Need toothpicks for eyelids. Can't stay awake. Up till 2:00, hours all messed up from a weekend of sleeping off this cold/illness. One more day of antibiotics. Eyes going crossed and closing. Head feels too heavy. We're supposed to take Felix to the vet tonight, then maybe I'll take a nap while Grammy and Lexie visit. I say "supposed" instead of "are going to", because Frank is a little paranoid about the vet. Felix is constipated and dehydrated. He's 15 years and three months old. When we took him in Saturday the put a bunch of fluids in him and told us to use petromalt and/or canned pumpkin to assist with the poopage. He still hasn't gone and his "accidents" increased over the last 48 hours. We spent a good portion of Saturday night and Sunday cleaning up after him and doing laundry. None of the bedroom doors are allowed to stay open for a while. I swear, I just feel asleep while typing that last sentence. Anywho... Frank is very aware that he seems worse than he did before we took him, and he is very skeptial and beleives that veterinarians will not make him worse. So... We shall see. Other than that, and being excessively tired, I feel 120% better, and the hearing in my right ear finally came back last night. We spent the weekend recuperating, sleeping, cleaning, chores, took the plastic bags to be recycled, the car had its first service, grocery shopping, and sleeping. My first stew was great. We love the crock pot and will definitely make good use of it. We already bought meat for Frank to make shredded seasoned beef for Mexican dishes.
Word(s) of the day: FORTY WINKS
Lexie log: So much to tell, so much to tell. Her phrases are increasing amazingly. She's becoming quite the talker. The receptionist at the vet clinic called her a "motor mouth", in a good way. Oh, the vet was interesting with Lex. She loves all our cats, but Felix is very skiddish and wont stand for her company all that long. I put him in the carrier at home and he started to meow. Lexie went up to him and said, "It's ok kitty. Don't cry, it'll be all right. I love you." When I took Felix back to the exam room, I could hear Lexie wailing in the lobby. We brought him back out after the exam, put him in his carrier, and they took him back to hydrate him. As the vet tech walked off with Felix, Lexie started to protest and cry. She wanted to know, "Where's kitty!?" Where's kitty!?" She was very upset about them taking him away. We ended up having to go for a walk to calm her down, and when we walked out in front of Albertson's, she kept saying, "Bye bye Kitty." When we finally got Felix back, she was ecstatic. She says, "How cute!" The downside is that when we got home she wanted to pet Felix so much that she just kept chasing him around the house. Normally she knows that he doesn't like her too close, but she was just so excited that he was ok. -- Sunday we slept in until noon. Recuperated from the last of our colds. Then we went over to Gramma Betty's for a short while. She continues to be Puppy Lexie a fare amount of the time, but last night she took on a new role. She took the purse her Grammy got her as a gift a long time ago, and walked around the house with it over her shoulder. The purse was filled with valentine cards that she would occasionally pull out to show you. -- Sad as it makes me, we didn't make it to the Rose Festival this year. We so wanted to go, there are so many rides and whatnot that Lexie is the perfect age for. I was really looking forward to her trying the kiddy rock climbing wall. But...Vet bills, plus office visit copays, prescriptions, and Blue Cross jacking up the monthly premium...again, as wells as auto insurance upping theirs.. hehe...up theirs...To keep the list short, we are not going to get to go. We'll set our sites on the State fair perhaps. No matter what, we are going to Alaska in less than two months! YIPEE!!!
Today I'm grateful for Frank and Lexie, Biaxin XL, the return of my hearing, cleaning spurts, feeling better, our crock pot, Mexican food, pastrami, Google, sleep, pillows, and the sound of rain as you drift off to sleep accompanied by the cool scent on rain on a soft breeze.
Today blogisode was brought to you by the letter R and the number 5 and made possible by a grant from the Celtic rubber band art foundation. The blogauthor would like to thank and recognize the following ideo-sponsors:
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