Brush with greatness

You will all be so envious when I show you a photo of the person sitting in front of me at tonight’s Las Vegas Wranglers hockey game.  Are you ready?  Here it is:

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If you’re scratching your head and going, “Who is that?”, then no cookie for you.  It’s actor Erik Per Sullivan, who plays “Dewey” on “Malcolm in the Middle”.  In the picture he’s accepting a gift of a hockey puck from a young girl who just came up to him and handed him a puck… very odd.  She didn’t ask for an autograph or anything, just handed him a hockey puck.  In any case, I think his entire family, including parents, were sitting in front of us, and it sounds as if they have season tickets.  It’s not the usual area of the arena that we sit in, so we’ve never noticed him at a game before.  I wouldn’t have paid any attention to him at all except that the people beside us asked for his autograph, and the combination of seeing his face and hearing his voice rang a bell.  He seemed like a nice kid—very quiet and polite, which can’t be said of the obnoxious people he was with.  It was a pretty good hockey game, the Wranglers won and there was some bloodshed, but I really don’t care for seats on the sides of the rink.  I prefer sitting behind the goal net, as it’s easier on my neck.

A pet update… Dante went to the vet on Thursday so he could have that lump between his toes looked at.  The lump, combined with the periodic rash Dante gets on his abdomen and on his ear flaps made the vet suspect the lump might just be an allergic reaction.  He was given a shot of steroids, and sent home with more prednisone and some Atarax.  If the lump worsens, or doesn’t go away by the end of next week, we’ll have it removed surgically (blech, $$$).  So far I don’t notice that the lump has gone down in size, but it isn’t any bigger, and Dante isn’t picking at it at all.  That’s a good thing, as the vet wanted to put an e-collar on him and that’s just a recipe for disaster (picture a Three Stooges episode, but with just one Stooge, and it’s a dog named Dante).  Dante is uncoordinated at the best of times, and an e-collar means he can’t navigate in his crate, can’t get out the doggie door, and can barely walk for the confusion.  That will be another bad thing about surgery—it may necessitate him wearing a collar so he doesn’t pick at any stitches, and that’s going to be unpleasant for everyone.  I hope the pills will do their job and the lump will vanish.  The Atarax has been great because it makes him sleepy, but the prednisone really makes him drink and eat and pee.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 02/26 at 12:12 AM

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  1. I must admit, I did not recognize Erik but I do love the show.  It is always kind of fun to have a brush with someone famous.

    Hope Dante’s lump does a disappearing act.

    Posted by Simply Coll  on  02/26  at  07:03 AM

  2. Wow!  Dewey has grown up!  I would never have recognized him.

    Here’s hoping to a simple solution for Dante!  :)

    Posted by Expat  on  03/02  at  04:14 PM
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