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lizbeeI went to the doctor about mah belleh. She agreed that it was very likely lactose intolerance, but I'm also being tested for coeliac and other allergies, and vitamin deficiencies, and some other stuff.
In the meantime, she prescribed an OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE prescription antacid ($35!!!), so it was nice knowing my budget while it lasted (also expensive - cleaners for the old flat).
"This stuff is great," said the pharmacist as I handed over an absurd and unreasonable sum. "There are no side effects."
Later, I opened the packet and read the little information booklet inside. "Possible side effects include nausea, headache, tiredness, etc." So, nothing I'd actually notice as being out of the ordinary.
Later, on an increasingly desperate search for a vegan veggie roast to serve guests tonight, I discovered vegan cat food. Which is possibly the single worst thing I've seen all day, since a good percentage of it had been manufactured in a laboratory, and it seems rather unfair to take an animal with no choice in the matter, and force it to eat unnatural food. I did google around when I got home, in case my initial reaction was merely the result of prejudice, but everything I found was either vegan petfood sites, or forum posts that basically went, "I fed my cat on a vegan diet, but it got sick, so now we're back on meat until it recovers enough for further experimentation."
Granted, Harvey likes to dine on human flesh, so attempting to introduce him to veganism would essentially be a suicide attempt on our parts, and possibly my self-preservation instinct is what drives my instinctual revulsion. But, um, no.
In the meantime, she prescribed an OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE prescription antacid ($35!!!), so it was nice knowing my budget while it lasted (also expensive - cleaners for the old flat).
"This stuff is great," said the pharmacist as I handed over an absurd and unreasonable sum. "There are no side effects."
Later, I opened the packet and read the little information booklet inside. "Possible side effects include nausea, headache, tiredness, etc." So, nothing I'd actually notice as being out of the ordinary.
Later, on an increasingly desperate search for a vegan veggie roast to serve guests tonight, I discovered vegan cat food. Which is possibly the single worst thing I've seen all day, since a good percentage of it had been manufactured in a laboratory, and it seems rather unfair to take an animal with no choice in the matter, and force it to eat unnatural food. I did google around when I got home, in case my initial reaction was merely the result of prejudice, but everything I found was either vegan petfood sites, or forum posts that basically went, "I fed my cat on a vegan diet, but it got sick, so now we're back on meat until it recovers enough for further experimentation."
Granted, Harvey likes to dine on human flesh, so attempting to introduce him to veganism would essentially be a suicide attempt on our parts, and possibly my self-preservation instinct is what drives my instinctual revulsion. But, um, no.
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Date: 2010-06-19 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-19 03:15 am (UTC)Harvey loves some vegetables almost as much as he loves my fleshy bits, but they're just stomach-filling for him, with no nutrient value.
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Date: 2010-06-19 05:27 am (UTC)Yup. We mix plain canned pumpkin with our cats' wet food since... well, frankly, the boys are a bit tubby and always hungry, and wet food gets expensive, and pumpkin does them no ill, fills out their food a bit, and (so I hear) can help with hairballs and such, to boot. Seems to work.