Wonderful support!! Thank you.

Tonight's blog is dedicated to my supporters, donors, friends & family. I am absolutely thrilled with the outpouring of sponsors that have already made donations. The link to my web page is here http://portland07.livestrong.org/debraskibun.- check it out - you guys are awesome - THANK YOU!!!

I spent nearly a full hour on the bikes tonight at the gym. They have a reclining style and an upright style - I like to break it up between the two (at least for now while my bike butt is developing). HOW do those folks that bike hundreds of miles a day do it??? Did some hill work and I can tell I'm getting stronger as the machine only paused twice on me (it does that when you are approaching muscle failure I guess). The first time I did the hill work it was pausing every 30 seconds.

My goal (one of many) for this weekend is to get the mtn bike out and cleaned up and ride a bit on a "real" bike. Tomorrow is starvation day, Friday is camera day. The Dr. promised she'd use two different cameras! I think tomorrow is going to be tougher than Friday. 36 hours without solid food - that'll be a new one for me!

Again, THANK YOU to all of you for your donations, emails, and words of encouragement YOU ARE THE BEST!

Two fur Tuesday

Could have stayed home today too but made it through, now just tomorrow as I'm off Th & Fri.

The workout plans got lost tonight in the two fur Tuesday bunny shuffle. Had received communications that bunnies outside our County were in dire straights & one of our great volunteers jumped right in to get some lives saved! In honor of Searsha I offered to temp foster 2 buns for Rancho Coastal, I didn't expect to get them TODAY, it all happened very quickly. I was planning on picking up "Flash" a little dwarf Dutch mix that was at EHS & was in hot water for his bad behavior (I'm hoping he and Eleanor will bond). But instead of 1, I picked up 3 rabbits tonight. Lots of setting up to do & ended up spending too much time at Lowe's w/ some rather unmotivated staff. Did get new vinyl and carpet, a new pen, and everybun set up. They all seem nice & thus far quiet.

Flopsy seems to be doing fine (isn't that a cute pix of her!), I'm looking forward to the weekend when I can get her outside for a romp in the grass. She's enjoying the stuffies and Sydney's company too.

Guess workout will be tomorrow!!! And I'll have to make up for Th/Fri as I'll be in no condition to be exercising then! Yikes, I'm sweating already.

Quiet Monday

After Seasha passed away last night I wanted to give Flopsy time with her, it's hard to say how they feel, but I've always found that it's okay to leave the body with a companion for a period of time. So I placed her strategically and covered her back end where they had given her the injection. Flopsy at times seemed oblivious and at others a little freaked, but she wasn't thumping either. I added several stuffies and new clean rugs. I set the alarm and checked on her at 3AM and she seemed at peace so I removed Searsha's body and spent some time with Flopsy before heading back to bed and a 6AM alarm clock for work.

Of course I felt like I'd been steamrollered when the alarm went off, between little sleep, all the tears, and sitting on hard floors for 4 hours my body was in agony. Called in sick to work and went back to bed.

I am happy to report that Flopsy seems to be okay, I will of course be keeping a watchful eye as she really is an elderly little thing. Took Searsha's body to County for a necropsy in the afternoon, hoping they will find the cause of the seizures. Spent the remainder of the day with my mom, just hanging out talking about life, so it was a bittersweet end of a quiet Monday.

Good day turns to sadness

Spent a couple hours at the gym today, logged an hour on the bikes. I need to develop the appropriate bike butt to sit on a bike that long . . . and I only covered about 15 miles in the hour. ACK - that works out to nearly 3 hours for a 40 mile ride. I am highly motivated to trim some time off that number!!!

We had a wild storm burn through this morning, lots of thunder and lightening. By the looks of the roads lots of water too. It was a great day though, I didn't have to run the cooler at all! I'm sure the weeds in the back yard will be grow . . .

I was in mid sentence last night writing when I heard a commotion in the bunny room. Thinking Eleanor was in there again I walked in to scoot her out and found that Searsha had been the one making the commotion. She was behind the litter box with her nose pressed into the fence. When I picked her up she was somewhat limp & I knew there was something horribly wrong. I called Michelle and Mary and with their help tried to decide what the best course of action would be. Searsha had previously had an E.C. type incident last year but had recovered 100%. She seizured twice last night at which time I knew I had to make the decision. Thankfully Mary was with me as I was in no condition to be driving. We took little Searsha who appeared peaceful (and not in pain) to the vet. I could tell it was time for her to go and was grateful she had a peaceful passing. She will be greatly missed by her elder companion Flopsy and all who knew her.

It's official

It's official, I've entered the new media age now, yes? I tried to resist but really needed someplace where I could keep folks informed of my progress for the LiveStrong Challenge coming up next month. Yikes!

So I haven't been riding in, oh, about 3 years & I signed up for a 40 mile bike ride (the one with peddles!). It's a fundraising ride with the Lance Armstrong Foundation. http://www.laf.org/. Anyway, I have some work ahead of me and will keep you posted here of my training progress. You can check out my fundraising efforts http://portland07.livestrong.org/debraskibun. Thank you to everyone that has already donated (since just last night!!).

I'll be heading to the gym tomorrow for some serious time in "the saddle" . . . maybe I'll ride the motorcycle over there.