tails

i was busy cuddling kc, and pulling mats from his hair.
and his tail starts going.

and i had an epiphany.
izzy's tail wags in excitement and anticipation
kc's tail twitches in irritation.

ponderings

so i don't know what's on my mind tonight.
what i want to write about.

kc's been needing more lovin's lately.
he wants cuddled before i come up to bed.
i'm guessing he misses sleeping on my belly/chest.
he's not been grooming himself.  so i've been pulling at the mats, and helping him groom.

izzy's not nearly as itchy as she was.
the keflex and prednisone is doing wonders.

was thinking about daddy on the way home tonight again.
how that he thought he would feel better once spring came, and spring just wouldn't come that year. it rained, and was dreary for a loong long time. and the first days that it really got nice and warm, and springy out, he died.
and was it a cruel trick?  or was it that he got his wish, and he felt better now that spring was here?

it was time.

i woke up yesterday morning when mom opened her door.  i heard her go into the br.

well. that just wasn't going to work. 

i was in the middle of a dream, where i just couldn't find a br.  no matter whose house i went into, i couldn't find a working br.  

and so when i woke up to mom going to the br, i realized, it was TIME i went.

so, i went downstairs.

quickly.

miss izzy

miss izzy feels so soft, and smells so good.
her coat is shiny.

she had a professional bath today.

izzy

izzy's been having issues.
she's got skin problems, prob allergies to something.
right now, i'm blaming it on the straw that's in her box for bedding. it got worse when i added fresh straw.
she's got a rash all over her. and she keeps licking and scratching and licking and scratching.  she's next thing to raw.

so, today mom pulled her box out of her room, and got rid of all the straw. she put one of my large tupperware cardboard boxes in, and gave her a blanket.  its not cold at all, so she'll be ok, tonight.  i got a bundle of pine shavings at ct, and will try that in her box tomorrow.  and i called the vet, and he gave me keflex and prednisone again for her.  i started that tonight.

somehow, i've got to figure out what she's allergic too.
it almost makes me cry to see her so miserable.

how low can you go?

sometimes i feel like i'm playing, how low can i go?

i didn't sleep well last night.  dreaming about 2 mothers who we told to take their kids to the ER, and they wouldn't do it.  they wanted to watch and wait.  one we weren't quite so terribly concerned about. but the other, needed to go, and mom wouldn't do it.  she also wanted to watch and wait.  problem is, i'm not sure who the we was.

and this morning, my period started. first one since april of last year.  the prednisone has pretty much kept it away.  so, i stopped off and had my labs done this morning. 27.  down from 58, 3 weeks ago.  so when dana called with results and orders, i asked her if i could stay on the 5 of prednisone, and watch and wait.  see what happens.  and she said, that was ok w carter.  redraw in 2 wks.

see what happened there?  my subconscious knew the subject would come up.
and i'm playing, how low can i go?  i know full well that when my numbers start dropping, they continue to drop.  there's no stopping them. the lowest i've gone, has been 2.  and the prednisone goes up, until the numbers go up, and then i drop back to 2.5 or 5, until the cycle starts all over.
this time, i'm thinking that when the petechia shows up, i might deliberately not go do labs.  wonder how long a person can hang out at next to nothing platelets?

saturday events.

i got up this morning around 7 30. got dressed, went downstairs, made myself a sandwich for breakfast.  sat in my chair, got caught up on fb while eating.  shortly after 9, i left.

stopped at the post office, the bank, got gas, and then delivered the tupperware order.
then on to walmart. which always is a mistake. almost 150.00 later, i left there.  and still hadn't found what i was looking for.  i need another mileage tracker for this year.  and i've not been able to find the little booklet like i did other years. so not sure what's going on there.

stopped at mcdonalds, got a bkf sandwich, and a high c.  was home by about noon.

the rest of the afternoon was izzy time, tware room time, nap time.  i put the chair together that i got today.  made a few contacts.  hopefully next saturday, i can take izzy to the sogge doggy and have her give her a bath.  maybe that'll help the itchys.

and then, made veggie soup for supper.

work

i need more work days like today.
we had no patients today.  4 docs had their christmas today, and out of the 2 that were left to cover 3 hospitals and 2 clinics, only one actually is known to pull his share of the load.

so, our clinic had no pts scheduled for today.
and front desk was off, so that left me, myself, and i to work.
i got a lot of catch up work done.
no music.  (so nice)
phone wasn't horrid.
didn't have a lot of fires to put out.
2 pts came in for samples.  a couple others for information, appt dates.
and no one to hear me talk on the phone

i quite enjoyed my day at work today.

heat

i turned the heat up for mom, cause she's not feeling good.
i came home today, and realized, it's quite warm in here.
so, i turned it back again, to 68. i think that's plenty warm in here.

mom

had mom up to convenient care this morning.
looks like another uti. she gets quite sick w them.
so hopefully the cipro will fix things up for her.

worst part of it is, a few days ago, a bird hit the window again.
not to be superstitious, but i don't very much like when that happens.

new year ramblings

it's been a quiet new year's eve, and new year's day, this year.
mom stayed home from church, she still isn't feeling the best since her bout w the stomach bug yesterday.
i went up to work, did a couple hours of scanning.

i went to untie izzy this morning, and she wasn't tied.  her chain was nicely laying in her box.  so i don't know how long she was loose.  or how she became untied.  i'm just glad that she didn't take off with all the noise last night at midnight.

had a bout of nostalgia this morning.  it's 5 years this morning since medic 29 closed.  i remember going in at 7, and calling the county to put us out of service.  permanently.  it wasn't much fun at all. i've never been able to get back into ems since then.  and my finances have never recovered from not working for over a year.  it's no wonder.  because when i did go back to work, it was at 2/3 of my previous wages.