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| Chat - Saturday August 14, 2010; What a Weekend | |
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| jillers | Aug 14 2010, 07:05 PM Post #16 |
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Kris, You can have a colonoscopy without any sedation, I did & it was fine. I don't know about an endoscopy though. What day is he having it done? I'll be praying for him.
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| Artsy Mom | Aug 14 2010, 07:47 PM Post #17 |
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I loved seeing the ocean Topa. Even if you had fog, I would rather have that than the we have had mostly all day today with more expected all day tomorrow and Monday ![]() Glad the repair guy came and fixed your A/C Carole ![]() I'm with Cathy...vent away anytime you feel like it Kris the worry and stress the two of you are going through beforehand is much worse than the actual procedures. Since you have made the Dr's very aware of Ed's allergies etc. they will be extra careful. We are all keeping Ed in our prayers. It will be such a relief for the both of you to get this over and done with. Big and more Cruzer Mojo coming your way and a little magic mojo too. |
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| Artsy Mom | Aug 14 2010, 08:02 PM Post #18 |
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Lily the Black Bear - Update August 14, 2010 - 7:16PM CDT Bear Center Enclosure a Success ![]() 3-year-old Lucky eating round-leafed dogwood - August 13, 2010 Sometime last evening Lily and Hope were separated again. We see this often with mothers and cubs in late summer. All cubs are getting pretty independent - and, with all Hope has been through this year, she tops the chart in independence. While Lily rested this morning, Hope foraged off on her own. People spotted Hope crossing a forest road a couple hundred yards away. Hope retreated up a tree until she saw an opportunity to run back in Lily's direction. We're liking more and more what we see in Hope. We joined up with both Lily and Hope today. Lily appeared to be trailing something - likely Hope. But when we joined Hope, she seemed confident and unstressed about this separation. Stay tuned! Another thing we like is the bear enclosure at the North American Bear Center. With advice from Rob Laidlaw of Zoocheck Canada, and others, we built the kind of bear enclosure we believed should be the standard around the world. It's wild and beautiful - a waterfall and pond set in a diverse, dense forest of over 2 acres. Bears in captivity should have an environment that doesn't drive them crazy with captive psychosis. What we see in the enclosure at the North American Bear Center are behaviors much like we see in the wild. What makes that more amazing is that these bears had no experience in the wild. Yet, they didn't have to learn to eat wild foods. They instinctively knew to raid ant colonies and forage on the same foods wild bears eat. The photo shows 3-year-old Lucky eating round-leafed dogwood berries - the same berries wild bears are eating now. None of the bears in the Bear Center enclosure pace. The enclosure is home to 3 bears. Lucky was an orphaned cub that was about to be killed at a rehabilitation center. Ted and Honey, now 13 and 14 years old, were born and raised in captivity. All came to the Bear Center in 2007. Lucky and Ted became buddies, playing together, sometimes feeding nose to nose, and they even hibernated together last winter. Honey is more a loner even though she was raised with Ted, but she and Lucky spent one winter snuggled in her den. What a contrast between the Bear Center's enclosure and the small cement structures that house bears elsewhere around the world. Bears are intelligent, active animals that search for food and explore their world. In cement enclosures, bears with active minds descend into boredom, pace, and make repetitive, mindless movements. Given no choice but to sit and walk on cement, the abrasive contact causes hair loss and raw feet and tails. Zookeepers may try to interrupt the repetitive behaviors and boredom by introducing novel objects to encourage play and exploration. But there is only so much anyone can do. It would be hard to imagine a more natural bear enclosure than the forested one at the Bear Center. Mother nature provides better enrichment than any human ever could. Each year, the changing seasons produce ever-changing bear foods. In addition, keepers plant grass and clover so the bears have an abundance of fresh young greens. The dense forest lets the bears rest unseen in the shade, forage for wild foods, climb trees, and play with wild objects. Or they can make themselves visible to swim in the pond and forage for nuts, fruit, and greens that keepers scatter many times a day. Lucky and Ted put on great shows romping and playing with each other in and around the pond. The natural enclosure allows each bear to express his or her distinct personality. Lucky is more the explorer. He always has somewhere to go or a log to manipulate. Ted was raised by his former owners to like people, and he spends more time in front of the observation deck people-watching and being watched. Honey is more reclusive. At first, she paced in an area the size of the small pen she was raised in. Now she's expanded her world to the forest and its wild occupants. There is too much for the bears to do and see for them to waste time pacing or doing repetitive behaviors, as pond cam viewers can attest. They share the enclosure with wild red squirrels, eastern chipmunks, Franklin's ground squirrels, snowshoe hares, woodchucks, pine martens, mice, ducks, gulls, ravens, and other wild critters that come and go. Everything we hoped for when we built the Bear Enclosure is coming true. We write this update hoping that other bear facilities can follow suit around the world. Things continue to move forward with development of Educational Outreach. Your diligent voting has stretched Bear Head Lake State Park's lead to over 300,000 votes in Coca Cola's Favorite Parks contest. Incredible! Thank you for all you do. ~Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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I've never had either despite doctor's advise, due to anxiety and no obvious need for a diagnosis. But poor Ed has had several years of worsening symptoms and suffering that he has to have them before it gets any worse. We've been reassured that the incidence of complications is low, but a risk factor is the inflammation level he has, and he has asthma, which worries us for the anesthesia, though the doctor is reassuring that it's very safe. He'll have Propofil because he's had an asthmatic reaction to an ingredient in the other main one they might have used when he had it in a pain patch last year that the pain doc prescribed. Meanwhile, he's giving me all his "just in case" instructions about his book and video projects
and what to do if anything happens.
I'm sure he'll be fine but he's been in such a bad state it's worrying nonetheless.
Please keep some good thought.
Thanks.




we have had mostly all day today with more expected all day tomorrow and Monday 
mojo too.
12:00 AM Jul 11