Just Plodding Along

Monday morning while out walking Max I found a poster looking for some lost pups. Turns out Lady is actually Gigi and Scout is actually Loki. You will always be Lady and Scout to us While it was fun being puppy parents, and seriously nothing cheers you up more than freakin puppies, it was nice to see they had a family who loved them. But when I called things were a bit weird. The owner asked if I would just keep them for the day because she had to work..... Um what do you think this is, doggy daycare? It is bad enough that we went out and bought puppy chow and collars for these dogs (so we could control them when we took them to the vet, which was our plan for Monday) and have fallen in love with them BECAUSE PUPPIES and now they have to go away but you want me to just hang out with them for the day because you are too busy to come get them.....I don't think so. When she said that I almost told her never mind because she seemed a bit ridiculous. When she came by to get ...

So many things to catch up on. Husband update: We have been seeing a new neurologist (non-Army) and the doctor is thinking that he has some sort of neurological disorder so many tests have been taking place. It is kind of a weird feeling to be taken seriously and have a doctor do extensive testing and pay attention to what he is saying in terms of symptoms after two years of that not being the case.  After seeing this new doctor it has made it very clear that the Army doctors did not really eliminate everything before diagnosing him with chronic fatigue and several doctors, since chronic fatigue has been in his file, have told him every symptom is related to chronic fatigue without looking into it. I am glad that D stuck with it and has continued to seek care, even if it does end up being chronic fatigue syndrome we at least know we have eliminated another possibility in the neurological disease realm. If I have learned anything from all this it is if you think there is someth...