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Patience Please
Kathryn Magendie
from Patience Please
on Sunday November 25th, 2012 at 09:24 PM
Want to read a good book - or four? Early in my blogging adventure, I found the blog of a magical man in Canada. We became friends. I developed a deep affection and admiration for this person I'd never met. So much so, that when he died after contracting esophageal cancer, I mourned.Barry introduced me to another blog writer, Kat. "I think you will enjoy her writing," he said. "She's good." And, as was often the case, my friend Barry was right. Kat is a good writer. In the time that I've...
I am a Tiger.
from Patience Please
on Tuesday November 20th, 2012 at 05:36 PM
I worked the weekend. It wasn't a horrible weekend. I finished work and left the hospital at 8:00 PM on Sunday. Not bad at all. Monday morning the dogs let us sleep until 6:15, woohoo! Fat Charlie had some diarrhea during the night, sometime after he asked and we let him go out at 1:30 AM. It wasn't hard to clean. He can't help it. I don't care. Oh I hate cleaning dogshit as much as anyone, but I don't care. He is the World's Best Oldest Dog In Our House. Pottied dogs, fed dogs, washed dog...A Fitting Life
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on Friday November 16th, 2012 at 08:02 PM
photo credit: my dear friend Laurie EricksonDo you ever feel that you were plopped into someone else's life? Or that your life is somehow a size too large or small? That whole drink me eat me Alice in Wonderland scene. I do. It is difficult toacknowledge, much less write about; then again, the writing gods have been partying elsewhere for so long, might as well. "Might as well, as well as not, once the pants is down." I cannot say 'might as well' without hearing my sainted mother-in-law's...Fat Charlie is Okay
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on Thursday November 15th, 2012 at 09:28 PM
I was going to title this simply "Fat Charlie" but when you have a fifteen and a half year old dog, and you title your blog post "Fat Charlie" everyone would gasp and think that he died. So I added the "is okay" to prevent heart attacks among Fat Charlie's many dear friends. Here he is, right this very minute, lying next to my chair as I type. He's okay. He has laryngeal paralysis. It doesn't bother him mostly, but three times in the last year (most recently Monday morning before I left for...On the subject of sags
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on Friday October 26th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
----- I bent over to give Mama Pajama some fresh water and some scritches; it's part of our bed time ritual. "Do you realize how much weight you've lost in your butt and your legs," asked Bill? We have changed what we eat. Radically. I looked at my thighs and, as best as I could, my butt. "They sure are saggy," I said. "I have old lady saggy thighs." "Yes," said Bill. We laughed. He tried to make it better. "I mean," he said, "you have other parts that sag much worse than your thighs." We...Now Breathe
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on Thursday September 13th, 2012 at 12:22 AM
photo Ober Kline Bill had his gallbladder out on August 16th. Plain old laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Only, when his surgeon (whom I know professionally pretty well from work) came into the surgical waiting room to tell me everything went fine, he was not wearing his "everything went fine" expression. He face said, "God I hate having to tell people stuff like this." My heart screamed. There was something wrong in the intra-operative cholangiogram. (After they take out the gall bladder they...Life with Two Very Old Dogs
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on Friday March 30th, 2012 at 10:22 PM
14 years Only my very new readers won't recognize Fat Charlie and Mama Pajama. They are litter mates who were born in June of 1997, which - for the math-challenged folks like me - means they'll be fifteen in June of this year. Fifteen. 3 months They have been best pals. They grew up chasing each other, curled up together, playing tug of war with countless toys. I don't understand whenpeoplesay it's a bad idea to keep two puppies. How could seeing the above photo all the time in real life...
Radish RULES!
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on Thursday March 29th, 2012 at 08:42 PM
Radish is whippetdom's most favorite root vegetable. (Now there is a sentence you won't read every day!) She belongs to a friend and lives in Virginia. Prepare to be stunned, bedazzled, excited, confounded, awed, stupefied, astonished, electrified. And then, check this out: Is that not the MOST amazing skill you have ever seen? Yes. It is! It's already got over 202,000 views!!! Now, Rads has already got a gig on a Japanese TV show, and she's working on Letterman, Ellen (I just think she has...
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