Day 853 - 854 - 855: Feelin Great!

I felt a little puny for a few days this week, but that was the M Vaccine doin it's fing... and as of yesterday, I am pleased to announce that The Luke is back and fully in the saddle! I am lively, in to ever fing, followin the Mom around like all ways and stayin busy. I am happy and feelin great!

Breedin aside, I'm not much of a retriever. Frow a ball or frisbee... and I will assume you did not want it. I won't waste your time or mine bringin it back to you. So in matters of retrieval, I depend on the Mom... And fank Friday on a counta the Old Gal finally retrieved the Day 853-855 pitchers off the flashy fing! So, here goes...

Day 853

Hangin wif the St Francis...!

Wink!

Dusk shnoofins.

Day 854
Feeling Good Fursday in Full Swing!

 Confession Time: I plucked the eyeballs off the pink hen yesterday.

 Me and the Blind Hen:

Day 855

Friday is my favorite day of the week!

Checkin the perimeter.

Hit.

 Serious Hit.

 Right. Here.

Takin a break from the Traditional Friday Family Nap... to chill in the other room.
 [That is my AK Baby that you see!]

It's almost nite nite time. And I've gathered My Local Team Luke Troops to the Big Bed.

 Counter Clock Wise: Blind Hen. Easter Bunny. Froggy. Lullaby Bear Baby... And the Me!

 I love my babies. [Please to forgive laundry day images].

And now, it's seriously 'nite nite' time... I'm off to make my last rounds outside, say my prayers and settle in for the night. Before I close my eyes... I want to fank The Mogley for the sweet blog post. GR Rescue Rocks!!! Just sayin. 

Please to keep the good and positive foughts and also the prayers flowin. I love you all!

Day 853: Workout Wednesday... And Just a Few Words!

Check out my latest Workout Video!

Much heart felt fanks to each and every one of you for liftin me and my the Mom's spirits each day! Your outpourin of love and support means the absolute world to us! And very special fank you to Mayzie and Miss Sugar [Wish I was there to nurse her paw!] for touchin my heart wif your sweet blog posts. Fanks to all my special friends, Team Luke and the Love Protocol has shifted into overdrive!

Day 852: Friends, Fanks And Photos!

From the bottom of my sweet heart, Fank each and every one of you, my dear Friends... for joinin My Team! My words cannot express how good your kind words makes me feel! Special fanks to my good friend, the Phantom for his very kind post...


And check this out! Scout and Freyja asked Ann at Zoolatry to create this great badge!

Your support means the world to me, and I hope you will join My Team! I am SO grateful to my good friends, and I invite you to display my new awesome button, if you are so inclined!

We've had a busy day what wif The Love Protocol, and all... I'm not feeling so bad just not my best, but I had a bit of a rough day yesterday. And I also got the M Vaccine, what I was told might make me feel 'flu-ish' for a short time.

Please not to worry about me, though... on a counta I felt good enough to chase a squirrel and do a little wallerin in the yard! [Look for some great ne workout videos soon!] And now I leave you wif just a few pitchers of my day...

 I fink I hear a squirrel!

Makin my rounds...

 My the Mom says I'm handsome.

Slurp.

Squirrels left there spoils right about here.

A day is not complete wifout a little Froggy and Easter Bunny time. Just sayin.

Fank you for makin my day so very upliftin! You, My Friends, hold a Very Special Place in My Heart!

Day 851: Team Luke Wif My Own Button And Pedal To The Metal!

Busy days these days... This mornin started wif a trolley ride on a empty tummy  to what I was convinced would be LePeep, or at the very least... IHOP, so I was not amused when we deboarded at the Doctor's Office!

My disappointment was short lived, however, when all the nice folks started oohin and ahhhhin over the me. They held me over and tested me on a number of subjects. I passed some wif the flyin colors and didn't do so well in others (results to come later), but I know this... I helped my the Mom make the right decision on who to manage and lead the charge on my treatment! Just sayin. [More on that later!]

And speakin of leadin the charge, I need to fank my good friends, Scout and Freyja for their foughtful blog post and for this swell button!

I hope you will join my Team, pawticipate in my Love Protocol, help me fight the good fight... and display my swell button, if you are so inclined!

Heart felt fanks also to the beautiful, pedal to the metal Miss Khyra and my good good friends, The Thundering Herd (how it's spelled, not pronounced) for their foughtful blog posts, as well as their support ever day... accelerated to overdrive durin these days of trial!

I have so SO MANY DEAR FRIENDS TO FANK... and I would name you each individually... but I spent the day wif my Aunt Isfesia, and boy did she make me sweepy... Nite nite!

Day 849: The Story

Well, well, well...It has been a while since I have been here to share my foughts and feelins and the whatnot... It's been a busy and difficult few weeks: I have been workin hard to feel better. Me and the Mom have been busy seein people and talkin about fings. The Mom has been hoverin over me like crazy. And the Bleu has been rambuctious, rebellious and an all round 'bad boy' in a way that makes me proud and the Mom sigh.


I will begin wif the good news. I am feelin much better... like my old self. And I'm happy!

[Photo taken Day 845]


And now for the story:


Days 830 - 833. Monday-Thursday. I saw the Dr. Mark on Day 825 Wednesday and was put on aunty biotics for a sinus infection... along wif the Love Protocol adminstered by the Mom (what is more intense hoverin than even normal). We were hopeful on a counta one day I would feel better, but then the next... I would not. The Mom took notes on all of my actions and inactions, ever sound, ever breaf, ever ever fing.


Day 834. Friday. Me, the Mom and the Dr. Mark were in agreement that an exploratory procedure was in order to figure out how to help me feel better, so we planned that for Day 837.

[Photo taken Day 835]


Day 835 - 836. Saturday-Sunday. I didn't feel good, but the best and also the worst part was the Love Protocol aka the hoverin Mom. Just sayin.


Day 837. Monday. I had an exploratory procedure that turned into radical surgery to remove a growf from my froat. Sadly, the Mom's premonition was true. After a long conversation wif my the Dr. Mark, we knew that it was very likely not goin to be good, but breathin and swallerin was so much easier! I was restless and uncomfy overnight... and so was the Mom. The LP (Love Protocol) was in overdrive.


Day 838 - 839am. Tuesday-Wednesday. My froat hurt. But the LP made it just a little better. Just sayin.

[Photo taken Day 839. The cone belongs to the Bleu!]


Day 839pm. Wednesday 6pm to be exact. Dr. Mark received the results, did some local research... and called the Mom. It was the news he had prepared us for...: malignant melanoma. The Mom turned inward to the me and the LP.


Day 840 - 843. Thursday-Sunday. Oncology Appointment #1 was scheduled for Monday. And the Love Protocol mounts!


Day 844. Monday. My dear, sweet (the Mom's adjectives, not mine on a counta they are SO not dudely) Uncle Tom... came over bright and early to take us to Appointment 1. It was a little brutal... so Oncology Appointment 2 was made for Thursday, and the Love Protocol escalates, as does the research for holistic approaches to treatment...

[Photo taken Day 841]

Day 845 - 846. Tuesday-Wednesday. I am off all of the aunty biotics and pain meds, and I am startin to trot outside, chase squirrels, root for buried pecans and all in all, nap a little less. I'm even kinda enjoyin the LP a little more!

[Photo taken Day 842]


Day 847. Thursday. My dear, sweet (MY words this time on a counta he's THE UNCLE) Uncle Tom came over again to pick us up for Appointment 2. Wif the exception of the brief nap I took durin the serious part of the conversation... I had a blast! Even the way home was fun, and I enjoyed a brief stop by the Casa De Herd!


Day 848: Friday. Decisions have been made, appointments scheduled, and we are committed to a combination of conventional and holistic treatments and ferapies.

[Photo taken Day 840]
So that's the story. And now, as much as I hate to ask for help... I need it. Please keep me in your foughts and prayers. Please. I believe in that sort of fing... you know, The Power of the Paw!

[Photo taken Day 842]


And there's one other thing I need to ask... Please to not share a negative story wif me, on a counta the Mom reads this stuff. Me and the Mom are boaf fighters, but I fink the Old Gal is feelin a bit fragile these days. She real strong on the out side, but I know her like no body else... and she is hurtin. So please to share your postive energy and encouragement! We need and appreciate it more than you could ever know!

[Photo taken Day 848]

By the way, my Aunt Melanie has proclaimed my friends and family "Team Luke"  (has a nice ring to it, don't you fink?). And I would love you to join my team and the Love Protocol!

Day 829: Chore Day

Day 828: Trifecta Saturday Wif A Call To Action, A Video... And The Pet Blogger Hop!

A Call To Action: SEEKING FOREVER FAMILY! 

Meet Abigail, a sweet one year old Dachshund mix!

This sweet girl is incredibly smart, enjoys the challenge of training and picks up commands quickly. She's feisty and playful and gets along well with other dogs... and as a lovebug, she lives to please and just be with her people!

Some of you may remember the Ben Franklin. Well, Abigail is his sister!!! She is in Foster Care with Golden Retriever Rescue of Houston. Please help me help her by spreading the word about this most deserving Sweetheart! Contact me or visit grrh.org for more information!

A Video... Or Two!

Join me and the Bleu on last Saturday's walk. I was starting to feel really poorly, so the walk is short. O... and sorry for the abrupt cut in the middle, but some times Nature just calls a boy!

Now we bring it all home wif the Take Two!

I'm happy to report that I am feelin much better this Saturday, but not quite well enough to shoot a walkin video. Gosh, I will miss it! What I won't dare miss, however, is that wonderful tradition...

The Saturday Pet Blogger Hop!

Join the fun! And for details, hop over to Life With Dogs!

Day 827: Free Fur All Friday

Hello Friends... 

Welcome and Fank You for comin back to visit me! 

I have not been feelin well, not well at all... and so therefore also AWOB&FB [Absent WifOut Blog & FaceBook]. Doc says I have a sinus infection, and I'm on Aunty Biotics and double my usual benny drill. My the Mom loves and respects my the Doctor Mark, but she is still afeared that he is not right... so she hover and slather me wif the too much love and concern, and this house is not big enough for the two of us. Just sayin.


The very good news is that my EKG and all my blood work was perfect, and I am feelin a little better each day. Yesterday, I even ran outside... and I might have again today, but we have had the dreaded and funderous conditions. Please to note that I was not too weak to have a mini-NBD!


And ease your worries... Frew it all, I have maintained my boyish good looks, replete wif the handsomeness and maximum CQ (cute quotient)... or so my the Mom says.

And so, in an effort to bring you up to speed and also celebrate the FFA Friday, I offer you a glimpse of some stuff in my Kingdom...

Exhibit A: Toad Stool

(We've had a LOT of rain!)

Exhibit B: Unripened Pecan, Stripped By A Squirrel

(That green sweater they grow in cannot possibly taste good...
but they eat it anyway)

Exhibit C: Texas Sage

Exhibit D: Ginormous Live Oak Leaf... Still Lives!

(My fascination wif this leaf is inexplicable.
Should it ever fall from the tree, I will press it into my scrapbook!)

Yep, though I've not felt very well... I've still slowly surveyed my Kingdom...

Exhibit E: The Perrenial [I can never remember the name of]... in bud. 

Exhibit F: The Perrenial [I can never remember the name of]... in bloom. 

Exhibit G: (O no!!! I missed last night's blooms of) The Night Cereus

I hate when that happens, on a counta it tells me that I am too busy or too distracted to soak up all the pleasures of every day life... These joyous blooms are, after all, just twelve feet from my back door.

Life is chock full of the lessons. And I am teachin plenty of em to my the Mom. As for the Bleu, Big Boy is boaf auditin and also substitute teachin the course! Just sayin.

Happy Friday, Ya'all!