It’s a Blog ! Not a Log !

Those of you who read my blog will no doubt have come across posts about our Cane Corso (Italian Mastiff) Blue, well I’m sad to say Blue’s been a little bit under the weather these past few weeks due to damage to her cruciate ligament in one of her hind legs.

She developed some lameness in her leg in May which was prescribed anti-inflammatories for and this seemed to do the trick, however at the end of June, beginning of July her symptoms came back, so after 2 visits to the vets and a set of x-rays we were told that she’d most likely torn her cruciate ligament and were referred to a Consultant Vet at North West Surgeons nr Frodsham.

So along came the appointed consultation where we were told that from what could be seen from the x-rays it appears that Blues ligament has indeed been torn, this was apparently obvious from the x-rays (not a vet myself, so have had to take his word for it), the next step we’ve been told is surgery and at present Blue is booked in to have the operation on the 13th August 2010.

We’ve been told the operation has a 96% success rate, but this all depends on how her recovery is managed, so for the first 6 weeks, Blue will be crated confined and only allowed out for her constitutionals and that’s it, then after the 6 weeks its a case of very slow, gentle exercise, which will gradually build up to a manageable 20 minute walk, and then over time hopefully build up to longer walks and fingers crossed semi-normality.

I can honestly say I am very nervous about Blue going under anethisia, as thats probably the most dangerous part of the whole operation, don’t know what we’d do if anything every happened to Blue, so fingers crossed, wood touched everything will go smoothly.

Will endeavour to keep you all updated on how our little Princess is getting on

kennys party 071, originally uploaded by BagRat.

Kenny reached the grand old age of 50 last week along with Andy reaching the 40 mark, so they had a joint party to celebrate and used the oppurtunity to get everyone back togeather again.

It was good to see all the faces from the partys togeather again having a laugh and just generally getting on, party kicked off at of all places Stretford Cricket Club, then moved onto Lisa’s flat, where drinks flowed and people talked bollox (mainly due to what they’d had).

We left fairly early on in the morning 5:00am so maybe not so early, but the party carried on after we left, ending only when John, Ben and a few others decided to place most of Lisa food stuffs in the freezer . . . oh and after Ben had emptied a full bag of flour over the sleeping Lisa’s head (not nice Ben).

Gotta say Kenny was looking good for an old man and no doubt has many years left in him, all the best Kenny and Andy

Picture 067, originally uploaded by BagRat.

Well this is all that remains of Bernie’s caravan and her daughters boyfriend Johnny’s car after somebody decided to torch it in the early hours of Sunday morning.

No idea who’s done it and the Police don’t appear to be all that interested in the situation, they’ve just told her that it’s her responsibility to have the remains removed as there a health hazard due to all the toxin’s that were released when the caravan was alight, so as well as losing the caravan, Bernie’s then got to find £150 to get the thing removed, don’t know what Johnny’s going to do with his car as yet, guessing his insurrance company will come and take that away at some point, the only good thing to come out of the whole incident is that thankfully no one was hurt.

17/10/03 – 6:00pm
Well staying up till nearly 3:00am wasn’t such a good idea, I slept in this morning and had to rush to work and make my excuses (note to self “go to bed earlier in future”)
Had a few problems with the Rat-Kam as well, its a Logitech Wireless, and it would seem someone nearby must either have a ham radio or be a taxi driver as something kept interfering with the signal, hopefully got it sorted now.

Work wise today was the usual crap, had to take some photo’s of some toolkits to be included in a online catalogue were doing at work, didn’t want to but apparently my boss thinks taking photo’s with a digital camera comes under the umbrella of the IT Dept, next they’ll have me repairing the Microwave in the canteen cause it has a circuit board in it ff’s.
Smoked about 5 ciggy’s today, shouldn’t really be smoking any but what the hell I’m gonna die someday anyway, drank to much coffee, probably cause I was still tired from last night.
Had some good news and some bad news regarding the Lan Party I’m helping organise, good news 1st, Kate at NTL’s PR company informed me that she’s going to put our proposals for sponsorship to them tomorrow and that she thinks what were asking for is spot on, she also said they’ll probably offer a years free Broadband as a prize for our Tournament Winners, which I think is rather cool, so keeping my fingers crossed on this one.

Now the bad news : We’ve now been informed by the people who were renting the premises off for the Lan Party need the cash now and were still short by about �50, on top of that the liability insurance is gonna cost us over �100, so were desperately trying to get more people to sign up for the Lan, got 21 so far, but we aim to get 50 at least.
Anyway hungry now so l8z