Tha Caomhainn Gèidh

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My dad has 4 half siblings and two step siblings. They're all a decent bit younger than him. When I was a teenager, we went to a family reunion, and I realized something—my dad did not respect his siblings. He looked down on all of them. He saw them as fuck-ups and overgrown children. My dad had the American dream: well paying management job, suburban house, wife, and three kids. My aunt and uncles did not. Excluding my aunt, none of them were married or in serious relationships. They hadn't really settled into long term careers. Several of them were working the kind of jobs that get called "Unskilled labor." So he looked down on them because the youngest one was in his thirties (and several were much older), and yet none of them had "settled down" into what he saw as lifelong, permanent careers and relationships and lives. He was polite to their faces, sure, but I heard how he talked about them behind their backs, to my mother.

And then a few years ago, we visited his brothers again for Thanksgiving. And I realized something again--he respected them now. He saw them as equals. Why? Well. All of a sudden, every single one of them had serious, committed romantic partners. They didn't even need to still be with those partners—one of my uncle's fiance passed away from cancer before they could marry—just having had one showed that they matured into a real adult participating in society. In fact, at one point, my aunt was telling my mom about how one of my uncles was no longer living in an apartment she owned, but instead, after having a steady girlfriend for about a year, he moved in with her. And my mom literally said to my aunt, "wow. Look at that. He finally grew up."

One of the lines that frequently gets repeated about anti-aspec sentiment is "why would anyone hate asexuals/aromantics/etc? They aren't even doing anything." And that's exactly it. In the eyes of amatonormative culture, we aren't doing anything. Adults are supposed to do things. That's how you become a member of society.

I have someone willing to drive from Chicago all the way to me in Michigan to board their rabbit with me for intensive care. Their bunny er charged so much to just stuff the wrong meds into this 1 year old bunny. I just grew more annoyed looking at the itemized bill of med after med that is not standard practice anymore.

So this bunny, milo, went into gi stasis. 4 x rays later they couldn't determine anything (somehow) and did an exploitative surgery to find a huge obstruction. It was removed but milo is still not ok.

They removed it but its been a week and no poop. Their care was iffy and they didnt provide the intense fluid therapy a case like this needs. They sent her home with gabapentin and told her to give critical carev and syringe him 12ml of water. He needs nearly 80ml of iv fluid sub cutaneously every 5 hours so why the hell did they say stringe 12 orally and nothing else??

The owner is distraught and wants to save milos life. The ideal plan is this:

Im in contact with an ER that can give him exactly the care he needs but itll be 1.5k to hospitalize him. I can then keep him at home with me where I monitor him hourly for a week so he can go home. I will do his care for free. The er is a different story

I cant afford it. She cant afford it.

The alternative is i take him and i do as much supportive care as possible but he needs much stronger meds than what I have. This is the default. But hes in such rough shape I cant fathom not doing more

My plea is to any of you. This isnt for me or any animal in my care right now but for a stranger willing to drive an entire state over to save him.

I want to save milo. After spindles gi stasis and my rehab work I have no extra funds for a visit to the er. I can only turn to you guys if anyone is willing to donate to give him a chance. Hes only a year old. If anyone can spare anything, please put it to my ko-fi