Update on the Very Terrible Sunday

 Good morning! I want to thank you Granny Marigold and you Angela for your concern and kind words in regards to the very terrible Sunday.

Trixie went to the vet for her regular annual inoculation update and we discussed the events of Saturday and the visit to the very expensive ER.  The vet, a new doctor to me, checked her all over again and found absolutely nothing amiss.  He came to the conclusion that she was having an adverse reaction to the stove repairman who was in the house at the time she began her weird behavior.  Since she didn’t really react to the man being here, no vying for attention or barking or anything, I didn’t consider that but he feels she was having an anxiety attack.  

Just what I need, a dog with anxiety attacks.  Well, everybody else has them so she fits in quite well.

So, she is ok.  She has allergic eyes though and I am supposed to put drops in both eyes three times a day.  I got one drop in one eye last night and we called it good.  Today I am going to bathe her and trim her hair and get it out of her eyes and maybe that will make it easier.  It is a bit difficult to hold her down, get the hair out of her eyes and manage that tiny drop bottle so…..I will figure it out.

In regards to my husband.  My husband is stubborn.  I love him but after years of trying to deal with it I am on a short tether.  He is diabetic and it is getting harder to control.  We are on a special diet (well, he cheats as often as he can and then doesn’t understand why his numbers are high)  he is supposed to exercise (he doesn’t) and he has a tendency to go hypoglycemic in the night which we have pretty much sorted out but it did cause us some huge problems in the recent past.  I could write a book.  What he does have is diabetic neuropathy in his feet.  His feel are almost totally numb which makes walking barefoot very difficult.  He also can’t walk in house slippers.  So when he first gets up in the morning and tries to navigate to the bathroom and the closet to get dressed, he is a wobbly mess.  If he doesn’t sit on the side of the bed and wake fully up, it is all complicated by the fact that he is very sound asleep.  It is all very scary and made worse by the fact that he tends to not remember any of it.  Cognitively I think he is fine — he reads and does math and problem solves but he is deaf as a doornail and wobbly.  And, not to make it about me, I am a nervous wreck.

I have very bad arthritis and am fatigued most of the time just trying to get through the basics of the day.  I am constantly trying to find ways to make things easier but at the end of the day I tire very easily and I need sleep.  

So, all of the shenanigans of Saturday came together to completely do me in.  I didn’t mean to be a whiney mess but at the moment that was all I could do.  Trixie slept fine on Sunday night and so did I so yesterday was much better.  We had a slow start to the day, took her to the vet, went to an early dinner and shopping at the pet store.  She was bushed from getting her shots so she was out for the evening and we just enjoyed some tv watching and made it an early night.

This morning I am feeling better — husband only marginally wobbly this morning so I am hoping for a good day.  Going to Home Depot to get some soaker hoses to put around the foundation of the house because it is so dry our foundation is shifting and doors aren’t closing.  Then I am going to take a self care trip to Sephora and come home and maybe indulge in a little stitching.  

We are also under a heat emergency here so for the afternoon we are shutting off the lights, closing the blinds, turning the a/c up and the ceiling fans on.  My house tends to be dark anyway so I am fortunate that I can stitch with a small light that attaches to my hoop and that I can read on my kindle.  It also sounds like a really good nap time. I am just praying our grid doesn’t go down and also praying we can elect somebody who will figure it out.

So onward I go and just a funny to let you know it isn’t so funny here in Texas right now!

Have a wonderful day and thanks again, ladies, I appreciate you more than you will ever know!