3/4/23

 I worked overnight last night at the ER. We now have our little group. I told them I was moving to once a month Sundays. He was bummed and said “I have never worked here without you here with me.” I feel the same way buddy. 

I have met some cool people. I just can’t physically and mentally keep up with every Sunday. Once a month is so much better.

I got home at about 6:45am and beelined to bed. I set my alarm for 7:45am to get up and ride with Ethan to the doctor.

The  doctor’s appointment was for an annual physical/mental health assessment. That went well. Far better than last year. Ethan and the doctor did discuss the tetanus vaccine as well as the DPT vaccine. We did have to remind them that Ethan is allergic to the P of DPT….so that was a hard no. Ethan will entertain the idea of the DT without the P.  Ethan declined the hepatitis A. I really worked on allowing Ethan to work through his choices with the doctor. 

Candidly, the idea of vaccines doesn’t excite me with all of the issues Ethan has had in the past. He has had several nasty reactions. 

I was proud of the thoughtful choices Ethan made to make the tetanus a priority as he is working with rusty car parts. The nurse was an expert. She gave the vaccine and Ethan didn’t even know she had given it. So far his arm is feeling ok.

Ethan has been feeling overly anxious and we are adding a rescue medication for those few times he can’t shut his thoughts off. I think it will be helpful to have. He did have to take a small dose of Xanax the other night to settle the chaos and allow him to sleep.

It was 70 degrees out. I let Theo out to enjoy the sunshine. He is 10 years old and has some mobility issues. He does get some arthritis medication but it doesn’t really help. He happily ate the grass and hopped around. I happily made sure he wasn’t hawk bait.

I saw about 10-12 fronts in our pond. I also saw two dead ones. Boo. The weather shift is not kind to them.

I am tired and off to sleepy land. Time to catch up on some zzzzz’s