I'm Still Here!

Boy, I've been gone too long. Not much has been going on, yet I've been very busy.

Finally had to take my kitty to the vet a few weeks ago. She had a tumor on her belly about the size of a sand dollar and twice as thick. Turns out it is an aggressive form of breast cancer. So, I could have mastectomy on that side of her belly and do chemo. Not! I won't put the poor thing thru that. It was torture just taking her in for the surgery. So, I decided to just let her heal up and live the rest of her life in comfort here at home. When the time comes and she's not doing so well, I'll decide to have her put down. I asked the vet how long she might have. He said it could be 6 mos. or 2 years. So, I'll just love her while I have her. She's just now getting so she is accepting Amanda, but is still terrified of Sarah. I think I would be too. :0)

Amanda had a really bad sinus infection last week. She never ran a fever or anything, didn't even have a runny nose. One morn. she woke up and her right I was all pink around the eye. The eye itself was a little pink, but it looked like someone had popped her in the eye. So, I thought she had pink eye. Took her to the clinic and turns out her sinus' were so full that the tear ducts couldn't drain properly and so she was having trouble with her eye. She also had a terrible build up of wax in one ear, because she only sleeps on one side and the other can't drain. So, we had her on antibiotics and we had to flush out her sinus' 3 to 4 times a day with saline in a bulb syringe. She really didn't like it, but she was a trooper and didn't fight us at all. Boy, we got some pretty green gook out of her nose, too. I tried it on myself (I wanted to know what I was putting my baby thru) It is an unpleasant feeling at first, but boy could I breath better after I did it. I think I may do that every night when allergy season kicks in. Get all the pollen out of my sinus'. I highly recommend it.

Sarah has managed to escape the flu bug this year. She and I have been the healthy ones so far this cold and flu season. She did contract Hand, Foot and Mouth disease about 3 weeks ago. It's a very contagious virus that the Dr's say almost everyone gets. I didn't know she had it right away. I thought she just had some teeth coming in because she ran a low fever around 100, and would point in her mouth and say owie. Then a few days later I noticed little blisters on her feet and hands. That's when I got clued in. Of course, then she's not contagious, just when she had the fever. So, I exposed a bunch of kids at a bday party and at friends houses and at gymnastics. I felt guilty, but how was I supposed to know. I thought she was teething. Oh, well.

Well, that's all for now. I'll try to be better about updating you all on the happenings in our little corner of the world. TTFN