03/07/2009 Sat evening

We went to a birthday party in Myers Park tonight and the house was really beautiful. The food was excellent and they kept refilling the shrimp as it got used up. I just wanted to take the whole platter and go somewhere with it so I could eat it up. Of course, I didn't.

Our women lost their ACC basketball game to Maryland this afternoon. Milo sat on my lap for a good portion of the last half and was content as could be. But he was sad when they lost. He is a Carolina fan no matter the sport. I am going to start back his medicine tonight and I half way dread it as it was making him a little sick before. I am going to cut back the dose just a smidge and give him his dose in 2 or 3 little efforts rather than all at once. Maybe he was almost choking on such a big mouthful. I hope so as I don't want to torment him for 10 days or so, but I do want to try and get him well. Don told me that I was going by Bertha's theory that her cholesterol had improved so she no longer needed the medicine that made it better. I am just going to try and toe the line and get this stuff down him and see if there is not significant improvement in his congestion. Both Dr. Green and this newer vet have said this might just be a chronic and recurring condition with him and if so, we will just have to live with it. They can't keep giving him antibiotics over and over again. I love animals but sometimes they are a real worry. It makes me sad when there isn't really anything to be done to relieve their problems. Marlene is already having major problems with their only remaining dog after having just been through a year or more of extraordinary effort with their Tess dog - only to lose her in the end. Kudos to Daniel for trying to give this current dog some quality of life after she was a stray for so long. It just broke his heart seeing her wander a parking lot day after day. Poor Marlene, she gets to do the hard work of caring for her as she seems to be the only one so far having any luck getting her medicine to go down.

Not much else went on today. I changed a few clocks (the ones I am pretty sure don't change themselves AND that were fairly easy to figure out), straightened up on the house, watched the women's basketball game, finally dressed, and went to the party. I am going to bed in a moment and hope I can sleep more than the 3 or 4 hours I slept last night. Next week, I have my trainer 2 days and a dentist appointment. I also have the appointment to let someone look at (and maybe do something about) my scalp to see if it is finally healing on its own or if we need to stitch it back up. Please pray with me that it is healing on its own at long last. I haven't just purely dreaded many of these appointments but this one scares me a little. I am not much of a person who is interested in painful experiences. I have had one too many accidental ones of late. (I did dread getting the staples - over 50 of them - removed but that wound up being pretty much a non-event. It really did not hurt unless she pulled out some hair with the staple. Maybe this will be the same, worrying over nothing.)

I WORE MY PIERCED EARRINGS TONIGHT. IT IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HAD EARRINGS ON SINCE OCTOBER AND I AM A LITTLE SURPRISED MY EAR PIERCINGS HAD NOT GROWN BACK TOGETHER. MAYBE I HAD IT DONE SO LONG AGO THAT THAT IS UNLIKELY. AND IF MY HEAD LACERATIONS WON'T HEAL, WHY WOULD MY EARLOBES GIVE ME A DIFFERENT RESULT.

Good night and happy birthday, Bertha Gerald and Margaret Schrum. May you both have long, happy, and prosperous lives. You are both charming and wonderful people.