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My dogs and this pillow
I bought the pillow to help decorate my spartan little apartment the year of my divorce. At the time you never could have convinced me all of the love that would eventually surround it. 2007 2016 2018 ...
Friday 5: Dogs
Thursday's post about World of Warcraft was auto-scheduled, and I'm glad because after YET ANOTHER school shooting on Wednesday, I wouldn't have known what to write. Well, I know what has to be written, but that one's going to take some time. Apologies for the design weirdness here over the last week. I updated colors and apparently I had hard-coded some css SOMEWHERE (don't do that) and had to find it to fix things. In the meantime, it's time for the Friday 5 - this week's theme is DOG ...
Circle of Life
Here I am on "puppy leave" which is actually a bunch of my vacation days that I've been accruing year to year. Murphy isn't ready for workday crating (aka bathroom confinement) just yet. He's working through some GI issues. Hopefully Friday. ACTUALLY I hope our office goes into business continuity mode on Friday, since the NFL draft has closed a bunch of streets around my office and snarled traffic. Then I'd work from home Monday as usual and start leaving him on Tuesday. We are working hard on ...
Max.
I've already shared this news on Facebook and Twitter, but couldn't bring myself to blog it until now. Our little Max died Thursday morning, July 14, 2016 at the age of 14-15ish. I was his for one month short of thirteen years. He chose me on August 11, 2003 and I brought him home a little less than a week later. Let's just say that Max wasn't the most obedient dog in the world. He was super-smart and had a mouth crammed full of giant teeth - two factors which sometimes lead to trouble. ...
Evolution of feeding dogs.
2006: Yeah, I just dump out a bunch of cat food in this dish, and Max eats alongside them. It works out well for everyone. (time passes, acquires a puppy) You dogs will eat the dry food we buy you. That is the rule. No-drama mealtime. (time passes) Okay, let's try this dry food. It's supposed to be grain-free and that's better for you. (time passes) A little bit of green beans to supplement the food is good for weight loss. (time passes) WHY HAVE YOU BOTH STOPPED EATING GREEN ...
Friday 5: All I need is a miracle
Happy Friday, AND the last Friday before Christmas! Where has the time gone? I'm pretty set with the holiday -- I just have to buy 1 small thing for Mom and a pollyanna gift for Christmas Eve. I have cookie dough in the freezer and this weekend will be a baking marathon. The cards have almost all been sent. This week's Friday Five theme is "All I need is a miracle" which was the name of an 80s song sung by ... ERGH. Who sang that song? Mister Mister? I know I can google it, but it's somewhere ...
Alpha
Max is doing surprisingly well. I say this because just a week ago, we were having the "Quality of Life" discussion, as barely moved for three days and we were carrying him outside to do his business. This post was sitting in my drafts folder and was very different. Last Monday was my brother's birthday and we were gutted at dinner because the only thing in Max's "W" column was that he was still eating. And then on Tuesday the ears pricked up and the tail started wagging again. He accepted his ...
Max's eyes
We are two months past Max's diabetes diagnosis and things are going as well as can be expected. His pee strips were still showing higher levels of sugar, so we've slowly moved his insulin dosage up to 9 units twice a day. The constant drinking and peeing has stopped, with only an occasional leak here and there which could just be the signs of an old dog. Now he's close to 100% blind. It's heartbreaking to open a bag of treats in the kitchen and watch Ollie speed in alone while Max carefully ...
Friday 5: Wrap It or Cap It
Happy Friday! Tonight I'm off to see Gone Girl with some lovely ladies. Tomorrow Max has a(nother) vet appointment at noon. He's on new food now. Fingers and paws crossed for nice drop in blood glucose. Otherwise I don't know what else to do - I really don't want to have to buy prescription food just for him. It'll be a nightmare keeping him and Ollie eating out of their proper bowls. He's already on more insulin than Mickey was, but he also weighs almost twice as much. I looked back at my ...
All Fall Down review and a Max update
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner My rating: 2 of 5 stars This review contains SPOILERS! Allison Weiss begins abusing pain pills because she has to take care of her kid, deal with her father who has Alzheimer's (but not really, because he lives with her mother), take care of the house and write five blog posts a week. This...this is what most of the women I know do every day, except those women actually have to leave the house to go to work and have to do more than 500 words. But fine, I'll ...
CNN: The Canine News Network
Someone's feeling better! Even though his blood sugar rate was still in the 500s on Saturday and his insulin dosage has been upped to 5 units twice a day, Max perseveres. Yes, I downloaded iMovie onto my phone. No, this does not bode well for anybody. PS: Urine collection was no big deal. Thanks for the suggestions! Max is a leg-lifter and while he was intently focusing on the shrub he was aiming for (and missing, he's low to the ground and never makes his target), I slid a small container ...
