Monday 14 August 2006

Wow, guys, I can't believe it is 7 whole days since I last blogged. It's been crazy here and the time is just flying by.

So I guess I'd better just give you the week's update.

After the really hot days of July the weather hasn't been up to much but that hasn't stopped me swimming. Oh no! If it is too cold for the outdoor pool then I go in the indoor pool. I swim at least twice a day and can now swim for 15 minutes non-stop. Hey, betya proud of me.

Today we went to see Dr Richard. I know the drill so I was really relaxed.

If truth be told, if I was any more relaxed I would have been asleep!

I know what is expected of me so I popped myself on the scales and sat their quietly while they all peered at the LCD. Much jubilation; I've lost another 700g. I now weigh 25.3kg. And before you all go "Hattie, you haven't lost as much weight as last week" let me put you straight now. My weigh-in last week was after 8 days of the new regime and I lost 800g. Today's weigh-in was after 7 days. So I have consistently lost 100g per day. Good eh!

So I got my treat. But then Dr Richard noticed I was scratching my left ear. So I was hoisted onto the table and he stuck this pointy thing down my ear. I didn't like that much. He diagnosed an infection. So then, being a doctor, he had do the same thing to my right ear but pronounced that clean and healthy. So then he put another pointy thing in my left ear and dropped something wet and cold in there. Brrrrr. And I have to have this for TEN days!!

Anyway, they gave me another treat. But then, they started complaining about me smelling. Not the way I smell with MY nose but how I smelled to THEIR noses. Honestly, anyone would think that I wasn't in the same room! And then, while my back was turned Dr Richard was doing something indescribable to my nether region. I ask you. Does a girl have no privacy?! Then they were all wrinkling their noses. I think that my anal glands must have been a bit full. You'd think that they'd find a more genteel way of cleaning them wouldn't you.

After seeing Dr Richard we made a pit stop on the way home. Auntie Marjorie left the car so I assumed control; to keep her seat warm and to make sure Uncle Craig behaved himself.

Then it was back to camp for a swim.

Anyway, they are so proud of me here at Lucies Farm that after my second swim I had a lovely warm shower followed by a lovely warm hair drier and then they gave me a new collar as a present for my good behaviour. I like it here.

Don't you think I look pretty.

Hope y'all are having a good time like me.

Love and kisses, Hattie