From: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20090305-000002.xml&page=2
“Mood and sleep share basic biological mechanisms, and, according to
Yapko, the single most common symptom of depression is some form of
sleep disturbance. Getting lots of sleep is crucial. The challenge is
in admitting that you just may not be able to do as much as you want
to—and then sticking to your guns, even when life throws drama or
excitement your way.”

This is following bit is sooooooooooooooo true for me!

“I have to listen to my body. I can’t be ashamed. The consequences are much worse, in the long
run, if I ignore it.”

This is something I’ve definitely been doing:

“Laughter is survival,” says Barreca. “It’s not because life is easy. It’s something you wring out of life. You make joy.”

The two that come to mind are the one about needing a frequent shopper card for my vet. The other one that’s been getting a chuckle is: I expect Khalua to live to be 20, cause so far it’s proved to be true that only the good die young. I’ve found recently that I can sometimes laugh through my tears.

From: Penelope Trunk’s Blog

“There are sixteen personality types, and only a handful are perfectly tuned for staying home with kids.”

Gee, what a shocker that my dream job is to be a stay-at-home mom…. and I’m INFP.

So Saturday poor Mr. Mo was pretty miserable even with three pain medications and three anti-nausea medications to deal with the pain and nausea caused by the urine in his abdomen. The doctor called Saturday afternoon and said if he hadn’t improved by Sunday, they were going to push to let him go so he wouldn’t suffer. Since all the pain and nausea was being caused by the hole the tube tore coming out of his kidney, we decided that he should go back into surgery and get that taken care of, which would also allow us to find out if his prior surgery was successful or not. He seemed slightly less nauseated on Sunday, and even played some with his little green puff-balls that we finally remembered to bring from home for him.

Now for the awesome news. No surgery today after all! They said he’d be having surgery today, barring miraculous recovery. So maybe all those prayers and happy thoughts for Mr. Mo are working! He has less fluid coming from tube that’s draining urine from his abdomen and more coming from kidneys (they didn’t remove the tube yet even though it came out of his kidney since it is continuing to drain his abdomen). He has less fluid in his abdomen & around his kidney than Friday. The hole in his kidney from tube looks better on ultrasound. And he’s acting like he’s feeling better too. So for now just gonna increase his iv nutrition calories and see how it goes, and drain some more fluid from around his lungs from the pneumonia so he can breath easier. So it’s back to the waiting game, but we’re hoping he can keep moving in the right direction and that he’s used up all his bad luck.

So today Mocha went back downhill again. His pneumonia is much worse, so they’re changing his antibiotics. They didn’t say anything about having to put him on oxygen yet though, so hopefully it’s still not that bad. The real bad news is that his catheter that was draining his kidney came out of his kidney today. So when they did his ultrasound he had urine around his kidney. They have no way of knowing if his urethra is still leaking or not, or weather it’s viable. They were able to suck a bunch of the urine out by applying suction to the catheter. So now we’re just back in a wait and see game and hoping the hole in his kidney clears up soon, that the urethra is no longer leaking and that it’s open enough to work. We might know more by tonight depending on how his urination was today without the catheter to help drain. Lots more praying, finger crossing and happy thoughts for Mr. Mo!

Mr. Mo is not doing so well today. At some point he breathed in a bit of vomit and he’s now developed pneumonia. He’s already on antibiotics anyway, and they’re giving him something to help clear out his lungs. He’s been having a bit of trouble breathing due to it, and they’re monitoring him in case he needs some extra oxygen to help him out.

He threw up again today and they found that he does have some urine leaked into his abdomen. At this point we’re waiting to see if he heals up a bit and the leak stops – that’s the hope. If it continues or gets worse, we might have to go back in to try and close it.

We’ll be visiting again at 6pm today. Hopefully he’s feeling somewhat better by then.