Gigi has pretty much full recovered from her abdominal surgery a few weeks ago. She has been enjoying long walks as she always does. However, she is still skittish about jumping from a chair in the kitchen next to the window, jumping from the sofa down to the floor, etc. She can jump UP on to the sofa... but she's skittish about jumping back down for some reason. I'm sure she'll eventually regain her confidence. Until then, I help her down.
The rains of a few days ago have subsided. However the skies today were full of black clouds. We will definately be getting more rain in the next six weeks.
At work I am building a new set of jobs to archive voyages from the Austraila CICS region. Our associates from TATA did the preliminary work of converting about 75 existing procs to use symbolic names instead of hard coded filenames. This way, the new procs will work for any CICS region. My job has been to build new job definitions in Control-M (a BMC job scheduler that runs on our IBM mainframe). I am in "testing" phase with the new jobs now, running them against the data files from one of our test systems.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Gigi is feeling much better today. She wanted to go for a longer walk today after work. She had some major excitement when she saw a large mouse cross her path along the sidewalk. Tonight I fed her half of a doggy biscuit. This evening she's happily chewing on a large (too big to swallow) white rawhide strip.
Today we had a good soaking rain here in southern california. It hasn't rained here since the end of December. The weather report predicts lots of rain tomorrow.
Today we had a good soaking rain here in southern california. It hasn't rained here since the end of December. The weather report predicts lots of rain tomorrow.
Sunday, February 09, 2003
I picked Gigi up from the vet saturday afternoon. She nudged her nose against the door - she knew she wanted out of that place! But then when she got outside she ran out of steam and couldn't make it over to the car. Sometimes when she gets tired or it's too hot she'll give me this look as if to say "dad? Can you carry me?" So I helped her into the car - she wouldn't have been able to make the jump anyway - she's pretty wobbly right now. She has been resting happily all day. She's still her old self because a cat showed up on a t.v. commercial and she started growling - maybe not as loud as when she's 100% but she noticed that cat!
And her appetite is back. At the vet before the released her, they gave her some fishy flavoured doggy food and man, she perked right up when she saw the plate of food and wolfed it down and licked the plate clean. After that I held a little cup of water and she lapped at that for quite a while. She was thirsty.
Saturday night I gave her some more soft food and she eagerly wolfed that down too and then she had a nice drink of water so that was good to see. I was worried she might not be able to eat. The doc said when they have to do these kind of operations that the problems happen from three to five days after the surgery so I hope she can pull through. She is a strong little dog so I'm sure she will.
Today she rested all day long. I took her outside a few times so she could get some fresh air. I sat over by the “kiddy area” is here in my complex and let her watch the kids playing on the jungle gym. She got to see one of the neighbor’s dogs – his name is “jack”. She couldn’t play with him like she usually does, but I’m sure she was glad to see him – he’s one of her favourites and he likes gigi too.
My friend Darlette has bought a new toy for Gigi. I’m sure Gigi will love her new toy – I always like to see her reaction when she gets a new toy. Funny how she can always tell that a toy is for her but some how she knows. Well it’s sleep time around here – all the lights are going out and I’m going to put Gigi to bed. She has been resting very very well and not fussing with her stitches. The vet explained something about that she put the stitches on the INSIDE so Gigi would feel less pain. Now how they do the stitches on the INSIDE I have no idea, but she’s right – you really can’t see any stitches on the outside at all.
I went over to the park sat morning to have a look around. I walked up to the end there where we play with the dogs and there wasn’t anybody there. I saw Jimmy – Risky’s owner and he told me that animal control had two vehicles out there the other night. They drove up there into the canyon area and showed the light on Carla – Grrrrr’s owner. Carla high-tailed it up into the canyons and they didn’t catch her – hah!
I walked back and forth in the grass looking for pieces of tennis balls. I just wanted to see if I could find any. Sure enough, I found three chunks about the size they pulled out of Gigi’s belly :-( And also – amazingly – I found a piece of surgical tubing – now how the HECK did that get down there in the grass. And if you look around, you see those plastic tops from sports bottles – know what I mean? There’s always this “prelim” plastic top on a sports bottle. You pull that off and then there’s the regular little top that’s fixed to the bottle itself. People typically throw that little “prelim” top wherever they feel like.... The govt should really ban those – just like they banned the removeable pull tabs from soda cans in the sixties.
And her appetite is back. At the vet before the released her, they gave her some fishy flavoured doggy food and man, she perked right up when she saw the plate of food and wolfed it down and licked the plate clean. After that I held a little cup of water and she lapped at that for quite a while. She was thirsty.
Saturday night I gave her some more soft food and she eagerly wolfed that down too and then she had a nice drink of water so that was good to see. I was worried she might not be able to eat. The doc said when they have to do these kind of operations that the problems happen from three to five days after the surgery so I hope she can pull through. She is a strong little dog so I'm sure she will.
Today she rested all day long. I took her outside a few times so she could get some fresh air. I sat over by the “kiddy area” is here in my complex and let her watch the kids playing on the jungle gym. She got to see one of the neighbor’s dogs – his name is “jack”. She couldn’t play with him like she usually does, but I’m sure she was glad to see him – he’s one of her favourites and he likes gigi too.
My friend Darlette has bought a new toy for Gigi. I’m sure Gigi will love her new toy – I always like to see her reaction when she gets a new toy. Funny how she can always tell that a toy is for her but some how she knows. Well it’s sleep time around here – all the lights are going out and I’m going to put Gigi to bed. She has been resting very very well and not fussing with her stitches. The vet explained something about that she put the stitches on the INSIDE so Gigi would feel less pain. Now how they do the stitches on the INSIDE I have no idea, but she’s right – you really can’t see any stitches on the outside at all.
I went over to the park sat morning to have a look around. I walked up to the end there where we play with the dogs and there wasn’t anybody there. I saw Jimmy – Risky’s owner and he told me that animal control had two vehicles out there the other night. They drove up there into the canyon area and showed the light on Carla – Grrrrr’s owner. Carla high-tailed it up into the canyons and they didn’t catch her – hah!
I walked back and forth in the grass looking for pieces of tennis balls. I just wanted to see if I could find any. Sure enough, I found three chunks about the size they pulled out of Gigi’s belly :-( And also – amazingly – I found a piece of surgical tubing – now how the HECK did that get down there in the grass. And if you look around, you see those plastic tops from sports bottles – know what I mean? There’s always this “prelim” plastic top on a sports bottle. You pull that off and then there’s the regular little top that’s fixed to the bottle itself. People typically throw that little “prelim” top wherever they feel like.... The govt should really ban those – just like they banned the removeable pull tabs from soda cans in the sixties.
edit your blog:Last night I called my sister Karen in Duvall, Washington and talked with her about the Huell Howser shows. I also called my Uncle Ken and told him about the Palm Springs shows.
I have been watching the Huell Howser series on Palm Springs on KCET this past week. He went to "The Living Desert" and did a show about that. He walked thru Palm Canyon with famous architectural photographer (?) Schulman - very good show. And spoke with one of the Mayors of Palm Springs from way way back in the 1950's. A guy who was behind the creation of the famous Thunderbird Golf Course. The shows are available on DVD if you're interested. Try www.californiagold.com or www.kcet.org or run a search on Huell Howser for more info.
My Cairn Terrier Gigi became very ill today. I took her to the vet and they ran tests on her all day. X-rays showed that she had swallowed something in her stomach. I knew what it was - cut up pieces of tennis balls that she had found at a park I take her to. I took her to Chatoak pet hospital in Northridge today.
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