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| We've been giving Trevor potassium for TWO DAYS. Not even that. He's had 3 doses of it. He just jumped into my lap. EDIT He apparently is going through Hypokalemia, or, LOW POTASSIUM. Symptoms of hypokalemia include; * Muscle weakness & pain * Stiffened posture & gait * Reluctance to move * Inability to raise the head due to muscle weakness (ventral neck flexion) * Increased thirst & urination (due to decreased kidney function) * Weight loss Yeah, he has all of that. o_o;;;;; Wow, that's all it is? (we still haven't gotten test results back) | |
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| Last couple days our 15 year old cat, Trevor, has been having some issues. Namely, he can't lift his head and can't walk properly. He feels fine otherwise. And I meant that. He's... mainly just frustrated. We got some blood work results back today and apparently he has low potassium. Vet says that something else seems to be afoot, though, so he needs another round of (expensive...) blood work done. :/ Dad's on his way to come get us before the vet closes for the day. Hopefully a supplement is all that is needed.
And we're back. His potassium is SLIGHTLY low, and... he has an auto immune disease. That attacks his muscles. XP It's painless, which is more important to me. | |
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| Had our first photo shoot today ^-^     Dress made by me, boots from Ebay. Eyes are from Dollmore and the wig from Luts. *runs away* | |
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| Packing.
Leaving in the morning.
Back Sunday night.
Will answer Meme requests when I get back and can actually think some on it. :3
Expect photos of Hayvn with her new eyeballs!! | |
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| I mean uh yeah. Lessee... Saturday I went on a date and saw Up. It's awesome, but a bit of a tear jerker; so if you haven't seen it, be prepared for that. Sunday I made some knee length shorts for Hayvn. They look like microscopic Dickies. X3 I'll get some photos when they're 100% done. Monday I was supposed to do my yoga final after having slept through the last day of class on the 8th. X| So I showed up and pretended like I was going to take the class, as she'd suggested, and then she told me that since I showed up, I didn't have to do it. D: I nearly fell to the floor and kissed her feet. After that was ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sanjicat's birthday party dinner out in Brea, so I grabbed zombiequeens and we headed out there. After dinner, we all learned a little known fact about the Underground Railroad: It was a viable form of terrorism. Comparable to blowing up buildings. Did you all know that? We didn't. Yes, I'm being facetious. Tuesday, firenaux asked me to drive him home from school XD So I hung out with them and watched zombiequeens play Silent Hill Homecoming. My Dog that game is an orgasm a frame. AND PYRAMID HEAD WAWHDHDFJY90W43R89375U3IHEFDISHFKJHDS F *dies* I'm gonna get the Wii Silent Hill when it comes out (more like when it's $20) and then we can like... be each other's BFFLs. When I got home I tried my online Anthropology class. After taking the first quiz and failing to understand how the Powerpoints went with the assigned lectures, I dropped the class. I have enough stress these next 8 days; I don't need to make more by watching 5 lectures, hoping they're the right ones, reading 6 chapters in the book, and taking 5 quizzes. ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE that needs to get done for AX. And then today I made a T-shirt for Hayvn. :D I need to hem the sleeves and bottom but I painted Imperative Reaction's old logo on it. Dude. It is epic. I have enough scrap to make another one but I'm not sure who to put on it. I only have white and yellow fabric paint for the while. :/ I'll try to run to Joann's and find white knit fabric and get some red paint while I'm there. | |
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| by Janet Contreras I listened to this letter be read on TV tonight, and it moved me to get off my butt, get back onto my butt, and blog about it, as few things ever have. I can't legally repost it here, but the bottom line is this: If you're an American, read it if you want to. If you agree with it, sign the petition after it. If you believe in it, repost this. If you're not an American, read it if you want to. If you agree with it, sign the petition after it. If you believe in it, repost this. Show your support if you have it. You're not alone. The Letter by Janet ContrerasThe PetitionPS As of right now, the amount of support for Janet's words have overwhelmed the servers; please try again later. I have yet to sign the petition myself. ^^;; | |
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| So I went to a Doll meet at Victoria Gardens today. Yesterday. Wetf. I'd just finished a kimono for Hayvn, and right before I left I glued in some eyelashes and cheapo deluxe D Eye Ys for her eyeballs. :> She was complete! Go here for the photo gallery!  When I did the head swap with cake4me's Ryushin, however, I saw that her eyes had... melted. MELTED. @_@ Apparently the glue I'd used has ACETONE IN IT. Acetone is like... the kiss of death alongside oil as far as resin is concerned. I saved the irises and lenses, but the whites were DEAD. And while trying to scrape the glue out, my fingernails started slicing away at her resin and OMFG @___________@ DIAF GLUE. JUST DIAF. She's okay, though. :> Minimal damage. But after seeing her with eyes in, I want to open her eyes a little more. This means I can probably get rid of her tear! :D - Tags:bjdwtf
- Music:Daigo Stardust - "Eien no Space Cowboy"
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|  | Okay, so Hayvn came to me like this.
Some resin webbing inside the eyelids, but not completely across. This is her Dreaming state, how I received her and how she was when she was sent out from Korea. |
 | With the aid of an Xacto Knife, I carved the webbing out. This resulted in how she has been for the last two months.
Still Dreaming but with a tiny gap all the way across. I'd held off on opening them because I only wanted her to be what's called "Gentle," only partially open. This sort of thing is typically achieved with a Dremel, but I wanted to keep the little crease on her eyelids. So I came up with the idea of steaming her eyelids open, and nobody was able to give me feedback on that. So I did it myself tonight. o_o;
It worked. Sorta. The problem that resulted was that the wedge I had wasn't thin enough to go into the larger gap and keep her lid open while I steamed the other eye open (if it's not propped open, it'll just shut again as it warms up; it proved that to me twice XP). I was using an Xacto blade to push the lids open but the blade wasn't wide enough to cover the entirety of the lid, resulting in poor weight/pressure distribution. After a few attempts, this gave me a tiny tiny TINY tear in her eyelid, at which point I stopped with the experiment. I gave her some more steam and let her eyes go back to their original state. |
 | Sighing quietly, I sat down and took the Xacto blade and just shave the eye lids away a thin layer at a time. I lost the crease that I loved, but I minimized the tear. It's still there and I'll try filing it down tomorrow, but here she is now.
Voila! Gentle Harin! :D The tear is on the right eye lid, near the outside corner (our far left). My biggest concern is how it'll handle face-ups, since it is a legitimate tear in the resin. I'm not sure what my options are past filing it down to flushness. Anyway. |
 | Harin defaults with 14mm eyes, and I have 12, 14, and 16 D. Eye. Y eyes. I tried both the 14 and 12 eyes.
12 on the left and 14 on the right. I'm not sure how these will measure up in comparison to regular eyeballs, but the 14mm irises are huge. o_o The 12's look fine but they have gaps on the sides; maybe the eye putty will remedy that. |
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