Second Bananas Furevfur

Special Message for Second Bananas and Furriends of Izzy B.

Announcement from Izzy B

Smooches & Love,

Big Orange

p.s. Mama will update here as necessary should my wings and kidknees be approofed!

Top Banana for This Week!!!

Dear Diary,

OMD! What a furrtastical week this week are!

Izzy are definitely Top Banana fur a change!

YAY! Today Mama stayed home to go to a funerarial, and so she found out when she waked up that Izzy were a Diary pick, and I had prezzies from my furriends from Schnauzers Rule and a cool picfur from Wishbone and pretty pink ribbons from Hershey and Winkie and all kinds of good stuff!

And this treeeemenderous honor comes on the heelses of getting MY VERY OWN AHMAYZING TECHNICOLOR QUILTITY QUILT with Bananas and Big Oranges just for me, from the Wonderful Wiener Dog Gang!

Oh, and I also scored a bag of treats off the edge of the console table and ripped the bag open and ate all the treatses myselves!!! YAY IZZY B.

Izzy B are the luckiest dog evfur!!!

I hope evfurry othfur doggie out in Dogsterland are having a happy springietime day, too!! Izzy B. loves you!

Squeezles!

Furgotten Again

Dear Diary,

Papa went out of town for like the elebenty-billyonth time in the whole universe two sleeps ago.

Mama gets so scattered in the brain when she have to take cares of all 3 of us "monsters," (Bol? Monsters...RAWR) by herselves and go to her jobs and play with her crafts and ipad-pad, and go on walkytimes and do all that stuff. OMG. Mama makes me nerfuss.

I much prefers Papa. He are laid back dood, except for when he & Mama makes REAL LOUD TALKS about the pawlaticks and junk.

Anyfur, on the Wendy's Day night time...Izzy and Bacon and Beanie harasseded and harasseded Mama, to get up outta the bed, leave her Famous Amos cookies behind, and let us pupses out in the back yard to do our doodies!!!

She had to wait for a break in the ackshun on her Criminull Minders show, about the psycho killers and stuff, then she runneded downstairs and quick let us out.

Beanie & Bacon took the express train to tinkle town, but Izzy gots the constipperayshuns! You can't rush the Big Orange. I are old. I like to relax and take my time! And how can anydoggie do anything with Mama yelling hurry, hurry, hurry!!!

So she say "FINE TAKE ALL NIGHT IF YOU WANT TO, I ARE NOT GONNA MISS OUT ON THE PSYCHO KILLER GETTING CAUGHTED!!!" and then she runned up the stairs.

THEN GUESS WHAT? An HOUR AND A HALF GO BY!!! She furgotted me. Cause she thought I were in the house laying on the couch downstairses like I does sometimeses. Thank Ernie George in heaven that Bacon Beesun wuff his big orange sisfur or I mighta be out there in the back yards, still!!!

Bacon pestered and pestered the Mama. She kept telling him to lay down, he told me all about it. Finally she get up during the CSI show about more psycho killers, and she grumble as she go to let Bacon out, and there are Izzy, standing forlornerly with my little nosie pressed against the glass, waiting payshuntly.

THAT MAMA! OMD! She says, "OMD, IZZY B! You'll bark your floofy orange head off about any fool thing in the world, and you can't bark to let me know you're outside and want to come in?"

Yeah, Mama, it are MY FAULT you furgotted me! MY FAULT! Sheesh.

Thank Dog My Papa are Home! OY BEY. It ain't easy being Izzy.

Happy St. Patty's Day, Furriends. Izzy wuffs you!

Izzy has the Old-Timer's

Dear Diary,

Mama says I has Doggie DeeMenSha.

Evfurry time Papa uses the "Privacy Please for Peepoles" room, Izzy stands a foot away and barks my head off at him. Evfurry time!

Mama says SHUT THE DOOR! Simple solooshun.

But sheesh.

I also randomsly go into the kitchen and bark at the counters. Evfurrybeesun else are doing them's things, and Izzy likes to bark in the kitchen.

And sometimes, like yesfurday, I just wanders around the house pacing and staring at peepole, until finerly Mama says, for Peter, Paul and Mary's sake Izzy...LAY DOWN, you're making me nerfuss!

Izzy needs one of them doggie bark translematater collars like Doug from the moofie "UP!" had. No one understandses me.

Phooey.

Grateful Izzy B. Gives Thanks

Dear Diary,

OMD, yet anothfur Turkey Day approaches for Izzy B.

Evfurry day have been like a feast for me lately, as I am getting very skinny minnie and Mama & Papa let Izzy B. eat whatevfur Izzy B. wants.

Lately I evfun get the Hooman Peepole Baby Foods in the little jars. Papa just puts the whole jar down on the floor and I lick, lick, lick. Evfur since Izzy were a little pup, my Papa has always shared his empty pudding and jelly-o and ice cream cups with Izzy when he gets to the bottoms.

I has the fastest tongue in the Midwestesses.

Izzy also gets lotsa the soft, yummy canned doggie foods that usually are just for speshull occasions. Now I evfun get a kind called Pure-Vita grain free Turkey Stew and Chicken Stew grain free.

And sometimes Papa makes me the brownie rice. And Mama gives me the deep dishy pizza crusts.

I gets all the treats, and most of the time Bacon & Beanie don't get to eat whatevfur they wants, just Izzy! Cause I'm the Queen of my Castles!!! But sometimes, because Izzy are sweet and gennyruss doggie, Izzy say, it are okay Papa, you can give the Monsters some, too.

Sometimes, when I'm all done, I let Beanie take my hooman peepole baby foods jars, and he carries them around the house with him. Mama says Beanie were dropped on him's head one too many times when he were a baby.

Bacon are very concerned about Izzy's health, and sevfural times each day, he gives Izzy B. a free COAL-en-os-co-pee. Mama yells at him, Bacon, NO! Izzy don't need no more COAL-en-os-co-peeses! But he do it anyway.

Izzy are lucky, I guess to has little brofurs sometimes.

I has so many things to be gratefur for. Many, many, many long yearses with my fambly and furriends. This year espeshully, when I had my scary vestibularry diseases, I are very gratefur that I am up and abouts, and not in the confinerments no more.

I am gratefur for all the walks I still gets to go on in the fallytimes, and seeing anothfur snowfall, and anothfur Chrissymess time.

Mostly I am gratefur to be loved so much and to have so many wonderfur furriends who love me, and who meanses the whole wide world and oonaverses to me.

Big Orange and the entire Beesun Fambly want to wish all our furriends a happy Thanksbegiving. We count each and evfurryone of you amongst our most cherrerished blessings.

Present for Santy Paws...Shhhhh, it's a secret!

Dear Diary,

I were talking to my furriend Zaidie Gee today about Santy Paws!!!!

You know Santy Paws are so gennyruss and thoughtful and he are always bringing us good presents that we wuffs and stuff.

Plus Mama are always telling Izzy how it are better to give than to receives...so this year Izzy are gonna do something extremerly selfless and wonderfur for Santy Paws.

Izzy are going to wrap my brofur Beanie up in a box with pretty papers and sparkly ribbons and one of them cards that plays the pretty music, and I are gonna send Beanie to the North Pole!

OMD! Best present for Izz, errr, Santa EVFUR!!!! YAY Izzy for Gennyruss hearts of gold!

But don't tell Mama & Beanie. It are a surprize!

xoxox

Izzy B.

Holy Punkin Patch! Diary Pick, too?

Dear Diary!!!!

OMD! Izzy's new leashes on life just keeps getting better and betterer!

Let Izzy tells you something diary dear, there are nothing like thinking you is having a stroker and going to the place where your brofur went and didn't come back from, to make you realize that you gots to stop and smell the hydrantses, and mailbox postesses, and tall grass and evfurrything there are to smell!

Do you know I am evfun stealing bully sticks from the BACON now? Yesfur day Mama thought Beanie tookeded Bacon's treat because he were laying on the bed all forlorned, and Beanie were just sitting at her feet staring up at her with his wide-eyed Puss in Boots/Olsen Twin face. NO IT WERE ME, Izzy B, who swoopered in and swiped Bacon's treat!

That's right!

On Sattermaday, we took a fambly road trip and Izzy did her usual seat surfering like I always done! Imagine that! Woozy Doozy Izzy who couldn't eat for 5 days on account of how nauseamatatered and seasick I was from my vestibularry disease boutses.

And then I got to go out on a walk on a pawesome trail in the fally times and smell muskrat stinks, and run wike da wind! And I only fell down 2 times, and evfun Bacon fell down one time,cause he fell in a HOLE! BOL! And we all laffeded and laffeded at him!

AND then after thats I HAD TO WEAR THE BANANA COSTUMER...and Mama marveleded at all the Halloweenie times Izzy has enjoyed (well she enjoyed, bol!) over her 14+ yearses...it are truly MEEERACKYOOLUSS!

But Diary of the Day Pick on Dogster, too? Holy Potato Cakes~ life are ah-may-zing! All them prayerses my furriends said for me, WOW! Who woulda thunk it!

Izzy are the luckiest girl EVFUR!

HallyLooYah!

Dear Diary,

Mama always says that the Lord works in misterfurfeeus ways and so sometimes He cannot answer all our prayers just the ways we wants Him to.

But sometimes, when you least expects it, He will answer your prayers.

And so Mama says she wants to thank each and evfurry one of my furriends who said prayerses for me and sent me love and support and lighted the candles.

When there were not a second to waste (or so she thought) and Mama rushed me to the E-vet, and Daddy had to meet us there, and him's eyes were all red and him was honking into a Kleenexus, Mama & Papa were sure I were gonna take an express train up to the Most Wonderfurl Place to get my wingses with Ernie George!

But you know how that Ernie are...I could hear him talking to me, he said, "OMD...Big Orange!!! They don't has no orange wingses up here for you! You stay down there...Ernie are enjoying being the BIG CHEEZIE for awhile!"

So then Izzy just stayed in her confinerment, and I urkaed and I gurkaed and I urkaed some more!

I didn't wanna eat nuttin!! On accounts of I was VERY VERY WOOOOOZIE! OMDOOOZIE was Izzy evfur woozie!

But then elebenty billyun days went by, and elebenty billyun dollars in baby foodz and rice and anti nawzya pills was consoomered...and next thing you know, Izzy are barking, wagging, giving the nose for pets. I like the cheeses and doggie treats again. I gots my grooves back!

Except for I still fall down a little. And my head may be permernently tiltered. And also, during my confinerments, it were discovfurreded that it were NOT Beanie who have been making tinkles evfurrywhere. But Izzy B. I has In Continentses, like Asia, Anctarktakah, and You're UP!!!

Sometimes I fall down, but that don't keep me from running them skwerlses off! No sirree!

Izzy wuffs you all so much! I hope you is having a wonderful Fall Times with your fambly, and I are sending big hugs and smooches to all my wonderfur furriends.

Dog Bless,

Izzy B.

Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

Dear Diary,

OMD! It are me Izzy B. (Big Orange).

I still cannot see straight, so Izzy said to Mama when she finally held me up to the puter today,

MAMA, am I seeing double? Are all those Power of the Pawses, and flowers and hearts and crowns and cuppycakes and candles, for little old me, Second Banana, Izzy Beesun?

And Mama said, yep, Izzy, those are for you, Sweet Girl. Your furriends has been worried sick ovfur you and they has been praying them's little furry hinders off for you.

Then Izzy got so verklemptered, I almost falled down again!

OMD. I has been falling down a lot lately. I has the Vestibularry Diseases, which are common in old timers like Izzy B. And although I has the livfur problems and we are waiting for dogtor to call back about them tests, two dogtors and lotsa furriends who also has it, say Izzy are supposed to get better.

Howevfur, Dr. Craig says, if Izzy don't eat, she are gonna pass away. I are trying Dogtor Craig, but I are so woozy.

Mama has been giving me the Drama-Mean pills. I told her did they run out of Drama-Queen pills for you, Mama, BOL! Evfun sickly, Izzy are still funny.

But anyfur, up until yesfurday afternoon, I were still throwing up evfurrything I eated. And I can eat whatevfur I want besides pork and my favorite peanut m&ms. Howevfur not much sounds good when you are so woozy. I won't eat cheeze no more, Hawaiian bread, peepole cookies, dog treats. But I did eat rice, chicken, baby food, turkey, soft dog food (that Mama says she will throw up if she evfur smells again because it smells the exact same after being eaten and thrown up as it does when you serve it.)

I managed to keep down rice, unsalted chicken stock and chicken since yesterday afternoon. I was a little more stable this morning. Mama & Papa carry me outside, otherwise I am confined.

I wag my tail, and barked when somebody came to the door.

I just don't feel good because what I see doesn't match up with the world. I has nystagmus where my eyes dart back and forth. It makes me seasick.

Anyfur, Izzy cannot believe all the loves you all has given me. Auntie Traci, Flannigan, Derrin, Ellie & Gus's mom came from Callyforneeya on Friday, and there were a big event she & Mama went to, so it was a crazy weekend...between evfurryone thinking I were dying of a stroke, and evfurrything. Both my parents could feel all the love and supports you has been sending them. You are the best furriends a girl could evfur ask for.

God Bless YOU ALL and we love you.

Izzy & Mama & Papa, too.

Whew! Very Scary Evening!

Izzy's Mom here.

Came home tonight and found Izzy had lost control of all bodily functions, was staggering, her head was tilted sideways and twitching in a most horrifying manner, there was vomit everywhere. I was sure she had a stroke.

Her Papa was working late, in St. Paul, about an hour away. He was frantic and wanted me to wait, but I took her to the evet.

She may have vestibular disease, which a couple of our Dogster pals have had. That is actually our best case scenario and we are praying for it. The alternatives are much more grim.

Big Orange is home tonight, confined and resting on piles of blankets and dog beds. We are hoping to see improvement in the a.m. On the drive to the evet, I told Izzy that Ernie George was with her and watching over her. I know he is.

Thank you to all Izzy's friends for your love and prayers, we feel it and we love all of you so much. God bless you all.