not the best view for starting the day.

And all before noon

4 Dec 2012 Leave a Comment

There is nothing quite like the morning I have had already. I got up knowing I would be taking one child to the doctor as soon as RevMrKnowTea got out the door himself. He is driving back to Ruston to officiate a funeral for a lady who attended the church there. Lottie had fever Sunday night, low grade, but fever is still fever with the 24 hour rule. I broke it to her that she would have to stay home Monday from school. She is a routine child! I prepared myself mentally for one of her melt downs, but she did well. She was sad and cried, but she did well in spite of her bad news. She woke up yesterday doing seemingly well and we went on about our day. Last night at dinner we noticed she has some drainage in her right eye. This morning both eyes were practically “glued” shut from the drainage. Off to the doctor we went.

not the best view for starting the day.

We spent an hour and a half at the doctor’s office. I got home to find my sweet sweet Windy cat had a large gash in her foot and she was hiding in my office. So back out the door I went with my kitty to the vet clinic. UGH! She was such a good kitty for them. I have always said she is the sweetest thing and she proved it today. THe doc cut off the excess skin (hey! at least I’m not posting pics of it) and said she was keeping it good and clean and he’d rather let her take care of it. So a couple of shots and one hour and forty-five minutes later I was back in the car.

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