whew, what a week. not sure how it got to be sunday already. yesterday was especially crazy, culminating in going to the hospital to see randy and his mom…she was taken to emergency yesterday morning and she’s going to have to have gallbladder surgery and they had to wait and wait and wait around to get her admitted, finally.
mom and i got there about nine last night and randy was standing at the nurses’ station looking annoyed and said that he’d been standing there looking annoyed for an hour and nobody had helped him. DID YOU ASK THEM? i said, then went up and asked when his mom would be admitted and the woman said she’d ask the nurse and eventually the nurse came around and mom asked when she’d be admitted and the nurse said “10 or 15 minutes” and that’s exactly what happened.
so the question is, if we hadn’t asked, would they have done anything? hard to say, but at least she got safely into a room where the lighting was so much better than that awful harsh emergency room lighting. while in the emergency hallway they wheeled an old lady past us who had clearly fallen. her nose looked very bad and there was, i think, a long deep cut all along her cheek…i tried not to look because there was too much blood for me.
hopefully things will go well with randy’s mom, and hopefully he won’t spend his entired day today at the hospital.
as for us here at home…kevin left to go do some cowboy shooting, and the dogs are sleeping on the couch around me.
shadow has been doing really well. kevin is still convinced that he was just sick and will get better. last night he (the dog, not kevin) ate an entire chicken thigh for dinner and still clamored for more. i made baked sweet potato wedges for dinner and gave a tiny bit to shadow, and he wolfed it down, and then i gave him some more. clearly this was much too rich for him, because later he threw up everything.
but this morning he was once again ravenous. i cut him off after the one chicken thigh, even though he really really wanted more and more.
we’re going to try to take it slow today, with maybe food every couple hours. if he’s still really hungry that would be good because he’s lost so much weight.
i need to post some more scotland photos. after biking and going to the Blair Castle, we headed to St. Andrews, the home of golf, then edinburgh, and there are many more photos and it is almost october already so i need to get cracking.
it won’t happen today, though, because it’s going to be warm and beautiful today and i have many things to do outside.
after reading the funnies, of course.
tomorrow it’s supposed to be chilly, because fall is pretty much here. i’m ok with that right now, anyway.
ok then,
things are good on sunday grace.