It's February
Feb. 4th, 2013 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monkey5sAnd my retirement status is still "pending."
I'm having grouchy-making itchy and painful health issues- nothing life-threatening, just enough to keep me preoccupied. I find I just do not want to do any of the things I need to do, or get up at all some days. Or, you know, get dressed if I do get up.
And today, when I did make it up the steps for a shower, I realized that the chronic problem I'm having with muscle strain in my right upper arm is a little worse. Since I have to pull myself up the steps on the handrail (which is on the right side of the stairs) this makes things even more difficult. Wish I had a shower in the half-bath downstairs.
The cats are all having problems with the fleas- STILL- and Bright Eyes is not quite halfway though her greatly-despised antibiotic for a bladder infection. She's been resisting with extreme prejudice, and I have the claw marks to prove it. Attempts to disguise the medicine have failed, so I really do have to pin her down and jam the syringe into her mouth and dispense the 2 ml of ghastly pink liquid as quickly as possible. Twice a day. In between times the cats all keep chewing at the fleas, which I can rarely find (so they're probably over-sensitized now). This leaves them all looking a bit moth-eaten, with patchy fur on their legs and bellies.
The weather is cold and snowy, and I am happy about not having to go out into it. Except for how I really needed to go out sometime in the past few days to get more cat litter, and I am almost out of tissues. So the past four days now, I've been trying to tell myself I really HAVE TO GET OUT THERE. Hasn't worked yet, but the cat litters are going to have very little left in them once I scoop them tonight. So yeah, tomorrow I will have to shovel my way out to the car and go.
Also? Shoveling snow while using a walker is still tricky. You would think I'd had enough practice by now to be getting better, but no.
I'm having grouchy-making itchy and painful health issues- nothing life-threatening, just enough to keep me preoccupied. I find I just do not want to do any of the things I need to do, or get up at all some days. Or, you know, get dressed if I do get up.
And today, when I did make it up the steps for a shower, I realized that the chronic problem I'm having with muscle strain in my right upper arm is a little worse. Since I have to pull myself up the steps on the handrail (which is on the right side of the stairs) this makes things even more difficult. Wish I had a shower in the half-bath downstairs.
The cats are all having problems with the fleas- STILL- and Bright Eyes is not quite halfway though her greatly-despised antibiotic for a bladder infection. She's been resisting with extreme prejudice, and I have the claw marks to prove it. Attempts to disguise the medicine have failed, so I really do have to pin her down and jam the syringe into her mouth and dispense the 2 ml of ghastly pink liquid as quickly as possible. Twice a day. In between times the cats all keep chewing at the fleas, which I can rarely find (so they're probably over-sensitized now). This leaves them all looking a bit moth-eaten, with patchy fur on their legs and bellies.
The weather is cold and snowy, and I am happy about not having to go out into it. Except for how I really needed to go out sometime in the past few days to get more cat litter, and I am almost out of tissues. So the past four days now, I've been trying to tell myself I really HAVE TO GET OUT THERE. Hasn't worked yet, but the cat litters are going to have very little left in them once I scoop them tonight. So yeah, tomorrow I will have to shovel my way out to the car and go.
Also? Shoveling snow while using a walker is still tricky. You would think I'd had enough practice by now to be getting better, but no.
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Date: 2013-02-05 05:29 am (UTC)Poor kitties and poor you! Bleh. *hugs*
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Date: 2013-02-05 10:50 pm (UTC)