Oregon Living 2026 – Blog #7 – Dog Days for all of Us!

 

 

Sunday, February 15^th., 2026…… Rylee slept ok last night and is doing ok today. She is learning to get around on three legs! She doesn’t seem to be in too much pain but since we really can’t tell, we are giving her pain meds every day. Of course, no walks for a while. 

So, I was up and showered and left to go get breakfast and coffee. The rest of the morning and afternoon was spent working on the blog for me and then catching up on tv programs for both of us. Later, we left to go to our new beginner’s class. This is a first for the Club – to hold two classes pretty much consecutively. We’re not sure if we’ll get a great number of new attendees or not… Ok it’s later now. We just got back and I was surprised! – we had 10 new students. Most like those numbers but I would like to see more show up, especially couples.  But the class is open for another two weeks so we hope to get more next time.  

Monday, February 16^th., 2026…… We were up and going early this morning. No walks for the girls and they don’t understand!  They go to the door and look at us, ‘Wait, what’s up? let’s go on our walk!’ But after we feed them, they both settle in for the morning. Rylee is still doing ok, but it’s hard to watch her get around. Her appointment is Mar. 5, so she has a few weeks to deal with this. Cathye was having stomach issues so I went and picked up Penny to take her to do her lab appointment. She is still not any better. She struggled to breathe coming out of the house and I had to move her around in a wheelchair when we got to the hospital. It took a while to get her in to draw blood - which didn’t help – and she even thought about going in to the er on the way out. Turns out she was prophetic because she got a call an hour later telling her that her red blood cells were low and she needed to get to the ER now!  So, I went back and took her in. They did a massive number of tests and later would do a blood transfusion and admit her. So, she guessed right! Later, we went off to Cat’s Plus class and got word that she would be admitted but right now they were waiting for a bed. Cat did ok in her second class. But she didn’t do any review from last week and I think she found that slowed her down a bit because she struggled with one or two of the new calls. We talked on the way home and would review the calls at home to try to help.   

Tuesday, February 17^th., 2026…… Penny got into a room and had a number of tests today. In the morning – between more tests - she let us know how she was doing and said she might get to go home tomorrow. But later they told her it would be one more day!  Cat had to go to her dentist appointment this morning.  Later, we went and visited her. She looked a lot better!

Wednesday, February 18^th., 2026…… Today was busy! First up was Jamie’s colonoscopy/endoscopy. Cat had to be at his house at 7:00am to pick him up to take him to Corvallis. I stayed back with the dogs . I also had to go in to get our taxes done. Since Cat didn’t know how long she would be back, I needed to be able to go make that appointment time. But yesterday afternoon we received a letter from Cat’s investment institution saying that they were late in getting her 1099 mailed out. We weren’t expecting that one so she called the tax folks to see what we should do. They said to come in and they would do everything else and we would wait until the other one comes in. We can’t even get to it online so that’s a bummer too!  So, we have a new appointment time but not for several more weeks! The doctors told Sis that they didn’t like some of her numbers so she would be in there at least one more day. We needed to go to our Club meeting and headed off for that.

Thursday, February 19^th., 2026…… Today was my urology appointment. When we got there, I was already prepared for what came next. I have a lesion on my prostate, and also one on my bladder. Next step is a biopsy but they suspect it’s likely cancer in both organs. We stopped at Cat’s eye glass place to have them fix her glasses and add transitions to the lens. When I got back, I got a call from the office scheduling the next procedure. It’s on Mar. 17^th. Meanwhile, we went about the rest of our day. Meaning not much else to do. While we were doing all of this, the doctors released Penny. Mariglee was able to go pick her up. Long day.

Friday, February 20^th., 2026……  HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYLEE!  She’s 8 today!  Still doing ok, even with her knee issue. As a matter of fact, she’s adjusted with it pretty well! She’s learned to move on three legs to get up and down the porch steps now. And she can use her good rear leg to jump up on the coach!

We had nothing on the agenda for today. I ordered and received a Ring doorbell and got it yesterday so I installed it this morning. I also bought myself a new Shark vacuum. I can now get rid of the two yard sale vacs that I have been using. I went over the living room area rug that I did a few days ago and was shocked to see it filled up with dog hair!  Meanwhile, we have booked Penny’s housecleaner to come do a whole house deep clean. That’s scheduled for next month

Saturday, February 21^st., 2026…… Today we need to head up to Salem to visit with Brandyn. They said they are all well again so they have scheduled his birthday party for today. We got there just before 1”00pm. We saw Vikki driving away but she didn’t see us. Turns out everyone was in the car and they were heading out to do some shopping!  When Cat called her she said that the party was postponed until next weekend and that Corey was supposed to tell us!  We ended up all meeting at Paddington’s Pizza for a nice little mini party. Brandyn enjoyed the day 

and Corey was able to take lunch and come visit for a while too! 

Of course we saw the littles!

 

Once we got back home, we rested for a little while, then got changed for our ‘Mardi Gras’ Club dance. We had out beads and masks and went early to help set up. Good thing we did – there was a poor turnout for that!  We danced and then left a bit early because we don’t have to move any chairs or tables because we will be there again tomorrow.  I would find out later that only one person and the caller and his wife were left to close up. Even our kitchen person for the night left early! That will need to be addressed!