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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Is There an APP For This?
Last year, Adam convinced me I should use the calendar on my phone instead of the hard copy.
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I do use it. I do like the convenience of being able to put my various daily chores down and have it remind me.
The reason for this is that I have quite a schedule to keep.
There is no actual degree or certificate to become a nurse for elderly animals! But if there were- I would have earned it triple fold!
Besides my own three times a day of various prescriptions that I have to time perfectly, I have both Lucky and Sunshine who both need very strict care.
Once the girls have done their outside duties and it's time to get breakfast ready, the fun begins.
Lucky, bless her 13-year-old little body, needs her morning blood pressure medication and her joint and pain medication.
Sunshine, bless her little 11-year-old body, I just hope to get her to eat without an appetite stimulant every other day. She's supposed to have twice a day a kidney function supplement.
Can't forget her "pee prevention" pill either.
She does not like being given anything. Let alone something twice a day! And her joint and pain medication? All I can say is that if I get that girl to eat once a day even a little bit I consider my day a success.
I have to put down what I've given each dog and when so that I don't give them too much or too little of what their requirements have become.
Let us not forget, once the morning dosages have been done. I still have to monitor mine!
In the morning I have to do the first 10 pills and then wait a half an hour before I take one more. After that it's an hour and a half before I can finish.
By 1:00 I am now into the afternoon dosages. Those are for me. Then somewhere around 4:00, I am now trying to get the one dog to take her appetite stimulant and the other one to slow down eating so fast.
At least at that point I have been able to get her blood pressure and joint and pain medication into her!
Thank goodness!
You can't imagine how many times in a day I hear that little calendar reminding me what it's time to do.
My afternoon dosages begin around 5.
I'm finished somewhere around 8: 30. The last pill goes to Sunshine.
I'm not sure exactly what good this latest medication does for her. When we come in in the morning the puppy pads have been used. Sometime several times.
What I need is an app that tells me who I'm giving what to because it really is a full time job.
Dylan stayed at the house for a couple of weeks while Steve and I did our usual anniversary cruise.
According to everyone who was helping him out while he was at school or work, our dogs ate like ladies, took their medication without a problem and they slept, late.
They weren't getting up at 5:00 am!
If all this isn't enough to keep myself busy day in and day out, there are all of those doctors appointments as well as when and where I'm supposed to take my blood work.
Life has become quite tedious.
But I don't think the calendar app is all I need it to be.
Friday, March 07, 2025
Why Not?
Amazing. That's what is going through my mind.
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Both Steve and I take medicine for high blood pressure. Never have we ever had a thought that another family member would have this issue.
Yet, here we are, making sure Lucky gets her twice a day dose to keep her from stroking out. We also found out that like her younger sister, she has kidney problems.
At least, within a bit of time, I can finally have them on the same food.
Poor Lucky! The day before we found out about the high blood pressure Lucky was fine-or so we thought...
That day I took her to the vet for her urinalysis and it didn't happen. Let's leave it at that. Said we'd come back in a couple of days.
The anxiety of the morning had her taking a long nap. When she woke up she looked odd. Kind of wandering but very slowly.
I was busy with household duties for a few minutes. I realized she wasn't in any of the three dog beds. The search began.
Where could a 5-1/2 pound, 13 year old pup go? I found her standing in our bedroom staring at our love seat, back legs together, tail down.
Speed dialed the vet.
Her idea to snap her out of her freeze worked but she still wouldn't work. Brought her in the next morning to the vet.
Two hours later we had the answer to both the kidney and the weirdness issues.
We started meds right away.
Leaving in a few minutes for her one week BP check. She'll also be getting her bordatella shot.
It's amazing, no matter how old or how many feet they walk on, worrying about your kids starts at first sight and never ends.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Busy, Busy
Since my last post there have been a lot of changes.
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We now have an official adult as a grandchild! So hard to believe, but our Dylan turned 18! How can this be???
Then 10 days later -Aidan turned 17.
We celebrated with his yearly Superbowl party.
I was invited to go with Sarah and the boys for a college tour up in Flagstaff for the night last weekend. What a beautiful campus Northern Arizona University has!
Haven't been to Flagstaff in probably 15 years and I can't believe the metropolis it has grown into.
Then came the messy part.
Let's face it, I am home almost all the time with my four-legged little girls. They don't like change. And I left them for a whole 24 hours.
It's not like they were alone! Steve was here 3 hours after I left. Adam came twice while he was at work before I came back home.
Evidently, they still were very upset with me. I was warned by Adam, who had to get back to his house for work and the menagerie that lives in his home as quickly as possible, that one of the girls got sick.
As warned, my breakfast nook was covered in the leftovers of life as well as part of an area rug.
Ew.
I walked in the door, said hello to the girls and immediately cleaned up the mess. As soon as that was done, both girls threw up.
Suffice to say that the rest of the weekend had Steve and I steam cleaning floors, washing blankets and administering the canine version of the BRAT diet.
But wait there's more!
Lucky decided that I still hadn't done enough cleaning and that her anger was not fully realized enough for her liking.
My little boss got on the couch, scrunched her just cleaned and placed blankets into a ball. Then gave me the stink eye and peed!
In all 13 years she had never done something like that! Yes, that first year and a half. It was tough going with the potty training but she never peed on any piece of furniture! Always on the floor.
I called the vet. She was in total agreement that the girls had,more or less, worked themselves into a frenzy because Mom wasn't where they felt she should be.
There you have it! Truly, The Good, the bad and the ugly of the first month of 2025.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Happy 12th Adoption Day, Lucky
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Saturday, January 04, 2025
Same Issues, Different Year
Happy New Year to one and all!
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Steve turned 68. However, this year he did not get his usual prime rib and Yorkshire pudding dinner.
It seems that one of the root canals I had decided to break into my jaw. So for his birthday I had the molar and infection cleared out followed by a bone graft.
Consequently, I am not enjoying my liquid diet. Mainly because I don't like to swallow my calories and I can't have anything hot.
Everything has to be cold until Monday and there's to be nothing but smooth in texture.
I'm really not a fan of cold coffee. And I really do like having texture in my food.
Obviously I have some pain, that due to my physical condition, I can't do anything about. Other than put on an ice pack and do my usual, "suck it up buttercup" routine.
The girls are not pleased. While Sunshine just keeps looking at me with great concern. Her sister is still trying to boss me around to get me to pick her up.
I'm not supposed to be bending over. Seems that will do something to the clotting that's supposed to be taking place in my bone graft area.
Now comes the really fun part. It could take anywhere between 3 to 8 months before I am ready to have the post put in for the new tooth.
Because of my osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis I have been told probably the latter is the most feasible.
I suppose the good news is that the doctor swears that I will be able to eat somewhat normally by the time we go on our anniversary cruise!
So happy New Year to one and all. And may you all have a better beginning to 2025 then I have had.
Monday, December 16, 2024
Spam-a-lot
Tis the season for SPAM. Or so it seems. At least from my personal perspective.
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I have two email addresses and both have begun making me delete everything from the innocuous, to the gross in nature. Many warn me of impending doom because my Netflix payment has been denied.
Trouble with that warning is I don't have an account in my name.
Literally I have been deleting over 20 spam a day.
Another irritant: it's also porch pirate season.
You would think that given the fact of almost everyone has a ring product, this would have become a non-issue. Unfortunately, it hasn't eased up around our little area of suburbia.
It's a good thing I am home most of the time. Probably also a good thing that we don't order much on-line wise.
Most of our purchases tend to be of the fur baby needs type. Since we did hear someone had a baby gift swiped, I suppose those same thieves wouldn't care that they have taken prescription dog food from a sick pup.
Remember when hearing "Spam-a-lot" meant a fun evening at the theater?
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Thankful for Issues
It's Thanksgiving. It was also both Bruce's and my birthday s this past week. Bryce is now 9! I am 67. More than ever I'm seeing my mom's face in the mirror.
Luckily, for me, she was a very attractive woman. Still, wrinkles abound. Not just on my face either. Definitely time to ditch the haltertops. Sigh.
I thought I would share what I'm thankful for this year: All have had their own experiences to both overcome and revel in.
My kids and grandkids are all doing well.
My husband is healthy and here.
Our two senior deaf and half blind pups. They bring me so much joy. Worth every bit of challenges they've been having throughout this year.
While I have also had added things to work on, I am thankful for great doctors and physical/occupational therapists.
May you all have more joys than sorrows during this upcoming season.
Happy Thanksgiving!
