Getting better?

[mdlbear]

We both seem to be doing better today. Hard to say whether it's a lot better or only a little, but better nevertheless.

Worked from home all morning -- I can get through most of the email before breakfast and do a little writing -- and went out for a walk around 11:15. Called cflute and had a pleasant chat, made even more like a walk with a friend because I had my phone on loudspeaker. (I have to do that because otherwise it thinks there's a headset attached to it. But it works nicely in this case.)

Calie gave me a good suggestion: take an extra breath or two before saying anything when I'm interrupted or broken out of concentrating on something. Should help control my tone of voice and prevent the snapdragon effect.

Everything went smoothly with the disconnect; I had lunch and went in to work and actually got a little bit more done besides catching up with people. Came home to find the Cat in good humor after a successful shopping expedition (with Joyce driving) and good news from the lab and her nutritionist. She has a GI appointment Thursday, and it may actually be possible to schedule her surgery at that point.

In the afternoon I finally took the unfamiliar and scary step of requesting a psych appointment. (The person who makes appointments wasn't there, of course, but I left my info for a callback.)

Just got done "fixing her dinner", which has gotten to be a pretty smooth routine. Only thing I forgot this time was clamping the secondary port before removing the flush syringe; doing it in the wrong order apparently allows a little bit of blood to flow back into the line and clot. We had to go in last night and get them unclotted. :(

But it looks as though there's a little light at the end of the tunnel. (Do not cue old Vietnam-era joke. That's not funny.)