Ethan’s Journey

Happy Halloween!!!!!  Ethan hasn’t been feeling so hot. He has been trying to decide if it was allergies or a cold. He took allergy medication last night and woke up with no progress. His voice has started the conversion to more of a phone sex operator sound. I reached out to his transplant team. I wanted to get a plan in place for if he came down with a fever (which can be dangerous for transplant patients). Ethan was already scheduled to go in for blood work tomorrow morning. So I convinced Ethan that while we are out, we should go to urgent care as his history of multiple pneumonia’s have laid the foundation to make me think this could turn into pneumonia fairly quickly. So after bloodwork in the morning, we will be heading to urgent care. This give ME anxiety. We have to give a detailed history of his medical past but the cliff’s notes version. THEN if they take things seriously, and decide to prescribe medications, I will need to triple check that it plays nice with his other ...

 Wedded bliss at its finest. Paul has a basket of clean clothes in our bedroom. They are clean and unfolded. They have been in the basket for about a week or so. Everyday he moves the basket to the bed, digs through the clothes to get what he wants. Then at night he moves the basket to the floor. “You know, studies have shown that if you put the clothes away, you don’t have to keep moving the basket.” I said-very dead pan and not to be helpful. His response…..he laughed. “I know.” I am glad he doesn’t always think I am an asshole. He has accused me of snoring the past few nights. Apparently he doesn’t remember that I am a lady. Lady’s don’t snore. I might make “sleeping noises” but I would imagine they are lady like. I don’t care for his accusations. Paul also complained that I chew too slowly and my chewing noises drive him a little crazy. Poor Paul. Sharing things like that only stocks my ammunition box. I will save that piece of information for when I need to bust it out. Our do...

 One day closer to the weekend. I have some fun plans scheduled. Wine tour with some sorority sisters. There will be silliness and shenanigans. Paul and I have a date Friday night to go get burgers, then hanging out with some friends afterward. It should be fun! Plans on Sunday as well.  Paul and I are blowing off our adult chores this weekend. Paul is in the planning process for the barndominium. He has inexpensively figured out how to incorporate a heated floor in the design. He is pumped about it.  I worked at the vet office this evening. One of the cats I was working with was so cute! He was a hairless sphynx cat. They have no fur, they are wrinkly and have larger ears. When they are adults, some of them get a little pudgy. We all do.  But their bodies get bigger, it makes their head look smaller. Before you know it, the cat resembles Bob from Beetlejuice.  

 Phew! I made it through today. 7am -6 pm. Yes, I make my own schedule, but I am trying to cram in as many interviews as possible before our 4 day lock out. I will get the time back somewhere else in the week. I did feel like I got a lot of good work accomplished today. I got a call from Ethan’s doctor’s office. He needed an appointment for his mental health check up. It is important to check in with the doctor and make sure the dose is appropriate. They wanted to see him in person. Ugh! We did a video visit last time so we have to do the in-person visit this time around. A lot of people think this is a “money grab” but it is actually to maintain a current doctor/patient relationship. This is legally needed for the doctor to continue prescribing medication. While talking to the doctor, it was shared that he needed his annual exam. I wanted to be respectful as I understand they are just doing their job. Ethan has so many specialists. He has routine bloodwork. He is constantly being ...

 I made it through today. Yay! It wasn’t as bad as I was anticipating. Tomorrow is jam packed full.  I made some veggie and protein soup for lunch with protein pasta and beans. Yum.  I got a call from neurology. They had us set up Ethan’s next visit for April. It should be fairly easy. I scheduled it for the end of the day so that Ethan won’t miss too much work. After work I took the dogs out to burn off their energy. We went two times around the field. All the equipment for the barndominium is gone. We are now waiting on doors, floors and insulation. We had to plan some things out before we could move forward. The dogs had a blast. Ferguson decided once around was enough for him. I found him waiting in the yard when we finished lap two. He is 14. He can basically do what he wants. He know how to be a dog. He didn’t want to walk that far. I don’t blame him. Moe was so happy to run. Paul brought home the electric Dodge Charger. It is a nice looking car. He wanted to take E...

 Plane tickets to Grand Bahama are purchased. Yay! I crossed a lot of things off my “to do” list this weekend. Swimming with the pigs is the goal of this trip. I have thought about maybe going to do it two times. Ha! Today I changed how much is being diverted into my travel fund. I am heading into this week knowing it is going to be incredibly demanding. On Friday, our software is going into a dark period. We won’t be able to access anything. For 4 days. Then we will have our new software we will be setting up. I threw up in my mouth when I saw I had 85 applicants and a jam packed schedule for tomorrow. There just isn’t enough hours in the day.  I worked on it a little this evening while Ethan and I watched TV. Jiminy was helping by snoring a little. He is like an old lady. He eats and then wants to go to bed. He naps before he goes to bed. Purely blissful life for that little guy. Ethan and I watched the show we like. Paul was working on a side job so he ate dinner and went i...

 I spent some time with my Mom and Gene this morning. We had some good chats. We had some delicious pumpkin bread (with chocolate chips) and coffee. Yum! Ethan went to Cars and Coffee. Paul was doing adult man things like waxing the camper.  I powered through the afternoon tackling window washing inside and out. Preparing for winter, vacuuming spider webs out of the sills and even cleaning the sky lights. I also washed all the curtains. Fall cleaning. I think I missed it this spring so it was long overdue. Ethan went to hang out with a friend in Buffalo at a concert while Paul and I went to play cards. Jiminy is typically NEVER home alone. We ended up bringing him with us to play cards because he sometimes gets a stress tummy when his friends are crated and he is out with no one home. We crate the dogs to keep Jiminy safe. But he seems lost without them.  He is easy and just slept the whole night. His schedule is similar to an elderly woman. He eats dinner and is ready fo...