Eliza's Corner http://www.elizascorner.com/blog Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:43:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Texas Governor’s Mansion destroyed Sunday by Fire. http://www.elizascorner.com/blog/2008/06/11/texas-governors-mansion-destroyed/ http://www.elizascorner.com/blog/2008/06/11/texas-governors-mansion-destroyed/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:43:59 +0000 Eliza http://www.elizascorner.com/blog/?p=9 This past Sunday the Texas Governors Mansion went up in flames. According to news reports arson is suspected. C sent me these pictures earlier today and mentioned last night that he read that the mansion was under renovation so those artifacts that belong to Texas History weren’t being kept on site.

More on the story at the Dallas Morning News

Pictures of the damage can be seen at the Dallas Morning News also.

The fact that someone wanted to destroy a historical landmark that belongs to the people of Texas is beyond heartbreaking. I still wonder what was lost to history when the hurricanes came through Louisiana and other states in 2005. What building’s and people’s histories were lost to the rushing waters.

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At the end of February and around the beginning of March Tiger developed an inflammation around the joint above her front right paw that we thought was a case of traumatic arthritis because she had injured her foot jumping so we kept an eye on it and I added some glucosamine to her diet to see if would help the swelling go down. It originally did but then it came back a few weeks later. She was acting herself up until the middle of April when she suddenly stopped eating and we got concerned. She had developed a 104 degree temperature and had started losing weight. She is a little cat to begin with so to drop four pounds is pretty noticeable.

I took her to the vet and after looking at her and getting an Xray of the area she determined it was probably a soft tissue tumor or a bacterial infection. The Xray confirmed it was just in the soft tissue areas and hadn’t gotten into the bone so we still should be able to try to get rid of Tiger’s growth without surgery or amputation. The vet actually told me those options weren’t really viable since Tiger is an older cat (she turned 13 this year) and she was afraid that drastic an option would cause a drastic decline in Tigers quality of life. She put her on two antibiotics, Amoxid and Baytril, and Prednisone for the arthritis in the area to help with any initial pain. I started Tiger’s antibiotics that night and we’ve been working on getting her to eat ever since. She finished the first round this past Wednesday so I took her back to the vet and the leg does look a lot better at the moment so she kept her on the Baytril for now and said to bring her back if there is a change, good or bad, to reassess the situation.

I’ve read all of my natural cat books and anything and everything I can get my hands on from around the internet and right now Tiger’s current course of treatment is to continue her antibiotic, feed her a high quality diet that includes canned food, deli meat (she seems to eat the turkey without any problems and right now if she eats it we are trying to feed her so she gets as much nutrients in her a s possible), and raw foods such as chicken legs and a few recipes from my cat care books. I brought home syringes so I could be sure she gets enough water which seems to help with making her hungry so she’ll eat.

I figure if Casper can beat his cancer then with a lot of effort and attention Tiger can beat her tumor.

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    • work, school
      sleep
      repeat
      My grandfather passed away the 20th of April from pneumonia. I still can’t believe I’ll never see him again when we go to visit family in the area.
      We found out Tiger has a soft tissue tumor on her right leg (more on that in tomorrow’s post)
      work,school,sleep,repeat
      Went to the drive-in and saw Ironman (love Robert Downey Jr.! :) ) and Drillbit Taylor (what can I say I’m also a Owen Wilson type of gal), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (you won’t ever look at Marshall on How I Met Your Mother the same again!)
      I suddenly have this unusual obsession with wanting to see the entire Joan of Arcadia series since the first season started airing Thursday morning.
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    I have made a few decisions though. I won’t be bringing back my 101 in 1001 days list because the end date is July of this year but I do plan to do an accomplishment post in August and I will decide then if I want to start a new list or wait for the new year. I dropped the 366 project because I only did about a week and I’ve been avoiding my camera ever since I made the decision to start the project. I may restart in the future so no worries that I’ve completely stopped trying to swamp myself with to many projects.

    “Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.” - Hope Floats

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