Retrained

With Lonnie and Payton in town for the long weekend we finally got to see How to Train Your Dragon 2. I had high expectations since the first installment is one of my favorite movies, and it was good. Not part one good, but still good.

Pharmaceutical Pile

Mystic has been having reverse sneezing fits and sneezing up stuff so it was her turn to go the vet. Now she's on an antibiotic and benadryl for allergies, to go with Mad being on three different pills for her back, and Tara getting her occasional pill for those bad knees of hers. We even have a little chart Mari made so we can remember who gets what when. Life in the zoo!

Billed For Gates

With Mad needing to be kept still for anywhere from two to six weeks depending on how she does, we decided piling up random crap to make barricades all over the house was going to get old. (For example blocking the stairs with a trash can, a chair, and a poster in a frame, wedged together with some pillows.) So we broke down and bought an actual child gate. If it works out well we might get a few more.

Still

Mad is doing OK, slowly getting better so we think we can dodge surgery. I've been coming home from work early all week and will continue through the weekend to keep an eye on her. Here's the gang all huddled up because of a storm going overhead, with Madison carefully kept isolated from the other two by a watchful me. We keep her barricaded into small areas and carry her up and down the stairs, she is leash walked in the fenced-in back yard because she can't be allowed to move too quickly. She still sleeps on the bed but we put a short leash on her so there's no way she can jump off. It's tiring and worrisome, but of course she's worth it.

Back Off

We came home from work tonight to find Maddie hunched up and squealing in pain. An emergency rush to the vet and some X-rays later we find she has somehow managed to hurt one, possibly two vertebra in her back. It could be bad, they lined up an animal neurosurgeon (who knew?) in Nashville if things don't improve. So they doped her up good and she is to have a lot of meds and very, very restricted movement.

Getting old sucks all the way around.

Ballpark Update

Just another shot of the new stadium, about a month after the last one.

Frigid Finale

It was shockingly nice weather tonight, so we went for a little yogurt at Sweet Cece's and sat out by Drake's Creek to enjoy it.