Messages By: bactphd95

Quote From: mustbecrazy

I'm not sure how lysine works, just that it does.  My husband and I use it, and we rarely get the many viruses that our kids bring home.  My husband is diabetic, and he gets really sick with both respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses...usually ends up at the doctor with pneumonia, or needing IV fluids.  I think the lysine is supposed to boost the immune system...it is recommended by doctors for cold sores too.

 

Any reading is good...newpaper, comics, books, whatever.  Volleyball camp sounds like fun.  Both of our younger two boys have the same heart arrhythmia that I have (long OT syndrome), so most team sports are out, as well as anything that would put the heart rate above 140 bpm.  Volleyball would be OK for them, as well as any raquet sport.  They're not really into sports, though...more the reading and music types.

 

Please let me know how your kitty's surgery went...with the 3-hour time difference, I'm sure he's already had the surgery by now.  I notice that Mack is a tri-color cat.  I've heard that male tri-color cats are rare...is that true?  Two of our female cats are tri-color, and Maggie was too.

 

We are in an arid climate...hardly any humidity.  Our heat pump keeps the humidity balanced in the house...usually adding some moisture to the air...the air tends to be dry in the winter too.  We get most of our rain in the Spring, with very dry summers.  We get varied amounts of snow...we are at 1800 feet elevation, and we are just below the South Cascade Mountain Range.  We get more snow than the nearby "major" city, which is at a lower elevation.  The mountains get a lot more snow, and the cross-country snow park is only 30 miles away.  The kids want to go up and hike the cross-country ski trail this summer.  If my foot gets healed soon, that would be a fun thing to do.  The snow park is right near the YMCA camp where our oldest son is working.

 

We are looking forward to Cub Scout camp at the end of this month, plus Kids' Camp with our church in August.  Our youngest son earned his way to camp selling Cub Scout popcorn last fall...he's quite the little salesman.  Hopefully, my foot will be healed by then, or I'll be going to camp with the foot splint.  I can get around OK with it.

 

It must be hard for DD that your husband doesn't have the same house rules that you do...we censor our kids' TV...when I leave them home alone, I block the TV stations that might be showing objectionable programming, although, they do respect our TV rules, and they probably wouldn't tune into the rated R stuff anyway...South Park, and Bevis & Butthead are off limits too.  Who watches that garbage anyway??  My husband and I like to watch the rated R movies after the kids are in bed...too much violence for their impressionable minds, I think.  Even some of the PG-13 movies have some questionable stuff in them.  The kids seem to be good at separating fiction from reality...if a movie is scary, we talk about the awesome special effects and costuming...so far, no nightmares.

 

Well, anyway, I hope your kitty is OK...our kitty, Ringo, seems to miss Maggie the most...she was his playmate.  Now, he relies on hastling our other cats, and bothering the fish...and climbing on everything.  Ringo is fascinated with his own reflection, and he loves mirrors.  He keeps trying to get behind one of our wall mirrors...maybe he's looking for the "other kitty" he sees in the mirror.  Who knows what goes through a cat's mind? 

 

Have a good day...Becky

Quote From: mustbecrazy

Just checking in to see how you and your family are doing after the loss of your kitty.  You've been in my thoughts...Becky