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My Slideshow 5/28/07

     Turn your sound up.  I think the pictures turned out pretty good at this site.  These are some double petunia's from my planters along with some other flowers I planted.

Memorial Day

                                      

         In memory of our brave men and woman who have fought and died so we could be free.

Baby Eagles

   I checked on the baby eagles this morning and was thrilled to see them taking their first trial flights from the branches to the nest and back to the branches.  Practicing beating their wings they look ready to take off at any second.  Once they fly from the nest will they come back to it or will it sit there empty?

   Well, off to ride.

Sunday

             
  
           I just got off work and had a pretty good weekend.  I am off now until Tuesday because of the holiday.  Zoey is ripping around like a nut with her tail tucked between her legs doing this happy nut and run crazy routine she does every once in awhile.  We are trying to stop her from popping a stitch,but she is grinning madly with this wild happy glee in her eyes.  She wants her breakfast and she is going to act like a nut until she gets fed.

           That is what is nice about being a dog or animal.  Zoey doesn't realize she has cancer.  None of the fears about the future and what it may hold are clouding her brain.  She is feeling better this week, her incisions aren't hurting her, she had a great long walk and a mad dash through tall wet grass to make her happy and Rick is making her a yummy breakfast.  Life is good.

           I have convinced myself they got all the cancer when they removed the tumors and she is cured.  She is too happy, too shiny, too loved to have anything seriously wrong.  I filter her water, I feed a great food, we have always taken care of her.  She was poisoned a few years ago and we almost lost her, but for the most part she is the picture of health.  I will keep thinking that.   Thursday we see the vet.  By then we should have the final report on her mouth cancer.  I want to write it all down so I can look it up.  I can't remember a thing he told me when he called.  I just went into shock I think.  Then I will look up clinical trials, and see if they have anything if he thinks it is bad.  But I think she will be fine.......please, please, please, let her be fine.

       Today I am sleeping until 1 or so and hopefully going on a bike ride.  Should be a good day for it.  Hope everyone has a great weekend and holiday.  Be safe.  We have already had our share of accidents.

    Keep an eye on the baby eagles.  They should be flying anytime.   They look so much bigger then they did when I first started watching.

Just one happy thing after another

                       
    It is hard to tell from the pictures but the entire woods are full of these purple flowers and the heavenly smell is heavy in the air.  Perfect for sitting outside and you can see them all over.  I love this time of the year with all the flower smells.

   I was getting ready for work yesterday and a friend of my son's came over.  Zoey acted like a nut barking and leaping around  until she saw who it was and somehow managed to give herself a large hematoma on one of her incisions.  I held pressure to keep it from getting bigger and called the vet but they didn't call back by the time I have to go to work, they called like 5 minutes after we left but it didn't get any bigger.  So now she has this chicken egg size lump under one of her incisions.  I sure hope it doesn't break open.  What a mess.  A hematoma is a blood filled lump by the way. 

   Had a good night at work last night until this morning when I my patient coded but they survived and the overtime is a good thing.  I slept well and am getting ready for the shower.

   Well the vet just called.  The lump on Zoey's leg was cancer and they think the one in her mouth was a cancer but they are double checking the results.  So I am sitting her in shock right now.  I never expected the one on her leg to be cancer, we all thought it was a skin tag.  The one in her mouth she only had about 3 weeks before it was removed so hopefully we caught it soon enough.  Oh man, I am trying not to cry here.  They think the type of cancer it was on her leg that surgery should be enough treatment, especially since her lab looked so good.  She has a small lump on her forehead he now is going to remove since we got these results when she goes for her suture removal.  I have to go. I am stunned and can't see to write.

My Lazy week is over

      Ebony my MIL's cat looking regal.  We are trying to get her and my dog to not kill each other since she will probably be coming here to live some day.  So far it is not going well.  Anyone want a really sweet fat cat?

    Back to work tonight.  It has been a good week off even if I didn't get much accomplished.  I did rest up and think I keep up with the dust.  Yesterday I planted all my tomatoes and finished my flowers.  They all look great and if they live I will have tomatoes coming out my ear.

   This morning I spend emailing and calling all our elected officials to give them my 2 cents on their illegal alien amnesty bill.  2 thumbs down here.

   A couple of years ago one of our nurses became a citizen.  We had a big party for here and made her a Cake shaped and decorated like a flag.  We had a t-shirt made saying Proud American Citizen and she got some flag pins.  She was and is proud to be a citizen of our country, and now her country.  Her children are legally here and doing well.  It took her many years and to see this bill really makes her angry.  As it does anyone who spent years doing it the legal way.  But she says.  By doing it legal I have the full support of my country.  I don't have to worry about using my legal name, sending my children to college, each knock on the door.  And doing it right was worth it.  She will earn retirement benefits and get all the benefits every American citizen gets.  I am proud of her.

  Thanks to my grandparents for coming from Germany on my Moms side and Sweden from my Fathers side I can have all the freedoms of this country because they did it legally.  I am accountable to all the laws.  I pledge to this flag and no other.  I am American first.

   So anyway enough of that.   My MIL and I had a nice talk yesterday.  She says my BIL isn't planning on staying.  We both admit to being worried about the way he looks.  I do feel bad for him.  I have an addiction to food which I have trouble controlling.  Drink is the same way.  Who knows at the time what your decisions will mean to you in the future.  I realize he is rightfully fearful of what his future will be like.  It is sad.  I have never been down and out.

  But, I come from strong women stock.  When my Mom fled my dad with just the clothes on our back she clawed tooth and nail to get a good job and better herself with night classes to make a living for us.  When I have a crisis I panic briefly and then  buckle down to fix it.  I have been sole support for the  last 13 years.  Everything I have I worked for and earned.  So I am not as sympathetic maybe as I should be.  Not everyone can fix their mistakes or live with them.  I should be a little more empathetic about my BIL because he truly is at the bottom.  Hopefully he can claw his way up at least enough to survive.

   Be happy all.
P.S.  I am swallowing my fear and calling the vet today to see if they got the biopsy results.  Keep your fingers crossed.
     

              

          Last night my dog Zoey started choking on a treat.  Coughing and gagging for 40 minutes.  I called the vet who reassured me by telling me things I should have known.  She is able to get air in as she is breathing and to just keep an eye to make sure it doesn't dislodge and really choke her.  Scared me to death!  We should be finding out any day what the path report showed.  I wonder if they will call us or I'll have to call?  Nice being a dog as she has no worried about waiting to find out what the biopsy showed.  She is feeling so much better and on our walk yesterday she was tearing through the tall grass just like a puppy.  Her fur is starting to come back pretty good.

   It rained again today so no bike ride as it is suppose to rain off and on all day.  Sigh.  My hit the flea markets today.  I also haven't got my tomatoes planted and want to go pick some out.  My last day off, what to be productive.   And check on my MIL of course.  Busy busy.