I couldn’t leave well enough alone. I updated to the newest Wordpress and saw that I could choose monster avatars! MONSTERS!! So I played around some more with my site. Now my hands hurt.

But anyways, back to the monsters. Each person has their own avatar generated for them. It’s always the same I guess. If you have a Gravatar, like I do, then that shows up instead.

Since I don’t know what my monster would look like, I drew one. You know, as if my hands weren’t hurting.

And if you want to look at what your monster looks like, comment and it’ll show up.

Oh I should add: I don’t know how long they’ll be up. Usually I find stuff like this fun for a while then I remove them. But for now there are monsters.

I’m going to be cleaning up my website and moving things around. I don’t know how it’ll be working and what will be kicked up. So keep your fingers crossed and hope to see you on the other side.

Oh and I’ve turned off comments on this post. I don’t want to lose any comments when I pick up and move. And I’d turn it off everywhere if I could but I don’t know how. Yikes I’m scared. Seriously. Fingers crossed and toes too. Don’t want to lose four years of this sucker.

*UPDATE* I think I’ve got it figured out!!

I’ve had this little idea of a spaceman. Having this blog, I can check back to see how long ago I got this idea. It was around October 30, 2006. How awful that it’s been so long!!

Well last year, I sketched him all out. That in itself is pathetic. I can see I sketched him out in January. It took me two and a half months to get to sketching him out.

After that I forgot about him. Well not really forgot about him. I just wanted to do other things more.

Now I’m finally getting back to him. He’s going to be in a little short tiny maybe four page booklet I’m hand making.

So here he is: Andy, the spaceman.

Getting what she wants.

OFF pease!!

Well she hasn’t asked for the cone since.

Thank you everyone for the good thoughts. I didn’t want to talk about it before. But drawing helped. A little drawing here.

And a little there.

Isabelle can always put a smile on my face.

The good news: the biopsy results have come back and they didn’t show any evidence of osteosarcoma. The bad: it may still be another tumor, cynovial cell. The vet said that is a harder diagnosis to make involving opening up the leg. But the survival rates are longer at 36 to 48 months with amputation.

I haven’t made any decisions yet. I don’t think we’ll be doing chemo (about $3000) or amputation (about another $3000). It’s too expensive and I can’t imagine poor Nestle trying to heal from that. I feel bad enough for her with just a biopsy. She’s showing a slight limp now when she wasn’t before. But imagine the whole leg removed. I’m worried about her quality of life. The first vet said that as well, with so little time left, she wouldn’t want to put her through an amputation.

I think we’re just going to do pain management…