Friday, May 28, 2010

Puppies and Babies!

Blue and Purple, now Jud and Ellie May, went to their new home today. They get to live on eight acres with cows, horses, ducks, pigs and an assortment of other animals. I’m soo happy they get to be little farm dogs, but I’m going to miss them.

Luckily I gave them to the guy who works across the way from the office and he’ll bring them to work. :)

Puppy family
Last family picture

This fits them so perfectly, too! Yellow has no clue what’s going on, Blue Jed is causing trouble, Purple Ellie May is nervous and Pink is happy as can be while Lulu just sits there.

Puppy sibs
Jud and Ellie May

We went and hung out with Daddie’s girlfriend and I got some cute pictures of her granddaughter, Gilly. She just turned two and is precious! I need to start taking more pictures. I’ve been slacking.

Gilly Bean
Gilly

Bean
Summertime

Sweet Bean
Sleepy time

Hope y’all have a safe and fun weekend! Enjoy, kids.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

All About the Liver

It’s been a long, tiring, stressful past few days.  A lot has been going on and when I say a lot, I mean A LOT! 

Friday morning I got a text from Momma.  I half read it, as I was still asleep on Daddie’s couch when I got it.  About 10 minutes later what I had read sunk in.  I’m pretty sure I gave Daddie a heart attack when I sprang up and said, “Liver!  Liver!  Did that say liver?  I think that said liver!  I think he got himself a liver!  Oh my God, it said liver!  HE GOT A FREAKING LIVER!” 

Turns out, Papa got himself a nice new liver and he and Nana were headed to the hospital!  Momma came and got my after work where the next 19 hours were spent sitting in an ICU waiting room dodging horrendous kids, keeping our butts from falling asleep, and wondering why the hospital Wi-Fi would block Facebook. 

Okay, so maybe it was just me wondering why they blocked Facebook.  But seriously.  Only jerks block Facebook!  Life saving jerks, but jerks nonetheless.  Had I not had it on my phone, It would’ve been a lot harder to keep people updated.

IMG_0800 I blame it on the Pibb.

I told Sissy, my half sister, what was going on and her response was, “Wow.  He was only on the list for 5 weeks?  That was quick!  It just means he’ll live though.  God wouldn’t have given him a liver so soon if it meant he was going to die.  That’d just be a waste of a live on God’s part and God isn’t wasteful.”  To be 15 again.

Momma tells the story in more detail and has interesting facts that are good to know.  As of this evening, he's doing well. While he was on bypass during the surgery though, his kidneys messed up a bit and were starting to fail afterwards. They caught it early enough though and he had dialysis. The doctor said he should only have to be on dialysis for a few more days before his kidneys start function on their own again and he can be taken out of ICU and put in a room. They had to put him back on the vent and he's having to be restrained because when he wakes up, he doesn't like the vent and tries to pull it out. That kind of makes me sad, but they said he should be off in the next day or so. His liver is producing factor VIII on its own now and besides not having cancer anymore, that part is pretty cool, too! It was a minor setback, but considering all he's been through the doctors say he's doing wonderfully!

And now, here’s a picture of puppies to make you feel better!

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Friday, May 14, 2010

Puppies Stole My Heart

Blue


Pink


Yellow


Pink and Blue


Clockwise: Yellow, Purple, Pink, Blue


Clockwise: Purple, Pink, Blue


Blue


Yellow


Yellow


They went from itty bitty to HUGE in a matter of weeks:


Purple, less than a day old


Purple, 3 weeks and 5 days


I almost had a panic attack thinking about giving them away. AND THEY'RE ONLY PUPPIES!
I do not want to give my sweet and cuddly suddenly gigantic puppy babies away. They turned a month old yesterday which means they'll be gone in about three weeks and all I know is that whoever takes them home better have a Facebook and upload pictures frequently!