Sunday, March 15, 2026

Oregon Living 2026 – Blog #10 – More Time With Helping Rylee Heal!

 


Sunday, March 8th., 2026…… Rylee is doing much better today. Yes, she is still lethargic and the drugs we give her both morning and evening are causing that. Also, her appetite is down right now. But she seems to be getting along a little better now. We are still keeping her down most of the time.

But that’s hard sometimes! Back when she had the injury, she learned to get around favoring that leg. Still holds true now so she thinks she can go wherever she wants!  But I can get her to lay down on her bed in our room now and I leave the slider open a crack. That really helps her cool off and she will stay there all night. So, Cathye can sleep in our bad again!

We spent the day hanging around the house. Until I left to go to class. I had the cash box to return and turns out they needed another guy so I helped out all evening. Passed on the afterparty though so I could come back home to help Cat out with Rylee.  

Monday, March 9th., 2026…… Not a great night’s sleep for me. Not sure why. Maybe the time change. Maybe Rylee. I don’t know. Plus she got me up early and I’ll have to deal with that all day. Cat said she slept well. Because of having to have someone here all the time, we passed on the gym and breakfast out. Later, Cat headed off to Albany to run two errands. She stopped first and picked up her glasses and then headed over to Costco to do some light shopping. Yeah, over $200.00!  Later, we would decide not to go to Cat’s Plus class. As I said before, she is very nervous/anxious being there so we will drop out for now. I think she wants to wait for Shaun to do his own class and he’s a lot easier to learn from. We’ll see.   

Tuesday, March 10th., 2026…… Rylee is way better as days go by. She’s almost got her appetite back. We have to give her her meds with velveeta cheese so now she expects that and doesn’t want her dinner.. We’re keeping an eye on her bandage. The top section is loose so Cat tried adding an additional bandage. We’ll have to see how that goes. But she is doing well in getting around although we are trying to keep her down as much as we can. The meds help a little for that but she still wants to wander all around the house. Later, Cat got a call from the lady in charge of Sherry’s estate sale. That is where we found the couch and recliner we are wanting to buy. She said that Sherry wanted us to have it and to give us a good price. So they called early and asked if we wanted it and could we get it before the sale on Friday. We made arrangements to get it tomorrow.    

Wednesday, March 11th., 2026…… Today we are going to get the couch. We had Penny come over to keep an eye on Rylee and we went out to talk to the estate folks. We made the deal and they helped us load the couch and recliner in my truck. Cat had driven the car over so we could load the backrests and that was pretty much necessary because we had no room!  We had already arranged for Justin to come help unload it - and he brought a friend - so that worked out for my back!  Plus he is taking our old couch and recliner. For now, we are keeping the loveseat and my recliner.  Since the new sofa is a La-Z-Boy, we most likely will be ordering a recliner for me that will match the style and fabric. But for now, we will just get armchair covers for everything so it will tie together. They will come in the next week or so. We also ordered a table that folds out into a ramp for Jama to use to get up and down. We just have to get her used to it now.




Thursday, March 12th., 2026…… Today was massages and a play. I had bought us tickets to go see Frozen, which is done by the West Albany High School drama class. It was very well done. I remembered going to see 7 Brides for 7 Brothers a few years ago. At that time, it was held in the cafeteria and was low budget. Well, since then, the school now has a new performing arts center and it’s one of the nicest we have ever seen! Anyway, the production was first class and the acting was really on point. There were kids in the audience dressed up as Elsa. They really enjoyed the show! 


We had left Rylee alone for the first time, so we quickly headed back home soon after. She was good to go!   

Later, Cathye posted our night on Facebook. She got several comments back saying that at first glance, the people in the background in our selfie made it look like she had braids!      

Friday, March 13th., 2026……   This morning we woke up and got going. We discovered that Rylee’s bandage was coming loose! We tried taping it but that didn’t work. We also tried wrapping it with an ace (type) bandage. No luck. I called the vet’s office and they asked me to send pics, which I did. She called back to say the doctor told her that was entirely normal and it’s doing what it’s supposed to. It will probably last another day or two. So, no worries.


We also got a block text from our neighbor showing us a video of a bobcat they captured on their critter cam last night!



 

We will need to make sure one of us is always outside with Jama!  

Saturday, March 14th., 2026…… Pretty laid back Saturday. We had nothing on the agenda today, so we just relaxed for most of the day.  Cathye decided to go to Wilco this morning to take their class about raised beds, and how to get them out of hibernation. She got back and said she learned a lot!  Later, we were both relaxing when we heard this loud BOOM! We were warned a few days before that our neighbors would be shooting off a gun of some kind. It was their recently married daughter’s way of announcing their gender reveal to their guests. It took a few seconds for us to realize what it was. We went out to the front porch in time to see the smoke rising from the ‘cannon’ that they fired!  We didn’t catch any color but later Corie texted that it was ‘Blue’. Of course Rylee and Jama didn’t care what it was! They were terrified!  After dinner, we decided to head over to Sweet Home to the Squarenader’s dance. Most of our Club as well as the other the local clubs went over to the coast for another club’s beach retreat – we had to stay back with Rylee – so we decided to go support this other club. Shaun, our caller, who was on the coast calling that dance on Friday night, had a contract to call in Sweet Home on Saturday and we decided to go dance to him. Naturally, it was a pretty small dance. They had barely two squares and 1 ½ of those were from our Club. We left about 15 minutes early and got home to check on Rylee. She is doing well and is pretty much back to normal. She limps when she first gets up but then seems to be doing fine after that. She wants so bad to get up on our bed when we sleep but she hasn’t got the strength for that yet – plus we aren’t allowing her to even think about it!  That was our week. Next week (on Tues.) I have my biopsy so I am off my blood thinners for a few days.

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