Ant Bites

It was an eventful Sunday evening here at the Racca house. I was planning on doing paper work after dinner this evening and sit on the couch and watch the Princess Protection Program on the Disney channel (yes I wanted to watch it - I am not ashamed). I thought that Jason and I should go walk Lucye real quick to let her go to the bathroom and get some energy out. We walked around our apartment complex for a bit and then Lucye did her usual laying in the grass on the hill by the creek before we went back in to the apartment. As she got up to walk towards the house, she started walking funny and all of sudden Jason said " She's got ants all over her." Immediately, he got her on her tummy and started brushing them off as fast as he could. We rushed to the house to get her in the tub to make sure we got all the ants if we missed any. By the time, we put her in the tub, Lucye looked very tired and was acting lethargic. I called the ER vet clinic and told them what happened and they said to bring her in for some medicine. We got in the car and headed that direction. Lucye started having really labored breathing and was trying to go to sleep and wasn't trying to move at all. Let me just say that I was crying and hysterical and telling Jason to run the red lights (which he did run a few but he did do it safely - there were no cars coming). In what seemed like forever, we finally made it to the ER clinic and they took her back and started her on some IV benadryl and short acting steroid medication. We stayed there a couple of hours while they monitored her. I am happy to say that Lucye is doing better and is on children's benadryl at home but I think her poor momma is traumatized. I don't know if she will be laying in the grass anytime soon. Here's a picture of belly of all the ant bites. That doesn't include all the ones you can't see that are in her fur.

Long Time No Blog

I know...it's been almost a month. But I have good excuses. Or at least good excuses to me.  =) My life has been pretty busy. With my family here, moving to a new apartment, work and the paper work that comes with it, and trying to rehab my hip by running and exercise and then adding the necessary sleep and eating and cleaning, I haven't had a lot of time to blog. I have barely had time to get on facebook (gasp!) It's not that I didn't have anything to blog about but I just had no time to do it in. Oh well.

Anyways, my nephew came to stay with Jason and me for the last 3 weeks so he could go through intensive therapy. My parents or my sister in law were also in tow to take care of him so my house was pretty full but I enjoyed seeing Blake a whole lot and was really sad to see him head back home last weekend.    He did so well in intensive therapy. He is able to stand by himself for 2-3 seconds before falling and stand against a wall without help now. On the last day, he walked with a walker for about 400 feet with only one rest break. It was pretty awesome and I forgot my camera that day (Nuts!). If you want to learn more about intensive therapy go here www.suittherapy.com   It's a pretty awesome therapy concept and I hope Blake gets to do it again soon. Here are some pics from intensive with Blake:                                                                  

                              In the suit working hard to stand up     

                                          

                                                                                                                            

     

And before I forget, Jason did another triathlon on June 13. He did great and finished 6 minutes faster than he did in the same race last year!! Way to go babe!! Lucye didn't get to come with us to this one because she still had her stitches in from her spaiding and we couldn't get her too excited. But Jason will do another one before the season is over. 

                                                                                        

So that pretty much sums up the last 3 weeks or so. I will be back way sooner from now for the few people that actually read my blog and want to know about my life =)