Look Ma, No Sling!!! - Monday 2/1/10

Oh brother.

Gigi is starting to feel better. MUCH better.  First, her appetite is back.  She's starting to compare what's in her dish with what is on our plates..."lemme smell your breath, Mom...is that cashews I smell???...I think you're holding out on me, I KNOW my RIGHTS!"

There we were, sitting at the breakfast table, minding our own business when Gigi popped up from her extra-special,  princess-approved, portable, therapeutic warming bed with the sheepskin topper, and bounced up to the table..."Whatch got there?".  She puts her nose on my plate to clarify.  Because this exuberance was only a little over the top from her normal behavior (she doesn't usually snort my vegetables) it didn't dawn on us for a moment that she was supposed to be lying down beside me.  Once she had verified we were all eating the same fare, she was content to lie back down and munch out of her own dish.

We spent much of the day in my office, me plundering the treasures of the internet and Gigi snuggled down on her aforementioned bed.  Eventually the woodstove needed reloading, so I wandered off and ended up across the greatroom, talking to my sister on the phone and tending the fire.   Something caught my eye and I glanced up to see Gigi, positively dancing across the sea of carpets between us, a smile on her face and her stumpy tail just waving with glee..."Look Ma, no Sling!!!"  She was truly proud of herself, with her little bouv bounce picking up speed as she headed for me, just the other side of the one and only patch of bare wood floor.

WAIT!  I dropped my sister on her head.  Fortunately, Gigi is well trained, and she froze in place.  And I was able to get her saddled up and back to the safety of carpeting and her bed.

My heart will never be the same.  And my hair is a wee bit grayer.

I had to put her collar on today - the first time she's made any attempt to lick her surgical wound.  The stitches are coming out soon.  Maybe I'll wear the collar for a while...to keep my head from spinning around.