All 3 Angels on #Flashback Friday

Once again I am linking up to the

#Flashback Friday Blog Hop

hosted by the FiveSibes and

you can too.  

You have all week to travel down memory lane and

find a foto of your pet - no matter if that pet is a 

dog, kitty, bird, rabbit or lizard or ?????

Yep, you guessed it - another fav foto- 

this time Shiloh, look close & you will find Oreo

(you have to look for the little black blob) &

their Westie fur-cousin, McKailie

who all went to "talk" to Santa

(I think that was either Christmas 2003 or 2004)

All 3 angels are up at the Rainbow Bridge playing together.

~Mom Kim~

NEED SOME HELP OR THOUGHTS AND POTP

Mom Kim here -

Here is Lord Shiloh this past late summer

...and here he is now

These pictures, some taken today and other times at 

various stages of the lesion's development -

they get worse then heal then come back.
Oh - you can't tell but some of the lesions are on different parts of his body-
side, tummy and he has a couple along his spine but
they never have opened into sores.
They do itch a little off and on but
he rarely bothers them.

The vet said it was ringworm and after checking out

THIS ARTICLE

I would likely agree EXCEPT

'Ringworm is contagious and Shasta is showing

ABSOLUTELY  no lesions-

the vet put him on an antibiotic and not an anti-fungal and

the vet diagnosed it WITHOUT further testing after 

looking at it.

Maybe the vet has seen this enough times to know

when he sees it and

no anti-fungal med is not really needed-

this is the first time I have ever seen it on

ANY of my dogs or my family's.

So-

I am asking if any of you have had experience with

ringworm or do you have any other thoughts?

Yes - Shiloh is still eating and pottying fine.

When he is outside his energy level remains the same

And please

could I get some POTP for my Lord Shiloh?

Thank you.

THANKFUL THURZDAY - even if it iz kinda late

We are joining in the 

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop 

this week with PepiSmartDog.

We all at Team Beaglebratz have a few things to be thankful for this week.

We Beaglebratz know, none of us haf bin

around much the

past few dayz’n we wuz NOT HERE AT ALL 

on Tuezday.  Our mom had anuther eye doc 

appointment in the mornin’then in the 

afternoon, she had sum peepz come out tue 

give our carpet a BATH!  We DID NOT WANT 

that kind of a bath so we spent the afternoon

duin'this

with our Aunt Sis an'fur cuzin,

Diva Bailie.

And then later, our mom joined us.

We all ended up spendin’the nite with

Aunt Sis an’Diva Bailie.

Now we Beaglebratz r gonna turn

OUR blog over tue

our mom so she can tell u’boutz her

eye doc appointment.

Thank you Shiloh & Shasta.

Well, as the Beaglebratz told you-

I did have an eye doc appointment

Tuesday morning-

it was with the cornea specialist.

As of now-

NO SURGERY NEEDED!!!

WOO-HOOOOOOO!!!!

The epithelial defect WAS almost 6mm-

NOW – 1mm by 2mm!!!

WOO-HOOOOOO!!!!

BUT, what I consider the best news and

have NEVER heard before-

the specialist told me that

I STILL HAVE A FEW OF MY OWN

STEM CELLS WORKING (in my eye)!!!

(To borrow from the B-bratz)

WAHOOZIEZ COOL DOOZIEZ!!!!!

This was going to be what the next surgery was for– a stem cell transplant using stem cells from my other(blind but healthy)eye.  Sooo – between the few healthy stem cells I still have and YOUR prayers and well-wishes,

I HAVE BEAT THE EVIL EYE MONSTER!!!

At least for now and that is ALL that matters!

I am trying to learn this piece of valuable info

 from Shasta and Shiloh.

More from Mom Kim -

I have one more thing I am thankful for.

Last week I missed work the first three days

of the week due to vision problems.

THEN

when I returned to work last Thursday &

got home, there was a message from

a florist on my answering machine letting me 

know that they had delivered 

some flowers and left them on the porch since

no one was home.

(I go inside through my garage so I was grateful for the message)

(Please excuse the Beagle nose and the poor quality of this pic and 

wish I had taken a pic right after I got the flowers - oh well)

The florist hadn't told me who they were from-

when I read the card- 

Sydney and Chewy! 

(maybe Shasta smelled something besides flowers?) 

How thoughtful was this?

We all had reasons to be 

Thankful this Thursday!

Mom Kim,

Shiloh-Lord of the Manor an'Diva Shasta 

 

FINALLY FFHT with Shiloh - Lord of the Manor AN;HAPPY HOWL-O-WEEN 2!!!

I ain’t shure if u’all knew this or not BUTT I like tue “hunt”    Now I ain’t ever bin out huntin’nowherez butt like sum of u, I am confined tue huntin’in the bakyard – or in my case the groundz of the Beaglebratz Manor.  Now the reezon I am tellin’boutz MY advenchure durin’Diva Shasta’z barkday month iz cuz she don’t due this sorta stuff (Miss goody 2 shoez or iz that 4 pawz?) – well she mite follow ME if she c’z me duin’it.  ANYWAYZ, I digress frum MY advenchure.  Well, I guess u cood say there were MANY advenchurez cuz it took my mom awhile tue catch on an’figure out what tue due tue put a stop (or at leest a slow down) tue my advenchurez.

Ok – so when I wuz younger I made shure that any bushez in our yard on the Manor groundz unnerstood what the consequencez wood b if they ever willingly hid a critter    

 I HAD tue lay down sum ground rulez b-4 I cood move 4-ward with my huntin’dutiez.

Ok - now that I had all the formalitiez out of the way, I got bizy on perfectin'my huntin'skillz
u hafta look all over - up top->-> 

down low -ya just never know where a critter may show it'z ugly self.

THEN one day, with Diva Shasta by my side I gazed thru the fence of our vast manor groundz-

 I knew there was no 

turning back now.

I got it figured out-

this WUZ my destiny- 

I wood stop at nuthin'tue 

keep thoze wabbitz'n ANY OTHER critter frum

invadin'MY territory.

I AM 

Lord of the Beaglebratz Manor!

Now all of us at Team Beaglebratz know 

we are running a bit late BUT 

we do hope everyone had a

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

(True confession time?) Too much Reality – time for new dreams, setting goals (do I dare?) from Mom Kim

Mom Kim here - I’ve always said that I am not a pessimist nor am I an optimist but because of different things I have been through, beginning in 1976 with the onset of my disabilities, I have developed into a REALIST.

 I’ve been thinking – considering what life was like for, not just me but the B-bratz as well, just 5 short years ago.  The main focus I had then was taking Shiloh on visits to the nursing home and at a hospice

(Here is me & Shiloh participating in a Relay For Life a few years ago - I am also a melanoma survivor - I still had to use a Halti on him - NOT used for about 7 years and I am so glad - got tired of people asking me why he was wearing a muzzle - he has his therapy vest on)

Diva Shasta was really just beginning her career as a therapy dog

 (In fact this pic was taken after her first successful eval on 10/3/09 for therapy dog and she also passed her Canine Good Citizen test 

so of course mom was very proud.)

and wasn’t quite sure what to make of it all – because she was so new to that environment and still a bit timid, I kept our visits a bit shorter.  We only visited at the hospice day program where she would not have to be exposed to all the equipment and noise usually found in a nursing home environment.  I would also take turns with them walking through the neighborhood several times each week – usually now the only exercise they get is out in the backyard with OCCASIONAL trips to Petsmart or the vet - as well as NO therapy dog visiting.

So thinking back, beginning in late December of 2009 (post Christmas) and into the new year of 2010, things began to change – and it would not be good changes..  That was when the reality of my vision problems began to take over my life – and I let that also affect the life of the Beaglebratz and our interactions WITH life.

Now I know that in the time since, some of you have read my posts that really detailed those vision problems – the two fungal infections I had – each separate in two different years but in the same eye and the stem cell and cornea transplant that followed each infection.  And there was also the once worsening but now somewhat stable overall condition of that eye since the last stem cell transplant in 2013.   Then in September, 2013, something different happened - during a “routine” eye doctor visit, my doctor suspected (correctly I might add) that I had developed a skin cancer on my nose – near the corner of my eye.  After it was removed and plastic surgery done, it seemed like I developed improved skin/muscle tone on that side of my face – the same side as my troubled eye.  I was concerned that maybe that surgery and skin cancer might have a negative effect on my eye however it appears that just the opposite has happened.  Ok, then something I thought REALLY strange happened in early December of 2013 – I passed out AT WORK!  After that, even more strange to me – I was taken by ambulance to the ER where something MORE strange – after some tests which essentially were normal except for my low blood pressure, the doctor ADMITTED me for observation over-night (like something you read about or watch on tv but would not ever happen to you).  No one ever really found out the real cause however low blood pressure and dehydration were suspected. (I just wanted to interject something here - I took a minute just now to go bak and re-read all the comments of concern and well-wishes that were left when I first posted about THIS SCARY PASSING-OUT EPISODE - not sure I ever posted my thanx for YOUR comments so

THANK YOU !!!!      

Also - I want to THANK ALL OF YOU for all of your caring, concern, prayers, POTP and PURRS over these past 5 years (no - not going anywhere) just not sure I could ever say thank you enough.

 Ok – enough of all the drama of the last 5 years – now moving on and looking forward, which is basically something I have not allowed myself to do much of (looking forward) – during these past 5 years it seemed like everytime I started looking forward and even tentatively making a plan or two, something got in the way to put a halt to it so I soon got to the point where plans and dreams just became a thing of the past.  I can’t remember for sure where I first read this quote but I think I know now why I wrote it down so I would remember it for future use – it fits perfectly in this post

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."  C.S. Lewis

  Right now is like one of those “aha” moments – I knew what it meant from the moment I first read it and I think there was a part of me that wanted to believe it HOWEVER there was another part (pretty sure it was a bigger part) that borders on the realist/pessimist and yes, even the depressed part of me saying “Yeah right, maybe for others”.

Ok so I am sure there are some who are wondering why I put this here on the blog – after all, shouldn’t a blog post be about dog stuff and pet stuff – the blog is called Team Beaglebratz and the Beaglebratz are the dogs and when I do post, I try to post about more up-beat stuff (of course that's all the Beaglebratz know for the most part)  Well, first of all, I – the MOM – am also a member of our TEAM and what affects MY life also affects the Beaglebratz. ACTUALLY - I'm not really that sure why I wanted to share this here - after all, I do have plenty of other things to post about and so do the Beaglebratz.  I think I was kind of stuck - I had some of these same thoughts floating around in my head for awhile now and maybe it was gonna take putting them down in black and white to get past this.  I have been feeling like life is passing me by - AND I'M LETTING IT!  As for getting back into therapy visits with the Beaglebratz - not sure yet as to what extent we all can do that. Shiloh will be 12 in March next year and he needs to be re-evaluated first but I know he misses it as well as misses his walks - yes, he has a bad day every so often with his back BUT we can cross that bridge when it happens; he never has officially retired from therapy work and I would like to give him that opportunity.  Whereas Diva Shasta still has her registration as a therapy dog and when we do go to Petsmart, she is fine when around other people SOOOO all we can do really is just try - WHAT AM I SCARED OF??? And that is mostly what it is all about!

Ok - that is more than enuf - if you read this all - I commend you.

 

Kinda Wordless Wednesday - it's 8 on 8 day for Diva Shasta!

Mom Kim here to wish my 

little lady Diva Shasta a 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 
(this post is a bit pic heavy so please be patient)

From this-

To this-

AND NOW THIS-

STILL barking out orders to her mom and brother Shiloh!

That which you see above-

started like this 8 years ago-

Now for a few more random puppy pics-

(and these can all be bigified)

 

Westie fur-cuzins 

Bailie & Kailie

TO DIVA SHASTA-

YOU ARE LOVED BY SO MANY-

ESPECIALLY- 

YOUR MOM & BROTHER SHILOH!