2016 Here I Come!
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Minnies Surgery
Minnie Bear was taken to the emergency room at the UC Davis Vet hospital Sunday January 25th at 5pm because she had not eaten since Friday night January 23rd, and she was vomiting everything including water. On Friday evening, we gave her a bone to lick on, but when we returned, she has somehow chewed the bone down and half of it was gone! By Sat. morning, she had vomited and pooed everywhere poor baby. She didn't eat or drink again. She just laid around, not whining or whimpering, no crying or anything, so we didn't really know what was wrong. We just thought she got a bug from the bone. When Sunday rolled around, she wasn't doing any better. Aunt Sally convinced us to take her to the emergency room.
At 5pm we still weren't convinced that she needed an emergency room visit, but we tried to give her her favorite snack and she wouldn't eat it, so we decided to go to the emergency room just for peace of mind.
When we got there, the news got worse and worse and worse. At first, they thought she might have just scraped her throat with the bone pieces, and maybe a soothing agent would help. At this point, we had the option to confirm this with Xrays ($300) or take the soothing agent ($10) and go home. We decided to do the xrays (we love our bear). The Xrays showed two blockages on her intestines to which they said she needed emergency surgery to remove. They said if we had waited until the morning, she very well could have been dead. They told us that if the blockages were complete, that her intestines would have begun dying already, and the dead parts would have to be removed. Immediately before surgery, they did an ultra sound to get a better idea of where the blockages were and how severe the situation was at each point. They told us it looked like there was fluid surrounding her intestines indicating that the bone could have ripped a hole in her intestines causing them to leak into her abdomen. This, they said, might cause pancreatitis from which many dogs die. This could also lead to bacterial infections, etc etc. Needless to say, we weren't sure she would survive through recovery.
At 11:36, our surgeon called and said that the situation was much better than they thought. The first blockage wasn't a blockage at all, it was water that Dave was giving Minnie bear before we went to the vet, and it looked like a blockage in the ultrasound b/c of how the intestines were wound up there. The second blockage was built up bone pieces gathering at the junction between the small and large intestines (but still in the small). The surgeon made an incision to remove the blockage, and then stitched her back up. No leakage, no tears, no pancreatitis or bacterial infections, no removal of intestines, etc etc. He said she's already awake from anesthesia and recovering very well. WHEW! Dave and I are SOOO relieved! We were terrified. They even said she might be able to come home tomorrow night if she starts eating. They originally told us she'd have to stay 3 days for monitoring.
What a terrible weekend for our poor bear. We are very very very relieved.
Whew,
Tami Joy & Dave Schlaws
Update: It is Saturday Jan 31 and Minnie is doing MUCH better. She is slowly returning to normal. She does very good with her collar on, but she is annoyed she cant get under the bed (her favorite and safest spot ever).
At 5pm we still weren't convinced that she needed an emergency room visit, but we tried to give her her favorite snack and she wouldn't eat it, so we decided to go to the emergency room just for peace of mind.
When we got there, the news got worse and worse and worse. At first, they thought she might have just scraped her throat with the bone pieces, and maybe a soothing agent would help. At this point, we had the option to confirm this with Xrays ($300) or take the soothing agent ($10) and go home. We decided to do the xrays (we love our bear). The Xrays showed two blockages on her intestines to which they said she needed emergency surgery to remove. They said if we had waited until the morning, she very well could have been dead. They told us that if the blockages were complete, that her intestines would have begun dying already, and the dead parts would have to be removed. Immediately before surgery, they did an ultra sound to get a better idea of where the blockages were and how severe the situation was at each point. They told us it looked like there was fluid surrounding her intestines indicating that the bone could have ripped a hole in her intestines causing them to leak into her abdomen. This, they said, might cause pancreatitis from which many dogs die. This could also lead to bacterial infections, etc etc. Needless to say, we weren't sure she would survive through recovery.
At 11:36, our surgeon called and said that the situation was much better than they thought. The first blockage wasn't a blockage at all, it was water that Dave was giving Minnie bear before we went to the vet, and it looked like a blockage in the ultrasound b/c of how the intestines were wound up there. The second blockage was built up bone pieces gathering at the junction between the small and large intestines (but still in the small). The surgeon made an incision to remove the blockage, and then stitched her back up. No leakage, no tears, no pancreatitis or bacterial infections, no removal of intestines, etc etc. He said she's already awake from anesthesia and recovering very well. WHEW! Dave and I are SOOO relieved! We were terrified. They even said she might be able to come home tomorrow night if she starts eating. They originally told us she'd have to stay 3 days for monitoring.
What a terrible weekend for our poor bear. We are very very very relieved.
Whew,
Tami Joy & Dave Schlaws
Update: It is Saturday Jan 31 and Minnie is doing MUCH better. She is slowly returning to normal. She does very good with her collar on, but she is annoyed she cant get under the bed (her favorite and safest spot ever).
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Yes We Can
Dave and I are so proud to have voted for Barack Obama, this nation's first African American President. We look forward to supporting him and watching/participating as the nation slowly recovers from the past 8 terrible years.We are also proud that Prop 4 did not pass. It is extremely unfortunate that Prop 8 did pass, but we will continue the fight for equality. Equal rights have never been won over night. Eventually, though, gay marriage will be legal in this state, and also country.
This has been an historic evening for us. We are tearful, cheerful, and in awe of what our country has achieved and at the same time in shock and saddened by the discriminatory thinking of many our home state. Our confusion stems from this question: Why do you care? Legalizing gay marriage doesn't affect anyone at all, other than those who wish to marry the one they love but can't. Discrimination is always wrong. And it will always be overcome in the end. That's the true promise of this country.
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for." We will never give up faith that one day people will not be discriminated against for any reason.
This straight couple supports gay marriage rights. It's wrong to take away someone's civil right to enter into a civil marriage.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Boot Camp Challenge
Now we want to run the Boot Camp Challenge!
http://www.bootcampchallenge.com/
During the Mud Run, the marines were very nice and supportive. During the Boot Camp Challenge, they are also "encouraging" (notice the quotes) in true marine style! Sweet!! Looks like fun, huh?
a-thon-ers
Dave and I recently ran the world famous Mud Run at Camp Pendleton!
http://www.camppendletonraces.com/asymca.html
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Kiva.org
About a year ago, Dave and I loaned $25 to a woman in Azerbaijan so she could get her retail store off the ground. We did it through a website: www.kiva.org
Our profile/lending page can be seen here:
http://www.kiva.org/lender/schlaws
The reason I'm 'blogging' about it is because we recently had our loan fully repaid! I wasn't sure if that was going to happen - you never know these days. Now I have 100% faith in this website, and I encourage you to take a look at the people you can lend to, just to see if it's something you'd be interested in! I love that I can give my money directly to a person in another country to help them out, rather than donating to some organization that supposedly spreads the money around to those who need it. The coolest thing is that you can read the background story of each person requesting a loan, and in doing so, can find someone who really pulls at your heartstrings and loan to them!
To continue the story, we took our repaid $25 and loaned it to a 22 year-old woman in Peru so she can expand her general store. So cool!
Our profile/lending page can be seen here:
http://www.kiva.org/lender/schlaws
The reason I'm 'blogging' about it is because we recently had our loan fully repaid! I wasn't sure if that was going to happen - you never know these days. Now I have 100% faith in this website, and I encourage you to take a look at the people you can lend to, just to see if it's something you'd be interested in! I love that I can give my money directly to a person in another country to help them out, rather than donating to some organization that supposedly spreads the money around to those who need it. The coolest thing is that you can read the background story of each person requesting a loan, and in doing so, can find someone who really pulls at your heartstrings and loan to them!
To continue the story, we took our repaid $25 and loaned it to a 22 year-old woman in Peru so she can expand her general store. So cool!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Portland
This is me presenting my poster in Portland last week. Before and During. I won the "Best Coordinated With Their Poster" award! Now I can say that I presented an award winning poster on my CV. Sweet! Portland was colder than I thought it would be. I met a TON of people, and now I'm glad to be home with my two bears!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Minnie and Me
Tami is away at her CNS conference and its just Minnie and Me. Minnie sure does miss Tami. We have been slouching around the house and watching movies until Tami comes home!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Stroller training for Minnie
Tami and David feel that Minnie is not pampered enough. So we are starting to stroller train her. (Just kidding, we are not that nutty of dog people... yet.)
Welcome the the Schlaws' Blog
Hello everyone! We (80% David, 19% Tami, 1% Minnie) have decided to make a Schlaws blog. What does Schlaws mean? Well, if you take Tami's last name Schlichter and David's last name Haws, and smash them together you get Schlaws. Will we continue to blog? Who knows!
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