Camellia Camelo

[Shellie]

Re: Camellia Camelo

I don't see yours! Bad people! I wanna see OUR entry! Yes...I've decided we're taking you up as a cause and wanna see it!

[CarolW]

Re: Camellia Camelo - contest update

Ahhh, Shell, how nice of you and Hank Mr. PKP - may he universalize his tastes one day!

You are a wonderful sunshine around the forum!

Early this morning I wrote to the manager of this contest, Stacy, and by the time Camellia and I returned from our morning walk, she (I assume she's a she) had replied, saying, in part:

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Hi Carol,

Thanks for reaching out. We haven't forgotten but have just had a little bit of a delay due to a few sick days. It's that time of year! We are working through the entries today and hope to have the finalists announced by this evening. I apologize for the delay and thanks for your patience.

Best,

Stacy Kowalchuk

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My doGNess! They are REAL HUMANS out there, subject to life happens, like the rest of us! (hehe)

I wrote her back and thanked her.

So this IS the correct link:

http://blog.trupanion.com/tru-hero-vet/

And I'll keep an eye on it, and when I see something significant, I'll post here as promptly as I can!

Love and hugs,
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:28:49 (PDT)

P.S. I should send her a k9diabetes online forum Patience Hat. Come to think of it, I should send her sick colleagues a Patient's Hat! Kumbi's will do very well!

Here's our one for humans:

http://www.coherentdog.org/tidberries6.php

And here's Kumbi's Patient's Hat:

http://www.coherentdog.org/tidberries5.php

Guess I'll send both to Stacy - the Patient's Hat for her colleagues.

Love again,
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:34:19 (PDT)

http://www.coherentdog.org/tidberries6.php

[Patty]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Glad to hear they are working on it Carol.

[CarolW]

Re: Camellia Camelo - contest, bad puns

Yeah, Patty, I was glad too, and glad I wrote to ask. It would have been good for the webmaster to put in a note about the delay!

Oh, well, not EVERYBODY is perfect!

While looking up the Hats for Stacy, I got caught browsing my own HUGE site - and I started to laugh; some of those pages, I haven't seen for a long time.

They are JAM-PACKED with REALLY bad puns, and now Camellia is helping me cook up ideas for more.

For instance, "little Novie" is Novolin-NPH - except that Vekkie, the teacher, spells her version of it "Novalin." The idea there was to avoid confusing with the real thing - Novolin. But I see lots of people spell it with the A - Vekkie must have got to them!

Same with Vetsulin - Big Vetsie (2.5 times as big as Little Novie - Vekkie spells the kind she makes as "Vetsalin."

Camellia suggests "Little wHoMe" for Vekkie's Humalin, if she ever makes it. I don't know what color Vekkie would make it - maybe sunny yellow.

And in the parts with Canodyne (links down the right sides of main pages in the main part of Coherent Dog - not in the Diabetes Playground), Camellia suggests a third version (all the same stuff of course, same as Vetsalin and Caninsalin) - that is, nAnoDyne.

Also I noticed a page I hadn't seen for a long time, about the Dyne Drops

http://www.coherentdog.org/dsvinedrop.php

and then Vekkie going fly-fishing to pull in a DyneOSoar vine - from which to collect Dyne drops, of course. She collects them into vials of vine.

http://www.coherentdog.org/flyfish.php

The CarSisters appear in many places. Carlova is the daughter of Carlotta, the great web-weaver, and her sisters, all different colors, and she do all they can to aid Vekkie with various projects. In one story

http://www.coherentdog.org/vek/accident.php

Carlova puts Little Novie back together when he starts losing himself by crying (in fear).

Oh, well, I think I BADLY need a nap! zzzzzzzzz

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:22:25 (PDT)

[CarolW]

Re: Camellia Camelo - Contest - we're in the running!

I just received email from Stacy:

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Dear Carol,

Congratulations, your story has been chosen as one of the five finalists for Trupanion's Tru Hero Vet 2011 sweepstakes! As a finalist, you have won $50 cash. Please let me know the address to which you would like your prize sent.

As a finalist, you are also in the running for the grand prize of $500 cash, plus $500 cash for your veterinarian to give to needy pets and a Tru Hero plaque to display. From now through October 19th, it's your task to get as many "votes" as you can on your story. Votes are counted by the number of comments left on each individual story. Only one comment per person/IP address will count towards final tally. Your story is located on our blog here:

http://blog.trupanion.com/2011/10/tr...inalist-kumbi/

We greatly appreciate you taking the time to share such a personal and compelling story with us. Please let me know if you have any questions and best of luck over the next two weeks!

Best,

Stacy Kowalchuk

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I haven't seen the entry yet, but will go look to make sure that indeed it is there.

Love and hugs,
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:46:44 (PDT)

[MaryLea]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Carol, just made my comment. It is "awaiting moderation," which I suspect means they edit for content to avoid injurious statements.

Good luck!!!

Mary

[peggy0]

Re: Camellia Camelo - Contest - we're in the running!

just left mine Congratulations Carol! and bless kumbi

[Shellie]

Re: Camellia Camelo

I left my reply...and strangely, Hank was able to leave one, too. Of course...he can't read so I had to read it to him but he loved it! He wanted to vote so much I let him use my other email address.

Hugs!!

[Shellie]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Hrm...Hank's reply took mine away. Darn. Will have to do at work. I'm on it!

[CarolW]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Ah, so they are strict. Haha!

I think if I "have to be" in a contest where votes get drummed up, this is a nice way to do it. You can't just vote, you have to SAY something. And they check for fairness.

Goodness knows, my (non-)experience with Trupanion has been good; for instance, they lowered my premium rate a few dollars, because prices were dropping in my area. At that point, I went for extended coverage in case Camellia ever got lost. So I end up paying just a few dollars more than before, per month.

After my difficulties raising money to care for Kumbi, and sometimes, wondering if I'd have to let him die because of no money, I decided never to face that with another dog again if I could possibly help it, so that's when I looked at various pet insurance companies. Chose Trupanion partly, or even mostly, because they have a reputation for being hassle-free, and for paying up promptly.

I was supposed to be going to bed

YES MUMMY! come ON!

Okay, sweetie; here I come!
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 22:06:48

[CarolW]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Shell - I'm not comfortable with one person (or one dog) leaving more than one comment - read - vote.

One reason I chose Trupanion was their evident total fairness - no hedging. So I'd like to keep that going!

If you have friends who might be interested in reading the story and leaving a comment, maybe you could tell them about it!

Thanks to you - and Hank - for voting!

I guess they've put things away for the night, as some people say they've voted, but their comments haven't shown up yet.

Going back to bed - old hip injury got me up!

Love ya,
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:18:52 (PDT)

[Shellie]

Re: Camellia Camelo

No worries Carol! I'll go poke friends to read and vote! I'm sure they'll think your story is as wonderful as I do! Hugs and sleep well!

[diggydog]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Left my reply..... spelling mistakes and all

Best of luck Carol

Hugs
Allison xx

[CarolW]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Shell - thanks for understanding! Mary - I guess you signed as "Evelyn," is that right? I thought I recognized the content of what you said.

The web people apparently will have quite a few comments to check out a bit later today.

I can see that one of the entries is located in a really major city, with a big hospital, and that one has tons of entries - not surprising - so it'll be a job for me to win this one!

So if you people have friends who might like to read the story, and comment, please give them the link. Repeating the link for your convenience:

http://blog.trupanion.com/2011/10/tr...inalist-kumbi/

I so very much appreciate all of you who have left comments so far - Allison - so good to hear from you again; how is Alfie doing? I think of you often!

Meantime, it's Camellia's breakfast-time - but - wouldn't you know; she is now DELAYING eating her breakfast. Yesterday - one p.m.! Maybe it's the season. I'm so lucky she isn't diabetic! All the same, I'd prefer she eat 12 hours apart, and we'll see how it goes, if I can encourage her to eat nearer 6:30 a.m.!

Love, hugs, licks and wags,
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 06:36:13 (PDT)

[CarolW]

Re: Camellia Camelo

Aha; Camellia is making a liar out of me; YAY! Eating breakfast now, quite enthusiastically!

Peggy - I'm honored that you were able to take the time to comment on Kumbi's entry. You and MaryLea were the first to get in.

The Bev who is there helped with the breeding that produced Camellia. An associate breeder, Gail, collected Camellia from where she was whelped, chose her as pick of the litter. She lived with Gail. Bev hosted Camellia for a week before, at age 3, she was spayed - and after the spay, she returned to Gail. But - SOMETHING went wrong at spay-time.

From all Gail tells me, Camellia bit coming out of anaesthesia, and the vet tech punished her for that - result - Camellia (at the time, known as TJ, for Tijuana Mi Amor) - trauma.

Bev went over this history with me last night, and I learned a bit more about Camellia's background that way.

So, Camellia actually polished off her breakfast today - relief!

I surely hope all your diabetic dogs typically do the same - most days, anyway! I never had a problem with Kumbi wanting to eat! I was spared that.

(ramble, ramble!)

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 06:47:28 (PDT)