Juggling Gladys

Well yesterday proved to be a nice challenge in the life of juggling the needs of a dependant! I was returning to work after a week out of the office at the point in which I turn towards the busy season. I got a call from a...well let me just say... somewhat frantic S. She had taken Gladys our 15-month-old English Springer Spaniel
to the vet to have a wart on her lip inspected and hopefully removed. The wart isn't painful for her just us do to the looks of it and the fact that it gets bloody when she plays ball! Anywho, the G needs to be knocked out for the procedure because this type of growth is often deep into the tissue as well and so she was scheduled for removal today! While at the vet S went ahead and got G her vaccinations. They gave her four at once and she immediately became lethargic and her gums whitened. G's blood pressure dropped extremely low and she had to be put on IV fluids. They also gave her an antihistamine shot because they could not tell if it was an allergic reaction or just overload.

G was stabilized and doing better, this is when S called me at work. She hardly got 3 sentences out and she was crying so hard (those that know S are not too shocked) the vet took the phone. The vet explained the situation to me and I knew S was calling me to find out if I could bring the dog to work because she had to go to a meeting. G needed to be watched closely for the rest of the day.

I met S at home for lunch, picked up G, and brought her to work while I tried vigorously to catch up from the week out of the office. I guess I'm telling this story as it is a lesson for us to remember when we have kids that even when we are busy we might have to drop everything we are doing because they need us. Thank you G for our wonderful lesson and throwing our entire day yesterday into a complete spin!

G is doing fine today. It turns out the reaction was an allergy as she had some swelling later in the day. Benadryl helped and now she is getting cosmetic surgery to remove her wart!

Getting things done (slowly)

While Erin is still in Boston, I have been working on my to do list:

1. Organize papers so that I can do taxes in a couple of weeks
2. Create and order a photo album for "2006 according to Erin & Sara"
3. Sign up for pilates
4. Clean house
5. Do Laundry
6. Grocery Shop
7. Clean out pantry and refrigerator (find whatever "it" is....)
8. Refill my spices
9. Find recipes for sister and niece visit next weekend

That's just the first part of my list. Guess how much I've accomplished: nada. I have started several of these list items, but have yet to check any one of them off of the list. Here, I thought I had three days without E, and I would be able to get so much done...

One of my excuses: well, I can't sign up for pilates b/c the classes have all started for this round and prorating at the YMCA doesn't begin until Tuesday (IFF there are still spots available.) I did manage to pick up everything that the dog chewed while she was protesting my momentary refusal to take her on a walk yesterday morning, but I've yet to actually clean the house. I am also - to my credit- mired in digital photos both on my computer and on the website. It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I always think things take much less time than they do. Short list of what I've done since I returned on Thursday afternoon:

1. walked the dog 4 times (plus the dog park and a trip to the pet store for cat litter)
2. stopped at the deli to get something to eat for yesterday and today (who cooks for one person?)
3. re-started my photo project
4. talked to two of my three sisters 3-4 times (each).
5. watched HGTV while catching up on email, updating myspace, and petting my cats
6. talked to C in SF a few times

yeah, that's not very much for 2.5 days.... ahhh well. At least on the baby front, all is relatively well. We will probably try in just about a month from now. Before then, there will be a few tests, but we're actually expecting good reports out of them. We're hoping that we're just waiting for the statistics to kick in. (After all, 57% of couples achieve pregnancy within the first three months....)

Ahhhh Boston

This pic doesn't represent a metaphor of my life. We actually walked past this scene in downtown Boston on Saturday night. We were walking with our ME friends when we stopped to watch this spectacle in the street. We have yet to figure out what had happened/was going on etc...

Boston was extremely refreshing. We walked the entire city a few times over; we ate well in Little Italy - including a stop at Mike's Pastries on Hanover. Admittedly, I'm also looking forward to eating healthy for a bit...

Being in Boston, I imagined the patriots from the Revolutionary Era. Labeled traitors for speaking their minds, they continued to believe in and fight for the liberty we still enjoy today. Over the course of the past 6 or so years, so many of us have been labeled as unpatriotic for disagreeing with our unintelligent idealogue of a president and his cabinet of cronies. I found it absolutely rejuvenating to visit Boston, where the unpatriotic were (and still are today) the most patriotic in our history.

Stinko

S is leaving tomorrow morning and I start working! We had a good time over the last few days. Visited our family friend, a friend and her baby from B-school, and now back in Boston. Not looking forward to standing for 8 hours on concrete or being without S for a few days but it is how we get these trips!

S's BBT doesn't seem to be cooporatinging perfectly yet this month but we are being patient. No money riding on this one!

Later!

We Love Boston!

The city is cold, but we're having a great time! We had a great time yesterday w/ our friends who came down from ME. We are seeing the Blue Man Group tonight (1/2 price tix!) Tomorrow we had to Hartford. Fun. Fun!!

Go East

We leave for Boston today, and I'm running around getting us ready. Not being employed in a traditional full-time position sure has its benefits when it comes to this kind of thing (as well as making babies.) We leave today at 2, so I have until then to walk the dog, take her to "camp, get my haircut, pack, and pick up the house enough so that our friend I isn't astounded when she checks in on the kitties. (Thanks again, by the way!)

In addition to our previously arranged engagements, we will now be seeing some friends from business school for lunch as well. We have more friends on the East Coast than we do in Madison!! We know it will be cold, but we're keeping our fingers crossed for lots of walkable weather so that we can see and do lots of stuff.

I plan to get on once or twice this week to update, but there will be no baby news for a couple of weeks until I have another procedure done to make sure things are working well - after that, we plan on trying again in Feb.

Jetting Off

We head out today to Boston. Life is such a whirlwind sometimes. Just yesterday we were sitting in sterile green room waiting for information on new ways to get pregnant and tonight we will be checking out one of the most historical cities in our country. What a journey.

I am totally overwhelmed with things to do at work but the vacation will be a well timed one. We will have some time just to ourselves to figure out our course of action. As of now we have set a tentative deadline for reconsidering out approach to getting pregnant, June. If we haven't been successful with our NP by then we will most likely move on to IVF. We think 1-2 more tries with Clomid and HCG and then if that doesn't work 2-3 cycles with Injectables.

Whatever the process is we are excited that S is ovulating and the cycles are beginning to line up.