Mother of all updates

Okay, it’s been a while, time to let some cats out of some bags, spill some beans, something.

First of all, Maren has been through the level II ultrasound, and the fetal echo, both were fine and no problems have been detected. She and the baby are doing very well.

Our real problem child has been our dog Molly. For the last year she had been mopey and generally lethargic, but it seemed to be getting worse. First she stopped being able to jump up on the bed, then get into the car, and finally she couldn’t even jump up onto my lap when I was sitting at the computer and she had always been able to do that. We took her to the vet and in the process of them doing blood work in preparation to sedate her for x-rays, they discovered her thyroid was signficantly low. And on top of that, the x-rays showed a bladder stone that we were told may need to be surgically removed.

After a few weeks on thyroid medication, she has returned to the dog of old, energetic and playful. She can jump up on the bed again and is doing much better. Then we took her to get groomed and the groomer cleaned a patch off of her back that went all the way to the skin, which is when we discovered she had a minor skin infection. So, back to medication and weekly shampooings, and her skin is looking better. This morning she kept shaking her head and scratching her ears. Fortunately she had a check up scheduled for this morning and we were told she had an infection in her ear and we had extra steps now to do during her bath, mainly making sure her ears get dried out.

As you can see, she’s been pretty high maintenance for the past few months.

The other big thing going on is that we are having an addition put on the house. It took longer to get started than I thought, but we finally have a builder and we should be signing a contract for that next week. We’re hoping he can get started right when we get back from vacation. The plan is to add a single-car garage and a second floor bonus room. We’re going to hope it’ll be completed before the baby comes. At the very least all the major stuff will be done by the end of the summer.

Speaking of which, we’ll be heading to Wisconsin for the first time in a few years. It’ll be nice to get out of NC for a little while.

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