This "poster" says just about all that needs to be said on the subject. I will never reach perfection, but some people I know think that they have already.

Ken woke me up at 8:28 a.m. on Wednesday...to tell me he was leaving, going to Goodwill to work a couple of hours. So, I got up, did some online job searches, and started working on an updated resume. Dang! Took me all day to get that done and then post it on a few sites. I am SO ready to go back to work. It provides "escape" for me from a LOT of things and is a great way to put what's happening at home in perspective.

Unfortunately on Wednesday night I found a FLEA on Luci!!! So Thursday morning Luci and Bennie got bathed, dog beds, blankets, our bedding got put thru the laundry. After lunch Ken and I went to the Texas Workforce office to talk to counselors to get help with job searches. I got some help on how to search for jobs other than my engineering field (I don't want to do that any more - I'm looking for part time, temporary, or contract work instead). Afterward we headed to Petsmart where we got some OTC flea spot meds, Blue Buffalo dog food, treats, etc. Luci got a new dress.

We put the med on all the critters -- the two cats, Maggie and Bennie had no problems with it. Unfortunately, Luci did. Almost immediately. It was like the med attacked her brain and I swear she went into seizures. She became crazy, then lethargic, clinging to momma, would not let me put her down, when I did put her down she would cry for "up up," which means pick me up. At one time I thought she died. She crawled under the bench where my printer is located, did a couple of flips and circles, then flopped over. She was totally unresponsive, I was hollering at Ken that she had died, but I guess he couldn't hear me because I was down under the desk and the sewing machine trying to crawl in after her. I finally managed to get her out, got her to open her eyes, checked to make sure her tongue was not back, and then refused to put her down the rest of the night. It was scary and awful. I was up with her almost all night. I was texting a friend most of the night because I was terrified. I tried to call the emergency vet but couldn't get through. About 3 she woke up enough that I knew she knew I was there, and she "talked" to me a minute. We went to bed, but I worried about her the rest of the night. When we woke up this morning she seemed to be much better.

Ken and I rebathed Luci - not the others. She has been better since the second bath. We will NEVER put OTC flea med on her again. When we went to bed I stayed awake to watch her and was reading an article in Reader's Digest by a vet -- which said to never put OTC flea med on a dog. Apparently it does cause seizured/neurological damage in some dogs, and some can die from it!!! An online article said the same thing.

Other than that, today was my doc appointment with the endocrinologist, Dr. Wilson (diabetes specialist). I had lost 8 lbs since the last visit, altogether 11 lbs since last September. But glucose still out of sight. So, Levemir raised to 40 morning and evening, and Humalog raised to 26 at each meal. We'll see if it works.

If all goes well, we'll go to Scarborough Fair tomorrow. Ken has the scooters in the house for charging over night.

That's about it. We're pretty boring.



Matthew 7.
1Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.