[blykins]

Nothing harder than a sick pet, except for a sick child.

I have a cat that I've had since I was in college. He's now 14 years old. Six years ago, he wouldn't eat and was moping around. Took him to the vet and after an x-ray, they found a blockage between his stomach and intestine. The diagnosis wasn't good but we decided for him to have surgery to remove it. The vet told us that it would probably come back and there wasn't much to do except steroid treatment. That was 6 years ago and he's as healthy now as he was before it all happened.

I absolutely hated seeing him there at the vet after surgery, with his paw shaved and his stomach shaved. I felt like I was letting him down by leaving him there when I went to see him, but you do what you have to do.

I don't even want to think about my daughter being sick.

As for the Chevy in a Cobra deal, I look at it like this: you either want a kit car or you want a replica. A replica insinuates that you're going to replicate everything that the originals had, including an FE in a 427 car and a SBF in a 289 car. I never bought the argument that Shelby approached Chevrolet for a powerplant. He may have, but he could have also approached Oldsmobile, Studebaker, or Lamborghini. He could have also thought about putting curb feelers on, or even adding all-wheel drive. But it so turns out, that the originals didn't have AWD, curb feelers, or Chevrolet engines. So, if you want a replica, then you stick to what the originals had. If you want a kit car, then by all means, put whatever you want in between the shocks.