{"id":7856,"date":"2010-08-02T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2010-08-02T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:53:59","slug":"hits-and-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/hits-and-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"Hits and Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"C<\/span>omplicated here, during the last week. Not bad, just… complicated. Thought I’d sort of summarize a couple of points of potential interest, but first, a question for regular visitors:<\/p>\n

Have you had problems accessing RAMH<\/em> recently?<\/strong> One of your number has reported getting repeated “the connection was reset by the server” errors. It’s prevented her from even seeing the site, apparently. (I got the information via a Facebook message.) I haven’t been able to reproduce it from any of various locations, using various browsers and operating systems. But I wanted to check before proceeding to see if anything like that has cropped up for the rest of you. (Of course — ha! — if it has<\/em>, then you won’t be able to read this post.)<\/p>\n

Okay, now onto “real” matters…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

T<\/span>he first is about The Pooch.<\/p>\n

Three Saturdays ago, I had a scary moment watching her collapse to the floor in a pair of apparent seizures, one right after the other. She seemed sorta-kinda okay afterward, but then last weekend we noticed that she’d started, apparently, to see things<\/em>. She’ll suddenly look up, then off to one side, then up, down, to the other side… It’s like there’s a bird loose in the house. (Or outdoors, or wherever she happens to be.) She doesn’t do it all the time, just enough to be unnerving. Especially when she barks at “it.”<\/p>\n

We’re still researching it with our very good<\/em> veterinarian’s assistance. But if you have or are considering owning a Yorkshire terrier, you need to read up about a condition called liver shunts<\/em>. (First indications were that The Pooch had one, but now, apparently, not<\/em>.) Briefly, in this condition, toxins which might otherwise be cleaned from a dog’s circulatory system by the liver are instead bypassing it, going to the heart and then, of course, pumped out into the rest of the system. Two of the most alarming bits of information we learned over the last few days:<\/p>\n