8/14/26

​Today started out as a smooth lake with some fog. The lake was like glass. It is so pretty when that happens.

I had a phone screen at 7:30 am for work. Started the day bright and early.

In the middle of the morning, I heard Paul yelling to “get off my jet ski!” I went to look and there was a cormorant sitting on it. He had emptied his cloaca all over the jet ski cover. 

I walked down the dock slowly and was able to get fairly close to it. I did what any wife would do. I took a close up picture of the scat and texted it to Paul. I video’s his reaction and sent it to the kids. Ha ha.

He was not pleased with the shit-uation. He later went out with a buck to rinse off his jet ski cover. 

Heather left around dinner time.

Andy and Diane arrived as well as Lois and Craig. We sat and chatted for a bit. 

Paul took the jet ski out for a ride. When he returned, he slipped and scraped the skin off his shin. He walked off the dock asking for some first aid assistance.

I got out my supplies and cleaned things up. We covered it with gauze and  two tegaderm’s. It continued to bleed throughout the evening at the campfire.

It is going to be nasty in the morning.

As we sat around the campfire, Ethan texted me that he had developed a mouth sore/ ulcer. He sent a picture and it is pretty big. It has a pitted middle, is fairly large and looks angry.

We started brain storming. The medication that usually causes this, there have not been any changes to.

The transplant team has added a couple of medications recently but it was in July. He has been on them for at least a month. 

I put on my detective hat and started a deep dive on side effects of his newer medications. That HAS to be it.

After looking up a few names, I found one that has a “rare” side effect of mouth ulcers. It also said the onset of the ulcers is delayed. Of course it is rare. This has got to be the culprit.

I sent a note to the transplant team along with a picture of Ethan’s ulcer. Poor Ethan. He has some remedies to relieve the pain at home. 

It is never a dull moment.