Week Three
I’ve a ton of things upon which to blog, but I’m just not able to bring myself to do so at the present time. Lots of “life” stuff that’s stressing me out and other such nonsense.
Instead I’ll talk about Miss Yara, who today started her third week of treatment. That meant that she got a B-12 shot today, administered by me. This did not go over well. She knew right off that something was up when I tried to give her the injection. She kept trying to walk off or roll onto her back and she cried. Seriously, I think my neighbors are going to call animal control on me. It was heart-wrenching. I felt like the worst mommy ever. I think we’re both not looking forward to next Monday.
Other than that, though she is doing phenomenal. I’d estimate that she’s gained about 14 pounds since starting the treatment. She’s filling out very nicely and several people today expressed in excited tones how they couldn’t see her ribs anymore. It was nice to walk down Washington Avenue today and hear how pretty my dog was rather than have people grumble at me as they passed me by. I also don’t miss the evil stares or the people dragging me out of the middle of crossing streets to accost me.
Three More Quick Things
(1.) Welcome, welcome to any LJers who’ve ventured over here to my new-ish Internet abode. Make yourself comfortable, pull up a chair, have a spot of tea or hot chocolate, and do pardon the dog hair. If you’re reading this via the LJ feed, might I suggest taking a trip to the main website to have a look around. Note the vast linkage in the sidebar to all my favorite haunts and reads and, of course, the very newly added Twitter updates.
(2.) Saw this on Digg today and found it quite an interesting read: President-elect may have to give up his Blackberry. I daresay I don’t know what I’d do if I had to turn in my Blackberry, I’ve become quite dependent on and very fond of it. Honestly, these days I can’t be expected to remember any appointment or event — work-related or merely social — if I haven’t put it in my calendar!
(3.) I was doing a bit of house website cleaning and stumbled upon this photo that was never posted:
And now I’m off for the night. Ta ta!
Few Quick Things
(1.) Out of some stroke of crazy masochism I uploaded photos from here and here to Facebook. [Note to self: No more trying to upload batches of photos to Facebook ever again, kthxbai.] They’re in a pretty random order and not all of the Walk photos are there because Facebook has a 60 image per album limit that I find pointless and annoying. Also, the upload process made me more than a little angry.
(2.) I am now registered for classes for next semester. This is very much an awesome thing. Less awesome is that finals are only weeks away. Gah!
(3.) I’m working on two huge origami projects at the moment. One is a wedding gift that may take me the remaining nine months until the date to finish. The other, I’m hoping, will be ready soon enough to send out with some very festive portraits of a certain GSD. ^_^
(4.) In her continuing efforts to make me always be a liar about her status, Yara decided to eat a full two scoops today for breakfast. Then she spent about an hour pacing around the living room for no apparent reason that I ever determined. Perhaps she knows that I found this priceless gem of photographic outtake-age:
That is all.
November 15, 2008
Still working on getting this new design complete. Among the nine hundred little things I tweaked today, I moved my blogroll onto the sidebar again. I think it’s been about four years now that it’s been on the links page, as I haven’t had sidebars in any of the designs since the purple lilacs days. (How many of you remember that, eh?)
Today was pretty lazy, even by my own standards. The plans I had fell through, which worked to my advantage given I was feeling decidedly lazy. I managed to accomplish pretty much nothing all day, except to putter around with this here website. Something I hardly ever get a chance to do these days. Honestly, it wasn’t as fun as I used to find it. Mostly it was frustrating, and I found myself having to walk away from the computer for hours at a time because I would have become so agitated I was fearful I might break things. How I ever sat here and wrote PHP code or painstakingly edited graphic files is beyond me.
Yara was in a crazy mood most of the day. She kept coming over and nuzzling me. Usually that’s an indication that she’s bored or wants some attention or even that she might need a trip outside. But there was nothing for it today, I’d pat her or try and play with her and she’d just walk away and lie down in the kitchen. It was totally random. At one point I’d given her a treat and she didn’t even take it at first, instead she went and got her octopus and deposited it in my lap and then she took the biscuit . . . into the kitchen and ate it.
Yara may also have finally gotten full! It took a grand total of nine days from the start of her treatment before she started going back to her old food ways wherein she’s not finishing all that I’ve given her, usually breakfast. I’m not surprised. I’d expected it sooner than that even. She was eating something around seven cups a day.1 Wednesday and Thursday she begrudgingly finished her breakfast, but yesterday I decided to just give her one scoop in the morning. I did the same today, and she ate both meals without much issue.
And some big news! (Well, for those that don’t follow my Twitter or Facebook updates.) I got a call yesterday from Fidelco and they have informed me they’ll be reimbursing me for the vet costs related to Yara’s tests and treatment. Even more, they’re going to supply the supplements Yara needs at discount cost (i.e., they’ll obtain the supplements and other treatment she might need via their vet at the reduced, no-markup price they get it and charge me exactly that). Really sensational news so far as I’m concerned. I’m so pleased they’re going to help me out. Robbie’s supposed to call me with all the specifics next week, but all the treatment details will have to wait until after Yara’s check up on the 2nd.
1. This is a rough estimate. The scoop I use to dish out her kibble isn’t a measuring cup like I was using prior to the “add a cup” suggestions. It holds something between 1.5 and 2 cups. And Yara was eating four scoops a day for those initial nine days.
Out and About
Got some good news today that definitely helped offset the ick that was yesterday.
Also went hung out with Rachel tonight. We met up at Crossgates and had dinner at Friendly’s, since I was craving a milkshake. Yara was so cute during our meal, she spent the entire time watching a baby at the booth across from us. It was really adorable, especially since she was resting her head on my foot the entire time like it was a pillow.
Since we were felt so stuffed after eating, we felt obligated to walk the mall.1 We stopped at Penney’s to see if Yara’s photos were up yet, and they still aren’t. Jean wasn’t around so I couldn’t badger her more. On our reverse trip through the mall I joked that so far it hadn’t been a “real” trip since I hadn’t yet made a child cry. And not five seconds later did Yara very nearly scare a little girl so badly she very nearly broke into tears. Poor thing. She was on one side of a table and we came up kitty-corner to it and startled her, which in turn made Yara jump a little in surprise and scared the girl even more.
Still, we headed on to Borders and wandered through the aisles, looking at books. And then decided to take a trip to Michael’s to pick up some odds and ends Rachel needed for some crocheting projects. I got to see her mom again, since she works at the store. We browsed around for a bit and finally decided it was time to head home, during which I snapped the below photo because it just was too cute not to share:
1. Crossgates is over a mile in length from one end to the other, so it’s a pretty decent walk back and forth.