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One week
It was last Sunday that Chewie threw up his food after finally eating a little, and I told Melinda that I thought he was sick. The next day she took him to the vet and began the little adventure I’ve been chronicling. It’s not even a week, really, though we’d been worrying a little over…
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Chewie in Recovery
Or…The Adventure of Chewie Hutchison and The CONE of SHAME! On Thursday morning, I awoke to some terrible pain in my guts. I called in to work and took the day off. At first, I was worried that I was taking a sick day needlessly and it was just a little intestinal fit. I needn’t…
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Gasp! Not Dr. Wertham!
Oh. Turns out Dr. Wertham lied in that testimony to Congress.
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Chewie is out of surgery
Chewie’s anesthetic started around 4PM, and Dr. Corbin called at 4:10 to give us a final preliminary report before she started. At 7PM, she called us to let us know that his surgery went well. While they had him open, they did a test of a tiny scrape of his liver. The liver had appeared…
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Chewie: Good news and bad news
The bad news: Chewie has cancer. The good news: It is on one of his two kidneys. Tomorrow, surgeons at the University of Minnesota will operate and remove that kidney, and so long as the cancer is confined to that one kidney, that’s the end of it. Short of “turns out Chewie just had a…
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Please pray for Chewie
Our 3 1/2 year old standard poodle, Chewie, is in the hospital. He had had an eye infection 10 days ago, and our vet noticed that he had lost about six pounds. She asked us to keep an eye on his eating. After a week of his appearing listless and having little appetite, Melinda took…
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Still cold
Man, is it cold in Minnesota. Too cold to walk Chewie for more than 5 minutes.
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Obama Wins Reelection
An interesting thing about Democrat reaction tonight. NOBODY loves Obama. They just hate Romney. You know…I could understand the seething loathing from Democrats if we were running someone like Reagan-on-steroids, but in the last two elections our candidates were two of the most middling, almost-a-Democrat, reach-across-the-aisle non-partisans you could hope to find. One was a…
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That wage question
The sad thing is that the “women earn 72% of what a man earns for the exact same job” factoid is peddled by professors of women’s studies who earn the same amount as for a professor of something useful like astronomy.
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