Welcome to SURGERY WEEK!

Thurston has his knee surgery tomorrow. He's the only one who gets a hospital stay out of it. He won't be home until Tuesday.

Chris has his hernia surgery on Tuesday. He comes home on Tuesday as well.

There will be lots of pain pills being doled out at our household over the next few days. I will just be taking advil.

Ahh... so it's NOT Thurston who's having the Hernia Op... :blush:

Hugs & Best wishes for a speedy recovery and very little pain.

...and the same to Thurston & Chris.


BTW: Chris, make sure you get one of those little bedside bells to ring every few minutes for a glass of water, or a piece of toast, or to have the channel changed..... :evil:

Lashbear - you're going to get a beating when you come here in April.


No, Thurston has Luxating Patella - basically he's getting the groove under his kneecap deepened, his kneecap put back on and the tendon pinned to the bone. Not easy surgery - with a 8-12 week recovery time to boot. But, it is also a common surgery for small dogs and he's a young boy and should be ok. It's just a bit more dangerous because of the anesthesia required. All of the Brachy Breeds have issues with anesthesia.

Chris is the one with the hernia - not an uncommon condition either. He should be recovered in about 2-3 weeks.

The doctor told both of us that it is better if he gets up and walks around, so I'll be the one ringing the bell. ;)

hernia....ugh. no kama sutra for a few weeks.


bummer.

here's to a speedy recovery :cheers:

Tonight was the last night of ZooLights. About 4:00 it started snowing. By 7:00 we had two inches of lovely, but wet and sloppy snow. Attendance was about 1200, so it was an OK night.

With our having to shut down the week before Christmas, I'm estimating that we lost about 50,000 in attendance.

ouch

Get better quick you two.
:)

Just popping in to say hello. Been quite busy lately and have not been online a whole lot.
Been thinking of all y'all and wish everyone a wonderful 2009. I love the NYE pics at Lisa and Chris' place.
:)

Indeed just listened to the podcast - I wonder how many times this story has played out with a different cast of characters ;)

To be fair, those were GREAT games (I was a good boy and TiVo'd them so I got helping brownie points).