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Maggie Mae

Carter at Christmas

I realized I haven't been on here in awhile to update some things. Here is what we found out last week.

Carter will be having surgery in Rapid City on March 3. He has to be there at 5:30am so we will be going up on Tuesday night. Pray for him to stay healthy and for the roads to be clear so we can go. They will look for any scar tissue from his previous surgery and remove any if found and then will see how 'bound' his bladder is. Dr. Waller said he will stretch the bladder out a bit if he thinks it's necessary. Then Carter will go to recovery for a couple hours and if all goes well, we will head home.

Maggie got her stitches out of her mouth on Wednesday. Dr. Mitchell is waiting for the biopsy still to see if the tumor she removed is cancerous. I was concerned that the tumor was growing back but she doesn't think it is which is great! Kaitlin went with Josh to the vet to have Mag's stitches removed and Kait said Maggie hated the whole experience. (surprise, surprise) So we are keeping our fingers crossed that Maggie is going to be okay. She is like a family member to us all in my house. Even the day she was at the vet the daycare kids kept asking for her and saying how strange it was that we only had one dog here.

I am happy to say that today marks a year that I have not been smoking. We went through so much last year so I was very proud to pull through everything cigarette-free. It wasn't always easy so I thank all of you who helped me along the way and supported me. Josh has been smoke-free since a year ago New Year's Eve. We talk about it a lot and are thankful we are that much healthier and can spend our cigarette money on better things. We have been saving up to go on a trip somewhere fun with the kids. We haven't decided where to go yet but Kylah reminds me daily that Disney World or Disney Land is her choice. :)

I have the CSC childcare conference tomorrow in Chadron to get my credit hours for daycare. I have to be over there by 7am to help with registration. I have missed the last two years and have had to go to Gering for their conference in October each year so I really wanted to make it to Chadron this year to save on traveling.

I am thankful it's Friday. I hope you all have a great weekend!!!

A Good Sunday

I had a great weekend! We went to some friends' house last night for the ultimate fighting and enjoyed some social life and a few drinks. Then today was more of a 'work day' but relaxing. The kids were in Scottsbluff with Nick and Mary and Josh had to work 3am-9am on the roads so when he got home he slept until 1pm and I worked non-stop on tax stuff. Ughhh! I think we are ready to go to the tax man and see how things go for us.

This afternoon the kids returned home and we watched the Super Bowl. I was leaning towards the Colts to win but didn't really care. I thought it would be neat for the Saints to win their first Super Bowl experience so either way, I guess it didn't matter who won. The one thing I enjoyed besides the commercials, was that it was an actual great game with few penalties and a lot of really great plays.

Now reality is back for me. I take Carter to the Urologist tomorrow and we drop Maggie off at the vet for her mouth to be looked at. I pray all is well with her and I hope we can figure out the next plan to take with Carter. He told me earlier he can't wait to see Dr. Waller because he missed him so much. (He has only seen him twice. LOL)

Have a great week and stay warm. We are supposed to have a high of ten degrees here tomorrow....

Monday Appointments

This coming Monday I am taking Carter and Maggie to Chadron. Carter and I are dropping Maggie off at the vet to have a biopsy done on a sore in her mouth. The doctor said it could possibly be cancer or that the size of sore above her gum may be caused from a bone fragment that got lodged in there. Either way, she needs to put her 'under' to see what the problem is. We are praying, praying, PRAYING it is not cancer! When the doctor told me that I instantly felt beyond sad!

After we take Mag to the vet then Carter and I are going to see Dr. Waller from Rapid at the Chadron Hospital for a checkup from Carter's previous surgery in August. We are concerned as I don't feel the surgery has helped Carter at all. He is still having accidents and he is totally bummed and embarrassed about it. SO I am hoping the doctor will have some further ideas to explore.

I am so glad it's Friday! Carter and I are off to get haircuts.