To the editor,
This is a heartbreaking story involving my little lhasa apso dog, Gypsy, who got very ill, vomiting, etc. I brought him to an animal hospital and the vet gave him a shot for his stomach, took a blood sample, and told me to reduce his water intake.
He calls me up two days later and tells me I have to come in and get antibiotics. I rush over there, buy the pills, and follow his instructions to give Gypsy two tablets a day. After giving him 10 pills — about half of the bottle — Gypsy gets very constipated. I call the vet, who tells me to get children’s suppositories and to call him when Gypsy starts moving his bowels, and looks and feels better. After about a week, he started to look great, eating, going to the bathroom, etc. The vet leaves a message on my answering machine saying Gypsy’s recovery was great and to give him the rest of the pills. I had a bad feeling, but I gave him two day’s worth. That was it. Gypsy started vomiting up blood. He was worse than before.
I rush him to another animal hospital. It ends up that Gypsy has diabetes, water on the heart, and a swollen prostate. It was a nightmare. The second vet asked if the first vet had consulted me about the blood results. I said he hadn’t. The second vet couldn’t believe that Gypsy had been rushed in and out.
My dog stayed in the second vet’s care for three days and nights. I went to see him and it broke my heart. He couldn’t even sit, and he was in agony. The vet gave Gypsy a sonogram, which showed kidney failure. She said if I wanted to bring him home the next day she would put him down. She was just as hysterical as I was.
That night I brought Gypsy home and he passed away at 4:40 pm. I was talking to him all night, telling him how good he was, that soon he would be with his mommy, and that I loved him very much. I brought Gypsy’s body back on Sept. 7. He was cremated and I got his ashes back. The second vet was a sweetheart.
I ended up paying around $1,400, which I was saving for my late wife’s headstone, but I’m sure she would have wanted this. I did the best I could. Now I lost my wife and my best friend. I need to go somewhere for a little while. I can’t seem to put things in the right order. Thank you for your time.Nicholas Disanza
Bensonhurst
Missy’s diss
To the editor,
It is no surprise that City Council Speaker Mark-Viverito didn’t salute our country nor respect terror victims at last week’s 9-11 ceremony. The surprise is that she didn’t salute the terrorists.
Mark-Viverito continues to champion the release of unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorist leader Oscar Lopez-Rivera, whose F.A.L.N. organization terrorized New York and the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s. The F.A.L.N. murdered my father, native New Yorker Frank Connor and three others, when they blew up historic Fraunces Tavern on January 24, 1975 among their 130 bombings.
Mark-Viverito’s claim that she didn’t salute because she wants Puerto Rican independence is absurd, disingenuous nonsense. As recently as 2012, 60 percent of Puerto Ricans voted to support statehood!
Now she disrespects 9-11 victims, including my cousin Steve Schlag — my dad’s godson — who was murdered in the north tower only blocks both from Fraunces, and where I witnessed the attacks from my downtown office. My father wouldn’t even recognize what his beloved city has become.Joe Connor
Glen Rock, N.J.
Mexico’s gall
To the editor,
After we allow thousands upon thousands of Mexicans to sneak into our country illegally for years — then welcome them and their families with open arms, food, housing, jobs, and health care — the Mexican government has the audacity to hold an American marine in one of their rotten prisons for four months now.
What the hell is going on here? Obama traded an army deserter for five terrorists. Why don’t we send back thousands of Mexicans for one marine?Missy Romeo
Marine Park
Thanks, Joan
To the editor,
Joan Rivers’ father, Dr. Meyer Molinsky, was my father’s doctor, when my father had tuberculosis as a boy. My grandmother, Yetta, was very grateful for having Dr. Molinsky as her family physician, and adored his daughter.
For me, Joan represented a spirited entertainer with a huge, caring heart for all of humanity. She gracefully crafted eternal laughter for many lives.Amy Kaye
Sheepshead Bay
ISIS & abortions
To the editor,
When President Obama gave his speech from the White House on Sept. 10 concerning the Islamic State, he said, “No religion condones killing innocents, they kill children, they enslave, rape, and force woman into marriages, they threatened religious minorities with genocide.”
These people are demented monsters for sure and need to be completely destroyed. This might be a good time to ask ourselves what kind of leaders of our great nation condone the killing of innocent babies by abortion and partial birth abortion, and act so barbarically, it’s hard to even try to express how it’s done by anyone who has the slightest bit of morality without getting sick.
Mr. President, these are also murders that you are a proponent of. The war against the Islamic State I believe is justified, but the killing of babies is horrible and wrong by anyone at any age for any reason.Maureen Parker
Sheepshead Bay
Eco-Bam
To the editor,
I am pleased that the Obama administration is leading the effort to conserve the greater sage-grouse, one of the most iconic and imperiled bird species of the American West. However, according to a scorecard released by conservation groups, the administration’s plan for grouse in Wyoming does not comply with the best available science or with standards necessary to protect grouse populations.
I feel strongly that the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture need to follow the measures called for by agency scientists to conserve the species. These include recommendations to limit future oil and gas drilling and mining, better grazing practices, and the creation of protected areas.
Conserving the greater sage-grouse will require protecting large areas of habitat. Most priority sage-grouse habitat is already heavily degraded and grouse are only persisting in large, relatively undisturbed blocks of habitat. Protecting the remaining large expanses of important sage-grouse habitat will also help stem the decline of many species of wildlife and preserve the wide-open spaces of the American west for future generations of Americans.George Zoulis
Dyker Heights
Catholic v. public
To the editor,
Someone from the Department of Education — maybe schools chancellor Carmen Farina — should get in touch with someone from the Catholic diocese, which oversees Catholic high schools, to learn what public schools are doing wrong.
Catholic schools claim to have a 100 percent graduation rate, nearly 100 percent college attendance, and millions of dollars in scholarships, while the graduation rate in public high schools is hovering around 60 percent. The only rates that are higher in the public schools are the dropout and crime rates.
Catholic school tuition is also about 75 percent less than the cost to taxpayers for one public school student. Catholic schools are doing something right.Jesse Blaise
Flatlands
Pol clans
To the editor,
Former Assemblyman Mark Weprin ran for the vacated seat of his brother, former Councilman David Weprin, who due to term limits could not run again. He then lost the Democratic Party Primary for city comptroller. David in turn ran and won the vacated 24th State Assembly seat.
Their late father Saul Weprin first won this seat in 1971. It has now been in the “family” for 43 years!
So what is the big deal about term-limited, former Black Panther party activist and former East New York Councilman Charles Barron running and winning the Democratic Party primary for the vacated State Assembly seat previously held by his wife, Inez Barron, who was elected to his council seat? Mark Weprin and Inez Barron get the better deal with base salaries of $112,500, plus lulus and a local commute to City Hall, while David Weprin and Charles Barron have to travel three hours each way up and back to Albany for a base salary of $79,500.Larry Penner
Great Neck, N.Y.
Capitol Nil
To the editor,
Last month, President Obama said it was a fantasy to believe that we could provide arms to a moderate Syrian opposition made up of doctors, farmers and pharmacists. This month, they’re going to be the boots on the ground to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria terrorists.
Maybe the plan is to pass out the guns, then point, and whisper, “Those are the guys who made me pass ObamaCare and now they want to end farm subsidies.” Aargh! Welcome to Washington, D.C.
Stephen Finger, M.D.
Mill Basin
Food for thought
To the editor,
The debate on genetically modified organisms is much too kind to the industry. More than 26 nations ban genetically modified organisms, including Italy, Russia, China, India, France, and Germany.
Supporters argue that if we don’t want to take a chance on eating engineered food, we can always eat the organic kind. Really? What right does the genetically modified industry have to put this garbage into our food supply? At the very least, we have the right to know which foods are genetically modified.
Millions of dollars are spent to fool people into believing that if genetically modified foods were labeled that prices would go up. Experts have warned about lots of other problems with these types of foods being in our food supply, including pest-resistance on crops. Let’s not forget the Indian farmers who committed suicide because their genetically modified seeds failed to produce crops — note only farmers who used these type of seeds had problems.
The facts are in, and consumers need to demand genetically modified foods are labeled as such.David Raisman
Bay Ridge
