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  • hot4fitness2
    hot4fitness2 Posts: 528 Member
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    Good evening. back to the night shifts after a 3 day weekend. Had to deal with staffing issues my 1st hour here On-call peeps turning off their phones so they don't get called in. Some nerve!
  • catb58
    catb58 Posts: 239 Member
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    sufferlandrian wrote: »
    Was out on my mountain bike today. It was pretty cold at 37 degrees but it sure was fun. :-) Cost me some sleep though.

    Coldest weather I've ridden in was 27 degrees when I started training for the LIVESTRONG Philly. Never again. It's got to be at least...32! LOL Layers are your friend when it's cold out there!!
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
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    hot4fitness2 wrote: »
    Good evening. back to the night shifts after a 3 day weekend. Had to deal with staffing issues my 1st hour here On-call peeps turning off their phones so they don't get called in. Some nerve!

    Ohhh..that just hacks me off to no end! You are "on call" for a reason... :angry:
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
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    I've laid people off for that. You're getting paid to be on call. If you turn your phone off, you're basically stealing.
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
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    Dang it! I just lost a dog to hear failure. We started treating it last week and it was doing great! Then tonight the heart started failing.
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
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    That's rough....Lasix for heart failure in canines?
  • trishtrish1
    trishtrish1 Posts: 71 Member
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    5 hours to go for me!!!!!!!!!! Long night - got about 3 hours sleep (interrupted) today - so tonight is kind of heck! :) Let's do it!
  • trishtrish1
    trishtrish1 Posts: 71 Member
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    And a cold bike ride actually sounds GREAT! :)
  • trishtrish1
    trishtrish1 Posts: 71 Member
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    Sorry to hear about the dog..... That would be tough. :(
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
    edited October 2014
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    4 hours to go....my eyes are already getting heavy and my walk got cancelled when they came by to tell us that a pack (herd?) (group?) of feral hogs are running loose in the streets.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,244 Member
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    LadyRN76 wrote: »
    That's rough....Lasix for heart failure in canines?

    In this case, it was Lasix, Pimobendan and Enalapril. Radiographs show a cancer in the chest.
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
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    Had to look up pimobendan.
    Vasotec and lasix...we use them quite a bit.
  • catb58
    catb58 Posts: 239 Member
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    How sad about the dog. :(
  • catb58
    catb58 Posts: 239 Member
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    Feral hogs? Never heard of them running loose in a town. Is that a normal thing in your area?
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
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    Yes ma'am. They are a huge problem in our part of the state.
  • catb58
    catb58 Posts: 239 Member
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    Truly, that's fascinating. :smile: They had coyotes running wild by my sister's place in AZ and I've lived places where there were wild dogs, but never thought of hogs running feral.
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
    edited October 2014
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    They are dangerous and destroy lands, crops, and will kill. They don't care. They're beyond a nuisance at this point. We actually have "hog hunts" in several towns/counties where people travel in to kill them. We have coyotes and wild dogs as well.

    That's what happens when you live in the middle of nowhere.. :laugh:
  • catb58
    catb58 Posts: 239 Member
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    I live in the sticks, but the main thing I see is herds of deer grazing in my back yard. One of the neighbors has a tree stand in the woods out behind my house where he can use his bow. We have a few opossums, skunks, foxes...but nothing like the hogs. I like the idea of the hog hunts. Do they give the meat to orphanages and such? That's what they do when the cull the herds of deer in the city where I work.
  • LadyRN76
    LadyRN76 Posts: 4,275 Member
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    Most of the meat is inedible; unfortunately. I am grateful to hear there are areas still that have not been infested by them. We actually have businesses and and outfitters that all they do for a living is go to ranches and kill hogs.

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