Crispin, from many of your posts it seems you get too involved in your patients lives. I always heard that medicos got to the point of viewing it as work and not taking it personally. Not true?
If you are awake and alive in life, it all becomes a part of you, you never separate from.
Sysifis is in purgatory, so says Milton. Atlas, tricked, so says the Greeks. "Some of us were born of the earth and don't belong here. The methane sticks to our lungs and poisons us." --anon
LOL! Perhaps that why I hang on to my habits! I used to live at a pig farm! LOL!
I've always had a soft spot for animals. They are kind and gentle. Unlike most of the population.
How can you not fall in love with these guys?
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OMG! How so very precious! My 2 birds, I got one of them being real real bad. He is beaking me, his friend bird, and being a holy terror! I can't be sure, it may be my new red nail polish or he's a little caged bound/territorial, vitamin D deficiency, he's as p'd as he can be, about something(?).

That's precious, them little bats, too! I do want to caution all(not that I would wish to instill fear), I am not sure if American bats are this way, but over in OZ, the bats carry many very deadly viruses and bacteria. A young child recently died from a bat scratch! Just all pls, be very careful and use precautions.....
Hang in there all! Keep having fun!
(C, it's been headbanger for me, too. How the heck they ever find missing children is beyond me(speaking of the police, atm). Just ineptness and thickness I encounter sometimes, just.......

Does anyone have directions to where common sense dwells?
rhetorical)