2008.03.11 - MUCH REJOICING - Cheryl is no longer borg.
An independent urologist has confirmed the January surgery "looks good".
Cheryl had to endure the catheter for nearly four weeks (not to mention that it clogged-up and had to be replaced at three weeks in). There was a lot of apprehension and several doctor visits to confirm things are on-track.
She's now able to sit at the sewing machine and she's busy building stock for Norwescon. See ya there.
2008.01.28 - UPDATE - THEY SAY "THIRD TIME'S A CHARM"
Cheryl's back from her third round of surgery today.
Four hours under the knife and five hours in recovery marked the start of six days / five nights in the hospital.
The staples come out in a week, and the foley/catheter goes away two weeks later.
Schedule still looks good for Norwescon. See ya.
2008.01.05 - UPDATE - CHERYL STILL NOT UP TO 100%
Monday, Jan.7th, they remove the "foley" (catheter and collection bag). Before that, the "wound-vac" was her little bionic buddy for most of October and November. It's taken them twelve (12) weeks to realize they perforated her bladder. Cheryl has had to endure this latest indignity for the last 2 and a half weeks (to give the badder wall time to heal after they stitched it up on Dec.19).
"What a wonderful Yule/Christmas gift!, we can put that right up there with the sour persimmons, cuz."
Makes one think there's a reason they call it "practicing medicine" (doesn't seem to be a performing art).
Our apologies that things have slowed her progress on orders recently. Again, Thanks for your patience.
We just got word that we've been accepted into Norwescon this year. See you there.
2007.11.18 - CHERYL'S BACK - BUT STILL NOT UP TO 100%
Cheryl got to leave the hospital after just over eight days. Fortunately, there weren't any malignancies. But, it took a nearly week until she was to able to keep down any solid food.
Orders are now being accepted, and she's started work on a couple orders.
Thanks for your patience.
We may be low on stock, but we're still going to Loscon later this week. See you there.
(medical reasons)
Cheryl is going into surgery during the last week of September. A recently discovered lump the size of a tennis ball on one ovary and some fibroids on the uterus need to be removed. So far, the test don't indicate any malignancies, but Cheryl is going to be out of commission for most of October. Full recovery is expected to take about 8 weeks.
We still expect to be at Loscon. See you soon.
To our surprise, we were recently contacted by Edley Associates, Inc. (http://www.edley.com/) seeking a buyer for some of their over-stock. Happily, they were offering some fabrics we desperately needed.
We now have a stock of not only the light green metallic (they called it "kelly"), but also a nice metallic orange/copper, irridescent white (we had just run out), metallic purple, and some other colors we'll put up on the fabrics page soon.
Soft sculpture page has been updated.
| 2005.10.02 - At conventions with the kids: | |
 | BREAKFAST AT ALLIES - Dragon*Con 2005
In same hotel as the Dealers Room, the Marriot Marquis, we were joined for breakfast by our friend John. |
 | DINNER AT SPENCERS - BayCon 2005
Spencer's is in the convention hotel, the Doubletree. Remarkably, on the left is a piece of apple pie |
Updated the use of Gylarian on the website.
We now have all the Pern firelizard colors (gold, bronze, brown, blue, and green).
Added Leopard, Bobcat/Lynx, and Skunk to Anthropomorphics.
A few weeks ago we updated the Dragon of the Valkyr page and renamed it to Comics etc
Anthropomorphs incorporated into the soft-sculpture pages, minor retouches to Artprint page.
Adjusted pricing on Hatchling Dragons, Small Wyverns, and Anthropomorphics.
Beginning 9/02, Hatchling Shoulder Dragons and Small Wyverns will be $30.00
FIRST PROTOTYPES AVAILABLE: 2003-Apr-25 [wolf, fox, lion, and griffin]
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