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thedailywhat:
Heartbreaking Tearjerker of the Day: A struggling soap actor who was allegedly harassed by his neighbors and condo board into euthanizing his beloved pet pit-bull mix took his own life last week, leaving behind a note saying he was racked with guilt over “betraying” his best friend.
Nick Santino, whose acting credits include recurring roles on All My Children and Guiding Light, committed suicide last Wednesday — a day after his 47th birthday — a few hours after euthanizing his dog, Rocco.
In 2010, the management at his Upper West Side building had imposed certain restrictions on dog owners and banned the housing of pit bulls. Since Rocco had already been living in the building, he was grandfathered in and allowed to stay.
Still, Santino’s friends say he was constantly harassed by neighbors and members of the condo board who wanted him to get rid of the dog. “People were complaining about his dog,” said neighbor Kevan Cleary. “It was open season on him.” Neighbor Lia Pettigrew concurred: “Everybody knows that he had been harassed by the building management.”
After someone complained that Rocco was barking, Santino was threatened with a $250 fine. “The dog was not a barker, but somebody complained that the dog would bark,” Cleary said. “He felt like he was in this battle because he was the only guy in the building with a pit-bull mix.”
Eventually, Santino felt he had no choice but to put Rocco to sleep. After the deed was done, Santino reportedly approached the building’s doorman and handed him Rocco’s dog treats. “Give these to the other dogs,” Santino said with tears in his eyes. “Rocco is no more.”
Shortly thereafter, the troubled Brooklyn-born orphan, who grew up in foster homes and was part of 9/11’s first search and rescue team, died of an apparent pill overdose.
“Today I betrayed my best friend and put down my best friend,” Santino wrote in his suicide note. “Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn’t deserve this.”
Santino’s love for Rocco was well-known. Having adopted Rocco from a shelter, he sought to clarify their relationship on Facebook: “I did not rescue Rocco, Rocco rescued me.”
A condo board member who spoke with The Post refused to accept blame for Santino’s suicide. “I’m sorry the man is dead,” said board member Marilyn Fireman, “but it has nothing to do with the pet policy.”
Funeral plans for Santino are on hold at the moment. His relatives say they are waiting to receive Rocco’s cremated remains so they can be buried alongside his owner.
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I’m sorry that he took his own life but putting your dog down is not the solution.
You MOVE, you don’t kill your dog.
Asshole.
I don’t disagree, at all. (And clearly he didn’t either.) Putting the dog down was a shitty thing to do. But I also don’t feel comfortable condemning him, because there are all sorts of reasons why it might be practically impossible for someone to move, especially someone who is clearly depressed to begin with (and from the sound of it, had financial problems as well). And he obviously loved the hell out of that dog, so for him to have done this suggests he was under tremendous pressure, probably from sources not limited to his condo board and his asshole neighbors. So… yeah, having a pet killed because other people are harassing you about him is deeply shitty. But the people who were making his life more difficult are the ones who deserve the lion’s share of the blame here, not the guy with a mental illness who tried and failed to figure out a decent way to deal with his situation.
This guy ACTIVELY CHOSE to keep his apartment. He lived at 1 Lincoln Plaza. It’s one of the most expensive apartment building in NYC. His apartment was easily worth north of $1 million. The real estate market in NYC never tanked: he could have sold and found a very dog-friendly housing elsewhere in the city. Or for that matter, rented out his place to someone else and found a dog-friendly rental. Yes, the people who harassed him and instituted those rules are shitty human beings. But he didn’t have to deal with it. He chose the apartment over the dog and frankly, the fewer people like that there are in this world, the better.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lykyj5rd4v1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Heartbreaking Tearjerker of the Day: A struggling soap actor who was allegedly harassed by his neighbors and condo board into euthanizing his beloved pet pit-bull mix took his own life last week, leaving behind a note saying he was racked with guilt over “betraying” his best friend.
Nick Santino, whose acting credits include recurring roles on All My Children and Guiding Light, committed suicide last Wednesday — a day after his 47th birthday — a few hours after euthanizing his dog, Rocco.
In 2010, the management at his Upper West Side building had imposed certain restrictions on dog owners and banned the housing of pit bulls. Since Rocco had already been living in the building, he was grandfathered in and allowed to stay.
Still, Santino’s friends say he was constantly harassed by neighbors and members of the condo board who wanted him to get rid of the dog. “People were complaining about his dog,” said neighbor Kevan Cleary. “It was open season on him.” Neighbor Lia Pettigrew concurred: “Everybody knows that he had been harassed by the building management.”
After someone complained that Rocco was barking, Santino was threatened with a $250 fine. “The dog was not a barker, but somebody complained that the dog would bark,” Cleary said. “He felt like he was in this battle because he was the only guy in the building with a pit-bull mix.”
Eventually, Santino felt he had no choice but to put Rocco to sleep. After the deed was done, Santino reportedly approached the building’s doorman and handed him Rocco’s dog treats. “Give these to the other dogs,” Santino said with tears in his eyes. “Rocco is no more.”
Shortly thereafter, the troubled Brooklyn-born orphan, who grew up in foster homes and was part of 9/11’s first search and rescue team, died of an apparent pill overdose.
“Today I betrayed my best friend and put down my best friend,” Santino wrote in his suicide note. “Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn’t deserve this.”
Santino’s love for Rocco was well-known. Having adopted Rocco from a shelter, he sought to clarify their relationship on Facebook: “I did not rescue Rocco, Rocco rescued me.”
A condo board member who spoke with The Post refused to accept blame for Santino’s suicide. “I’m sorry the man is dead,” said board member Marilyn Fireman, “but it has nothing to do with the pet policy.”
Funeral plans for Santino are on hold at the moment. His relatives say they are waiting to receive Rocco’s cremated remains so they can be buried alongside his owner.
I’m sorry that he took his own life but putting your dog down is not the solution.
You MOVE, you don’t kill your dog.
Asshole.
I don’t disagree, at all. (And clearly he didn’t either.) Putting the dog down was a shitty thing to do. But I also don’t feel comfortable condemning him, because there are all sorts of reasons why it might be practically impossible for someone to move, especially someone who is clearly depressed to begin with (and from the sound of it, had financial problems as well). And he obviously loved the hell out of that dog, so for him to have done this suggests he was under tremendous pressure, probably from sources not limited to his condo board and his asshole neighbors. So… yeah, having a pet killed because other people are harassing you about him is deeply shitty. But the people who were making his life more difficult are the ones who deserve the lion’s share of the blame here, not the guy with a mental illness who tried and failed to figure out a decent way to deal with his situation.
This guy ACTIVELY CHOSE to keep his apartment. He lived at 1 Lincoln Plaza. It’s one of the most expensive apartment building in NYC. His apartment was easily worth north of $1 million. The real estate market in NYC never tanked: he could have sold and found a very dog-friendly housing elsewhere in the city. Or for that matter, rented out his place to someone else and found a dog-friendly rental. Yes, the people who harassed him and instituted those rules are shitty human beings. But he didn’t have to deal with it. He chose the apartment over the dog and frankly, the fewer people like that there are in this world, the better.
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Photo reblogged from The Daily What
Heartbreaking Tearjerker of the Day: A struggling soap actor who was allegedly harassed by his neighbors and condo board into euthanizing his beloved pet pit-bull mix took his own life last week, leaving behind a note saying he was racked with guilt over “betraying” his best friend.
Nick Santino, whose acting credits include recurring roles on All My Children and Guiding Light, committed suicide last Wednesday — a day after his 47th birthday — a few hours after euthanizing his dog, Rocco.
In 2010, the management at his Upper West Side building had imposed certain restrictions on dog owners and banned the housing of pit bulls. Since Rocco had already been living in the building, he was grandfathered in and allowed to stay.
Still, Santino’s friends say he was constantly harassed by neighbors and members of the condo board who wanted him to get rid of the dog. “People were complaining about his dog,” said neighbor Kevan Cleary. “It was open season on him.” Neighbor Lia Pettigrew concurred: “Everybody knows that he had been harassed by the building management.”
After someone complained that Rocco was barking, Santino was threatened with a $250 fine. “The dog was not a barker, but somebody complained that the dog would bark,” Cleary said. “He felt like he was in this battle because he was the only guy in the building with a pit-bull mix.”
Eventually, Santino felt he had no choice but to put Rocco to sleep. After the deed was done, Santino reportedly approached the building’s doorman and handed him Rocco’s dog treats. “Give these to the other dogs,” Santino said with tears in his eyes. “Rocco is no more.”
Shortly thereafter, the troubled Brooklyn-born orphan, who grew up in foster homes and was part of 9/11’s first search and rescue team, died of an apparent pill overdose.
“Today I betrayed my best friend and put down my best friend,” Santino wrote in his suicide note. “Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn’t deserve this.”
Santino’s love for Rocco was well-known. Having adopted Rocco from a shelter, he sought to clarify their relationship on Facebook: “I did not rescue Rocco, Rocco rescued me.”
A condo board member who spoke with The Post refused to accept blame for Santino’s suicide. “I’m sorry the man is dead,” said board member Marilyn Fireman, “but it has nothing to do with the pet policy.”
Funeral plans for Santino are on hold at the moment. His relatives say they are waiting to receive Rocco’s cremated remains so they can be buried alongside his owner.
I’m sorry that he took his own life but putting your dog down is not the solution.
You MOVE, you don’t kill your dog.
Asshole.
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Video reblogged from Alternative Inebriation
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Photo reblogged from The Atlantic
![theatlantic:
The Negative Mammogram Myth
Mammography is an imperfect test. A “normal mammogram” report does not mean that a woman does not have breast cancer. Overall, mammograms will pick up 80 to 90 percent of cancers. That’s pretty good, but there are still 10 to 20 percent of cancers that will not be seen, and will present as an “interval cancer” with a palpable lump, as in the example above.
The cancer detection rate plummets in women with dense breasts to only 40 to 50 percent of cancers picked up on a mammogram. That’s about the odds of a coin toss. This is ineffective screening by anyone’s standards. Read more.
[Image: Stacey Vitiello]
I rarely share this story but I will because it’s important.
When I was 19, I found a lump in my breast. I freaked out. I went home that weekend and saw my mother’s gynecologist. I had a mammogram. It was one of the most painful medical procedures I’ve ever had to endure (and I got 10 stitches in my scalp when I was 6). I almost fainted from the pain several times.
When I went to see a breast cancer specialist that was recommended by a friend of my mother’s, he almost laughed: for women with dense breast tissue (i.e. most young women) mammograms don’t mean anything.
Thankfully, my lump is benign (I still have it). It’s called fibroadenoma.
If you’re ever in a position to need breast imaging, insist on an ultrasound.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygsfdDrH91qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Mammography is an imperfect test. A “normal mammogram” report does not mean that a woman does not have breast cancer. Overall, mammograms will pick up 80 to 90 percent of cancers. That’s pretty good, but there are still 10 to 20 percent of cancers that will not be seen, and will present as an “interval cancer” with a palpable lump, as in the example above.
The cancer detection rate plummets in women with dense breasts to only 40 to 50 percent of cancers picked up on a mammogram. That’s about the odds of a coin toss. This is ineffective screening by anyone’s standards. Read more.
[Image: Stacey Vitiello]
I rarely share this story but I will because it’s important.
When I was 19, I found a lump in my breast. I freaked out. I went home that weekend and saw my mother’s gynecologist. I had a mammogram. It was one of the most painful medical procedures I’ve ever had to endure (and I got 10 stitches in my scalp when I was 6). I almost fainted from the pain several times.
When I went to see a breast cancer specialist that was recommended by a friend of my mother’s, he almost laughed: for women with dense breast tissue (i.e. most young women) mammograms don’t mean anything.
Thankfully, my lump is benign (I still have it). It’s called fibroadenoma.
If you’re ever in a position to need breast imaging, insist on an ultrasound.
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Photo reblogged from San Francisco SPCA
Tootsie, a little black cat who was left to die after a hit and run does hydrotherapy to recover the movement on his right leg.
Tootsie started on the long road to recovery with just ninety second dips while wearing a harness to help lower him in and out of the pool.
But by the end of the six-week training plan he was able to swim freely without his safety rope or harness for 20 minutes at a time.
Hydrotherapy is an established method of rebuilding weak and damaged muscles both in people and in animals.
Tootsie looks psyched about his hydrotherapy, let me tell you.
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If you’re not getting happier as you’re getting older, then you’re fucking up.Ani DiFranco, If Yr Not
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Photo reblogged from The Atlantic
President Obama greets Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before his State of the Union address, January 24, 2012.
I feel strongly that there needs to be a “fuckyeahjusticeginsburg” tumblr.
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Ms. Heather spotted this raccoon on Manhattan Ave.
Check out the awning of the shop he was found above.
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Video reblogged from San Francisco, California
Do you have an iPhone charger? Shit Silicon Valley Says [YouTube]
