Together again...

Donna & Pepijn



together again, in the Summerland..

Bella Donna June 3rd 2002 - August 20th 2008

Bye Donna, be good!

Thank you Aragog, for the lovely poem.

8!!

Today Donna's blood suger was 8.4.
And yes thats very good, because she needed to get below 10.

If she's still below 10 next week, the next check up after that can be later than after a week, maybe even after 2 weeks. At the end, when she keeps on going like this, she only needs to get her blood checked every 2 months.
(and uhmm sorry for the crappy picture, she does not like it, having her picture taken, so she keeps on walking and not stand still. This is the best I could make, after taken at least 8 blurry pictures.)

More 8 today, Fair and Square #8. Thank you so much for the LHN squares Chantal! I love them.

Donna

Donna went to see the vet today the test her blood and sugar.
Last Monday it was 24.1 Today it was 17. Going strong, but she needs to get below 10.

She did not gain any weight, but the vet told me I can give her 10 more grams of food per day. And she's going from 0.5 IE insuline to 1.0 IE insuline. For me a bit easier to notice if I realy do inject any insuline at all. I did, because her level went down, but it was hard to see. For Donna its a small step faster in getting regulated.

Next week: next check-up. We keep you all informed.

The verdict

Twice a day a shot insuline, start with 0.5 IE per shot

Twice a day 20 grams of M/D dry food


That's it...
She's going to need a lot of TLC to survive this

Not very good...

Donna looks not so well today. She looses weight and is down.
I'm taking her to the vet in a few minutes.
Keep your fingers crossed she won't be as bad as she seems to be.

I have a knot in my stomach and visions of Pepijn's last visit at the vet.
Keep your fingers crossed for Donna. I keep you posted.

UPDATE: the vet called earlier this evening. She wanted to know if it's ok to do some more tests, because it could be diabetes, but to be sure, some more tests need to be done. I will hear the results tomorrow.

... and then we where six...

It's my birthday today, and I quit smoking, today 4 years ago. but lets not forget the most important celebration of today.

Here's another birthdaygirl:

Today it's Donna's 6th birthday.

Happy Birthday Donna :D

Water fun

This blog entry is especially for Sjouwke who misses reading about my cats :D

Here's Donna, who loves to play with the drops that fall out the water-tap

This picture is a bit fuzzy, because she just went for the killer-snap when I took it.

Donna hangs almost upside down under the tap and snaps her teeth on every drop she can catch, holding her balance with one paw (nails out) on the tap. Thanks to my beloved cat's favorite game, I have several nail marks on my tap ;D

Cats!

You have met my cats Ayla & Donna, Ayla is 9 years old and Donna will be 6 in june.


I have another cat. She's my step-cat and she lives with Katja
I'd like you to meet Ronja:

We are not sure how old she is, but we think around 12 years.
She's mine whenever Katja and her husband are away on a vacation. In May, after I return from Ribe, Ronja is mine for a week and a half :) We are going to have so much fun :)

Dressing a Viking

So.. I'm going to be very busy the next couple of weeks. I'm going to Ribe in 4 weeks. So I need to really get working on Kees tunic.

Yes, it's the dark brown fabric down there, that's going to be his new tunic.

Yesterday evening at my Stitch and Bitch meeting, I was not knitting, I was knotting. Needlebinding my socks. Danny helped me with the heel part. I've got a heelstrap now, need to work the yellow yarn till the end, which will be the ankle part and next week, she helps me with the heel, which will be green again. There are some faults in it, but they are my first and I love these socks ;-)

Also on my to-stitch-list is a head cover. My hair is short and dyed in a non-vikingcolour (it's a eggplant kind of a purple)

I'm sewing the hems by hand and I want to embroider some nice edge decoration on it. (Isn't Donna the cutest, all curled up and pretending to be sleeping? :D)

And, last but not least, I have this basket full of linen and wool fabric. I'm planning on making myself a new underdress and a overdress, a brown fish-bone wollen coat with a dark grey woolen lining, and a gugle, a hood with shoulder parts.

So.. I've got lots to do, the next 4 weeks :)

It's in the air...

Donna discovered the "Stairway to Heaven"

So did Ayla:

Yesterday we had our bi-montly volunteers meeting at Artis and I already had two Artis de Partis dolls and nou I have their friend from outer space too: Artis the Marsis.

They are happily living in my hall, getting their bottums warm :D

And also in the air today, the smell of these, peeled and chucked into pieces, boiling on my stove to become home made apple sauce.

The sun is shining, spring is waiting around the corner so:
It's in the air!

That's All Folks!

I went to the Noordermarkt this morning with my friend Danny.
We needed some linen and wool for new Viking-outfits, for both Kees and me.

When I got home this afternoon, Donna was at the front door to great me as always but... no Ayla. So I was scared to death her heart had given out. The not-so-nice-neighbourhood-kids have been harrassing the surroundings of my home with fireworks since 8 AM this morning and Ayla has a heart-disease so I feared the worst.

But when I walked in my bathroom there she was:

All the way up in my towel-basket. She's on my lap now and purring, I believe all is going to be ok, as always. I'm going out tonight. That's new for both my cats and me, as I'm scared to death of fireworks. But I want to go to Mulligans and celebrate the new year with my friends.

Like I said, Donna is not impressed by all the loud noices and was opening my bags for me. Remember last time when D. and me went fabric-shopping? Danny found an awesome sweater for only 10 euro's. I found one for me today! And Donna likes it too :D



We also found fabric. For Kees a natural and dark brown (it looks a bit grey, but it's a beautyful dark brown) for a new pair of viking pants and a top:


For me the same dark brown and and a lighter natural linen for an over- and underdress and a nice brown woolen fishbone pattern for a coat (on the left)


As for the knitting:
The hoody is going slowly but steadily, My second mirror sock is not going to be finished in this year, but will be soon. Also The Felted Foursome, which is hibernating a bit at the moment and the Kaffe Fasset duo will be done somewhere in January. My friend Ingrid is expecting a baby girl in March and the poor kid is going to get a pink-Disney-princess babyroom.. I will knit her a "tough cookie" outfit.. with maybe a skully or something *lol*

Well... that's all folks!
Have a safe and happy party tonight and I wish you all a Book- & Fibertastic 2008!