Una sera très multi-lingual
Aug. 30th, 2005 09:58 pmI went to dinner at Sal e Carvao with my Italian instructor, two of her friends from Italy who speak very little English but do speak Spanish and French, another Italian instructor who is of Italian descent but was born in Brazil (and who speaks seven languages) and a Brazilian friend of his, and a couple of other students, one of whom is from Cuba and speaks Spanish, some French and Catalan in addition to English. As a result, the conversation around the table was quite a polyglot! I was introduced to an incredibly delicious Brazilian cocktail, a caipirinha, consisting of cachaça (a sugar cane alcohol), lime and sugar. The food at Sal e Carvao was excellent, but it's very expensive and I'm stuffed. It's the kind of place it's fun to go to once, but I wouldn't make it a regular stop.
Now for the cat news. I spoke to the surgeon and she said the biopsy showed nothing chronic. She thinks the stricture may have been caused by some sort of trauma, though we can't quite figure out what that might have been. However, she says the problem is unlikely to recur, which is excellent news. Of course, from now on, I will probably panic every time Mojo decides he's not interested in eating for whatever reason. I'll be taking him to his regular vet in a few days to get the sutures out (sparing both Mojo and myself the trauma of a forty-five minute drive to the surgeon), and I'll see what he thinks.
Now for the cat news. I spoke to the surgeon and she said the biopsy showed nothing chronic. She thinks the stricture may have been caused by some sort of trauma, though we can't quite figure out what that might have been. However, she says the problem is unlikely to recur, which is excellent news. Of course, from now on, I will probably panic every time Mojo decides he's not interested in eating for whatever reason. I'll be taking him to his regular vet in a few days to get the sutures out (sparing both Mojo and myself the trauma of a forty-five minute drive to the surgeon), and I'll see what he thinks.