Comedy and Pets (Slightly OT, I Guess)

[Guest guest]

There were a bunch of posts about this, but since I could respond to all of

them, I thought

this would be less confusing. (Mostly for me?) I'm not sure this post is

really off-topic

since it's about living with chronic pain and offers some fabulous tips at the

end for

keeping a zoo when you can't even get out of bed half the time.

I don't know where I'd be if I didn't have a sense of humor about things.

Luckily, I learned

that at an early age and made sure my son understood the importance of it. Now

my son

has a wonderful sense of humor and keeps me laughing when he comes home on

college

breaks with his dead-on impressions and general wittiness. (And it's all thanks

to me.)

We are both huge fans of British comedy--all the way from Monty Python to

anything

Ricky Gervais is up to these days. He created the original BBC version of The

Office--

sheer brilliance. We also love Arrested Development and are planning to watch

the whole

thing again soon.

I write what I consider humorous stories--or maybe just odd ones--when I'm not

completely wracked with pain and I just had my first one published recently.

I also have quite a few pets, but I had to be smart about it because somedays

I'm totally

incapacitated. I have two goldfish who live in a large tank that go nuts when

they see me,

the Food Goddess. I found that the larger tanks are actually easier to

maintain, especially

since I have a gravel cleaner that attaches right to the faucet, so no buckets

for me to

carry. Their names are Baron von Dumfries and Francine Fishpaw.

I also have five gerbils--although I started with two females. One had a

surprise for me a

week later and I just couldn't part with the pups. Their names are Prunella,

Agnes, Edith,

, and Ken. They're very easy pets, except for the occasional heavy

cleaning of their

cages, which can wait for my son's breaks.

They don't smell at all, which is important because if I have a migraine, I can

tell if

someone on Mars is having a cigarette. They're not that difficult to lift,

either. And they're

very funny little creatures who constantly amuse me.

Lastly, I have what I call a low-maintenance cat, Teddy, who only weighs seven

pounds

and therefore doesn't create much waste in the litter for me to haul out with

the trash.

She is also perfectly happy with a continuous feeder of dry food and a daily

bowl of water.

She had a very fat brother named Mr. Neutron that she hated, but he proved too

much for

me so now he's living with a neighbor who is just crazy about him because he's

quite a

character. His average weight was twenty pounds, so we used him as a unit of

weight

measurement, like the stone. For example, I weigh a little over five Neutrons.

(It's easier

than the stone when you think about it.)

Before I became injured, I was constantly on the go and never sat down. I think

comedy

and the fuzzy beasts help keep me occupied so I don't go completely out of my

mind,

even though I'm known as the Crazy Gerbil Lady. We all have to have something

to help

take our minds off it, I think.

Kate

[Guest guest]

Hi rhee,

I am the same way sometimes. I had a dr. appointment yesterday with my

primary doctor. We usually crack jokes during visits as well. lol. I think my

doctor knows that I have a sense of humor and use that to help cope through

things as well

I also love this topic! It's keeping me smiling!

Love,

Becky/SD

>rhee_jones wrote:

I think humor also tells the docs that we are NOT just looking for a

fix, that we are doing the best we can and humor helps to cope.

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