prayers up for miette please. she suffered a vestibular attack earlier — lost control of her back legs and the muscles of her eyes. we raced her to the emergency vet where they gave her fluids and we should know more in the next few days. in the meantime … continue to Draw Her
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existential question: will she always be high from now on?
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this is the first time I’ve laughed about it because honestly the attack itself was so frightening that Jason and I burst into tears simultaneously and yelled, “she’s dying!!!” but YOU’RE TELLING ME A LIZARD DID THIS???
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*matthew mcconaughey car commercial voice* because this isn’t madame curie. this is Miette.
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this originally happened during an episode of stargate: sg1. and Jason and I were crying in the car that we were never going to be able to watch stargate again. it was the one where they join a seattle sex cult dedicated to erotically worshiping the great god Seth.
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and as we were carrying an insensate miette through the living room the tv was paused on sam carter’s face trying to seem so horny for Seth. she looked like a Precious Moment that had been specially issued to commemorate the death of JFK. and both of us were sobbing out loud.
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there it is. and in the background I’m frantically passing a hand back and forth in front of miette’s completely black, nightmare portal eyes and whimpering, “jason … she cannot see me!”pic.twitter.com/gxykz9BTtF
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last night. watching the next episode of stargate. jason, shuddering: I just don’t know if I can ever go through another night like that again— me, immediately interrupting: jason, she’s under the couch. and she’s got another lizard.
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cut to me in six months, incurably insane, in a special institution being treated for Lizard Vigilance
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there appear to be no lingering effects, but how could you tell if there werepic.twitter.com/WVDeggXyQF
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