Thor and More

Last Friday David called me at work and said he found Thor limping across the backyard very slowly. It took Thor two or three minutes to make it half way across the backyard. Thor got mad and howled at anyone who touched him because he was in so much pain. David and the kids took Thor to the vet. The vet said he had a broken leg, a fever of 104 degrees and was dehydrated.

The vet kept him Friday night. I went in Saturday morning to talk to the vet about Thor while everyone else went to the Youth Parade. The vet said he thought a dog had attacked Thor and broken his leg, because there were a couple of puncture wounds on his leg. Thor's high fever, injury and dehydration on Friday made the vet wonder if he was going to make it through the night. Thor's fever had gone down by Saturday morning and he was re-hydrated, so the vet said his prognosis was good. Thor is a tough little cat.

The vet showed me Thor's x-ray. He had a compound fracture in his leg. He needed surgery to get a couple of pins put in his leg bones so they would heal correctly. Luckily, his nerves were not damaged or his leg may have had to be amputated. I saw Thor for a couple of minutes. I've never seen him as still as he was at the vet's that morning.

Yesterday the vet operated on Thor and we got to bring him home. His left leg has almost all the fur shaved off of it and it looks quite pitiful. Thor is sleeping now in a kennel Kailien loaned us. It's fairly big, but not really big enough to fit his "bed" (Cameron's pillow) hedgebe...i want food whoever's reading my mom's blog..now mom's gonna get mad at me.. Amber is apparently helping me with my blog. You'd think I never feed her! Just because she didn't want any puffy oven pancake this morning! Oh, I guess she did have some. Maybe it's time to feed her again. She wants to go to Holiday Oil and spend her birthday money on junk food. She can get a slushy with two bucks, she just told me.

OK, now that that's over, the kennel isn't really big enough to fit a cat bed, a litter box and some food and water. I checked on Thor earlier and he was sticking his neck in his water. I moved him around so his head wouldn't be by his water and he moved right back to where he was before. Oh well. This morning I took him out of his kennel to give him his anti-biotics and he hopped right back into the kennel as soon as I let him go. This is strange behavior for a "jungle cat".

Well, I've gotta go clean. That's what we've been doing for the past week. I think we're all tired of it, but we're still not done. We moved Cameron and Jarom upstairs and Amber downstairs. Holly and Gary were nice enough to give us a bunk bed they weren't using anymore. It's in MUCH better shape than their old one that had been modified to fit in the basement. The downstairs ceiling is not tall enough for a regular bunk bed, so we moved the boys upstairs. Amber's room was very, very dirty. Moving her was a project and a half! Her new room is much cleaner, since she got rid of quite a bit of stuff.

The day after we set up the "new" bunkbed for Cameron and Jarom, our airconditioner went out. David overheard Jarom telling Cameron, "Why did mom and dad move us up to this inferno?"

Luckily, this morning the bishop came over to go to the temple with David and got the a/c running again in just a few minutes. After 4 days of living in a sauna (the highs have been around 98 degrees outside), we are very, very, very happy! Jetta's happy, too. She's no longer having to do her kundalini yoga "breath of fire" so she can stand the heat. It's a good thing she got her fur shaved off before the a/c went out. David and I think getting insulation blown into the outer walls of the house would be a good idea...

Okay, I'm going now...

Shiny New Computer and High Speed Internet!!!!

Woo Hoo! I have a nifty new computer and 7mbps high speed internet and it's all up and running now. That's about it for now, because I have promised Amber for a while that she can get on the internet. She has been waiting for days.

Poor Meagan has been languishing because she hasn't been able to get on the internet. I guess I should go call that dial up internet company and cancel with them before I forget. The really good thing about them was that they only charged $4.95/month. Can you believe it? The bad thing was that it tied up my phone line and it was so slow it wouldn't let me download anything. It would freeze up after a minute or two. I can't even imagine how it will be to be able to watch you tube now. Before it was sooo slow. So, yeah, I'm excited!

Oh, yeah, thanks David, for building my computer! It was fun, wasn't it? I've decided it's complicated enough just hooking the thing up once it's built and getting the internet running on it. I don't think I'll take up computer building any time soon.