Sweet! A's one-hit the Mariners.

I know! First time the M's have been held to 2 or fewer hits in consecutive games. I was scared to check because you never know with Zito anymore.

We've been "watching" the games on broadband in the early mornings. It's weird, and almost entirely unlike baseball.

~ma for your dad, Spidra. I'm sure the surgery will be fine, so the ~ma is mostly for recovery-coping skills.

that the conundrum of prednisone. It's such a "miracle" drug but often the side effects are just as bad as the problem they are prescribed to cure. My sister has colitus and when she was first diagnosed she was on predinsone for about 8 months. I don't think she got myopathy but she did gain 60lbs.

Oh, ugh, Megan. I gained about 20 in the month I was on it about two months ago. Fortunately this is a really short course. Hopefully it will work, and I can be off it again.

*fingers crossed*

I've been on a few short courses of prednisone (for nasal polyps) and one longer course (when I got Ramsay-Hunt syndrome/Bells palsy) and I'm not anxious to do it again. It's the ravenous hunger that's the worst. I tried to eat fruit and veggies but nothing quelled the hunger like grease!

Just as long as I don't get a yeast infection on top of all this. That was SO miserable.

{{{vw}}} I hope that the symptoms go away soon.

{{vw}} Only 2 more days. The prednisone talk is scary.

I took a nap around 7 last night and that was it. Was tired. My face still is awful, but rested now. My always weird and entertaining dreams are lost to me when I awake.

Still sad about passing on the trip to St. Louis, but I likely would have been very uncomfortable.

So I figure now Anne has to go to SF since I missed seeing her at home. I am so looking forward to the F2F. So many people I will love to see again, and so many people I get to meet for the first time!

Spidra! Much healing ~ma for your dad. Easy surgery ~ma, and some Listening to Doctor ~ma thrown in. That’s not at all what I was going for when I offered you distraction ~ma yesterday. I really should have been more specific.

{{{Spidra}}} surgery~ma for your dad.

Ok, subject of prednisone side effects ... bleurgh... let's just say, vw, when I read you were going to have to take it, I prayed you wouldn't have any side effects as bad and long-lasting as the severe, extreme behavioral and mood changes I'd had. I know the myopathy is far, far away from being fun, and I wish you didn't have it. But I'm caught between being thankful my prayers were answered, and thinking, "Dang, why didn't I think of praying against myopathy, too."

Thanks, guys.

ION, Toto is having a rough morning too. Shortly after we got up, he puked, poor guy. Then on our walk, I noticed he was limping, so I figured he'd gotten something caught in his paw. Sure enough, we got home, and it was all puffed up. I couldn't figure out what it was. After picking at it for a bit with a paper towel, Emily suggested that I get the tweezers, 'cause it looked like it might be glass.

It was a jolly rancher. Poor guy got it stuck in between the little black parts of his paw. He was SO good, though, while we were getting it out. So patient, and no squealing or anything. He got a treat.

Aw, brave little guy.

Lucy picked up a seed pod on a walk yesterday - you know those long brown ones? This one had curved into sort of a semi circle when it dried, so when she was carrying it, the ends were curved up around her snout like she was a freaking warthog. Some of the looks and double takes she got were so funny.