Today is the mirror of yesterday: it began poorly and improved.
Here's a quote from Mac last night:
"Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark." Mac would then whip his head and stare pointedly at anything containing water. The toilet. The snow. Where the water dish once had been. The sink. Of course, no water before surgery.
Finally dawn broke and we could go to the vet. I said my goodbyes because I was convinced I wouldn't see this dog again.
The surgery was long but successful. The vet was able to extricate the fatty tumor from the muscle it was woven into, and as a bonus Mac's kidney numbers are normal. "Normal!" Gary cheered, "That means we can feed him real food again!"
(Cry a strangled despairing "Nnnnnnooooooooo.") No, we talked with the vet and Gary's thinking straight again.
So, the dog lives, though currently in pain, and has a normal kidney. Win, win! And then the cable man came.
You may recall six months ago Charter cable came out and prepared Gary's TiVo for the Great Analog Shift, and I was advised to "switch the TiVo to antenna." We never switched to antenna, and eventually both our systems began acting up.
Gary, armed with six months of research, made the call this time. He demanded Motorola Blah Blah tuners with USB ports. He did more research, called back, and insisted they also bring multi-twin-switch-cards with dual blah-blahs.
I cocked an ear when the cable man came, so I could hear the cable man say, "Right here's your problem! Your TiVo's not switched to antenna!" Instead Gary was playing Jargon Volley with this new cable guy. (Gary: "I gotta rack these components. Then I'll dress them.") Once he got enough credibility points, I heard Gary say, "Yeah, the last cable guy told my wife we should switch the TiVo to antenna!"
The household stopped. We all paused to hear the answer.
"Really?" said the cable guy, amazed.
So, I hereby apologize to my husband. Everyone with a high-def TiVo switched to antenna should call Charter and demand Motorola USB switch boxes instead.
So, from its poor beginning, the day has produced a living dog, a normal kidney, two working TiVos, and four non-flat tires. I'm tucked in next to my drugged-up puppy, watching Anderson Cooper. No one is barking.
Huzzah!
Posted by: Becs | December 16, 2010 at 04:27 AM
I have a high-def TiVo and cable cards. I don't know what the hell you're talking about with Motorola switch boxes.
I am so so so glad that Mac is home with you, sans tumor. Sitting on the couch with the dog watching a cable show on my Tivo is *exactly* what I did last night.
Posted by: Tami | December 16, 2010 at 08:41 AM
Becs - Of course, the dog felt well enough today to move, and thus to bleed. but the cable is great.
Tami - It's something to do about Digital Channel Switching(?). In order to free up bandwidth if you aren't currently watching a channel Charter disables it, and when you switch to that channel it disables some other channel and swaps in the one you want. And the box does that.
Posted by: TheQueen | December 16, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Wonderful news!
Posted by: Jammies | December 20, 2010 at 06:50 PM
Jammies - I was gobsmacked. I kept thinking of you.
Posted by: TheQueen | December 20, 2010 at 08:02 PM