Forbidden Dragon: The BlogGall of Marlo Dianne

Writer, Teacher, Friend.

Background: This is reputed to be a photo of an actual museum in the US. Study Notes: Why must food be anthropomorphised? I don't...

We got a call early yesterday, just before 8am, that if we wanted an MRI, we better be at the hospital by 8. Small problem: we live a larg...

So, if, after badgering and badgering your doctor, and I mean RELENTLESS, like a rabid, well, badger, I guess. Your doctor FINALLY does a sp...

I thought Big Fish had a lock on this. They keep punishing a fellow user and deleting her posts. Because she's a migrainer, and has a ...

So, you want to save the world. But you're poor. And, despite your late childhood, where the kitchen had a microwave salvaged from t...

This is a joke so obscure, LITERALLY only one person in the two universes will get it, and that person is probably not reading this. Anyway,...

...there is NO WAY this fills its INTENDED purpose, and becomes, say, cake at a party, and the most demure and mature among you aren't ...

The Lowlights, To Sum Up, Verson: I spent December in the hospital, in Isolation. I got another infection, only this one cultured as a semi-...

I was in a store the other day, and they were selling 'handmade' socks in a bin. I know it sounds pissy, but they weren't even m...

My brain gets stunned many times in a day. It knows better--it's known better AT LEAST since I was three--but supersaturated stupidity o...

"Hydraulic Acid." --Colin Mochrie ('Hydraulic') and Brad Sherwood ('Acid'), during the 'Two Headed Person'...

Diagnosed: Renal Lymphoma 10/10/10. Prognosis: Less than a month to live. Actual Outcome: My son fought a brutal disease, and he fought HARD...

Phoenix is back in the hospital. We knew he was losing ground. He couldn't eat, or drink. We had to give him subcutaneous fluids--we wer...

Hissyfit May 1st 1999 - 1:25 P.M., April 24, 2011 Beloved Daughter Devoted Guardian Family Forever

While they were confirming Pheen's infection, they were thorough and ran other tests. The ultrasound showed that his kidney was reenvelo...

Phoenix is at the ER. He just had his 'last' (for now) chemo treatment. They were ready to declare him in remission. Now...Their bes...

Hissyfit is finally home after being released from hospital. For now. They want her back soon for chemo. She spent her day lying on a pillow...

While I was lying in her cage at the hospital, talking and petting in such a way that she could not resist the goo and the purr, we got conf...

I have received my Rhino Piece from our Supreme Overlord / Badass Angel. Curse you, Canada Post! I'm in Group 2, 31 of 61. Although...it...

Hissy has just gone in for emergency surgery. The tumour they found in her abdomen--Stop. I know. But the concept of irony and its bitter fu...

No point in fucking around. I just heard from the SU. Hissy has been diagnosed with Cancer. The fates are cruel. But this? We're fuckin...

As I type this, Hissy is on her way to the vet. She's stopped eating. And drinking. She doesn't come when she's called. Yes, His...