Homestead Status

This is Thomas R. Welch reporting to you direct from the homestead on the south side of Atlanta, Ga.

I reported earlier that our girlfriend Sassy has blood in her urine which turns her urine brownish, caused by a cancerous growth.  She is having  trouble walking, more so each day.  She has four cancer growths, one in the chest, one on the bladder, and one on each side down by where her hips are.  The Vet says that treatment will not help with cancer that wide spread and that she will likely live weeks to months.  Sassy is still taking her antibiotics, and at some time we will have to put her own a pain killer.

I carry her outside and back inside as she is having trouble negotiating the steps, and she likes to lay in the driveway in the late afternoon her kingdom.  She's already eaten dinner but ate a little less than normal, although her appetite is still pretty good.  She has started to regurgitate food.  Not every meal, but it's something she didn't use to do.

But you guys know she is getting all the love and attention she can handle.  What Mom and I doing is to let Sassy do anything she wants to do, basically what she does now.  And we intend to spoil her more than she is now, if that's possible.  She is a special girl friend and we all love her.  And she knows she is loved.  That's the most important thing.

Mom went out yesterday and bought a Wii.  We played one at Michelle and Steven's place and really enjoyed it.  I'm not very good putting things together, and we decided to ask Michelle and Steven to do it when they next come down, but I couldn't rest with that thing sitting in the box calling my name, so this morning I put it together.  Played it right away.  All the games are fun, but bowling, boxing, tennis, and baseball also give you some exercise if you play the game as you're supposed to.

We watched a good 30 year old movie about WWII tonight.  I don't recall the name and am to lazy to look it up.  Good suspense, no gratuitous violence, and no cursing.  Good movie.

More later (There is always more, later not so much).