Random Thoughts

Ok, it's been a long time since I've posted (again). Twins take much more time than you can ever imagine. We've had a few healthscares, but they basically come down to monitoring one baby for the next couple of years until she either outgrows her renal reflux (bladder backing up into her right kidney) or it's fixed via surgery. Other than that, they are healthy, happy, entertaining babies that give us no end of joy, or is it delirium from lack of sleep?

On a much less happy note, our puppy is not doing so well. He basically collapsed in the kitchen on Monday (Labor Day) so we took him to the emergency vet. It turns out he had a softball sized tumor in his spleen which had burst and caused him to bleed out into his abdomen. They took him into surgery where they removed his spleen and biopsied his liver. They believe it is a kind of cancer common to Golden Retrievers called hemangiosarcoma. We're still waiting for the results of the biopsies. If this is what it is, he has only a couple of weeks to a couple of months to live (if we're lucky.) He is home with us now, and we are trying to feed him all kinds of food that might interest him and help him gain back some weight. I was looking forward to the girls growing up with him and am very sad that this will probably not happen now. Please keep him in your thoughts.