My Amazing Friends...

Having friends in your life is always a must, but having amazing friends in your life is really, in my opinion, a blessing...

Shortly after Athena was diagnosed a group of my friends got together and bought me this nose print necklace....It's not any nose print it's Athena's *tears* Rockmyworld on etsy is amazing!

And then another friend from the same group had a lady she knows paint my sweet girl! It looks even more amazing in person!

Ack she did such a great job and even put a frisbee in the picture for her! Here is the original pic i had sent to her for inspiration. This is the lady who did the painting. Her work is amazing http://www.jerieartz-artzart.blogspot.com/

I also had a friend do her paw prints for me too. Now I can remember my sweet girl forever...Now if only I can somehow cast her ears? LOL

I have some amazing friends!

Craft Time

My job has been a little pretty much a pain in my ass stressful as of late. So I thought to get into the holidays and to save my self money I would make everyone's gifts this year. I'm not sure if it really is saving me money per say since I keep buying yarn, but I am enjoying the things I'm making AND I even was paid for 2 items I made on request!


First up...baby booties with matching hat.A friends niece is having a baby and asked me to make her some booties and hat.

A Sheepskin dog bed with fleece back to it for easy cleaning. This was for my friends little bichon who doesn't handle the cold well anymore. He peacefully sleeps his days away now with no shivering! The fur is actually a dark brown, but the lights in my office with the crappy phone camera made it look weird.

A beanie to keep my friends grandson warm through his battle with testicular cancer at age 20.

Hat and Scarf- A gift to my friends son who LOVES hats and scarfs. He told his momma the other day "Athena doesn't get to wear it anymore!" LOL. Athena modeling the projects.

And now I am working on a blanket for my sister who has ovarian cancer :( I should finish it soon. Going on a road trip with the dogs to WA to see my aunt for Thanksgiving next week so I will have lots of down time to get it done! I was also comissioned to make 2 more sets of booties! So I will be working on those as well before January. PLUS the hats I have in mind for the rest of the family. Good thing I crochet fast!

OH and Gifts for my aunts newfies...They will get drool bibs for xmas. I'll be working on a design when I am there next week then my mom will embroider some sayings on it like "Drool is sexy." Hoffa is not a huge drooler, but dozer is always soggy haha.

As you can see Drool City!

I hate being an Adult

Can I just run away to a time where I did not have to make hard decisions? Pretty please?

Athena was really restless last night and is starting to have a hard time breathing. At one point she was laying on my pillows trying to get as close to be as she could. Generally that means she is not feeling good. Although she is eating and seems to have energy she gets winded very easy and almost whines when you touch her tummy. She gets bloated very easy now after she eats. I swear I hate making a decision, but how long do you let a pet suffer? she will never show she is in pain and that is the hard part. She shows me discomfort by being more clingy then usual and that is about it. She has been very clingy to me more so then usual.


She has been doing decent up until now. I do have her on prednisone once a day. For the first week she was on it the medication did take down her lymphnodes to  normal size. However that lasted only a week before they started getting bigger again. Right now the steroids are basically keeping her eating. My mom commented last night about how tired she looks. :(


I'm sitting here feeling like a horrible mom for even thinking of putting her down. Does she have energy to run around the yard? Yes, but a short trip to the pet food store had her very winded.....Does she eat? It really depends on the day if she eats well or not. What concerns me the most is her breathing. She takes shallow breaths and sounds like she has bronchitis. That wheezing forceful sounding breaths. 


Do I regret not doing chemo? Heck no. She has lasted well past any doc told me she would! I was told 6 weeks without treatment. Here it is close to 23 weeks after i found the nodes swollen and she is still here. And really i only started the prednisone bout 4 weeks ago.

Stupid cancer...making me make a hard decision in life...