Snickers to the Rescue!

I've had a not so great year health-wise and neither has Jason.  First he has Gall Stones so he's on a low-fat diet.  Hopefully they will opt not to remove his gall bladder.  Then Jason injured his knee while running at work.  He fractured the tibia in the knee, has major contusions on the tibia, and sprained his ACL and other ligaments.  Yet he continued working.  He doesn't run anymore but he can't use crutches at work so he just uses them as soon as he's done his shift.  He pushed through the pain until an MRI showed the extent of the damage.  Then he kept pushing.  I think his boss is impressed by him.  He only missed one day of work because he was in crippling pain.

As for me, I came down with diverticulitis.  A very painful infection of the diverticuli in the colon.  I'm mostly better now but this weekend I had an accident and needed 6 stitches in my arm.  Yikes.

I was feeling pretty down and then we went to the pet store to get hay.  There she was.  The little multi-colored Abyssinian Guinea Pig.  Jason got her for me as a present for taking such good care of him with his knee and for my troubles too.  I named her Snickers and she is the cutest sweetest little girl.  She is in quarantine from the other guinea pigs until they are recovered from their upper and lower respiratory infections.  Snickers lives in the little cage we have all by her lonesome for two weeks.  Then the vet said we can introduce her to the others and soon they'll all be living together as one big happy family.

Thank goodness for Snickers!  She cheers me up when I need it, just like the other piggies.