Changes

Last week, the boyfriend and I split up for good.  We didn't have a fight. Nor are we angry with one another. We just weren't right for each other. So, in the midst of all of the craziness and lonelyness that I've been dealing with the past couple of weeks, I've made a decision.

I'm making some changes to this blog.

I thought about stopping the blog entirely, because writing about my life is just too difficult right now. But then I thought that I could put some of my writing on here. I don't want to kill this blog entirely. Just make my life a little less prominent in it. 

So here's what I'm going to do: every day of the week is going to have a different theme.

Monday: Journaling Day

Tuesday: Short Story Day

Wednesday: Photo Day

Thursday: Poem Day

Friday: Journaling Day

Hopefully this will help me right now in the midst of all that I'm going through. It'll all begin on Monday. 

Keep me in your prayers.

Obesity Affects All

I'm starving my gecko.

Before you call animal control and get all animal rights crazy on me, let me explain.

Esther is fat. She is a really fat gecko. I mentioned this several months ago, I know, when the boyfriend and I decided to take her to the vet to get her a check up and he made us very aware of how fat she was. We started feeding her less, we exercised her a little more, but nothing really helped. She stayed ridiculously obese.

Then, about two weeks ago, Esther stopped eating completely. I wasn't too worried at first, because adult leopard geckos don't eat all that often. However, after about a week of her refusing food and her stomach becoming unusually bloated, I decided to take her to some reptile specialists to see if we could figure out what exactly was wrong with her.

This is where her obesity comes in.

Without giving anyone too many gruesome details of the reptile visit, it turns out that Esther is so fat that her kidneys have begun to fail. She hadn't been able to go to the bathroom and her little tummy had gotten so full that she was refusing food because she couldn't fit anything else inside of her. Who knew that geckos could have the same kind of organ problems as humans do? Also, it appears that there's a little unfertilized egg in her belly as well, which means she'll probably be popping out a little egg in the next week or so.

The reptile specialists instructed me to let Esther survive off her own fat for another week and then to begin feeding her the bare minimum so that she could slim down. She also has been exercised a lot more. Poor thing... if she doesn't start slimming down now, she's going to start having even more problems. But they told me that over-feeding her is better than under-feeding her, so I shouldn't feel too bad. They said they don't usually see many fat geckos like Esther because people usually don't take that good of care of their lizards, especially college students, which really makes me frustrated because students shouldn't get a pet if they're not going to be responsible about it.

So here's Esther as of today. She's still quite chubby but we're hoping that she'll begin losing weight soon so that her organs will go back to being normal. I can guarantee that she's not supposed to be this fat... but at least she can still pick her little belly up off the ground.

 

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.