Posted in Dogs and cats living together, Personal on Sep 19th, 2007
Sam is home from the vet - his surgery went well, and while there’s no absolute certainty that they got every single tumor cell, the surgeon said that she’s pleased with the outcome. He’s alert and able to walk, but preferring to rest in his his dog bed for now. They gave me […]
Posted in Dogs and cats living together, Personal on Sep 11th, 2007
To everyone who expressed their good wishes for Sam. It means a lot. The surgeon can’t see him till Monday, so… more hurry up and wait.
One of the things that makes this a difficult decision is that from what our regular vet and the oncologist say, Sam’s chances are about as good as […]
Posted in Dogs and cats living together, Personal on Sep 10th, 2007
Well, Sam has squamous cell carcinoma, which is not very aggressive as cancers go, but still, cancer. Now I have to make the hard decision. Going ahead with treatment will cost several thousand dollars at a minimum, and has an average survival rate of one, maybe two more good years if all […]
Posted in Dogs and cats living together, Personal, Writing, btvs/ats, dreams on Sep 1st, 2007
To give you some idea how my life has been going, some weeks ago I was having an anxiety dream I can’t recall the details of now, and halfway through the dream, the dream director apparently decided I wasn’t doing a good enough job, because one minute I was angsting about whatever it was that […]
Posted in Dogs and cats living together, Personal on Aug 13th, 2007
So today was supposed to be a nice day off: do some laundry, run over to feed Mom’s cats while she’s visiting my sister, drop off a package at UPS, and get some writing done.
Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head… no, wait. OK, I did that stuff, […]
Posted in Dogs and cats living together, Personal on May 7th, 2003
At times like this I wish we’d given the dog a cooler name, because I’m suffering from serious pet-name envy. I mean, I have friends who give their pets cool names like Underfoot because that’s what they are, but our dog’s name is Sam. Sam is not a good anecdote name, but I […]
