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Dave was on Tyra recently. He is a hottie!

Lance Update!

Lance is having his fourth Radiation treatment today! He is doing really well, but has still not recovered the weight he has lost. This picture is before the weight loss.

But, he is acting more like the normal Lance that we love. Unfortunately the diagnoses is that he is terminal. So all of this is to give him a better quality of life while he is still feeling good!

Volleyball

The Seattle team I played with at the Portland Tourney is going to Vancouver for a tournament. And I am going with them. Woo hoo!

Go Seattle KoKoNuts!!

Subarus Rock!

Volleyball!

Sweet! Looks like I found a Seattle team to play with in the Portland Fall Ball Tournament!

Update on Lance

OK , so Lance is terminal, but there are some things we can do to give him a little bit better quality of life until the day we have to make "that" decision. He starts Radiation treatment next Monday and will have two per week for 3.5 weeks. We decided not to go full course radiation (20-22 treatments) because it won't really change the outcome, it is expensive, and I just can't subject him to that many vet visits in a row. Can you image, the vet every day?? I don't know about anyone Else's pets, but my two do not like visiting the vet's office!

So even with the radiation treatments, there are no guarantees that he'll be with us longer. Kinda sad, considering he isn't even 11 yet(Basenjis can live 15-18 years or longer). Dru seems to have escaped any major medical issues, aside from what might be a viral bronchitis, which we will treat with antibiotics.

That's all for now.

Life being unfair

I promised to write more frequently, but something always seems to come up.

This time it is a sick dog! Lance (our Red&White Basenji) has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. It is early stage and hasn't spread, but is still pretty much a death sentence.

After having losing my mother to breast cancer last year, I'm having a hard time with this hitting close to home again. I'm not ready to give up on him!

I have spent all week running to this vet and that vet, and yesterday spent over 1.5 hours at the Oncologist's office going over treatment options. The hard part will be regurgitating all of that info to the bf when he gets back in town tomorrow. We have to make a decision soon, so that we can start treatment. Unfortunately the costs of all of this are a little extreme.....

But it is for Lance! and ultimately for Drucilla too!

What is wrong with Humanity?

That which we don't understand we destroy or try to destroy........Caster Semenya.

She is now on suicide watch. People are fucked up! She is only 18 years old and what have we done to her?

This is appalling.

If this doesn't make Number 1 on the country charts....

than music fans are DUMB!

ADDENDUM: The Official video has been released on YouTube. Check it out!

Shelter

Last night the bf and I watched "Shelter". I really enjoyed the movie. I was happy that it actually told a story and unlike other Gay themed movies did not use a lot of gratuitous nudity. I guess I wouldn't call it a gay movie as it was more about life and what it sometimes hands us or what we let it hand us.

Following is the music video for "Lie to Me", one of the songs from the movie, it includes some scenes from the movie as well.

Enjoy