Bobby spent Friday in Mongkok undergoing diagnostic tests. From's Tom's notes:
Crystals on bladder, kidney. Kidneys big, not unusual with this situation. Spleen (not S-P-L-I-N-E !) OK. Liver is small. Gallbladder big - could be normal. Blood vessel to liver - turbulence in vein. Lots of blood outside the liver. Not getting to the liver. One vessel is 4x bigger than usual.
All in all, it's positive. The main plus is that the shunt is outside of the liver so it's operable. Because much of Bobby's blood does not pass through his liver, it took much longer for the anesthesia to exit his body. The vet stated that Bobby might be very sleepy for two days. He's pretty much back to normal today (and he greatly improved last night once he returned home and ate) although he's not as bouncy as usual.
On other subjects, today was the first day in ages when I a) didn't HAVE to be somewhere for the entire day and b) don't have any major items that MUST be done TODAY. I did have the LA/SS newsletter hanging over my head and finished it last night. However, I wanted to Alexa to read through it first as I haven't actually taught the units which I wrote about. She made a few tweaks and I finished that newsletter once we returned from Clearwater Bay (James' tennis & Claire's piano lesson).
On the way home, we stopped at Metro City, Po Lam. We went to Toys R Us as Claire received a gift certificate from piano. (She actually wanted the cash so I said James could use the gift certificate towards a Wii game. Tom's sister, Ann, sent Christmas money for both kids and James also has three weeks of pocket money saved. ) James ended up buying a Wii game from the store next to Toys R Us. It wasn't an expensive game so he still has some money left over. Claire bought another Zhou Zhou pet along with a "bed" for it. It was so nice just to be able to be spontaneous and to NOT rush to the next place where we were due.
I finished the newsletter earlier and sent it out. Another colleague emailed and stated that she could not open the file. Not sure why so I've sent it again (in Pages) and also exported it to Word. (Couldn't keep all of the formatting, though.) Also sent the pdf so she could view it. Hopefully one of those does the trick.
Read some more of Flyte, napped a little on Claire's very comfortable bed (LOVE her room) and just finished playing Wii with James. I'm planning on walking down to the beach and hanging out there.
Tom's in Macau today. He returns tonight.
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