Hi, and welcome to week 19!

I slept last night. Did not want to wake up this morning. I moved to the sofa and slept to The Simpsons for an hour before waking up and calling my parents. They had just woken up too. I got up and made myself some breakfast (Chobani s’mores yogurt), because I was too lazy to make myself some French toast after cleaning the kitchen. I started a load of laundry and then I switched over to watching Bones. I fed the fishes and just flopped most of the morning away.

Its 130 and Fiks is just leaving Darkshore. It’ll take him about 2 hours to get home. I did some shopping on Amazon for our trip (hair stuff) and then I ordered anniversary and mothers day cards from Lovepop. I love getting and giving these cards. They are fun and cute, and almost everyone I give them to enjoys them as well. Fiks actually got me turned on to them after he got me a few.

I just chilled and watched Bones until he got home basically. I moved laundry and he actually came home while I was getting the next load of laundry ready to take home. He came home with a gravely voice, so I knew he had a good time. He then told me they went through all the whisk(e)y bottles that he took (thankfully only a few were full), and that he didn’t remember most of last night. We curled up on the sofa and watched some YouTube videos, and he fell asleep. I got changed and gathered my things for dinner and got a ride to my Parents house from my Sister.

We got there and my Brother was starting to cook dinner, sausages and potatoes. Set the smoke alarms off cooking the potatoes, so that was un-awesome. I hate the sound of smoke detectors, but I guess that’s the point. I made my French toast, which took multiple attempts because the bread just kept falling apart, and sat down and ate that for dinner.

We went to the living room after cleaning up the kitchen and watched something on the History Chanel about Netflix and Blockbuster, so that was fairly interesting. My Sister went and helped Poppa with something and I went and talked with Mom for a while. I told her about something exciting, but I don’t want to share yet. We’ll see how it goes in a few weeks. When my Sister was ready we left, swung by the gas station and then we came home. I brought Fiks home some sausages, which he gladly ate. Then we just hung out for a little while before we got up and did our Sunday chores, garbage and recycling, and putting the cars away, and moving the laundry. We’re all tucked in for the night. Yay!

I slept good for me last night. I only woke up once, until it was time for Fiks to leave for work/training up by San Francisco. He kissed me good bye and then I just tossed and turned until 830ish and then I got out of bed and moved to the sofa and slept there for another hour which I wasn’t planning on. Then I got up and got dressed and headed down the mountain to go visit my Parents for a little bit.

I got to my Parents and Mom was having a PJ day, which is totally fine. We chatted for a little while and watched a movie on Hallmark for a bit and then Poppa came out and hung out with us. Then I guess Mom’s chair hasn’t been working properly for 2 weeks, so we flipped the chair back and one of the cords had come undone. So I plugged it back in and then it started working, thank God it was an easy fix. I left to go to the grocery store before the lunch time rush, but I stopped and got gas in the truck for the week first.

The grocery store wasn’t horribly busy, I also had my ear bud in and was listening to The Ralph Report, so that helps me too. I got almost everything we needed, I forgot to get some broth, but I don’t think we’ll need it this week, so that’s fine. I drove home, put the garbage and recycling cans away, unloaded the groceries and then I came home. Fiks sent me a text that my hair was really bright in the sunlight via the Ring doorbell. And man was he right, super bright in the sunlight. I got everything upstairs and the cold stuff into the fridge and then I made myself a sammich and took a nap.

I hunted down my noise canceling headphones and plugged those in for the flight. Gotta find the cable that hooks them to the TV tho. I put my mobile battery on another charger and then I started working on the GPS trackers. I need money to activate them, and I don’t have any, so its going to have to wait until I get paid. I just got a text from Fiks that he’s on his way home. I watched Bones until he came home, and then we chatted a bit, he took a shower, I started prepping my meds for our trip.

I didn’t sleep well last night. Fiks was very twitchy next to me, and apparently when I did get to sleep I was kicky, I eventually gave up and moved to the sofa and slept there. I turned on Muppets Treasure Island (I can’t remember the last time I saw the whole movie) and slept to that.

When that movie finished I put on The Simpsons, and slept to that until Fiks came out and kissed me goodbye before he left for work. I slept a little bit longer, had my breakfast, got dressed and moved to make my lunch. I went to grab a fresh ice pack out of the freezer just to discover that they were all gone (totally forgot that Fiks took some with him to Darkshore). I made my lunch, wondering what to do, when I remembered there were a lot of ice packs at work, I couldn’t just borrow one from there. Once my lunch was made I gathered my things and went to the truck and went down the mountain to work.

I got to work 10 minutes early and I was still the last one there. And then I was even later because I borrowed the ice pack so I had to repack my lunch box. Then I went inside. I said hi to everyone there, and punched in, grumbling to myself about the callback list not being done. I went and got some water and talked with the Doctors, who commented about my new hair, and then I went back to treatment and started working on the callback list.

Even though it was half a page long, it wasn’t bad. The Doctors had done some, some the person never picked up, and then the ones I did talk to didn’t take too horribly long. I then started rooming clients for the Doctor I was assigned to and did some stocking and some cleaning. I saw that the manager was in, so I went and told her about L’s amazing disappearing act on Saturday. I told her she didn’t want to do the callbacks, I did most of the rooming, and all the remaining packs that needed to be done. She wasn’t happy, and I told her I was sorry but it was very frustrating for me.

The rest of the day was okay. M did something really cool; she placed her first catheter on her first try. I tried to be supportive of her, told her nice job, even though I was jealous because everyone takes the blood draws from me, so I can’t get my skill developed enough to place a catheter. They don’t like the fact that my hands shake, which is just stupid. G and I closed down the clinic, and then I made my way home. The rest of the evening was fine and quiet. I made myself a grilled cheese for dinner, and Fiks and I watched some YouTube videos for a while.

I slept better last night, so that’s good. I got up and got my breakfast yogurt and ate that before getting dressed and making my lunch. Once I was ready to go I made my way down the mountain to work. I got there okay and changed into my work shoes and then I headed inside. I had 2 procedures today, mass removal(s), and a dental. The mass removal showed up first, so I went and got him and then we took his vitals and put him in a run. The dental showed up right as appointments were starting, I went and got him quickly and took his vitals before putting him in a kennel.

I asked A if the mass removal was going to be in surgery, and she said yes, making my stress level go through the roof. I’ve only been in surgery charting 1 other time, and it was just for a spay, nothing as big as a mass removal on a 106lbs Lab. And then the dental was a 10lbs Chihuahua who we had to muzzle to put the catheter in because he kept trying to bite us. But I tried really hard to get everything ready for both procedures, when the Doctor that was doing the mass removals aspirated a couple of masses and checked them under the microscope. She came back and said it was cancer, so we didn’t end up doing anything to him, but I felt really bad for the owner.

When it was time we went and put the Chihuahua’s catheter in, he started screaming at everything we did. Just touching him on his leg and he’d scream and try to bite. I ended up asking for a muzzle after he gave me a warning nip on my hands. He still cried out and tried to bite with the muzzle on, but wasn’t nearly as successful. A got the catheter placed somehow and then we gave him the medications to drop him down for the dental, and they didn’t seem to work. We checked the catheter and it seemed like nothing was going anywhere, when we pulled the catheter out he started bleeding profusely. A placed another catheter in the other arm after we knocked him down with some iso and I started hooking him up to all the machines required and started charting.

The procedure took a little over an hour and a half. He lost a lot of teeth and woke up super quickly. I called for C to help me, because I needed to get him unplugged from the fluids and I was was struggling with him already trying to jump up and off the table. We gave him some meds to stop him from screaming and I held him for a while in a nice warm blanket. I felt like I was in everyone’s way, so I ended putting him back in his kennel and just watched him there for a while. He seemed okay, a little warm when we took his temp, but not as high as when he first came in.

There were no tech appointments this afternoon, so I was just waiting for his mom to show up to discharge him and then I could leave. Well, the Doctor who sent the mass removal home had a possible foxtail in the ear on another dog. We ended up knocking him down because he wouldn’t let him look into his ear. Of course that’s when the Chihuahua’s mom showed up. S asked if she could discharge him for me because I was busy and I said yes, I told her the special instructions and focused on the dog I was working with.

We didn’t find anything in his ear minus schmutz and hair. No foxtail, so we reversed him and placed him back in a kennel and then once he was up and moving again I came home. Fiks showed up shortly behind me, like 5 minutes. Once he was home and looking for clothes to change into after his shower, which meant we needed to deal with the laundry monster. He put on some Ghost and then we started folding and putting laundry away. He took a shower, I called and chatted to my parents. Then we worked on dinner. It was a Fodmap safe chicken fajita recipe that you cooked in the oven instead of the stove top. It was okay, the corn tortilla’s fell apart on me, so that sucked. I just ended up eating the chicken and the peppers with some cheese.

I watched The Simpsons for most of the night. Fiks jumped onto his computer and played Minecraft for a while before switching over to Hell Divers II with his friends. When it was time I went and took a shower and then as I was brushing my teeth to crawl into bed Fiks walks into the bedroom, saying he was going to bed with me. Cool. I sat and read my book and he did some Duolingo and scrolled through TikTok for a while. I don’t know how long because I fell asleep.

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I did not feel well when I woke up this morning, I was really tempted to call out sick, but I decided to try to go in and see if I felt better later. I had my yogurt and made my lunch, fed the fish, changed into my scrubs and headed down the mountain.

I got to work and hopped out of the truck and almost got run over by one of my Doctors. I went inside and worked on the call back list, because G and S were working together on something else apparently. I called and talked to the Chihuahua’s owner, who apparently had a very rough night. He vomited a couple times and seemed to be in a lot of pain. I put them on the call back list for tomorrow to see if he’s improving. The other call backs were easy in comparison, I think the majority of them I left voicemails behind.

I had one Doctor and M ask me how I was doing, seeing I wasn’t my usual self. And I told them I was having abdomen pain and was super nauseated despite having taken my medicine for that. I powered through the appointments, doing a few x-rays along the way. We had a new person come in for a working interview, I, and she was shadowing G. The first time that they let me do a blood draw in weeks, the dog freaks out when I get in the vein and pulls back and starts bleeding. I get mad and say mother f’er, frustrated and afraid that my opportunity for drawing the blood is going to be taken away. Thankfully it wasn’t and I was able to draw some blood on the back leg.

G went to lunch, leaving I with me. I showed her how things in the pharmacy worked and some computer shortcuts for the program we use. M came over and said she didn’t know about the shortcuts, so I showed her. When G came back I went to lunch and tried to eat. The nausea was horrible. I just sat in my truck and read and listened to The Ralph Report and talked with Fiks for a few minutes. I went back and I must have looked worse because people were asking me how I was feeling, so I told them.

We had our meeting, and then I went and asked the Manager if I could leave, and she said yes and to go home and feel better. I came home and got changed and just rested with an ice pack on my abdomen for most of the rest of the day. Fiks came home and we chatted a little bit, I was summoned to my Sister’s house because Mom and Poppa were over there and were just wondering how I was feeling. I helped Mom get down the stairs and into the car before coming home and turned on Bones.

I woke up and moved out to the living room and Fiks was at his computer table working on his work laptop. I went over and kissed him good morning and then I went and got something to eat for breakfast before sitting down and watching some TV. We just hung out and watched TV for most of the morning. I wanted to go to the bank before we left to work on something I got in the mail. So we both got dressed and headed down to the cars.

We went to the bank, and I went inside with my letter. I basically got the brush off with the letter because there was an option to call and get help, so the teller highlighted that and sent me on my way. Then we went and got some Starbucks before coming home. We hung out for the rest of the day basically. I watched TV and Fiks played on his computer and jumped on to play game with his friends.

5 years ago today (it was even on a Saturday) I said yes to my best friend.

I slept okay last night, I woke up when Fiks kissed me goodbye, and then I went back to sleep. I woke up a little bit later and called my parents and checked if we were still on for getting our nails done. Mom wasn’t feeling good, so she wanted a nap before going. I told her to call me when she was up and let me know if she was feeling better. I watched some TV until I got dressed, then I went to order a Jamba Juice and Mom called me and said that she was feeling better. I told her I’d see her soon and canceled my Jamba Juice order and grabbed our GPS trackers and turned them on before going down and hopping in the truck.

I went the long way around, dealing with some traffic so that the trackers got some more time to sync up. I got to my Parents house and Mom and B were ready to go. I switched keys with Poppa and we went and got loaded up into the car and left for the nail place. We got there and unloaded, walking Mom to the place, and signed up for 3 pedicures and 1 manicure. We were told it’d be a 15-20 minute wait, which was fine, so we sat and chatted and looked at nail colors and within 10 minutes we were seated. I just got the basic package on both but I got the French tip look. I really wanted to ask for a rose, but I felt like that would be too much. Mom and B were done first, and then I when I was done I went looking for them. They were at the car after taking a short walk. Mom wanted some Panda Express, so we swung by there and got her and B some food, and then we went back to her house. Poppa and Lumi greeted us at the door, and Mom wanted to go out and sit in the sunshine and eat, so we did that. I was getting hungry so I gave everyone a hug and came home.

I talked with Fiks and my friend D for a little bit before passing out on the sofa for a while. Fiks wasn’t having a good day, which sucked. I ordered myself a Poke bowl for dinner and then ate that while watching a movie, waiting for gaming to start. The one time I’m not on at 7 everyone else is, typical. We started playing since I was the last one on, because I didn’t know when Fiks was getting home. We started playing and kept going until about 1030-11. Fiks came home around 845 and went straight to the bedroom and took a shower. He didn’t come out to join us for gaming. I went and checked on him and he was calming down, working on his Spanish. When I was done with gaming and went back into the bedroom he was asleep. I curled up next to him and fell asleep after a while.

I’m going to leave it here for now.

~Just Keep Swimming~