Sunday Update

Goliath is doing better. His swollen paw has reduced in size almost to normal, and he can walk on it without limping, but it must still bother him because he still walks slowly.

We still are not sure if we are going to take him to the vet tomorrow morning to board him. He has been drinking a lot less water, and therefore peeing a lot less.

One weird thing, he yelps in pain when he tries to eat hard things. I gave him a dime sized piece of a cracker, and he yelped and dropped it out of his mouth. He won't can't eat his kibble. We thought he just wasn't hungry. Fortunately last night I thought serving his kibble moistened would help. I added ½ cup of hot water to 2 cups of dry kibble and stirred it up. He didn't stop eating until the bowl was finished! He was probably starving and we didn't know it. Glad I tried.

I tried looking in his mouth to see if I could see anything, but he yelped when I tried to open his mouth. My guess is that either they nicked his gums when they inserted the respirator tube or maybe tied his jaw open, or maybe they had his jaw forced open too wide and his jaw joint hurts to open wide or to put pressure on it. Also, maybe the muscles he uses to chew are somehow related to his neck muscles that were disturbed when they removed his lymph nodes.

I was able to keep it going for almost three hours last night of Dune. When I couldn't take it anymore, I went upstairs during an intermission and just started surfing the web for a while. This was around 8:00 PM. My eyes started to get tired, so I thought I would go watch a little CNN in the bedroom. I feel hard asleep until about 10:30 PM. By then everyone had left. Since I had a nice power nap, I was wide awake until about 5:00 AM.

Today we didn’t do much of anything. Slept in obviously. Watched CNN. Played on the computers. It is so nice to have the weekend free from worrying about writing a paper for school. I am enjoying and appreciating it fully.

Yesterday I finally did a water change on the aquarium. It has been several months. The tank always seems like it glows a bright blue right after a water change. I think we will buy a new fish soon since the tank is fresh again. We only have our huge plecostomus, one cichlid, three silver dollar fish, and one silver hatchet. I think we might try breeding guppies next. Maybe buy 20 of them and see how many babies we can get them to have. Not fancy guppies, so if the cichlid eats them, no big loss.

We always get a laugh from the commercials on TV for correspondence courses offering to teach people how to "do" computers. Maybe I will put that on my resume. "I can do computers."

Tonight is Drudge radio night at 9:00 PM Chicago time. I always look forward to that. I don't know if I will watch the Oscar's. My favorite is the red carpet stuff with Joan Rivers on the E! network, but they aren't having that tonight because of safety concerns.