dogs

I haven't been here in almost a week. I've been home, but I haven't been at livejournal.

We had super dog drama. Truffle got sicker and sicker. She was twitching and trembling and noit eating and not wanting to do anything. She was so bad that the extra dog stopped bullying her. I finally convinced the nice fellow to take her to the vet -- or rather, he decided on his own that he ought to take her in, because she didn't get better -- and she was diagnosed with kidney failure which they eventually confirmed was Addison';s disease, which is the good news, because it's treatable with fairly simple drug regimen. Cortisone for life. She got a jolt of mood elevators and prednisone and acid reducers to get her going (after the IV fluids and stuff at the vet's): and we don't have to give her peanut butter or anything to get her to take these pills. She pounces on them. She loves her some Prednisone. (Prednisone is the drug that made me crazy when I first hurt my hands)

So now she's ravenous and can go for short walks without exhaustion and she barks her fool head now and then. And Roxy's back to innocently lying in the way so Truffle gets blocked from whatever she wants to do.

And, Frank has passed all his tests except he still has his Anatomy oral test to do. And he'll be home in three weeks!

Breaking news (poll included: long entry)

So for some reason the nice fellow has had CNN on since I've been home from work. You know the crawl at the bottom of the screen, with the breaking news? Well, sometimes it's sports scores, but anyway. All night they've had great big letters "Breaking News: Obama and Clinton to speak together tomorrow in Unity, New Hampshire," which is notable but not breaking news since it was announced days ago and despite the media's best efforts to the contrary, these two have been all about forging party unity and winning this election -- yes, they said mean things about each other in the course of struggling for who would get the nomination, but that was partly because there were a few real issues being hammered out in those speeches and partly because each of them really wanted that nomination. Oh, yeah, also: "breaking news" is that Obama's going to help CLinton pay off her campaign debt. That's interesting, of course, but it's not top-of-the-front=page, 50-point banner headline news.

On the other hand I never read or heard about the latest in impeachment news. I wonder why?

( look at this email I got from my representative: )