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The Fine Line of Multiculturalism
I once had to do a mulitcultural appreciation session at a Fortune 500 company that you would recognize. This nice lady said that we needed to appreciate how many cultures are very different from ours.
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Attending Social Media Residency today
I’m attending a sort of class on the use of social media, called the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Residency #MCCSM. (See pics.) My blogs TheHutch and Monitor Duty have been quite neglected. Now I’m learning about how to commit to putting out at least a little content and then reinforcing the content with…
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I Am Out Of The Hospital
Let’s back up a bit. I haven’t updated the blog in a while, so you don’t know all that’s going on. (I’m so neglectful, you may not even know that we got a new poodle named Murphy last September. Maybe I should do a post on that soon.) I walked a 5K on my birthday,…
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R.I.P. Chewbacca “Chewie” Hutchison, 2009-2013
Chewie’s final weekend convinced me that we were doing the right thing. It was a weekend where he slept when he wasn’t painfully coughing, and his only bright moments were when he got to eat snacks or chow down on some rotisserie chicken. I tried taking him for a walk, and we could only go…
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Chewie’s Farewell Tour
Chewie was doing so well that we didn’t pick up on the return of his cancer for a while. On July 3rd, I took Chewie out to the car. He planted his feet as we approached the car. That was odd, since he had once again enjoyed going to Leashes and Leads for doggy day…
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Dealing with doggy renal cancer
Two months later, here is where things stand with Chewie. He is, to use my wife’s phrase after his checkup last week, “healthy as a horse.” He has boundless energy, and he’s all atwitter that the long winter has finally ended. Taking him on a walk is like trying to hold on to a kid…
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Chewie one week later
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…
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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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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…