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Post by Moose on Jul 26, 2013 17:27:17 GMT
I am a bit worried about Molly's weight. she is, and always has been, a very light cat but I saw her in the street earlier and it occurred to me that she looked painfully thin. It's not through lack of food and I don't think it's through lack of appetite because there is always food available and she eats well enough, though not voraciously. Also, she coughs and retches all the time ... something she was doing when I first met her at my sister's and my sister said she did it all the time and that she thought it was fur balls, but I've never seen her bring one up..
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Post by juju on Jul 26, 2013 18:22:02 GMT
Worms?
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Post by Moose on Jul 26, 2013 18:25:07 GMT
possible .. I've never wormed her. Will get some worming tablets and do that .. happily they're only a pound or so from the vet
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Post by JoeP on Jul 26, 2013 20:55:01 GMT
I vote for worms too.
I mean, not actually for the worms. I'd rather vote UKIP.
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Post by Moose on Jul 26, 2013 20:56:26 GMT
I would not rather vote UKIP than anything. Except perhaps BNP
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Post by JoeP on Jul 26, 2013 21:05:28 GMT
So you'd rather vote for worms? Actually maybe that more represtns the BNP.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 26, 2013 21:05:46 GMT
*declines to correct spelling in previous post*
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Post by Moose on Jul 26, 2013 21:05:58 GMT
*nods*
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 26, 2013 21:17:34 GMT
I'm glad I can't vote in this year's Aussie election because there is nobody worth voting for.
Worms seems like a good prognosis. Once they have worms are worming tablets enough? I always thought they were preventative.
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Post by Moose on Jul 26, 2013 22:17:04 GMT
i dunno. I've not seen any especial evidence that she has worms other than that she is thin.
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Post by Moose on Jul 26, 2013 22:17:21 GMT
do you mean diagnosis, not prognosis?
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Post by tangent on Jul 26, 2013 23:56:13 GMT
I vote for worms too. I mean, not actually for the worms. I'd rather vote UKIP. Worms, UKIP, BNP... aren't they the same thing?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 27, 2013 6:42:34 GMT
Arthur and Ford in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see... You mean, it comes from a world of lizards? No, nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people. Odd... I thought you said it was a democracy. I did. It is. So, why don't the people get rid of the lizards? It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want. You mean they actually vote for the lizards? Oh yes, of course. But... why? Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might get in. Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them. They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 27, 2013 7:37:29 GMT
do you mean diagnosis, not prognosis? No I mean prognosis "prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease". Though I suppose diagnosis could be used too.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 27, 2013 9:07:40 GMT
I'm with Jo on this. Molly only has symptoms at the moment - we don't know what if any disease she has. So there's no disease to have a prognosis.
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Post by tangent on Jul 27, 2013 9:13:40 GMT
There's must be a prognosis if she's still alive, we just don't know what it is.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 27, 2013 9:14:10 GMT
Well granted, but it could be a likely prognosis if there is something wrong. And in that case it is definitely not a diagnosis as nothing has been confirmed.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 27, 2013 9:20:16 GMT
I think the point was that a prognosis requires to first have a diagnosis of what the problem is.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 27, 2013 9:26:32 GMT
Doesn't prognosis get used in both ways?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 27, 2013 9:35:17 GMT
I've not seen it used that way. I think it's usually a case of needing to identify what's wrong before you can say what will happen. Don't quote me on that; I am no linguistics expert!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 27, 2013 9:39:38 GMT
Me neither. Confusing.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 27, 2013 9:40:00 GMT
But the dictionary definition to me seemed to suggest both things.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 27, 2013 9:40:52 GMT
No my bad, I just relooked at the definition. I read that as probably cause, not probably course. Oopski.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 27, 2013 9:41:08 GMT
Not in this way: Worms seems like a good prognosis. "Worms" is only a diagnosis. "Easy to treat and likely to recover fully" would be a prognosis, but I don't see how we can say that without having a diagnosis first.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 27, 2013 9:42:00 GMT
^ typed before seeing rb admit that she was wrong.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 27, 2013 9:58:01 GMT
Never mind, we can just sit here and rub in the fact that she was wrong! Not that I'd want to make any deal of her being wrong of course! I should note at this point that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones!
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Post by tangent on Jul 27, 2013 10:00:29 GMT
*throws a stone at Colin* *because I can*
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Post by Alvamiga on Jul 27, 2013 10:09:36 GMT
*throws a pebble back*
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Post by JoeP on Jul 27, 2013 10:46:02 GMT
*does not live in glass house*
I know some tomatoes that do, and they're extremely polite.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 27, 2013 11:00:36 GMT
I won't throw stones cos I'm not a meanie.
I ate some tomatoes though just now. Is that mean?
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