• Family,  Health,  Stress,  Work

    Doctor, Plumbing Issues, Laundry, and Working From Home

    In two hours I have a doc appointment. I had some more pain as I mentioned yesterday and that continued some at work. It’s not all day but just at certain times. Without going into raw details. But it’s not healing as quickly as I hoped. I can usually turn it around pretty quick within 4 days but we are on Day 8 currently. So I called the doc and seeing his PA this morning to get Augmenten. I don’t want any other antibiotic. I can’t take the others, they make me bed ridden and sick. But the Augmenten has worked every time. I’m probably not spelling it right but…

  • Food,  Sick

    Doc Appt, Surprise Fever, and Nashville Hot Chicken

    It’s been a wild few days. Maddie is healing up nicely. I’ve been a little concerned and squeamish about it. She is pretty spunky and fast moving at times. She jumps up and down more than I’d like. I’ve kept her caged at night and with her cone on as I can tell it is starting to itch and twitch. The incision looked good this morning. It’s healing and no redness or oozing or anything. We still have two days of pain meds. That helps with pain and itching I’m sure. Doc Appointment My doc appointment was Friday morning. I went in with my 3 page list of things that…

  • Aging,  Dogs,  Health

    Maddie is Recovering But What is Wrong With Me?

    Maddie says “good morning” in her very dazed-but-coming-around-state. She is now “fixed” and “chipped”. She was really out of it yesterday when we picked her up. We had a little scare early in the day when I found blood in the bed where she lays. I thought she was in heat. But they said she was not swollen or anything and so they did the surgery. I had a huge workload/backload of work to do. I had been gone on Wednesday for part of the day to take Mom to get her glasses. When we go over there to Hermitage from Lebanon, and I have to come from Antioch to…