I wanted to let you know that Chewie is finally getting some energy back. He’s had a rough week of recovery, but we’ve had a lot of encouraging signs recently. After so many days of hard sleeping, weakness and wooziness, he seems to have perked up. Last night he actually pulled out some of his …
Category Archive: Personal Life
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Feb 23
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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Feb 22
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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Feb 21
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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Feb 19
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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Feb 19
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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Dec 29
My Diet Tools
UPDATED August 2011: I fixed the links for the blender to go to the revised model. These are the things which have helped me to lose 30-35 lbs. in 2009. Walking our Labradoodle, Layla, is what got me started losing weight and getting fit back in June. After a few months, I was down 10 …
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Aug 06
The Adventure of The Dental Mouthpiece
Several years ago, my old dentist pointed out that I had ground my incisors flat. Where most people have nice protruding incisors, mine are even with the height of the rest of the teeth. I had never realized this. What’s worse, no dentist had ever pointed this out before. Years and years of check-ups, and …
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May 20
Piano we’re giving away
When we moved into our house in 2001, this piano was in the basement. We really need the storage space, so we’re giving it away to anyone who will move it themselves. We’ll have to saw off the old rusty railing on our steps just to get it out the door, but we were replacing …
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