Amy&TrixieCat
Member Since 2011
Yesterday
We are absolutely heartbroken for Karen as she said goodbye to her sweet boy Doodles yesterday. What an inspirational duo, and an amazing bean...
Happier appy and less snuffly again today. For the most part, things did seem to settle down with her throughout the day yesterday...appy was OK, snuffles were less intense than they were the day before. But I'd put her appy closer to mid-range...Ok, but not stellar. She is being social and snuggly and seems pretty bright-eyed.
However, last evening DH and I decided to go out for a quick bite at my favorite wood-burning oven pizza place - it's right across the street from the pharmacy that was compounding Frankie's HyperT gel and thought it would be good for me to get away from things for a short while. Trix had her evening meds and a small snack (with an acceptable amount of enthusiam) right before we left. We were only gone maybe an hour and a half. As soon as we walked in the door, Trix stood up in the bed she was snoozing in....and barfed
. We let her settled for a few, did her evening fluids, she peed, and then maybe 5 minutes later, she barfed again 
. Both seemed like empty-tummy barfs, and she did bounce back and want to eat fairly quickly, but my nerves are absolutely, completely, utterly shot right now. I was relaxed from dinner, and then immediately went back into massively stressed out mode within 30 seconds of walking back into the house. I had wanted to do an assist-feeding last night, but I didn't want to push my luck if her tummy was feeling sensitive, so I did skip it, so IMO she really didn't get as many calories yesterday as I would have liked.
Today seems fairly "normal"...but who knows what normal is anymore, and sometimes it's all an illusion.
@tiffmaxee - vetty said to give 2.5mg Zyrtec once a day. I guess I'll run out today to get some for her...just so nervous about adding another med in, especially with all of her sensitivities.
@Tricia Cinco(GA) & Harvey - We do have last year's tax forms...they don't reveal quite enough info as for what all I need to gather. It's more a matter of questions like, are their long-term care premiums deductible? And, I can find some statements (such as hospital and drug copays), but not all...and my Mom has no idea where things are plus she glazes over if I ask her to look for something. (My Mom has 100% of her faculties, but she really, truly never did a thing with regards to finances so she doesn't know where info is, nor does she understand any of it at all - and she doesn't want to.) And, with having to dig through all this stuff I've had to go through folders with all of my Dad's medical records - scan reports, etc - and it's just a big unpleasant flashback of the last several nightmarish years.
I'm being whiny, but right now parts of my life just feels like slow torture....I start to gain footing, and something knocks me back down.
With that, though, I am going to do my best to keep myself distracted with activity and productivity.
Prayers to all....
Amy
We are absolutely heartbroken for Karen as she said goodbye to her sweet boy Doodles yesterday. What an inspirational duo, and an amazing bean...
Happier appy and less snuffly again today. For the most part, things did seem to settle down with her throughout the day yesterday...appy was OK, snuffles were less intense than they were the day before. But I'd put her appy closer to mid-range...Ok, but not stellar. She is being social and snuggly and seems pretty bright-eyed.
However, last evening DH and I decided to go out for a quick bite at my favorite wood-burning oven pizza place - it's right across the street from the pharmacy that was compounding Frankie's HyperT gel and thought it would be good for me to get away from things for a short while. Trix had her evening meds and a small snack (with an acceptable amount of enthusiam) right before we left. We were only gone maybe an hour and a half. As soon as we walked in the door, Trix stood up in the bed she was snoozing in....and barfed
. We let her settled for a few, did her evening fluids, she peed, and then maybe 5 minutes later, she barfed again . Both seemed like empty-tummy barfs, and she did bounce back and want to eat fairly quickly, but my nerves are absolutely, completely, utterly shot right now. I was relaxed from dinner, and then immediately went back into massively stressed out mode within 30 seconds of walking back into the house. I had wanted to do an assist-feeding last night, but I didn't want to push my luck if her tummy was feeling sensitive, so I did skip it, so IMO she really didn't get as many calories yesterday as I would have liked.Today seems fairly "normal"...but who knows what normal is anymore, and sometimes it's all an illusion.
@tiffmaxee - vetty said to give 2.5mg Zyrtec once a day. I guess I'll run out today to get some for her...just so nervous about adding another med in, especially with all of her sensitivities.
@Tricia Cinco(GA) & Harvey - We do have last year's tax forms...they don't reveal quite enough info as for what all I need to gather. It's more a matter of questions like, are their long-term care premiums deductible? And, I can find some statements (such as hospital and drug copays), but not all...and my Mom has no idea where things are plus she glazes over if I ask her to look for something. (My Mom has 100% of her faculties, but she really, truly never did a thing with regards to finances so she doesn't know where info is, nor does she understand any of it at all - and she doesn't want to.) And, with having to dig through all this stuff I've had to go through folders with all of my Dad's medical records - scan reports, etc - and it's just a big unpleasant flashback of the last several nightmarish years.
I'm being whiny, but right now parts of my life just feels like slow torture....I start to gain footing, and something knocks me back down.
With that, though, I am going to do my best to keep myself distracted with activity and productivity.
Prayers to all....
Amy
