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Purchased Gary The Hamster A Container To Use With His Food
[ Friday May 3rd 2024 at 4:39 pm ]

This artificial hip that is experiencing premature hardware failure is really hard to live with. It creates so much uncertainty. It is really hard making plans to spend time with friends. I can't predict how I will be doing and how much pain I will be experiencing at any given time. I am trying my best. For better or worse I am looking forward to the MRI imaging of the affected artificial hip and another operation to correct this. I am just starting to feel like I am able to live my life again. A few weeks ago I figured out the pattern that causes my artificial hip to malfunction. I am able to avoid the motion that causes the artificial hip to malfunction. Although avoiding this creates it's own grind on my body.

I am now into the next stage of suffering a significant setback. This is about identifying practical strategies and techniques that will help me live my life. I have been thinking a lot about Gary. I can't take the physical punishment of going into the kitchen to get him fresh fruit and vegetables each time he asks for these as I am getting ready for bed in the evening. I've had an idea. There are isolation nets used to keep baby fish safe and not be ate by their parents. These are designed to hang off a fish tank at the top. They use a nylon net. Nylon is a robust material. It has me thinking that I should be able to use these to store the fresh fruit and vegetables I offer to Gary so I only need to go into the kitchen once. Then at the end of each night I simply wash the net and let it dry for the following day. I have just purchased one of these isolation nets.

The style my local pet store sells uses suction cups as the means of affixing to the side of the fish tank. I am needing to buy some brackets that I will use to hang these off the fish tank Gary is living in. Then it will just a better of drilling some holes and using some of my nylon bolts to secure them. This will be easy to do. I am really glad Gary is here. It always makes me happy when I see him. I am enjoying caring for him. I am hoping this will make providing for Gary's needs easier for me.