So, where did we leave off? Right…

Once we received the news that Scuttles was negative for both lymphoma and IBD, we thought that we were in the clear and that he would begin to get better. Unfortunately for all of us, that did not happen. At first, the prescribed combination of prednisone (to bring down the inflammation in his intestines), clavamox (to help with the infection), metronidazole (to help with the infection and reduce the inflammation), and ondansetron (to reduce the vomiting) seemed to help; by the end of January, the size of Scuttles’ lymph node swellings had decreased by half and he had gained back a few pounds. His blood protein levels were a little high, but it was assumed that was because of the infection. Halfway through February, however, Scuttlebutt took a turn for the worse. He stopped responding to the ondansetron, which in turn caused him to start throwing up again. The constant vomiting prevented him from absorbing the nutrients in his food, which stressed his body further, causing his infection to get worse and his lymph nodes to become enlarged again. In matter of a week, he lost all the weight he had gained back and became lethargic again.

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Lordy loo, our poor little blog has been grossly neglected since the wedding! Guess it’s about time we got to ‘splainin’ why. Be warned… This is going to be a very long post.

The explanation (in super fun list format!)
June, 2009

• We get married and go on an amazing honeymoon (pictures available here and here)


• We begin revamping the original M&T website (which was solely devoted to the wedding) to make it serve as sort of a portal for all of our different sites (i.e., this blog, our recipes site, our photo gallery, etc.). We compile all of the wedding information into a separate site and begin updating it with pictures from the wedding and vendor reviews.

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Today is a very special day! We here at M&T headquarters are wishing Butters and Scuttlebutt a happy 3rd birthday and Archimedes a happy 1st birthday :)

In honor of our darling boys’ birthday we’ve collected some fun pictures of them over the last 3 years for you to enjoy…

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I decided yesterday that I was going to make another set of pages devoted to recipes. The first thing I did was come up with a design, which took me a couple of hours with Photoshop. Once I decided on the layout, it was time to start writing code. In my quest to learn more about CSS and XHTML, I decided to:

A) Abandon my original plan of using an HTML image map, and instead try making an image map using CSS.
B) Use CSS for all positioning instead of making a bunch of tables. (Go figure, now that I’ve finally got the hang of tables, their use is being discouraged.)

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