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<\/a><\/p>\nThe poor girl may as well have been stepped on by a horse, and she’s suffering. She moans and groans and cries, but we have faith\u00a0she’ll recover. The vet has done hundreds of these operations. We’ve been carrying Schatzi\u00a0to the back yard to do her business, but otherwise keeping her close by and letting her rest, as she’s doing now next to me on her computer desk pillow.<\/p>\n
Actually, we shouldn’t be carrying her at all. She needs to work those back legs. We’ll just have to harden our hearts. That won’t be easy for us, or for Schatzi.<\/p>\n
The smaller dressing\u00a0on her back covers a\u00a0pain medication patch. The medication (or maybe her body’s natural reaction to invasive surgery) makes her\u00a0bloated;\u00a0we’re giving her anti-inflammatory pills twice a day to counteract that. The pain patch comes off tomorrow. She’ll keep taking the anti-inflammatories until they’re gone, and two weeks from now go\u00a0back to have the sutures removed.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, we watch over her and hold her and let her know we love her.<\/p>\n
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This past weekend, long-time investigative journalist Seymour Hersh (the reporter\u00a0who in 1969 exposed\u00a0the My Lai massacre)\u00a0published a long, fascinating article<\/a> in the London Review of Books. Its subject is\u00a0the killing of Osama bin Laden,<\/a>\u00a0and it undermines most of the official story\u00a0(except for the most important part … the part where we found and killed bin Laden).<\/p>\n Backlash to Hersh’s\u00a0story has been\u00a0immediate and ongoing, most of it based on his apparent reliance on\u00a0a single informant who cannot be named, some based on the fact that Hersh published his article in the LRB rather than The New Yorker, for whom he normally writes. Some say he’s fallen for\u00a0a conspiracy story.<\/p>\n I’m not joining the backlash chorus, at least for now. One, Hersh has consistently gotten the goods over the years, and unless he’s suddenly gone soft in the head\u00a0(as some hint), there’s no reason to think he’s suddenly writing unfounded trash. Two, others have previously reported some of\u00a0what Hersh says\u00a0about the bin Laden killing. Three, The New Yorker famously fact checks everything it publishes, which would explain why this\u00a0article came out in another publication … anonymous source stories are\u00a0by definition not fact-checkable. Four, the official story has always been full of holes\u00a0(especially the bit about the burial at sea). Best to wait and see what comes out in the wash.<\/p>\n No matter what, though,\u00a0Osama’s dead\u00a0and\u00a0Obama got him. That’s the important part, and the\u00a0haters will just have to keep sucking that bitter lollypop.<\/p>\n Donna and I will be in Silver City, New Mexico, from Wednesday through Saturday. Our niece Rebecca\u00a0graduates from Western New Mexico University on Friday with a master’s degree in social work. Polly is driving in from Ajo today to house- and pet-sit while we’re away, and I know she’ll be all over Schatzi. Donna’s sister Georgianna is flying in from Detroit for a few weeks … she gets in Friday and will keep Polly and the critters company until we’re back from New Mexico.<\/p>\n
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