Wednesday August 6th 2025

Tweety, BSN, RN · 2025-08-06T13:14:23Z

Good morning!
Joe, hope you have a good day at work.

Ado, you sure do have a lot on your plate and gma and the mentally ill relative. It all adds up

It's really hard not to overfeed little dogs. My ex swore I was starving our Italian Greyhounds by only giving them a 1/4 cup of dry twice a day.

I sometimes wonder despite my best efforts to eat well and exercise if the stress of being a nurse messes with my immune system. Certainly my sleep disorder does. Maybe that's why the food poisoning is lingering longer than normal. Or maybe there are just more powerful bugs out there. Anyway enough about that.

Today should be a fairly normal day off. Have one load of laundry in the wash and one in the dryer. I wash my work t-shirts in bleach separately.

I'm hoping next week things with my body settle down as I have to take Waffles to her eye doctor and I have jury duty. Plus working my three days unless I get called to sit on a jury.

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · 2025-08-06T17:12:16Z

Tweety, If your 'distress' would put the kibosh on the jury duty, can't you get a note from the doctor that excuses you? I mean, if you had to visit 'the loo' mid-testimony, that would be interrupting the court's itinerary, so I would think they'd excuse you.

It is 1 PM and I have stuff to do, but here I sit, lounging in the bed. I could shower and shampoo, but that would put me going out at least an hour later and put me off of the other few errands I have to do. BAH!

I'll get dressed and take Momo out to see if she'll do some business....but if she won't walk in the rain, even with a sweater on, we probably won't stay out long enough for her to accomplish anything. Then I'll have to go to Wally world pharmacy to pick up another refill, and stuff for Nannie, and dog food, and the usual drinks of which we are constantly running out. (Notice how I did not end the sentence with a preposition? 🙂)

Anyway, time to stop dithering. Tinker is giving me the "look" so I better make an attempt to get her out if the rain isn't coming down too badly at the moment.

Editorial Team / Admin · 2025-08-06T22:54:23Z

Hello all!

Tweety, I hope the new treatment puts the kibosh on your ailment. If nothing else, I'm sure it's uncomfortable and frustrating. Enjoy your days off, if only to relax.

Joe, that's a big pet peeve of mine: restaurants with music TOO LOUD, so one cannot hold a normal convo. When we met the ds's and dil at Din Tai Fung recently, it was REALLY noisy inside, and the decor/design didn't help it much. The sound just bounced around on all the glass and wide open spaces with edges. Ds and DiL report that other Din Tai Fung restaurants they have eaten at were much quieter. Dunno why the one in Downtown Disney feels it has to be so noisy.

No Stars, glad Tinker is adjusting so well, and vice versa! She'll get you out walking whether you want to or not!

We ended up cancelling LuLu's Tuesday Vet. appointment, as dh found some Abx and started her on them and the bleeding in urine has stopped. He has put the liquid med in some canned food, which she eats MOST of. We tried to give it to her by one of us wrassling her and the other injecting it into her mouth. It worked once. The second time we tried, dh got quite the gouging from her claws, and she escaped without any of the medication. We discussed using a towel to contain her, but he doesn't want to make her afraid to get near us. So, he would rather give her SOME med without injuries, than possibly none, with bodily injury results. Cats are so difficult to medicate orally. And we are wimps or softies, whatever you want to call us. We don't have a reliable method down, that's the bottom line. Hopefully she will continue to take the med in the food.

We are in a heat wave, with temps in triple digits for a few days, so we are staying cool at home.

Have a good evening!