Montanamadness

I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything in a while.  My dog has been having a lot of seizures in the last couple days, so I haven’t been leaving his side.  I’ve been busy babying him.  I’m sure he’ll be fine.  I already talked to his vet and have been told what to do, so we’ll be busy for a day or two trying to find out why the seizures are so numerous right now.  I’ll post more later!!

O.K. so check this out.  My friend Amber is here and we have been doing some research on company logos.  She manages a small restaurant in town and she and the owner have been talking about doing a remodel.  The owner doesn’t just want to move the tables around; she wants to remodel the whole thing.  Some people may say this could be dangerous.  Changing the name, logo, and look of the building may cause clients to leave.  She doesn’t believe the customers will leave because she plans on talking with the customers about it for a few months so that none of them are caught off guard.  When Amber and the owner sat down at their last meeting, the owner explained that she wasn’t going to have a company logo because she didn’t feel as though it was important.  That is when Amber decided to come here so that we could check it out.  We needed to know if it is important to have a company logo, our guts told us that it is.  So, while looking around we read through some great articles written by people who have had personal experience with this, people in the business world who know what they’re talking about.  Here is one short article that we found that explains everything.  Click here if you would like to read it!!  The article even gave us the name of a website we could visit to look at some company logo, and that website is http://www.pixellogo.com.  Amber and I took a quick peek at that website and found a few simple logos that the owner could use for the restaurant.  She plans on having the owner go to that website and look around; hopefully if the owner reads that article I suggested and also visits the website with the logos on it, we will be able to change her mind.  In my heart I really think that not having a company logo is a big mistake!!

Well, it appears that my sister’s husband is going to be alright.  They kept him in ICU over night, did a CAT scan the next morning to make sure the swelling in his brain wasn’t really bad, did a few more tests, and sent him home.  He isn’t going to be able to work for a while, but he’ll just have to deal with it. 

I feel sorry for my sister.  Not only does she have 3 young kids, and a teenager to look after, now she has a bed stricken husband to tend to.  That has to be difficult.  I spoke with her on the phone this morning and she said Daniel is being a big whiney baby.  (she was joking about it)  She said all he does is whine about the fact that they ruined his wedding ring, and now he’s going to have all these ugly scars.  After hearing that, I really believe that he is going to be fine.  If he is complaining about stuff like that, then trust me when I say that he is back to his normal self!!  My sister has been trying to get him to shut up and stop complaining about it, only because there is nothing they can do about it right now.  I’m sure they’ll get everything figured out when he gets better, and hopefully they sell the dirt bike so this doesn’t happen again!!!

I got an alarming phone call last night.  The caller ID said it was my mom so I answered my cell and right off the bat I knew something was wrong.  I could tell by the tone in her voice.  She began to explain that Daniel (my sisters husband) got into a bad wreck on his dirt bike.  She began to explain that he was messing around with some of his buddies and wrecked pretty bad.  I don’t know exactly how it happened but they had to call an ambulance.  When he wrecked he hit his head and from the time it happened up until when the paramedics showed up, he was unconscious.  He began to come around but he was in bad shape.  They knew he had a head injury they just didn’t know how bad it was.  His hand was broken and I guess the bone was sticking out.  Ouch!!  They rushed him to the hospital where he began to become beligerant because of the head injury.  He was conscious, but he wasn’t himself.  They said the head injury was a bad one.  When they tried to get a CAT scan he wouldn’t hold still so they knocked him out and intubated him.  From there he was put in ICU.  My mom explained that my sister was going to stay with him, DUH!!!  My mom said that was all she knew at that point but she didn’t think it was a fatal head injury.  I told my mom to call me as soon as she heard anything, I said I didn’t care what time of night it was.  Well they called this morning to say that they had to keep him unconscious for the night so that they could keep the breathing tube in him, but that he was begining to slowely wake up this morning.  They still don’t know how bad the head injury was, or if he will have any permanent damage but it seems like he’s going to be o.k.

I feel really bad that I can’t be there for my sis right now!!  I live in Montana and she lives in Nevada.  She has no family down there, and because they just recently moved there she has few friends.  I’m glad he’s going to be o.k. though.  My sis called this morning to make sure that mom had called me to let me know that he was waking up.  She told me that Daniel starting being beligerant because in whatever state of consciousness that he was in, he was able to understand them when they told him that they were going to cut off his wedding ring.  His hand was swelling up pretty bad and they couldn’t get his ring off.  They cut it off and that made him upset.  I guess I might be upset if they cut my wedding ring!!  But if it came down to cutting off my wedding ring or loosing my finger, I’m sure I would choose to cut it off. 

I still can’t believe this happened to him.  I guess it could have been worse.  Hopefully there isn’t any permanent damage and he is able to make a swift and complete recovery.  I’ll keep posting with any news!!

It’s almost time for river fishing!!  I’m so excited!!  The snow is melting, the robins are singing by my window in the mornings, and my tackle box is organized and ready to go.  My husband and I will be going in soon to get out fishing licenses’ and new line for our poles.  We replace the line on our poles at the beginning of every new season.  Some people that I know (like my grandpa) only replace the line when he absolutely has to but I would rather not take the chance of losing a big fish because my line snaps.  Wear and tear on fishing line occurs quite easily in my opinion.  Every time you catch a fish and put strain on it, it has to stretch!!  So, dust off your fishing poles and get ready.  Spring is here!!