Day 23

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Please excuse this depressing post, but yesterday was horrible, our ten and a half year old dog Eddie died suddenly and completely unexpectedly of something called GDV--which I'd never heard of but which is apparently a known problem for large dogs. But she had a very happy ten years and except for having to take a bath now and then pretty much lived the life she wanted to. I've outlived a number of pets by now, and somehow keep forgetting that it's hard.

In any case I wanted to distract myself but couldn't concentrate on my story so I worked on two reviews I've been meaning to do for a while. One is for an MFU Season 4 episode and doing it is like picking at a scab but it's such a mess of producer/writer/director/actor disfunction that it's perversely fascinating. It's almost done, I just have to clean it up a bit.

The other is of a Jaques Tourneur film called "Berlin Express", released in 1948 and filmed on location in post war Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin and the visuals are unbelievable. It's an oddity since it has segments that are narrated like a documentary, punctuated by the drama starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and other Hollywood types. It's a film with a disjunction between word and image (I sense a theme here) but Tourneur is being subversive on purpose I think. I've made a good start but need to watch the film again for details.

Back to regular story soon.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry. I had a loved cat die suddenly last year, and another this year after a slow decline, so I know how much it hurts to lose a companion like that.

Distraction is a good thing.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about Eddie. It must be particularly difficult for you since it came so unexpectedly. At least she didn't have to suffer a slow decline. And ten and a half years where the worst that happens is an occasional bath is a very good life for a dog!

I'm looking forward to your reviews. Berlin Express sounds fascinating.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Much sympathy for the loss of Eddie. I hope the distraction worked as well as you hoped.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I looked up GDV - it sounds horrible. Poor Eddie.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

We were actually able to get her to the emergency room--they operated but they couldn't save enough of her stomach for her to be able to live without pain so we agreed she shouldn't come out of the anesthesia. There doesn't seem to be any realistic way of guarding against GDV.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Oh, how awful for you! All that waiting and hoping. I saw the picture of Eddie on your lj - such a beautiful friendly dog. She must have been a wonderful companion.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about Eddie. It's so shocking when it's sudden & unexpected like that.