Friday Five 14-July-2023

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1. What scent is your shampoo?
I'm not sure of the current one. But before this one I used Body Shop's Ginger something and what other shampoo. I didn't think ginger would smell sweet, but there you go.

2. What’s something interesting that you’ve carried on your shoulders or back?
Sad memories here. Nutmeg the shoulder cat surely.

3. What’s your favorite dance step or move?
Don't exactly have them.

4. Who do you spend the most time with?
The dogs :-)
I used to have a colleague-friend that we'd spend a lot of time together, had many lunches together. Well, I got transferred to another department, and she continued to climb the corporate ladder. Now she's either too busy or deemed not appropriate to hang out with next-door department's EA too frequently or something. That and, we used to talk about dogs, and now that she's got a kid, I've never heard about her dog anymore. I know that's life and things happen. She had said she was worried with the kid she'd lose her sense of self (people getting in touch, gifting stuff, just because of the kid), which apparently turned out true. Whenever I get her stuff (souvenirs, etc) I try to get stuff that are not kid-related (admit, it's easier to get a kid-centric gift). But it still seems this friendship is not holding up. Life happens.

5. Is there anything in your daily life that you need to stand on tiptoe or get a stool to reach?
Ah, my stash of supplements are in the top cupboard that I have to stretch up to get. Then my spare skincare products are in the top-top shelf of the top cupboard, I definitely need a ladder to get my refills and stuff.

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1. If you could dispense one condiment from each finger on your left hand without its ever running out (and without losing any normal use of your fingers), which condiments would they be?
I don't use much condiments to start with. I'm the usual salt, pepper, sugar.... okay garlic salt. And I have a finger to spare.

2. Which you is the realer you: real-world in-person you, or online you?
Well, online me is just me without a filter. Real me needs a filter of sorts because I have to "conform to the level of politeness". *rolls eyes*

3. Who’s a better actor: Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon?
I wouldn't know LOL

4. If you had to watch (and stay awake during) the same movie repeated for 24 hours, which movie would you choose and why?
I don't know. I usually leave the TV on for background noise and that's probably what's going to happen. The movie of choice will preferably be something tame. No dying dogs, no suffering dogs, no suffering people. Yes, even the Home Alone types. I mean it's funny yeah, but once it starts playing over and over I stop finding it funny and instead start imagining myself in their situation and say if they fall on something, I sort of imagine me falling on that something and then I imagine the pain and then I'm in pain and... yeah.
Still dunno what movie to play though.

5. Who are the five most visually recognizable people in the world?
Wow. I dunno. Well. I'll admit, I find Caucasians and Southern Chinese easier to recognize than Northern Chinese, Koreans, and Africans. In that old movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, except for the kid and the village elder, i'd say all the other adults? Wouldn't be able to recognize them individually. Well yeah if you put them altogether I would be able to say they are each a different person, but if I see them one by one in mixed sequence, you can show me the same guy 4 times and I wouldn't know.

Menina

hoooo boy, this was an eventful week.

A couple days ago, I noticed Menina had this constant teary left eye. I was wondering if it was related to her ear that's chronically with an infection or something. Coz you know, the eyes, ears, throat, are all inter-connected. See her very clean and dry right eye but a very wet left eye. We didn't get the usual South African vet, but got one of his newer hires.

Took her to the vet, and apparently, she's got this tiny tumor thing in her eyelid. We got some eye drops to see if it can be controlled, and were just thinking to go back on a Sunday or something for a follow up check.

And then yesterday morning, out of the blue, she suffered a seizure episode. Peed my bed, drooled a pool, and all that. It was a real seizure, not the imbalance shaking that Max had before. So we had to take her to the vet again. This time we got the South African guy and he was adamant that we need to take that eyelid tumor out. It's just going to grow larger, make it uncomfortable, and if the cornea is affected, then there would be infection and will have to remove the whole eye.

But we were worried because of her age. This Grandma is almost 20 years old!! The vet was confident that she has at least 2 years more, and she's going to outlive the tumor, meaning, if we let the tumor grow, it's just going to grow larger and then affect her quality of life.

But anyway, because there are many things that can cause the seirzure, we went for a full blood test to rule out anything, as well as to check out how healthy she is for a surgery.

Apparently, Grandma here is low on glucose. We haven't been starving her, but we've cut off all the snacks that Dad used to give her. When Dad gave her snacks, she would skip regular meals, so we cut out all the snacks, and she ate her regular meals and cleaned out the plate. But apparently, we weren't feeding her enough.

"So we have to give her ice cream now?" I joked. "Yeah something like that, feed her more," vet says.

Clean bill of health, red blood cells count a bit low, needs to go on iron pills. White blood cells a bit high, but possibly because of her chronic ear infection.

So. Snacks are back on the menu.