On the mend

Logan is getting better. I am so happy. Those nights were so dicey, I dreaded them. He started having solid stools again on Wednesday, but still had the gas issues Friday. Controlled though, flu my ass. Honestly, the doc that told me to give him Mylanta, sent her kid to preschool Thursday hacking and subsequently puking. I wouldn't let her in the pool. And that was before I realized who her mother was! There was also another kid in the same group who was sick too, he sat out also. You are not going to get My teachers sick to get over the inconvenience to her of keeping your child at home. That crap doesn't fly with me, no sir. I was at Logan's side for almost a week by that time. I have no sympathy for parents who treat their kids like that. Kids are to be loved and taken care of above yourself, and your job. That's my opinion, it will not change.

Looking to move my blog

I may be moving my blog to this place. I am just running through and seeing if I like it. I have also put in Logan's blog and Sully's blog too. I may still post here and have it fed to there, but I am really thinking of stopping the Myspace blog so now there will still be 2 blogs, likely the same. It's like blogger all grown up or something. We will see if I continue to like the pages there.

Ice storm for Lisa

Thoughts and prayers to Lisa and her crew, I hope you all stay safe, warm, and keep power!

Logan and his distended colan

Really it was the night from hell all over again. This time instead of playing out at home I called the BCBS nurses line and brought him in to the ER. There they took blood, X-rays plus gave my kid a rectal exam. I was fit to be tied! Logan's Colan was so full of gas the ER doc looked ashen when he was talking. His body language said he holey disagreed with the pied on call. After the 2 hours we were allowed to go home, Logan having no sleep, still sharp as a tack tried numerous times to get out of being there. I will say the most notable one being "Mom, Dad, lets take a walk.." Sure, he gets out of the room and hauls ass like a 4 year old on a mission to the (wrong)door. He was given an adult dose of some medication whose name escapes me at the moment. The tending was not thrilled, but the pied told him if Logan vomits today make an appointment. Ummm, he does it at night, after hours you stupid shit! This wouldn't be a problem if Kathleen was still his doc, even if she wasn't the on call she would have been in and at his side, not telling someone else it wasn't a big deal and let him get back to sleep. So far today he is fine, but again like yesterday we will find out tonight. At least he's not pooing his brains out like yesterday!

Recap of Sunday:
Logan was on the toilet most of the day, really. He again ate next to nothing, but conned him in to polishing off the Sprite near the end before we went to the ER. He was in a BAD way near 8:30 so I called the nurse line. Sending us to the ER. They took blood, Logan started getting burpy again (like last night before he :puke: ) all over himself and his loving mother. Corey tossed me out of the room while Logan and the bed were being cleaned, I came back in, cleaned where they missed it on him and then myself. I warned them, no one even Corey listened when I said he was going to :puke: I would like to say I told you so, but really I don't need to gloat about the fact I know my kid that well! Did you know lower intestinal bile is a bitch to get out of clothing, he was so upset I had just bought him Star Wars pjs and he was wearing them when it happened? We will NOT be going back to Pizza Hut buffet again anytime soon. Logan was cranky as hell while there, and uncomfortable to say the least. I killed both Corey and I to see him in pain. I couldn't believe the on call didn't come in when they called him. He finally went in and pooed his little butt out, and it was LOUD!!! He went back to the room took my phone demanded Collective Soul starting to finally fall asleep as we were just about getting done. He was serenaded by Ed Roland and the guys, From the ground Up was what he was listening too. He started to hurt as we were leaving, but got home and after pooing another 3 times fell into a deep sleep for 6 hours! A record with this illness. I hope it runs smoother today, he is drinking more, and eating crackers. We are also pumping him full of anti-gas kids stuff. Get better little dude, Love you!

Logan sick, dogs gone crazy!

Friday Logan got to chose where to go for dinner only stipulations from Corey were, no Valentino's and no Nick's (Shaun was not working). So, thinking he was all sly he presented Logan with the choice thinking he would chose the new Mexican spot. Nope once again outsmarted by the 4 year old Corey drove in shame to Pizza Hut. Logan ate basically a whole pizza at the buffet, along with a plate of salad, pineapples and cottage cheese with sunflower seeds. He pooed loudly when he got home, but I thought it was do the amount he ate, not what he ate! All was well as he went to bed, but sometime before 5:03 in the morning he went 1/2 way down his bed (honestly he could have been there already with the way HE sleeps all around the bed!) and :puke: on the floor, promptly going back to sleep to wake at 5:03 and step in it screaming all the way to the bathroom to pee. I say he fell asleep again as it was cold when I cleaned it up (BTW, intestinal pukage is a bitch to clean out of Berber!). I being who I am analyzed what it was, smelled, ect to try and ascertain what caused the event. Logan is not a puker (Like Mom), but a pooper (Like Dad). I would have expected pizza, pepperoni, some tomato sauce, lettuce, maybe some cottage cheese, ect in it. Nope pineapple, crouton and the smell of intestinal (got past the stomach and came back up) bile. He seemed mostly fine the rest of the day, but not eating much. Just around 4:30 the bottom fell out and he was in agony. I go into Super Mom mode, where there is nothing I do but focus on him. This is where Corey feels like he can do nothing. Logan doesn't want him, to see him, talk to him, it is all about him and Mom. We got him to lie down briefly after about 15 minutes he was awake again and insisted going to his bed. There is a method to his madness, he didn't want to puke in our room like he did 2 years ago. It scared the hell out of him back then! So he was on the bed, I was reading to him, Corey was cleaning the carpet for like the 10th time (I could still smell puke) he bolted with his mouth full to the bathroom. Little trooper had a mouthful of puke and made it to the toilet to spit it out. Came the lettuce, and a small amount of steamed rice from today. I was sure then it was food poisoning. By 6:30 he was asleep in his bed after another run to puke from his room, and two sits on the pot. Poor kid it was coming out both ends! I fell asleep around 10:50 and within an hour Logan was on the side of my bed. I put him to the bathroom, he pooed and peed and slept till 3, repeat, then got up at 4:42am. It was a long day for us Logan has spent 1/2 on the pot. He is drinking sprite, on the BRAT diet (apples make him poop, but WTH), and Popsicle. There was a Phineas and Ferb marathon on Disney, so guess what was on and off between stuff today. Corey cleaned everything, like a good little bitch (hehehe, this is when his OCD comes in handy). Logan has just been visiting the toilets (all 4 today). I did get Sully groomed, he was thrilled..really! So much so, he went out side proptle and burrowed in the snow covering himself in it, and coming in 5 minutes later all proud of himself. He came in and attacks (flips it in the air, he's really a hippy passifist) his stuffed jar of "dog mayo" toy topping it off with a Havanese runlikehell! He all runs and grunts, it really is a riot, this went on for about 10 minutes. Then he realized Logan and I were in the room (had been the whole time) and engaged Logan in "mayo toss," he was ticked to play with Sully. Get well soon son, and I hear Lisa is under the weather too. Get well soon girl!

Logan's party recap

Logan's 1/2 birthday celebration was a HIT!! Thank you, thank you!! The cookie (picture to come later) was adorable! All the teacher's converged on me when I came in to see what I had. They remembered last years bags. I showed Theresa (Lo's teacher from last year), she went nuts for the bags, calling Lo's teacher Sarah over with her aide Esther. Sarah was super happy that there was a craft, the noodle one thay had planned didn't have enough or something. So she was like, ":can we do these in class?" I said sure, they all did them before swim lessons. And were excited about them. Score! I went back to get him after class and Sarah said she had to walk away from the cookie. I don't blame her, Eileen's monster cookies are great, add in the frosting they make, and it is heaven!

Logan and I are watching PSYCH from Friday night then it is naptime.

Kid's got a point....

Logan: Why are you calling those poltricians characters?
Me: Well politicians act for the most part. They say one thing and usually for one reason or another don't follow through.
Logan: So they are like actors?
Me: Of sorts.
Logan: So they are like cartoon characters?
I just laughed.

Guarded skeptic of "hope"

I will say this as my comments to the incoming administration, good luck. Hope you bring forth a positive change, unity and all the other crap so many other promise and always fall painfully short on fulfilling. I will wish you well, as I am a proud American damn it! I don't agree with your views, that is my right, until taken away. I want our country to succeed that is not wrong, its the American ideal. We have become painfully divided as of late pointing fingers at the heads of the country instead of those who are truly to blame. Bush didn't force people to take out loans they had no business taking out. They the people did. He didn't tell the banks to start those horrid arm loans either, neither did Clinton, but they began under his watch. Bush kept us safe after 9-11, he did, dropping the ball on the other signs of looming crisis that were evident to us common slugs.
I am DVRing the event, I am sitting at the YMCA with Logan in the Adventure Challenge as he took the oath of office. Good luck again to Obama, I say it with true honesty. In the same thought I just feel like saying, "There goes the neighborhood." We chose our bed, lets hope it is as cushy as it looks. All hail the new Celebrity in Chief.

Research project revisited and Sully news

I have changed the topic a bit delving into the history of the Havanese and the "re-created" breed of Havana Silks. I will focus on the similarities of the dogs. I was happy to find in writing to "Doc" who was on of the key people in the Silk break away more then happy to assist me in the paper. I was touched. I was not expecting to get a reply, an not only did she reply but comment, giving honest and heart warming points. I think no matter what the outcome of this paper, I have more respect for "Doc" then before, most of which was influenced by Dee to begin with.
"We are not out to 'destroy' HCA or 'rip apart' the Havanese community. We have simply accepted the fact that, like people stuck in a very bad marriage, all parties concerned would be better off going their separate ways...an amicable divorce, so to speak, which should relieve the continual conflict that occurs when 2 groups with different philosophies try to live under the same roof and keep bumping into each other and butting heads. We wish the HCA well and many years of continued success."

I was really pleased to see she wrote that at the end.

Another thing I was able to garner out of her was the fact of her being a DVM, she was valuable in the health issues for both sets of dogs.


On another note, I broke down and bought a Dremel to do Sully's nails, a Remington beard clipper for trimming his pads, butt, and boy-part area, some shampoo and conditioner, lastly the grooming table from our groomer. Most groomers woulsn't encourage batheing and grooming yourself of a dog like Sully, but she has been after me for a while to give it a try. I did this afternoon. I was petrified. I had done his nails and clippered where needed last night, it went well. Thanking God again Sully is California cool and laid back! I washed him in the sink letting Logan hose him from time to time. It took 78minutes on the table to blow dry him, I used the cheap old hair dryer we used to use with Monarch. Really it was no more difficult then when I used to bathe FoxGlove our old rescue sheltie. But combing him straight while drying was interesting. He is all soft and poofy now, I am happy, so is he. He got some filet minion this evening, left over from my dinner, he was a happy dog. I think I took pictures but with the day, I may have only thought about doing so. Mommy brain!!! I will check later and post if I did on Sully's page.

Research project

After being told I know too much about this and that, too emotional of a topic of another and of course the "you will alienate yourself from the community no matter how you write this" of another I found a topic the instructor will let me write on. It is in the world of Dogs actually quite a hot button at least in the Havanese community.

Is the American Kennel Club’s standard of Havanese correct? Or is the Havana Silk (sub-breed?) actually the renewed version of the official native dog of Cuba?

Well over this semester, I hope to find out. I am taking on the 3rd rail in the Havanese wold and asking the question. How can I do this of all topics without letting bias show through? Well quite simple actually, Sully is on of the few, a pure 50/50 mix of the 2! Which is likely why he did so well in the ring no matter the judge!

So it begins, my calls to Karen to see who are "the people to talk to" on both sides. It really is a no-brainer that I have to talk to Diane Klumb and Joanne Baldwin about the Silks. They are the main movers in the in that movement. For Havs I have to look to the ones in Florida. Thank goodness Karen was my hookup! Thanks again Karen!!!

I was looking at the Havanese Club of America website and low and behold who was there staring at me but my won doggie! I had forgot Karen had submitted his pic back in the day! What a happy discovery.