So stressed

[missmaven]

A month ago Praxx took Friday, our dog, in to get a dental cleaning and some tumors removed. She developed a complication that gave her an ulcer in her esophagus. It took sometime to identify it, get her into the vet, and then transfer her over to the ER. She spent 4 days in the ICU and we dealt with the possibility of having to put her down. 

She came back home last Tuesday and we're slowly getting everything sorted out. The hope is the damage is not permanent and with proper care she will make a full recovery. But currently she's on a staggered three scrips a day meds, and has very special feeding requirements. She gets fed a meat slurry and has to be held vertically during feeding and for 10-15 minutes after. This past weekend Praxx made a doggy high-chair so we don't have to physically hold her during that time. It's adorable, she's adorable in it. 
It's a stressful balancing act of letting her esophagus rest enough to heal while trying to keep her fed enough. And there's over a weeks worth of not being able to keep food down we need to make up for as well. 

It's been stressful. But were' getting through it. It's another example of shit going wrong and the whole household pulls together to get through it. 

 

Theme camp reg also ended this past Friday and we started work on placement. It's a basket of cats, which was expected. I'm starting to feel stressed about the amount of time I have to finish the map because I didn't work on it much at all over the past several weeks. 

And today there's a flood of 'Oh! I forgot to register, please make an exception!' requests. 

Fun.

 

But on top of everything else I got, what appeared to me to be, a solicitation from a friend that's currently monogamous. His reaction when I called him out on it only made it seem more likely. And illuminated some really problematic mindsets on his end. Blaming his partner for the monogamy, putting the onus on her to fix their relationship, guilt trips to try to keep me from talking to her about the message, etc. 

Gonna have to bring it up to her and I'm dreading that. I just don't need this of all things on top of everything else. 

Watching him wiggle around and try to find something that would work on me reminded me of how BJ acted during the break up. How he tried on every hat except for accountability. It just turns my stomach.