Izumi: In exactly ten days. o_0
Livi: Haha, well, things went kind of weird at the vet's office. I had her tested for heartworm, because it has been too long since I had her on preventative. The first time, they accidentally used the cat test, so everything went funky. The second time, the machine that reads the test said that she has ehrlichia (also known as tick fever), but when we looked at it and manually read the test, it looked negative. And I have seen maybe on tick on her all year. So she MAY have ehrlichia, but we're not going to worry about it. But essentially we're thinking she's having some bad allergy flair ups. So I've been given some timaril p to kind of play with. It should make her less weird when we treat her with these instead of hydroxyzine.

Hooray for weekend time!

That does sound pretty weird! Hopefully it is just the allergy flair ups and nothing worse than that!! [hug] I'll keep her in my thoughts.

Yeah!! I also know my mother-in-law wants to see how Alex is doing as well, not just the girls - to ease her mind. She's not been able to visit till Sunday ever since his accident. So I know that'll help her get off my case a bit to see him in person.

Yeah, I'm really hoping it's NOT ehrlichia. Because that can be lethal. I will probably take her in again in a couple of months and see if we still have that issue. Because it can be treated early on. But not in the chronic stage.

Haha, that's probably not been fun for you. I do hope that she gets easier to handle after the visit!

And I thought I had it rough...

I feel like a total sissy-baby thinking I have problems.

Your problems are every bit as legitimate as mine, sweetie. What's up, hon?

Nothing much.

I've lost a whole day. Day before yesterday. I can't remember any of it.

But from the look of things, I did some sewing.

I got a lot of sewing left to do, too. At least I have people wanting to buy the purses when they're done.

My BFF had her b-day yesterday, so we got to have cheesecake. That was sort of nice. And I got a new skirt, someone bought it for me.

Oooh, I hate when that happens. Depressive episode, or just general lost time?

Steel: I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you! <3

Ugh, totally not fun. I love his mom most of the time, but lately she's been driving me insane... why can't she believe me when I say that he's doing fine - just annoyed with the whole thing... but he's fine. I JUST hope that the visit helps make it a little easier - maybe she'll believe me then??

Vera: Exactly - what Steel said! They're all legitimate issues. [hug]

*hugs* Love you guys! Gotta head out to tutoring! Be back in a few hours.

I lose time sometimes.

I got holes in my memory from it.

The first time I realized it was happening, I thought I'd been abducted by aliens, lol.

Livi, I do so wish I could wave my magic wand and make your mum a little cooler to deal with, I really do.

Bye, Mags! Have a good schooly-tutoring-time!

Vera: Oh, the one giving me a hard time lately is my hubby's mother. My mum does drive me insane at times, but really she's not all that bad. Given that she's put up with a 2 year old and infant twins (my brother and I) years ago (and then an almost 9 year old, two 6 year olds, and another infant too), she's earned the right to drive me more mental from time to time - even though I moan and complain about it. She really isn't all that bad. There are just times that she is worse than others - and that's usually when I'm already on edge about something to begin with. :] She's here today, and she's been fine and we have been getting along alright. ^_^

My hub's mom has been texting me multiple times a day because she hasn't had a chance to come and visit since Alex's accident that resulted in his broken ankle. So hopefully seeing him tomorrow will help calm her down. :]

Oh dear god, a mom-in-law thing.

She's just worried about her boy, and knows he's not going to be as honest about his hurties as you will.

But yeah, that must be annoying as anything!

I hope having her over really does make it better.

Yeah, but most of the time both of our moms aren't all that bad - I just have my moments where they drive me mental, but it could be worse - way worse.
Which is why I put up with it - because I know that if I were in her shoes, I would be worried too.
I'll let you know after tomorrow how it all is going!! [yes]

Please do, I really do care, even if it's over the internet.

And yeah, it's part of their job as parents to drive you starkers, keeps things in perspective, maybe...

I wonder if they ever try to remember what it was like, and if that's part of it, lol.

Like, woo-hoo, this is the part where we drive them nutso!

I'll do my best to remember - hopefully I will!!

Could be, who knows. When Al and I get to that point, in many years, and we're all still on here, I'll let you know. *makes a mental note*

XD

Is he getting better, at least? His hurty?

Well eff. I'm here, but my student is not and we should have started almost twenty minutes ago. I could have stayed home for a whole other hour! I don't want to be up here right now. I'm so not happy at all.

Yeah - he still has at least another 3 weeks with the cast though, but it doesn't pain him nearly as much (it helps that Bec has finally seemed to learn that jumping on daddy's cast is a no-no). He hates the cast, but at least it's saving him from putting weight on it and making it worse before it's had proper time to heal. He hasn't been taking pain meds as often as he was at the start, but he does still take them from time to time.

Steel: Ugh, that would piss me off!! They should have contacted you to let you know they weren't going to show, or at least be late! [yes] D:

I'm glad to hear that hubby is healing! It definitely sounds like the cast was the best option.
Yeah. He's not even answering my text asking if he's gonna show. I'm so irritated. I made this session time especially for him. I've canceled a lot of other students and sent them to another tutor because I'm so limited on time now, but I wanted to give him one last session before I sent him off. And then he doesn't bother to show up for it. Grrrr.

I would stab him in the face with a hot dog for that, seriously.

The cast was definitely the better option - despite how annoyed he is with it.
That is stupid!! Geeze! Some people! :(
Do you charge them a fee if they don't show up for an appointment without letting you know first?

Yeah, you should charge extra for no-shows.

That'd at least make them show up, if nothing else did.

And good job on getting the little one to not bounce on the cast, I know everything new is something to bounce on, but ugh, that would hurt!

Vera: It took about a week and a half, almost two weeks to get her to stop doing it. She pats it now, but thankfully no jumping, at least in the past week.

It pained me to see him wince and try not to curse and yell out in pain whenever she would do it and then try to explain as best he could to her why not to do it. [sweat] It was bad.

Hahaha, yes, I shall give him a good hot dogging. He just called, and apparently he mixed up his times. Goober. I do charge them for the session even if they don't show up, so he's gonna drop by and pay me anyway. Cause I have a different student from 5-7. Now I just have to not get bored between now and then.

At least you will still get paid, but ugh... STILL! D: [hug]