This Week...

***I wrote this post over the weekend and I am now just publishing it. FYI if you subscribe to posts via email they will often post to your email a day later.  Enjoy!*** This week, it felt like a century! Last weekend, Father's Day weekend, began with Drew declaring that he wanted his parking spot back.  In other words,  the eight yards of mulch that has been sitting at the end of...

Bitter Sweet Homecoming...

After what I believe was one of the shortest hospital stays in the history of hospital admissions for us, we came home. Lucy is not any better than when we brought her through those doors yesterday afternoon.  Truth be told, she really isn't going to get any better. There was nothing too outstanding in Lucy's lab work that indicated to us that there is something treatable going on with our...

Uncertain...

Things with Miss Lucy have not been good.  Sadly the boost we were hoping to get from the blood transfusion two weeks ago was not the answer to her problems, not that we really thought that it was.  Lucy has numerous issues, and as our wise(aleck) doc pointed out to me tonight when I asked him what he thought could be causing her most recent issues he responded with, "Do you mean mitochondrial...

A much needed boost...

Since having surgery seventeen days ago, this has pretty much been the scene around our house... Sleeping Beauty is certainly living up to her name, sleeping up to 24 hours some days!  Sleepy, sleepy, sleepy Lucy. We are not sure yet what to make of all of this, but there has been a lot of talk about disease progression...sigh.  This latest surgery appears to have taken...