3D Tree

3D Tree, a photo by Canon Fodder on Flickr.

It's been quite warm of late, by UK standards at least, so the workshop has been very warm. In an effort to keep the temprature down I've had the door open as well as the windows. The above is the view from my desk when you look up out of the door. Personally I count my myself lucky that it is. :-)
Okay there is a knack to this one. If you can pull it off you get to see the picture in 3D. You need to make your eyes go 'cross-eyed' if you can. You should then have three or four pictures, not two. (It may help to single out a single item such as a branch or individual leaf.) Three here is the magic number; once you have three (This may take some practice and some trial and error.) Stare hard at the middle image, make sure it is aligned and try to get it to focus. If you can, the image should resolve into 3D. Good Luck!

Silly Bob

Grim week

Are you dinner?
Originally uploaded by Canon Fodder

Pepper died today. She was hit by a car. Lorii's dad found her trying to drag herself home Yesterday. The vet showed us five fractures on the x-rays. The four points where the pelvis attaches to the spine and her hip joint. The vet felt it was worth seeing if there was any nerve damage to the bladder, but overnight she lost the use of her legs. So we decided to end her suffering. I'll miss her company on the walks to the post office and her squirmed greeting whenever I came home.

Multiple Sclerosis

Lorii is still in hospital, but will hopefully be home soon. Perhaps even later today.

The treatment for her MS is over for now and it is only the fallout from the steroids that is keeping her in. Before the treatment Lorii was a Type 2 diabetic, managing her sugar with diet and drugs. Unfortunately a side effect of the steroids is to send your blood sugar way on up, and for Lori it has just not come down. She is now waiting on Diabetes Specialist nurses to come train her on how to manage her blood sugar with self injected insulin. Whether this promotion to Type 1 diabetes is permanent is unclear, but they won't let her out of the hospital until the nurses have signed off that she is okay.

The doctors have signed of on her MS medication. Another self injected drug called Rebif. Lorii will have to attend a clinic for training on that too. The poor girl is going to look like a human pin cushion.

Choices

Well Lorii is still in hospital, will be until Friday, and today chooses which drug out of many to use to treat her MS long term. She now describes the sensation in her left hand as having a really tight rubber glove strangle it. They've given her some new medication to help with that but it is a cumulative one and will take some time to get working. The steroids given to help speed the MS relapse have screwed her blood sugar so much that she is now being taught how to inject insulin. This and the fact that she will have to self inject the new MS drug she has to choose today has really got her down. It didn't help that the doctors came and told her what her choices were, told her she had 24 hours to decide, and left her. Within a few hours of them leaving she had promptly forgotten what her choices were.

Latest news...

Well as I type Lorii is once again in hospital. Another MS relapse this time effecting her left arm. She still has the use of it, but it's both going numb and itching. She should be out soon, they're just keeping her in while they give her some medicine that screws up her blood sugar as a side effect.