Noodle the Bat Girl Dog

I entered Noodle in the Petsmart halloween contest. There have been over 55,000 entries so far.  I'm sure she has a great shot of winning. Yeah, right.  Here is her potential winning shot.

http://apps.facebook.com/petsmartcontest//showentry?entryurl=%2Fcontests%2Fshowentry%2F581280%2Fnull%2F4&fb_page_id=77978885595

Please vote for Noodle.

Operation eye No.2

After repairing the first tear in my torn & detatched retina, the doctor discovered more tears & the retina is barely hanging on to anything.  Operation no. 2 was last Thursday. This one was done in the operating room. I thought I was gonna be put out. Wrongo! They numbed my eye. They said I would be relaxed & comfortable.  Well, let me tell you, I was neither relaxed or comfortable. I could feel all three needles entering my eyeball. Ouch! ouch! ouch!  There was a mask over my mouth for oxygen. I could not talk. They covered my good eye so that I could not see.  I felt I was being worked on by Dr. Mendele. They injected a giant gas bubble this time. There were so many tears. I'm recuperating now and I am totally temporarily blind for now. It isn't fun or pretty. Also my good eye is seeing slight shadows moving across it. I told the doctor the next day at my check up. He said there were no tears.  I told him I'd keep an eye on it.  LOL. Here's the patch and post patch.

The torn retina

The past couple weeks haven't been the greatest. While at work I noticed a bunch of floaters in my right eye. Then a bunch of marbleized swirls across my eye also. I didn't now if I should go to my primary doctor or to the ophthalmologist. I didn't know whether it was a stroke or what. I chose the primary doctor. Primary says make an immediate appointment with the eye doctor. That was Friday. Couldn't get an appointment until Tuesday. Monday was a holiday. I new something was wrong when they have me an appointment for an hour later. Routine stuff takes a month or two to get an appointment. The bottom line was I had a torn retina with some detachement. I had to go to Boston that day and have a procedure to repair it. It was not an overnight stay, thank god. Bob had just started a new deck for a customer and was thrilled to get my phone call. The procedure was no picnic. They inject a gas into your eye and it forms a bubble. The bubble is supposed to press against the retina & repair it. The headache (which they call an ice cream headache was something else.

Well it's been a week and it seemed that it wasn't getting better. Had another follow-up yesterday and the doctor saw more new tears. Whoa, is me!!  This time it's back to the hospital. This time it's done in the operating room. Your totally put out. Yippee!!! No ice cream headache. They inject more gas in your eye. You can't see at all in that eye for a couple weeks. I guess you can call me a bubble head for real.

the gross eye. Can't wait to see the next phase. ugh!

Noodle moves in

I'm in the craft room working on a table topper with a fall theme.  Bob went to bed. Noodle is in the living room crying & whining. I go and get her and bring her in to the room with me. She wants to climb up on a chair or anything high up. There is nothing but the sewing table. She walks around the table & sees the craft project.

Guess what. Noodle moves right in. Or should I say on.

Thats my little Noodle for ya. She finally decided to move and found another spot to make herself at home.

The office/craft room

The office/craft room is done. Bob outdid himself on this project. The desk came from Ikea. It is my new favorite place. The stuff for organizing is the greatest. Bob built the sewing table from scratch. It's on wheels. so that I can move it around when needed. He made raised panels for the sides and open shelves on the back. The cutting mats are flush with the border. I have 6' x 3' of  measurements. You couldn't ask for much more. Yesterday morning I mentioned that I wanted a thread holder to hang on the wall. That night when I got home there it was, ready to hang up. He used the beadboard as a backboard for it. Unbelievable.