Rufus and Life
Another day in the grind.
Settling in to 2008...
Been feeling a bit weirder than usual lately, but I guess that is not really that significant.
Not particularly hungry this morning - this is a switch.
I am tired today, and want to sleep though. I imagine it is over rated, more sleep after several hours anyway.
My vet called last night. We are going to try antibiotics. His bladder is inflammed, and the blood tests turned out to give no conclusive results about Cushings disease. This is good and bad. We're hoping it is a UTI issue that is causing the clinical signs. On one hand it is frustrating to have spent all the money to get this far. We have not ruled out Cushings, however - it has yet to be ruled in. The dog's test results have given us no sort of confirmation on this.
So the relief is that there has been no hurry for them to medicate him until they're entirely sure what the issue is - outside of the antibiotics. (Those aren't really too harmful). If this clears up, likely this has been a UTI situation the whole time.
There are other tests that might rule out the possibility he doesn't have Cushings... but few to rule it in at this point. It doesn't mean he has it or he doesn't.
Antibiotics will yield improvements in such a short amount of time (over the weekend) if we start them today. (We being Rufus, not Rufus, Jim, and I)! lol. So, within 3-4 days, if he stops drinking 18 gallons of water a day... then likely this was a bladder based trigger (bacteria). They saw none of these results in his urinalysis - but then, this is about all I can remember.
SO, either the antibiotics will work, or they won't. We're hoping they work so we can just move on - and then that means my dog is pretty much healthy otherwise. How nice would that be? We'll be holding our breath all weekend over it.
The hunger has hit; time to eat a granola bar. Tasty, tasty. Very nice.
Jim and I went over to hang out with Steve after we worked out. That was nice. He cut his hair when he was drunk, or someone else who was drunk convinced him to and cut it. It looks 100 times better. And it is entirely dark brown and has none of those light brown highlights he had put in his chin length hair. It is an improvement. I saw DirtySkankyWhore (Adam's ex) as well as Adam briefly. She gave me the funniest look. I suspect it is because she always walked around like she was Mrs. Sexy - but the problem is she never was. And now she's a little worse for the wear.
She wrinkled her face and gave herself a double chin at me when she walked by. I think she hates me even more now. Jim noticed the insanely annoying laugh that she has every 2 seconds...
And I thought I was just an evil bitch for hating her high pitch, overly forthcoming laugh.
None the less. I was also happy to see Adam had “Matured.” Now he looks more like Steve than he ever has before. Good, good. He was always so hoity. Thought he was better than everyone else. I don't think I'm better than anyone - although I have a judgmental side that really can suck.
(Read, I'm doing it right now, but that's okay.)
Anywho.
Jim was disappointed by Shawn's lack of comment. Shawn is Jeff's little brother (Jeff being my sister's long time boyfriend) - Shawn also being Steve's roomie.
And of course, ex Target employee. (Most of us in my circle seem to be.)
Regardless. It was pleasant enough.
I am glad to see that Steve is happily existing in his little universe over there.
I am also glad I don't have random people living with me. In my shear situational luck, I have so far avoided the random people for roomies. Blessed am I.
I have either lived alone, or with my partner.
And as of yet, the “lived alone,” portion of my adulthood has been the greater span of time. I am still adjusting to living with someone else!
So. We pick up the antibiotics today, and otherwise I have no real Friday evening plans. I am just glad it is the end of the week.
Lately I am beginning to think I better schedule some time off - the end of this week has sort of been frustrating to me. I'm not a fan of feeling so disenchanted with my work. I am frustrated trying to schedule any sort of trip or anything fun with Jim. He is just so damned hard to get motivated for it. This is definitely a black strike in my book. I find it hard to do all the planning myself, but I guess I will have to. And then when I realize he isn't trying to be a part of it, it makes me want to not include him for some reason. Eh, whatever.
All in all, I have an appointment in 30 minutes. I should wrap this random entry up.
-Angela