Happy B-day, Hitomi!

お誕生日おめでとう、ひとみ！

JP vs AUS

Everyone around me is so fanatic about World Cup so that makes me want to join the temporary nationalism too although I don't even know the rule really well. You goal, you score. That's all I know.

The first match opponent to Japan is Australia. Is this strong team or not? I didn't know any profile for this team called Socceroos (Yeah, Australia is famous for kangaroos, koalas and OZ beef) but apparently the looks of each squad surpass that of Japanese..... Most of the Australian players are over 180 cm tall and they do look scary. When you are short, only advantage for being short is its speed. In that sense, the Japanese squad did pretty good. They were quick and they even scored 1 goal first while the Australians shot more. Hmmm....we might be able to win the game....? Every Japanese thought so until 8 minutes before game finish. The opponents scored 3 goals in a row in the last 8 minutes. How could it happen? This is the difference between baseball and soccer. You don't know what will gonna happen till the end. I praise the Australians cause they watched carefully, moved quickly and grabbed the chance. but...any of us is not content with this result. Okay, I don't mind you lost the game but how could you let 3 goals in 8 minutes? Maybe loss of stamina. or mentality weakness. Oh come on, samurais can be beaten by their physical disadvantage but never by their mentality.

I wonder if I should watch the next game, Japan vs Croatia.

Once upon a time....

The good thing is that I got my dog back from the hospital but the bad thing is that I can't give her milk for a while. So I found 3L stock of milk which expire tomorrow left in the fridge. My nature doesn't allow me to waste things. もったいない。

Hmmm....things which use a lot of milk..... Okay, pudding. Milk jell-o. and maybe white sauce stew for dinner.

If you have egg, milk and sugar it's not hard to make pudding. Is there any egg in the fridge? Yeah, I found 1 pack of eggs..... It says 600 yen!? It's almost $6. Oh I now remember my dad was saying that he got eggs from someone as a gift. Nice. The average egg price in Japan is about 200 yen for 10 eggs but this one costs 3-fold. Interesting price for me who was buying eggs from Equality brand (known for its cheaper price in Canada.) I appreciate the importance of organic food and I'm trying to change my food style slowly into organic style but it seems I still need a time before I can afford fancy eggs.

The funny thing about this egg pack is its product name. "Dreamlike Egg: Once upon a time there was an old man."
I can understand till the part of "dreamlike egg" but what is the hell about an old man?? Yeah I'm sure there was an old man in the old time too....and they must have been eating nice organic eggs.
Anyway I could get rid of 1L of milk for pudding and basil milk jello. Milk jello is good treat for coming hot summer and if you mix with something leafy like green tea or basil, it can give you refreshing taste.

The last pic is Japanese traditional sweets that Yuko's mom made. Isn't this pretty? I've never tried making Japanese sweets before cause it requires a lot of preparation (and nice artistic taste) but since her mom is holding a sweet cooking class at her home, why not attending that class too? Thank you Yuko, it was yummy! Have a nice trip to Germany!

surgery2

I got a call from the vet and he told me that the surgery did go well. He took out something like a toy ball which had been stuck in my dog's gut.
I went to see the doctor to see what it was (I was not allowed to see my dog yet though. She has to be hospitalized for 3 days and any factor that makes her excited should be avoided meanwhile. Yeah, dogs can't know why they should keep calm when their owners came to see them but excitement surely doesn't help healing the wound).

The reddish stuff in the second picture is the thing came out from her body. It is a part of rubber ball but it has already lost its color and elasticity. I don't know how long it had been staying in her gut but I wonder if I should put her muzzle on from now on when I take her a walk. She likes to pick up anything like a ball but I can't see clearly what she is picking up when I take her out at night.

The first picture is the one the doc took at the surgery. The roundish thing at the left top is the ball stuck in the small intestine. It looks pretty big, doesn't it? I don't know if you can see it clearly from the pic but the dark-reddish part at the right bottom is the small intestine with necrosis. We had to cut off that part and it almost reached to 20 cm. The doctor showed me the severed part of the intestine and asked me if I wanted to bring it home but I said no. I brought home only that ball with me.

It's good that the surgery is done but we have to worry about later reaction too. Since quite long part of the intestine was cut off and the end of the intestines with different diameter was sutured each other(the diameter of the small intestine becomes bigger towards the large intestine), there might be a chance of leak at the sutured part. If bacterias living in the gut leak out of the intestine they can cause peritonitis.

Hmmm....worries never end......but considering it has already caused necrosis, it was good decision to have her take the surgery. Even if we wait a little bit longer I'm sure now that the foreign material won't come out as a poop.

はなちゃん、気付くのが遅くなってごめんね～。
('ε')/ peritonitis: when bacteria in the digestive system leak into the abdominal cavity (which should be aseptic), it causes inflammation on peritoneum. That's peritonitis. Accompanies severe pain. 

surgery

My dog stopped vomitting but as she hasn't recovered her appetite yet I decided to have her go under surgery. The doctor is sure that something still remains in her small intestine. According to the doctor, it is harder for us to see the emotions of those smashed-face dogs like bulldogs and pugs from their face expression than that of long-nosed dogs. So there might be a chance that she is suffering even she looks okay and although she stopped puking, it's just because of the current location of the foreign material in the gut and she might start puking again when it moves forward a bit.

The fear is that french bulldogs tend to fall respiratory failure after a surgery but the worst case this time is that if the thing she swallowed remains at the same location in the gut for long time, it eventually gets adhesive to the gut wall and causes damages or rupture of the gut. If that thing causes damage, we have to sever some part of the intestine but if it doesn't we just open the small intestine to take out that material.

It was kind of hard to make such a decision to take a surgery or not cause we never know which causes good result. Doctors give us advice but they don't force us to choose which solution. In my dog's case she might suffer respiratory problem if she takes surgery but she might also suffer gut necrosis if she doesn't take it. I wonder if doctors don't assert one method in fear of the case they fail that method they chose but it IS an owner's responsibility to decide things about his pet so I can't blame them.

I already left her at the clinic so I'm just hoping that the surgery is going well. Cross fingers for her!

(' ε')/ necrosis: cell death caused when cell degeneration persists or worsens., or when injury is severe. 4 general machanisms for cause of necrosis are: impaired energy production, impared cell membrane function, metabolic derangement and genetic abnormalities.

introducing my dog

This is my dog, Hana. She is adoreble and really hyper all the time but for the last whole week she didn't seem feeling well.

Since it is every morning routine for her to puke yellowish sputum (though she is only 2 yrs old) I didn't worry much when she threw up what she ate last Thursday. But her vomitting didn't stop. She kept puking all day on that day and it was unbearable to watch her suffering so I took her to a vet.
The result is....something is inside of her stomach. It was impressive that the doctor could tell that only by palpation. Oh Hana, you did again. About a half year ago, she accidentaly swallowed debris of toy ball and she had to endure discomfort until it came out with her poop.
So this time too we can wait until that stuff make way out of the large intestine. The doctor told me that when foreign material stayed in the stomach the vomit would continue but if it moved to the small intestine it would be alleviated.

So I'm now waiting.
It is really concerning cause even she could eat something she puke it later after all. I take her to the vet to give IV but Hana started losing her weight..... you poor thing...... Just excrete it.

まだかな～まだかな～。

('ε'): sputum: things such as discharge, foreign materials and bacteria frim respiratory organs to be discharged with mucus and saliva when you cough