Okay, Boxer had his neuro consult today, along with an ultrasound to check his prostate. We had received a call last Friday that his radiographs seemed to indicate an enlarged prostate – so, an ultrasound was in order. Well, his prostate is fine – however, the ultrasound revealed nodules on his spleen, kidney and liver. We had the nodules on his spleen and kidney aspirated and should get the pathology tomorrow. The one on the liver couldn’t be found at aspiraton time. At this point, we’re thinking that these are not cancerous. We’ll know for sure tomorrow.

So, regarding Boxer’s shaking – we can’t really find anything – which is okay – it means that it could be related to aging – whatever it is it doesn’t seem to be life threatening or anything.

We have now spent a small fortune on Boxer this month. Plans for our charitable foundation for medical care for our dogs are moving forward.

Checked in with mom today and she is progressing – still in some pain – but overall doing well.

Stay tuned.

Just talked to dad – mom is doing great this morning and is ready to go home – she’s eating a good breakfast right now. As soon as the doc comes – sometime this morning – she will most likely be discharged into the care of her loved-ones.

Good morning, readers! My, my, what a weekend. As you can tell by the posted picture someone is in the hospital – sorry, I had to black out the face due to privacy issues (HIPAA).

Mom had emergency surgery over the weekend. She’s doing great – when she put back in her earrings yesterday, I knew it wouldn’t be long before she was out of there. Surgery was yesterday around 11am and She is scheduled to go home today. I was lucky enough to see the surgical site ( it was done laparoscopically) – kind of neat – they sutured from the inside and glued on the outside.

You’ll have to forgive the quality of the picture – it was taken with a camera phone. You do with what you’ve got.

Boxer is still scheduled for his neuro consult tomorrow. Stay tuned for the result of that.

I need to go feed the birds. Later.

We took Boxer in for a recheck this morning. The stitches were removed and he was given a clean bill of health…except for the shaking in his back legs. So, we’ve made an appointment on Monday for him to have neuro consult. We’re not sure if it’s neurological or orthopedic – so, this consult might shed some light on what’s going on. Once we get Boxer squared away – it’s Sydney’s turn to get her teeth cleaned. We are pondering the idea of setting up a foundation for all of the dogs so that our loyal readers might contribute a few pesos here and there in order to help us to continue to provide the excellent medical care necessary for these wonderful animals.

I’m (Lisa) sitting here on the deck under the umbrella – Boxer and Sydney felt it was too hot and requested to go inside. I suppose I would also be too hot if I was wearing a fur coat. I’ll give them a little more time to be free before I lock them up and let out the Pea dog. I’m taking it easy today – doing very little house work – trying to learn how to relax a little and not be compelled to clean, clean, clean.

Took Mir to lunch. You can tell the students are back. We’ll be avoiding the Archer road area for a while.

I’m gonna surf the web a little. Peace.

We’re still scheduled for a Friday recheck at the vet school.

Ciao.

I originally wasn’t going to post a picture but then decided that the schedule I came up with for the dogs was worthy of attention. We’ve got to work harder at getting to bed earlier, so I’m hoping this schedule will help.

I played with my little camera this morning. It had been cutting off in the middle of taking videos, so I reviewed the owner’s manual and it suggested reformatting the card. I did and it has seemed to do the trick.

The picture for today is one of Boxer and Sydney from this morning – we had some nice quality time sitting on the desk and watching nature around us.

I think Mir’s in the shower – and as soon as she’s done we’ll take off to do some errands.

Later. gator.

I’m finally starting to feel better. Took a high powered cough medicine last night and it really helped me to get a good night’s rest.

Boxer had a rough week, too. Took him in to get his teeth cleaned and he ended up with two fewer teeth – two were loose and needed to be removed. We’re thinking one of them might be related to when he was shot with BBs as a pup – one hit his mouth (he lost part of his tongue).

In addition to the teeth, we had a skin tag removed and another little thing removed – it’s being biopsied – hopefully, that will come back normal.

It’s been a long week for all of us. Tomorrow, I’m off. Thank goodness.

I’m sick today. Haven’t been sick in almost two years (well, except for my frozen shoulder – but I don’t consider that “sick”). Am blogging until the meds kick in and I’m off to bed to see if I can nip this thing before it goes any further.

Remember that the land line gets cut today.

Okay, I’m tired – going to bed.