And that ANY cat would hold still to be blow dried?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Who knew?
And that ANY cat would hold still to be blow dried?
Friday, March 25, 2011
What's happening?
Gracie plopped herself into Chyann's math book.
Got a little wild when it was attempted to remove her.
Now looks like a princess when she gets her way.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tis done
They had to give her soo much post-op pain medicine! More than enough to knock out a large man they said, but only barely made her comfortable. Apparently she has built up a bit of a tolerance to all the drugs since she has been taking tons of them for six weeks now.
Hell, I read everything I could find on it, talked to folks that had it done before and still it was more.
Like we thought she'd be back to school after two weeks or so, but she's been out now for six weeks, with another week maybe before she tries half days. Being confined to the wheelchair -loosing her independence, unable to walk for the most part has been so hard for her, this girl that is usually so active and always outside!
I reminded her and myself continually that it will all be worth it in the end. A nice straight spine, an even gait and no shoe lifts :)
Monday, March 14, 2011
Exciting News!
Day surgery, no hospital stay unless there are complications of course.
Random picture:
These last few weeks I've been seeing lots of bark in the snow that has fallen from the branches and was thinking it might need to come down before then if it were really that rotten/decayed/weak to loose so much bark.
The picture below doesn't really show how much has fallen down, but gives you an idea what I've seen.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Cat craziness and more...
It was so bad I was beginning to believe she might have a bone infection, hence the two calls to the doctor's office, RX refills and a cancelled hair appointment because she could literally NOT get out of bed.
The desired growth has been reached! 40mm!!
Meanwhile she appears to have a mild case of the flu, great right? Poor kid.
(colton and sparky)
The cat bit through his coat, sweatshirt and shirt. A huge hissing scratching fight ensued with Colton unable to get the cat off of him. The Hubby grabbed the cat and ripped him off Colton.
Then did what had to be done in case the cat had rabies.
Did you know that 80% of cat bites become infected? They do.
Of course urgent care was closed already so we went to the ER where he was given a shot and antibiotics. Xray's too in case a tooth got broken off in the muscle - it hadn't but sure was a deep puncture wound.
THEN we got to go to the county sheriffs department and fill out a bite report.
We just heard back yesterday that the cat did not have rabies, which is a relief.Meanwhile Chyann has been bugging her Dad to get her a kitten.
He did - two actually.
So below is Cairo - the orange gal and Gracie - the gray baby.
All I can say about these two cats is that they did and are really cheering up Chyann and that they use the litter box.
Mom and Gracie.
WE miss you already Mom!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
In like a lion...
we welcome the month of March!
With any luck this month will roll out like a lamb!
Daylight savings on the 13th and the first day of SPRING on the 21st!
Her physical therapist got her up and moving down that long hallway you see behind her. She didn't walk "conventionally" using the crutches - she picked up her leg by the pins/ring coming out of her hip to pull her foot forward, set it down and move the other foot and crutches up to take a step. This turned out not to be the best idea as you can imagine, it irritated the pin holes something fierce and she will no longer do that to move on the crutches. She will still get up and stand a few times a day to get the blood pumping and stretch though.
Also of note we got her on the scale and found that all her hardware weighs right about 9 lbs!
She was growling at me to hurry up and take the picture here.
I've probably said it before, but I'm going to say it again - we have absolutely LOVED having my Mother here. Sad to say she will be leaving the end of this coming week to go back home to OK, where we are told the dogwood trees are blooming, new grass is growing and folks there are enjoying wonderfully mild temps of 70*!
Here is a shot of the pants I've worked out for Chyann. After numerous attempts of actually making a whole pair of pants this is what works best for her.
Buy a pair of incredibly cheap sweat pants - I got hers on the 50% off rack at Wally's so they were only 3 bucks!
Cut the outside seam on the leg you need to insert the pocket.
Make a pocket with leftover cute scrap material.
Sew the pocket on and add Velcro up and down the leg to close it up.
Easy as pie!
Colton's band had that show in the cities at The Garage on Friday too.
He said by far they were the best band there!