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She was having a hard time tonight. Sleeping good now, but I’ve noticed she’s very restless in evenings. Going to discuss switching to carprofen and maybe tramadol with the vet. I’ll try to give it a few more weeks, God willing. I might even give CBD a try.

Hurts my heart to even type this. Our 13 year old lab has bad hip arthritis. As our vet eloquently put it, “ her hips are ate up with arthritis.” She still has a healthy appetite and is going to the bathroom and can rise to her feet. But she’s not comfortable. She pants a lot, licks at her paws and can only go a few feet then stops and limps pretty good.

I have her on gallaprant daily ( started a few days back) and she got her first librella shot last week. I don’t know what else to do to manage pain. Although her quality of life is declining she’s eating well and sleeping. Seems a bit early to think euthanasia. When she gets to that point or can no longer stand, I’ll have no other choice. When her time comes I wish she would pass in her sleep. However I know that’s not likely and I have some tough decisions to be made.

Any advice?

This one never gets old. The beginning of the end of the Jimbo era at FSU.

If this don’t put you in the mood for college football, then maybe the famous Auburn runback of the missed Bama FG will.

I did mine last year, like a lot of Kentuckians, heavy on the Scot/Irish, as in 23%. The rest was various parts of England and Wales. I do have have something like 11% northern France as my great grandmother on the maternal side was a LaFollette and descendents of French Huguenots. There was a small (7-8%) German DNA that showed up. I was able to track that to some distant grandparents on dad’s side.

Should preface to say, I’m a veteran of neck fusions. I had C5/6 fused in 2019. Now dealing with bad pain in my rhomboids and triceps, shooting to middle fingers. Pretty classic C6/7 symptoms.

X-rays showed moderate disc narrowing, the Spine center I go to has ordered an MRI. Oral steroids and PT not really effective, barely even a bandaid effect. My guess is they might try to offer an epidural into that nerve just to make insurance happy, but a fusion is on the horizon.

Until then, it’s a pretty nasty pain. Gabapentin sorta helps. Anyone had a second fusion? Can I still do some lifting at the gym or is that out?

Keeneland should have their Fall meet going on in early October. As far as accommodations, if you’re doing the Bourbon tour, I’d recommend staying around Versailles, about 15/20 min west of Lexington. Rose Hill Inn looks really nice. You’ll also be near the Bluegrass Parkway, if you want to check out Bardstown.

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Put some Albany Park general food recommendations in my immediate previous post to this. For breakfast, though, make sure you do Dulche De Leche Cafe and Khepri Cafe. Can hit both before even getting on the Brown Line. Albany Park is one of the most underrated food neighborhoods in the city, especially as affordable options go.

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That’s what attracted me to Albany Park, in addition to it being a quiet neighborhood. We’ll survive the longer travel times on the Brown. Being a huge railfan, I’ll rather enjoy it.

I’m hoping to get to Chicago much earlier that Friday, so this will likely turn into three days, and still I feel like I’m only scratching the surface. I don’t want to spend much time in the Loop, other than to see the Sears Tower and some of the older buildings like the Rookery, maybe towards Millenium. I’ve heard it’s sketchy towards Harold Washington, so might steer clear.

I’ll study the bus routes and consider bus from Albany park to Wicker.

Well I wanted England to win.

Oh well, when’s football season start? I have to endure six more weeks of shitty Cincinnati Reds baseball to get there.

That’s impossible. We’ve been told all our lives that Israel is our best buddy ever.

There’s never been widespread support for soccer in this country. MLS has a niche market, but it will never compete with the NFL or college football.

All that said, I’ve rarely watched any soccer however I’ve had some interest in the World Cup. From what I’ve seen m, the US had little chance against Spain, let alone France, Argentina, England etc.

This should have been sorted out days ago, so I can see why Belgium would be pissed. However, I’d rather play, and possibly beat, a team that isn’t missing a key player. I don’t want the footnote or asterisk tied to the game, but that’s just me.