Hello hello!! How are ya doing today?
I am here, I am breathing, and that is what counts. Hahahaha!
What a day I had. It was bonkers. All of it. Good, bad, kooky, confusing, stressful, and relieving. Talk about running a gamut of emotions allll day long!
After I signed off here, I checked the traffic to the medical center and it all looked good. I was ready, killingtime and decided to leave a few mintuies early. Maybe if I got there early they could take me early. That was The Plan. Unforeseen circumstances (as in me not reading the exit signs properly) made me get there right on time. I know exactly where the place is. I drove past it almost every day for 2 years when I was commuting to college. But I was using Google Maps and mistook the exit they wanted me to take for one that was 1/2 before the right one. The GPS led me in circles all through Morristown, until I was able to get back to the road the hospital is on. I joked to Gary that if he was tracking me in real-time, the path would have looked like a crazy pretzel.
The foot is good, the bone is mostly healed, and the weird swelling is normal.
My parents were behaving. Always a plus.
I got back home around 3 and we had an appt for Jaida at 5. The vet (a different one than we saw last week) looked at it and said that it is not a hot spot and doesn't look like a mast cell tumor. WHEW!!! He suspects that it is an infected cyst and we are continuing with the oral abx, adding a topical abx, and warm compresses to help it drain.
We get home, I start pulling leftovers out of the fridge for dinner, and Caitlyn calls. Her windshield wipers stopped working and it was pouring buckets. (Not sure if anyone saw it on the news, Eva messaged me so she must have seen it in Sweden!). Some areas of NJ got 4" of rain in an hour. Anyway, she was halfway home, on a heavily traveled mountainous road when they died. She was able to pull off into someone's driveway, thank goodness cuz she was right on a blind curve.
Anyway, long story short, Gary and I had to drive to where she was, then Gary drove her car home behind me as I drove very slowly so he could follow my lights. It took us almost an hour and a half from the time we left to the time we got back home. So chalk up another day where I felt like I drove all over North Jersey.
The worst of the flooding is south of me, but probably near @MariJ -- how are you? I hope that you didn't have any flooding or power outages at your home.
I am picking up groceries this morning, the patio construction starts today, and we have to figure out what/when/how Cait will get her car in the shop.
Wish me luck and sanity!
I am here, I am breathing, and that is what counts. Hahahaha!
What a day I had. It was bonkers. All of it. Good, bad, kooky, confusing, stressful, and relieving. Talk about running a gamut of emotions allll day long!
After I signed off here, I checked the traffic to the medical center and it all looked good. I was ready, killingtime and decided to leave a few mintuies early. Maybe if I got there early they could take me early. That was The Plan. Unforeseen circumstances (as in me not reading the exit signs properly) made me get there right on time. I know exactly where the place is. I drove past it almost every day for 2 years when I was commuting to college. But I was using Google Maps and mistook the exit they wanted me to take for one that was 1/2 before the right one. The GPS led me in circles all through Morristown, until I was able to get back to the road the hospital is on. I joked to Gary that if he was tracking me in real-time, the path would have looked like a crazy pretzel.
The foot is good, the bone is mostly healed, and the weird swelling is normal.
My parents were behaving. Always a plus.
I got back home around 3 and we had an appt for Jaida at 5. The vet (a different one than we saw last week) looked at it and said that it is not a hot spot and doesn't look like a mast cell tumor. WHEW!!! He suspects that it is an infected cyst and we are continuing with the oral abx, adding a topical abx, and warm compresses to help it drain.
We get home, I start pulling leftovers out of the fridge for dinner, and Caitlyn calls. Her windshield wipers stopped working and it was pouring buckets. (Not sure if anyone saw it on the news, Eva messaged me so she must have seen it in Sweden!). Some areas of NJ got 4" of rain in an hour. Anyway, she was halfway home, on a heavily traveled mountainous road when they died. She was able to pull off into someone's driveway, thank goodness cuz she was right on a blind curve.
Anyway, long story short, Gary and I had to drive to where she was, then Gary drove her car home behind me as I drove very slowly so he could follow my lights. It took us almost an hour and a half from the time we left to the time we got back home. So chalk up another day where I felt like I drove all over North Jersey.
The worst of the flooding is south of me, but probably near @MariJ -- how are you? I hope that you didn't have any flooding or power outages at your home.
I am picking up groceries this morning, the patio construction starts today, and we have to figure out what/when/how Cait will get her car in the shop.
Wish me luck and sanity!
