https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/The black comedy account of dealing with a signifigant other's illness, their family, and the fallout there within!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/452204This isn't really about Tony's illness, but rather about before his illness. Before he got sick he... Heartily drank Guiness products; no slouch with the Smithwicks, he joined in, happily belching, swaying, and fumbling along with me. One time, he jumped on our neighbor's car in a pouring,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/451265I've already talked about the miracles of technological advances in modern medicine. I mean, Thank God for the brilliant people who are born who have the brainpower and imagination to realize these wonderful instruments and make dreams a reality! I'm not so sure when the tube was invented, but...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/450373Like I've been saying, there's many a way to pass the time in the hospital. There's the TV - the most obvious. There's reading - I especially like it when I forget new reading material and I'm forced to read the back of shampoo bottles and the like! There's only so many times I can read the menu...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/449827Any kind of surgery sucks. Any kind. About 11 years ago, I had surgery to remove a benign cyst on my tailbone. First they thought it was about the size of a quarter, but when the surgeon got in there, whoo, doggy! It ended up being the size of a grapefruit, I had 55 stitches going down my ass,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/449692Ah, yes... the immortal words of Homer J. Simpson. I have found myself quoting him more and more during this rather fun journey. You know, there's a lot of things that go up/down, in/out, back/forth, etc. at the hospital? When you're trying to occupy your time, you find out all kinds of cool...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/449223So this is how it goes - "Honey, do my eyes look yellow?" - Ah, yes - always the first question. One minute, I am talking to him in the kitchen, and the next - usually about 15 to 20 minutes later - I notice that I haven't seen him. Then I see the light on in the bathroom. Just so you know, I...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/448948"Are you cooking Indian food?" "It smells like Indian spices in here." "Did you make something, uh, 'foreign' for dinner?" "Are you using incense?" The comments of my future mother-in-law. Prone to self-righteousness and the disease of...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/448524April 30,2005 We had 2 cute puppies. Two puppies. A girl and a boy, a sister and a brother. They were soo freakin' cute! Two little blobs of love, little shih tzus with these little football-shaped heads. The little boy was brindle - brown, with a little black beard around his little mouth, his...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/448511"Visiting" for me has not been those 1 hour, "how-dee-doo" kind of visits. We're talking looong haul, days, hours at a time. I'd watch Tony sleep with 9 trillion thoughts racing through my head varying from utter terror to complete and total love for him. But the long, endless days...my wandering...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/FirstTheDogDied/44849812 trips to the hospital, with varying degrees of success on my honey, Tony's, part, I came up with some useful food trickery that I find helpful to those of us who are forever deemed..."The Visitor"... 1. The Patient Kitchen: Ah, yes - every floor has a patient kitchen. There's one thing you...