a worrisome start

Today started with a bang, or rather a splash as I proceeded to knock over my coffee which I had carefully placed next to my stitching chair.

Yes, I managed to mop it up right away, and no – it didn’t land on any of my stitching but still…. Not a happy start to the day. My only bit of sunshine was that the coffee was from our maker in the kitchen rather than a high priced item from my local Peet’s.

There was a bit of stitching followed by a number of errands (drop off, pick up, head back to the house, drop off again) etc before I girded myself for the drive to San Lorenzo High School and this afternoon’s vaccine clinic. It helps, when adventuring somewhere for the first time, that I am not doing it in the dark. The balance is that I will be headed back this evening after closure in the dark.

Now the tough portion – just as we finished setting up in what appeared to be a gym/study room – I received a series of calls from Dani. This is Gwen,

(picture to be added when the server decides to play).

who was having a wonderful time in the park when she fell and was hurt. No fractures as it turned out, but a 40cm+ gash running from a rear leg up her belly. Taken to the vet clinic where Dani works – she underwent 90+ minutes of surgery to clean, debrIde, and close the wound.

I left work an hour early, which was still four hours after the event and went to the vet clinic. Gwen was still in treatment but, as they are no longer a 24 hour Vet Hospital, she would be discharged later for home care. The guys went back with Dani to help bring her home. Gwen is not a puppy, and being an elderly dog on a lot of anti-inflammatory medication is not a great start.

I will keep you posted.

 

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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2 Responses to a worrisome start

  1. Ron says:

    I thought of you while watching the news tonight. One item showed the new German Health Minister, Prof. Lauterbach, who is a physician and a professor of epidemiology, visiting a children’s vaccination center where he gave two, obviously well chosen children, their jabs. They seemed to enjoy it.

    May all your recipients be as pleased with your work.

  2. Cat says:

    Hope Gwen is okay.
    They are about to start vaccinations for the school group.
    I can’t get my booster until mid-January but I am certainly holding my paw out for it!

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