Man Down!

Swarleyface is in recovery right now, probably high out of his mind of painkillers. He's defective, a lemon. One of the bones in his left leg stopped growing prematurely while the other just kept right on going, bowing out grotesquely and jamming his cartilage into the elbow joint. This condition led to a pigeon-towed stance that was pretty cute in real life but turned out to be highly disgusting in the x-ray. So, unless we wanted to watch him slowly lose all mobility over the next three years, the only option was surgery. Expensive, expensive surgery. Laptop expensive. Nice laptop expensive. It's no picnic for him either, I imagine, as he had to get his leg cut open, excess cartilage scraped away, and one of his bones cut so it can extend to it's rightful length over the next 3 to 4 weeks. And no doubt he's going to have to wear one of those hilarious head cones so he doesn't eat his own sutures. Poor Buddy. Poor, poor Buddy.

In better news, we're out of here in less than a week now! It looks like UT is going to let me stay on remote until the axe falls at the end of the summer, which is great because it means I've got a paycheck and more importantly insurance until we get established up in Columbus. BONG. Of course, the plan is subject to approval by various higher ups so it could all potentially fall apart and leave us destitute with a broken dog. Poor Buddy.

Finally, I promise once we get to Columbus we'll finally send out some thank-you cards. We really do appreciate everyone being there and helping us get started and we're huge jerks for putting it off so long, but once we had reached a certain threshold of procrastination we just decided to wait until we got to Columbus (where most of our gifts are) and send them all out at once. For realsies to the max stick and needle in my eye.