Vet Refferal Needed

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Can any one recommend to me a good veterinarian in the Camber-Somer-ville area? I have a car and can travel a little, but would rather not have to cross the river into Boston.

We have picked up a stray who needs some non-emergency medical attention (checking her for FIV, etc., getting her shots and fixed and so forth) and would like to set up a relationship with a vet who will remain her vet.

I have had very bad experience with Porter Square Vet. whose cavalier recommendations regarding my beloved previous cat lead to her rapid death, an have been told by another trusted vet (whose practice is, unfortunately, no where near here) not to trust anyone who would make such a recommendation again.

Anyone one have a vet they would like to recommend?

Thanks!

Edit:
Since so many people have mentioned Porter Square Vet., I'll tell my objections here:

I took my cat in for an annual exam and Dr. Cohen said that she had a heart murmur, but it was noting to worry about. One month later she got what might have looked like a respiratory infection and he put her on antibiotics. After a week they still hadn't worked (she was obviously quite sick), and he said wait the weekend. I didn't. I took her to Mass Vet Referral hospital who said that she had Feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (in short it is a congenital heart disease) and that it was genetic and she should have been on heart medicines since the moment the murmer was detected.

She died four days later.

Since then two other veterinarians have said that *whenever* a heart murmur is detected in a cat, an ultra-sound is immediately ordered because they are never "nothing," and there are good meds out there that can make all the difference in the world. (Much like adult humans live long healthy lives on anti-coagulants after a similar diagnosis.)

Add insult to injury, after GB died, Mass Vet sent a simple sweet card signed by all the members of the staff who dealt with her. Dr. Cohen sent a "sympathy" card in which he defended his diagnostic choices. That's just never appropriate.

While I realize he's one of many there, I won't return to a firm in which any of that is tolerated.

DJs

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Anybody know any reputable DJs (for weddings) that they'd recommend? Professional and not hammy and listen when you say, "Don't play the Chicken Dance?"

Sewing Classes

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

After beating myself up for ages over never finding anything that fits me right (too long, too wide, too short, too narrow and some ungodly combo of all of the above), I have decided that it will probably be easier for me to make my own clothing. I wear mostly larger Junior Miss sizes, but they don't make business casual clothing for Junior Misses and, frankly, I'm getting too old to not feel funny in a lot of newer fashions for teenaged girls. Conversely, I'm too wide for petites, too small for Lane Bryant and too short AND too wide for most other stores.

The point? Can anyone recommend a good place in the Somerville / Medford area who offers sewing classes? Or, if any of you are avid sewers / crafty type people with a little free time, would you like to teach a Domestic Idiot how to sew?

Thanks!

x-posted to medford_mass

Wireless.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Is there anywhere in Davis that does free wireless? I know Starbucks does the pay thing, but what about Someday or Diesel or elsewhere? Thanks!