Skeletor!

Hey everyone! So there's this dog that these people found and they call him Skeletor because he's super duper skinny and they are nursing him back to health. He has heart worm and his foster peeps need help to pay for his rehabilitation and treatment. So take a sec to stop by his blog and meet him because he's totes cool.

They're fine!

Hey everyone - your good thoughts worked! My gramps and his wife are fine. They don't have any electricity or phone, but they were able to get to the internets somehow to let us know they are ok.
My thoughts are going out to all those other people who are still waiting or have lost someone in the quake.
I'll probably still poop on the floor in solidarity.

Chile.

So one of my grandpas lives in Chile and we still haven't heard from him but we're pretty sure he's ok because he doesn't live in a super heavily populated city. But the aftershocks in his area are like 5-6 magnitude. So we're ringing our paws a bit around here waiting to hear from him.
So, please send good vibes to my Grandpa Bill in Chile.
Edit - it's 7:30pm and still no news. My parents are getting worried. I'm so worried I pooped on the floor.

And my mom thinks I look like this!

You're right Khyra.
This is an oldie because the camera flash hurts my eye.

Duroc.

My grandma says I look like this!

Surgery!

This totes sucks! I totally have to have surgery on my eye next week because the eye doc says I probably won't heal without it because I have something called a boxer ulcer but I'm not a boxer and it's not really an ulcer, it's an erosion. The eye doctor said that this condition happens a lot in boxers and Bostons (especially more mature dogs like me.) What happens is the outermost layer of the cornea, call the epithelium, gets an injury and then it erodes off the stroma which is the next layer down and then it tries to heal, but for some reason the new epithelium doesn't adhere to the next layer down and then it sloughs off and then the areas around it stop adhering too and then the erosion gets bigger and bigger. So the eye doctor scrapes off all my epithelium and then scratches my eyeball so there is some texture for the new epithelium to adhere to and she said it's kind of like a Velcro type effect. So I have to wear a cone for a few weeks after the surgery and sometimes it takes a month to heal and I might have to wear a cone for a month!
So this isn't my eye, but this is pretty much exactly what it looks like when it's stained.

And the best part is the surgery is going to be $600 and that's with a professional discount! So my mom is kind of freaking out.

To the Eye Doc.

Ok, so I've been really quiet lately because my mom has been a little grumpy and not feeling all that bloggy - sorry we haven't been around. And today I go to the eye doctor. Grrr.
I'll update when we are back.