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[QUOTE="SHBailey, post: 1867690, member: 89387"] Hi... So I'm up in the middle of the night too, but it's Friday night and nobody around here has to get up early tomorrow, and my circadian rhythms don't belong on this planet anyway. :mrgreen: :lurk: Lately I don't seem to have the energy to do much more than "lurk" on the few threads I'm still following around here, but I just have to say something about this latest one... First of all, it makes perfect sense to me that you should make full use of your own "in-house" vet to take care of your own critters. After all, who's going to really care the most about them and do what's best for them besides their own "daddy"? And I suppose he can even do minor procedures such as blood draws at home and send the results off to the proper lab or whatever. The only thing you'd need to take them in to a veterinary hospital for would be things like major surgery where you don't have all the equipment you need at home. Less stress for you and the animals too, not to mention saving some $$$. Better for everyone all around. BTW, it sounds like both of our husbands are workaholics, and I worry about burnout (if my husband burns out before he's old enough to retire like I did, then we won't have any breadwinners left), but I remind myself that if they're doing something they really enjoy, then they might be okay. I hope you can get some rest and recover from the power outage, and hopefully you got everything back up and running again and got all your critters through it ok. And no, I don't think you're crazy for seeing spirits. I think our modern, Western, scientific culture has a somewhat narrow minded view about things like that. For example, I've heard it said that nowadays, if you talk to God (or maybe spirits as well), they call it "prayer," but if God (or whoever) talks back, they call it "schizophrenia." But in other cultures, people who could see and talk with spirits were treated with respect and thought to have a special gift, and they often became "shamans" or "medicine men(or women)". My own husband is an avid genealogist, and it seems that the spirits of his ancestors help him to find out about them. When we got married, I became family member #18,011 in his genealogy files, and he was up to around 34,000 family members (both living and dead) on his local hard drive before he started putting it "in the cloud." Now he's lost track. It's happened to me too -- I don't actually see them or hear them the same as living people, it's more like visions in my mind's eye, and it's often hard to tell the difference between a communication from the "other side" and my imagination, and I sometimes wonder if there really is a difference. There's this rational, skeptical part of me somewhere on the left side of my brain, but then there's this other part of me, probably somewhere over on the right side, that wants to believe in "magic." "Reality" (whatever that is) is probably somewhere in between. :? But something is probably going on, because sometimes there are just too many coincidences. My husband says we can verify these communications -- for example, if a spirit tells you to go look for a certain thing in a certain place, and you find it, then that's a pretty good indication that something is really going on. If it doesn't pan out, then maybe it was your imagination after all. For example, my husband went into the hospital about 2 months after we were married, and when I found out they were going to give him morphine, I warned him that morphine can make you hallucinate, so don't think you're seeing spirits. He assured me that he could tell the difference. So some friends came to visit us while he was in the hospital, and he told them that he had seen the spirits of his ancestors. I was standing behind him and I pointed up at the heavens, and then pointed at the morphine pump, and shrugged. But when he got home from the hospital he hopped on the internet and looked at the websites where the spirits had told him to look, and found another bunch of ancestors that he hadn't known about before. Go figure. So I try to keep an open mind, and I try to focus on the good ones. My strategy with the apparently "evil" ones is to try to ignore them and hope they'll go away, or as I once heard it said, "If there are any dark or wandering spirits, release them to their path of healing." In other words, I try to view them as "wounded" rather than "evil." One of my other favorite little ideas is that the difference between an "angel" and a "demon" is that if you're in a battle and it's fighting on your side, it's an angel, but if it's fighting on the side of your enemy, then it's a demon. :wink: That being said, Beardymama may not be the only one who may want to know the name of the demon you had a "close encounter of the worst kind" with. I'm curious too. You could PM us if you don't want to put it up here on the public forum, just in case you're worried that anyone else is going to read this and think we're all nuts. :roll: We stayed up pretty late because "Daddy" fed Puff a pretty good sized roach meal after he got home from work, so I wanted to keep the heat lamps on for a couple of hours so he could digest. But we finished his bedtime cuddle and both Puff and his daddy have been asleep for a while now, so I suppose it's my turn. :sleepy2: Meanwhile, I guess one good TLDR deserves another. :wink: [/QUOTE]
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