My little man in black is still in the ICU and will spend another night there tonight. He is still having a tough time keeping food down, but after the chemo injection today, we should know within 24 hours if Doyle's system is responding positively (or as positively as possible) to the treatment. I'm going to head back over there tonight with a ( Read more... )

I've talked to the Oncologist. Doyle is keeping down food and is looking to be a relatively good candidate for chemotherapy. His lymphoma tumors are not extensive, especially large or obstructing his intestines (even though it is in his small intestine), and the doctor feels that treating his cancer offers a fairly good chance of letting him live ( Read more... )

No word from Oncology yet.

The past 6 days have been rough, and it's probably going to get much worse by this coming weekend. I'm emotionally and physically exhausted ( Read more... )

I have my Butter Boy -- I'm ready for the 28th Annual Shippensburg Corn Festival!


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I had a blast up in Pennsylvania this past weekend! My professor pal and I went hiking at Colonel Denning State Park, and we found tons of cute mushrooms and moss for me to photograph and some blackberries and wild blueberries to munch on. Cumberland County is such a beautiful area.


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I'm so happy with the way the room turned out! Oslo likes it too. (Cooper, not so much...He's been hiding under the bed and pouting that I took his basket to storage.)


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Oslo hanging out in the revamped bedroom.


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I declare today Pie & Massage Tuesday! There's a freshly-baked strawberry rhubarb pie sitting in my immaculately clean apartment. I've been hibernating away from the internets, but in a good way -- after 4 straight days of purging, donating CAR LOADS of stuff to the thrift store, cleaning, reorganizing, assembling new bedroom furniture and even ( Read more... )

The Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is Save 65% on "Stargate SG-1: The Complete Series Collection".

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Act quick if you'd like the set -- tomorrow the price will be back up to $239.99.