Jeanne came over to knit Wednesday night and we watched my tape of The Lorax (first time my TV has been on since I watched Flatliners). Jeanne got a picture of Chaos’s secret shame, and he didn’t look at all happy about it!

I’m feeling really good. Much less tired. I’ve been going on walks about every other day – I would be going every day, but it has been so darn rainy. I think the flash flood warning must be permanent by now.

Have a good weekend, everyone!

“Don’t forget what I said about the naps…” -Mayhem

My apologies to all of you who’ve been suffering through my blog being very slow the past several weeks. I started to put in tickets about the problem over the weekend, so hopefully things will improve in the next day or two.

“I’m so bored. I wish Mom would get the magic goldfish wand toy out of the closet* and play with me.” -Mayhem

*Mom doesn’t get the magic goldfish wand toy out of the closet very often, because if Mayhem plays with it too frequently, she becomes so overwhelmed that she isn’t able to move anymore and just twitches…

Your support has meant a lot to me these past few weeks – thanks to all of you! Enjoy your weekends!

“And remember to take lots of naps everyone… zzzzzz…..” -Mayhem

“Mom, you need to rest more. Get away from that computer and go nap – now! Or else….” -Mayhem

Thanks for all the wonderful comments last week – I’m sure I’ll manage to reply to them all eventually! 🙂 I am convinced that all of the positive energy you’ve been sending my way helped everything go well.

Many thanks to guest blogger Jeanne, who did a great job (especially with the two minute Stumbling Over Chaos blogging tutorial she received). And I would particularly like to thank my brother and SIL, who have been absolutely amazing throughout all of this.

I suspect you won’t be getting the most profound or coherent narratives from me until I’m off the meds (please do not leave medication names in the comments – they’ll draw spam comments, alas). I’ll be using the WordPress timed publish feature these next few weeks, as I’ll be sleeping in and recuperating.

My surgery last Wednesday went very well and was laproscopic – doctors won’t guarantee that it will be laproscopic, because if there are complications, they may need to make an abdominal incision… so you never exactly know until you wake up! I was pretty miserable (whole lotta puking going on) for the next 20 hours or so, until the anesthetic was out of my system and they switched me off the particular medication I wasn’t reacting well to. But by midday Thursday, I was feeling pretty good and was starting to go out for short walks.

Later Thursday afternoon, Deb came to visit and chat and knit. Then my brother and SIL stopped by for a few minutes. After they left, Jeanne arrived and presented me with a gorgeous yarn bouquet from she and Deb! Aw, you guys. 😀

You can see a floral bouquet peeking out from behind – that was from my brother and SIL and contains cat-safe flowers and ornamental peppers. More on that later. *insert ominous foreshadowing music*

Friday I felt wonderful and my doctor said I could go home that afternoon. My brother gave me a ride home, stocked my freezer with homemade gluten-free meals, cleaned the litterbox, and left me to have a quiet evening and wonderful night’s sleep in my own bed. Ahhhhhh… The only downside was Chaos – he was extremely upset that I smelled like the “vet” and spent much of the evening acting out.

Saturday morning I woke up to a bit of a mess. Chaos really liked the flowers and ornamental peppers and felt he needed to knock them over. Fortunately, my dad stopped by later to vacuum and leave a small hand-vac for me. But hey – at least I must’ve finally smelled like me again, because Chaos has been back to normal since early Saturday.

“What dirt on the floor? I don’t see any dirt.” -Chaos

Saturday afternoon, Jeanne came over with a stack of DVDs and some get-well gifts from MrsPao. More on those in a different post, but do you think May liked the gift for she and Chaos?

*bite bite bite bite bite* -Mayhem

Jeanne and I spent a lovely afternoon knitting, chatting, and eating Chipotle that Jeanne picked up for us. On Sunday, my friend Wendy stopped by with a gorgeous bouquet of yellow roses – I was a bit nervous about their fate, but the cats don’t seem interested in the roses at all. Now I’m wondering if it’s because the other bouquet is red flowers and the purple peppers – you know how Chaos is about those red mice… Wendy returned a few library books for me – yay!! Later my friend Lisa stopped by with some groceries I needed, plus Thai takeout. Yum! We had a great time chatting, too. I am going to be so spoiled when real life resumes…

I did visit Chris last night, and she is very much back to her old self. I took a picture, which I assure you she is very excited about all of you seeing:

I think this a pretty good photo, under the circumstances. Notice the knitting off to her right. She is managing to keep herself amused, and expects to go home either Friday evening, or Saturday morning.

Sorry the picture is wonky. I don’t know what magic Chris performs to get her pictures in the way she normally does them. The two minute Stumbling Over Chaos blogging tutorial I got before she went in did not cover adding pictures. Perhaps she was trying to avoid this very thing?

Hi everyone…

I just wanted to let everyone know that I just heard from Chris’s family, and she came through surgery this morning just fine. I plan on visiting her tomorrow, so perhaps I’ll post another update then.

“I’m going to keep worrying until she’s back home!” -Chaos