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Hunting lizards in the drain pipe for hours today... something she hasn't been able to do for months now. Yep. Back to normal. And yes, I'm beating myself up for not recognizing that she was seriously ill and getting worse for months. But as Mr. Zog said, we just didn't know. We assumed old...

Maggie had her follow-up appointment at the vet yesterday. The blood test was fine, and everything looks good. The liver function value we are watching is ALT (alanine aminotransferase). The normal value for Maggie is between 10 and 118. When she was admitted to the hospital last week, it was...

Oooh @Welsh, I have been to Wales a couple of times, but it was a long time ago. I used to visit the Somerset/Gloucestershire/Herefordshire area quite a bit back then, I had friends there. As for Wales, Caerphilly, Castell Coch, Chepstow, and Tintern Abbey are the ones I remember visiting.

Soooo... today I had another job offer. From a journal called Anesthesiology. Well known, well respected. Turns out someone at the AHA recommended me. Anesthesiology is offering me a regular position, meaning 2-4 full-length manuscripts per week. Together with the AHA, that's close to full-time...

And Sammy the day we got him from Wet Nose in Bronkhorstspruit. He was 12 weeks old:

When we got Maggie, she was 7 weeks old. We found her in the Pretoria Junk Mail for 100 rand. There was an advert for a "Jack Russell type puppy." She was so tiny, she slept in my shoe. The next day I took her to the vet to have her checked and vaccinated, and the vet back then told me, after...

Maggie is back to normal. In the hope that it may help someone else, here is what happened. We had noticed over the last couple of months that she was getting slow, wobbly, and disoriented and confused. We had to pick her up and set her down, lift her in and out of her basket, carry her out to...

Book 12 of 2025: On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder If you only read one book this year, make it this. It's short and to the point, and I read it in about one hour. * Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth, he has carefully...

Book 11 of 2025: Paladin's Strength (Saint of Steel Series #2) - T. Kingfisher I read the first book of this series last year and loved it. It made me realize that there are fantasy novels out there that I can read. I've rejected the fantasy genre out of hand ever since I attempted to read...

The patient is home. With a ton of meds. She has a follow-up appointment to check liver values next Wednesday. And she was totally filthy and stinky. So unfortunately we had to have a B-A-T-H. It was not appreciated. I'm wetter than the dog.

Maggie's liver values have decreased even more and she is ready to come home. Apparently she's raising all hell at the vet :rolleyes: Mr. Zog will fetch her after work. 😊

MAGGIE UPDATE Tuesday evening, 18:30 here. Just talked to our beloved vet (and I mean that sincerely - she is the best and we trust her 100%). Maggie's liver values are coming down, she is responding to the steroid treatment. All other lab values look "great." She said Maggie is "feisty" and...

This is the situation. The vet will test her liver values again this afternoon. If they have improved, she can come home with low-dose steroids. If there is no change or the values have worsened, we will have to let little Maggie go. The only other alternative would be gallbladder removal. A...

Know when to give up and have a margarita. Or two. Or three. Last year, after going to Germany to see my family, I decided that I have to go once a year. My mother isn't getting any younger (last month was her 75th birthday), and she really misses me. So Thursday evening I tried to find a...

We're ok. We're going through some trials and tribulations... Mr. Zog's phone died and he had to get a new one. A few days later mine died (what are the odds). I had to get a new one. More money we don't really have. The doggies are giving us heartaches. Maggie is 16 now. She's half blind...