

Yep, at least it is sorted now :)

Congrats on your third star, jacob :)

Guys, I am super sad right now kinda.
My internship in Ireland lasts until the 13th of July. I booked my flight back home to Germany for the 16th of July.
Now, after almost 1 year, the graduation ceremony will take place. Guess when? On the 13th of July.. Which means I cannot attend my own graduation ceremony where you get congratulations by the most important people of the universtiy and when you get the certificate. I was actually looking forward to it, but totally forgot about it .. And now that they announced the date I cannot go..

That really sucks :(

Aw, Julez, sorry to hear about that! I suppose you can't take the last 2 days of your internship off or something?

@jacob: Lol, yeah, it was annoying, but luckily I was on my laptop and quickly added some funds XD


I'm a little worried about ratties though. Yesterday I went for the pre-surgery appointment and Cotton has to get a heart echo scan (the vet consulted 3 or 4 other vets who all listened to Cotton's heartbeat), because they want to make sure she's fine to get the sterilization. Candy on the other hand was fine, until I noticed she has a tiny bump on her ribs (no, the vet didn't notice, I actually pointed it out to her, I noticed when Cotton was having all the vets listening to her heart and Candy was restlessly walking all over me). It's like come on, that bump wasn't there the day before, or at least we didn't notice it. And we're thinking maybe it's some reaction to the painkiller medicine she was given after the tail amputation. But she actually only took one doze, the other two she really didn't want to eat, despite loving it the first time. It had to develop within the last 2 days.
So, she got some medicine for that bump, she's supposed to be taking it until Friday (that's when the surgery is scheduled), if it disappears, great, if not, they will remove it and have the sterilization at the same time. Of course it will cost more.
And so now I'm super nervous and anxious about Cotton's heart and Candy's bump. The medicine she got is actually for tumors in the milk glands, and hers is not exactly in that area... So I'm afraid it might not disappear. Still, I hope she'll be eating the meds until Friday without any fuss and that the bump will disappear.
Not to mention the whole ordeal with Tila came back to me. She also had a tiny bump, but that was on her milk gland and it disappeared after meds. Then we had her sterilized and then she got that bleeding from her birth canal and suddenly we had to euthanize her without any preparation whatsoever. I'm afraid that maybe something will go wrong again and I'll lose another pet. I know I was saying that if those two go away I might not even cry after them but.... I totally will. Damn it, I'm already crying

Ah, Julez, sorry to hear that, that scheduling sucks :( Why do they announce the date of the ceremony so late? That's stupid :(

Awww, mem, I hope the rats will be alright! Those things do sound worrying, but I'm holding my thumbs that everything turns out to be fine and the bump and the heartbeat stuff are both harmless or easy to fix.
Try not to worry more than you absolutely have to, cuddle the ratties and try to have a good time with them instead. That will be better for them than seeing you all stressed out.

And today Candy doesn't want to eat her medicine... .________. But I think she ate most of it anyway. I try to give her some as soon as I see her around

And we miserably lost the football match with Senegal, oh jeez

@Chrizie: I wish I could cuddle them more, but they rather run around, lol XD At least it doesn't seem like they are bothered by any of this. Even if Cotton has some arrythmia she lives and behaves normally. And Candy is like "bump? what bump? I don't know what you're talking about, human, and stop calling me bumpy " XD
I started calling her "bumpy", hehe, halp ;w;

@jacob: *hugs*

Haha, okay then, but that's good :) Glad to hear they're still active and not suffering in any way :)

Yeah, they are troublemakers as always, so I'm kind of smiling But kind of worrying and it's confusing

I can imagine that must be a weird feeling.
Try to give in to the smiling :)

I am sorry about that mem..
But you indeed should stop worrying. In the end there is no point. They will either live through it or not, you do not have an influence on THAT. But as Chriz said, you have an impact on what you do with them NOW, how you want to spend the time with them. Just try to give them the medicine and enjoy the time with them :3

(Omg, that's sounds so cold hearted, but I am just being rational, sorry O.O)

*hugs everyone*

The thing is that if I leave my internship earlier, which I maybe even could (because I have no contract lol) because my manager is the best, but I don't want to tbh. Me and a friend are leaving on the same day, the 13th, so we planned on going for drinks with everyone on that day. We made so many friends there and I will miss the people with all my heart.
So either way I would lose an one-time opportunity, whether it is seeing my friends here (probably for the last time, we know that distance makes it hard to keep up the friendship) or my graduation ceremony.
I try to think about the ceremony as something very impersonal (like all the graduates of the past year of the whole faculty will be there, so I am basically a no-one there). And I can get my certificate any time in the secretary's office (I guess :D). And one of my friends who knows me well also told me it was better to stay... So I am staying.
Also, I am lazy. My flight is already booked :D

Ok guys, have a nice week, I am off on a trip to Belfast and Cork with that one friend from work. :)