I had the same reaction, I was shocked....Good that it got deleted..nm

• 8 things I really did not want to know about you (I will start and join in) - Racy
  • Here's my 8 -- If you don't want to know, - then don't open up the post!
    • Personally, I think - Molly
    • Glad to hear from another nonprude! - Racy
  • I think people are - Lucy
    • hmm... - sadie
    • tuna and soup - Nature
      • I make that, only I use - (sm)
        • Try the cream of mushroom soup......sm - m
    • the big shockers are the pencil - and the sheet-story.....nm - mb
      • In second grade, she would have been 7 yrs old. Of course, - now she would be serving 30 to life.
        • Not where I live, 30 years to life? - Nola
  • Well... - sm
  • Ladies, just a joke, some humor thrown into a mostly unfulfilling job we do - Racy
    • this board - sm
      • Never had anyone tell me about... - Kendra
        • Kendra, join in whenever. You would think with all the - Racy
          • 2nd list.... - sadie
      • I wouldn't tell people at a busstop these things, either! nm - Southeasterly
    • Please don't group everyone under the assumption - speak for yourself
      • I think she said mostly - Katie
  • Are you that bored? Waaaay TMI. nm - wow
  • Yes, you ladies, join in with me and share your 8 things!! nm - Racy
    • I have read your responses and apparently - Racy
      • I don't care about your things, and can't imagine anyone would care about mine. - Southeasterly
  • I believe she meant we could all share SM - Jen
    • I strongly disagree!. - mb
      • My first time was with ex-husband and it was nothing - to remember! Jen
      • I remember mine and he certainly holds no special place - Arggggg - won't even go there
        • for Argggg....s/m - mb
          • It was overseas and I was 19 - Arggggg - won't even go there
        • R-I-D-D-A-N-C-E. Good riddance. Not good riddens. Riddens is not even a word. - See this ALL the time
          • You are correct - sorry bout the type - Arggggg - won't even go there
  • Maybe try Facebook for this stuff. nm - South
  • that pencil thing sounds really horrible - nm - Deb - nm
  • Who is interested in this?....s/m - oh my!
  • oversharing - sm
    • where is the professionalism??? - sickofit
      • I had the same reaction, I was shocked....Good that it got deleted..nm - mb
        • Oh no, it's still posted..............nm - mb

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He just "informed you?!" He didn't discuss it with you? Not the way things work here! That said, if he is still going to go, why don't you drive to your parents with your son? Four hours isn't that bad, make a long weekend out of it?

Good luck to you.

Remembering standing outside waiting at the Brooklyn Fox for the following groups at one time or another way back when:

Little Anthony and the Imperials

Martha and the Vandellas

The Shirelles

Otis Redding

Little Stevie Wonder (he was 13)

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

The Ruffin Brothers (David and.....cannot remember the other one's name at the moment)

The Thymes (later on)

before the British Invasion music which them some of us started appreciating......and going ape waiting for the Beatles at 54th Street at the Warwick Hotel, 500-1000 young girls on the 4 corners of that intersection mobbing taxicabs....*LOL* - those were the days....

In this "economic environment"  I find it really hard to put up with the pecking order of snobbery, when I know these people are doing terrible financially.  How do you reform a snob, especially one that doesn't even have enough money to eat?

Has anyone here had an experience with their cat having a reaction to their rabies shot booster?  My 4-year-old Persian just had a rabies booster 2 weeks ago at a new vet's office.  (Just moved - have only been going there for about a year).  My guess is they use a different brand or manufacturer of vaccine than my old one did.) 

Yesterday morning, exactly 2 weeks after getting her shot and seeming just fine, I found a large, 2x2 cm lump on my cat's right lower hindquarter.  Thinking it was a hair mat, I put on my glasses for a better look.  It wasn't a mat; instead, it was a subcutaneous lump that felt similar to a lipoma, but was firmer, not as soft and squishy as a lipoma.  She had also vomited 4 times during the night -- food, not hairballs.  She's never done that before.

I took her to the vet right away, and they aspirated some fluid out of the lump, looked at it in a microscope, and said she had a lot of white cells.  (She also had a fever).  They sent off the slides to the lab to see if this might be vaccine-associated sarcoma - something I never even knew existed until yesterday!   While waiting for the lab results, she's on an antibiotic, as well as an anti-inflammatory for 5 days.

So, I got on the internet and did some research about these vaccine-related sarcomas, and would advise any cat-owner to do the same thing.  The information I found was NOT encouraging!  Did you know that the occurrence of these sarcomas has been increasing since the early 90's, when they started making adjuvant (more inflammatory) rabies vaccines?  The sarcomas are VERY aggressive in cats.  (I had a former cat die in only 7 months after a mastectomy for breast ca. with adenosarcoma.)   They think some cats may be predisposed to developing sarcomas at the site of injection for both rabies and the feline leukemia / FIP vaccines.  The rescue where I adopted my cat advises its adopters not to get the leukemia/FIP vaccine, so I don't get that one.  But this is the first I've heard about the rabies shot being dangerous, as well. 

My reading brought to light the fact that vets almost always give the rabies shot as distally as possible in the RIGHT rear quarter.  The reason?  If a sarcoma forms, they're very invasive, and they found that tumors from shots given between the shoulder blades or in the scruff of the neck tended to spread into the spine and lungs.  (Oh, GREAT....)   Even more thrilling to learn is the reason they give the shot in the lower rear quarter:  It's so that if the cat gets a sarcoma, the best chance they have of prolonging the cat's life is to amputate the entire leg. 

Each state differs, but in California, rabies shots for cats are recommended, but NOT mandatory.  Had I known this, and about the danger of the adjuvant rabies vaccines, I would have skipped the vaccine altogether.   My vet recommended that if she gets a rabies shot in the future, (which I don't intend to do with either of my strictly indoor-only cats), there is a SAFER brand -  Merial "PureVax".    It's a non-adjuvant vaccine that is much safer.  (My guess is that it's probably more expensive, too.)  It's also apparently not easy to find.   My vet office doesn't use it (WHY, I don't know, since they're recommending it...), so that's just one more reason for me to say "NO" to rabies vaccines in the future.  However, If I were getting a new kitten, I would make sure it got the Merial PureVax instead of the regular kind, provided it's approved for kittens.  It's disadvantage is that it's given yearly, rather than q.3 years. 

Anyway, regardless of whether my cat's lab tests come back positive or negative for malignancy, after what I've learned from researching feline rabies shots, I thought I'd pass the information on to everyone who's interested, so they can talk to their own vets about it and at least make a more-informed decision about vaccinations than I did!