Posts made in November, 2010

Under the Weather

Posted by Administrator on Nov 29, 2010 in Me | 0 comments

I so suck at blogging…

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I was sick. We ate our Thanksgiving stuff on Tuesday because we thought my hubby was going to go down to his mom’s house on Thanksgiving (I planned to stay behind with all the pets). I don’t know if I ate something that didn’t agree with me or came down with something or what, but starting Wednesday I was completely zapped of energy, exhausted, hardly any appetite and felt sick to my stomach. That lasted Wednesday, Thursday and part of Friday. And actually, though my stomach is fine and my appetite is more or less back, I still don’t feel like I’ve gotten all my energy back. (Hubby ended up staying home with me since I didn’t feel well. Awww)

I skipped running for 3 straight days while I recovered. When I went out to run Saturday morning, I only did 1.5 miles before I started feeling shaky so I quit. Then this morning I managed to run 5K but man it was a struggle. I ran really slow and just did not feel my usual self out there. I think it’s going to take a few more times until I can manage my 10K run.

Ugh. Not sure what is going on

Been a while…

Posted by Administrator on Nov 6, 2010 in Hubby, Me, The Cats, The Dogs | 0 comments

Been a while since I’ve posted a blog.

This is what happens when you do the same things over and over. You really have nothing to blog about.

Dr. Nefarious and Zoni are doing great. We got Nefarious neutered and a few weeks later got Zoni spayed. They are top-notch. Zoni had to wear the dreaded cone for a few days because her incision got a little infected, but it looks great now. She’s way more active without that cone on. Heh.

Ratchet and Clank are doing well overall. We switched their food over to The Honest Kitchen’s Preference formula. It’s a dehydrated fruit & veggie base mix that you add water to (to rehydrate) and then you add in your own meat. I’ve been cooking up ground beef to add to it. (Might try other meats down the line – chicken, turkey, etc.) This is my attempt at eliminating questionable ingredients that may or may not be linked to seizures (rosemary extract) and also trying to get Ratchet’s allergies more under control.  They have been on it for … I dunno, 3 weeks? But for most of that time they were still getting some of their regular dog food as well (I wanted to do a gradually switch — easier on the stomach).  Ratchet is still itchy, but I know it takes awhile if it is indeed food related. We had to get him on steroids for a couple of weeks because he was just chewing himself like crazy. For the weeks he was on the steroid it was awesome — absolutely no itching — but he’s been off of that for almost a week now and he’s back at it. I DO think his frequent ear problems were food related, as those have been under control for the past couple of months with food switches, but it’s possible the rest of his problems are environmental. We’ll see.  I will say that I think both dogs’ fur feels softer since being on The Honest Kitchen. Not that they didn’t have soft fur before, but I definitely feel a difference (for the better). As far as the seizures, *knock on wood* everything is good with that. None since being on the medication for them. Just taking it day by day and keeping my fingers crossed.

Hubby is good … going to work, playing video games, being awesome … the usual

Me – Still doing my running. I’m doing the two days on, one day off schedule. I’d still doing 5K on my “short” days and 10K on my “long” days. Well, that’s the distance that my GPS app on my phone says. My (still) uncalibrated Nike+ has me going farther (and faster) but I know that’s inaccurate, so I go with the lesser distance. In hindsight, I should have gone up a size in my running shoes. I bought my normal shoe size and that might have been a mistake. I don’t think I have enough room in the toe box, as the second toenail on my left foot has turned a lovely shade of dark purple. The nail is a little sore when you press on it but it’s not really bothersome so I assume it’s not a big deal. It wouldn’t surprise me if I lose that nail at some point though.