Day 13: Take It One Day At a Time and You Might Survive

Oct 2, 2010

For the most part I’ve had a pretty crappy week. My weekend was okay, but my work week– well let’s just say it pretty much blew. Wednesday, I logged in to work as per usual and then discovered after I was off that Trouble was in distress. Apparently he had developed a hot spot¹ which had gone unnoticed and as a result, we ended up running to Walmart to buy some bandages and disinfectant to try and treat the area.

Once we had taken care of it, we ended up going out to dinner in town and when we came home we attempted to remove the bandages so we could wrap new fresh ones on his wound, but he wasn’t having it. We ended up having to put a muzzle on him because he refused to let anyone get near his neck and finally after holding him down we were able to re-wrap him again and kenneled him for the night.

The next morning, I awoke and took him outside to try and wash the wound. He was clearly still in pain but he allowed me to finish washing the wound as best as I could and didn’t struggle so much when I wrapped it. As I was almost finishing he ended up flipping out and refused to let me continue and laid on the kitchen floor, shaking. We figured it was just because he was in distress and would calm down after a few minutes, but didn’t. I immediately decided it was time to take him to the vet so I called to make an appointment and was told they had an opening in and hour. I ended up having to call in to work and tell them that I was going to be late and we drove him out to the vet, where he had to be left because he needed to be sedated so they could clean the wound.

After we left him at the vet, I went back to work, only to discover that my system would not let me log into the phone. It allowed me to log in to the network but not the phone and we couldn’t figure out what the deal was. After spending 50 minutes taking with chat tech support, I was advised that I had to call in and they finally resovled the issue by resetting my password. As a result I got to work a total of 17 minutes. Yeah it was pretty lame, lol.

Robby ended up picking Trouble up after work and bringing him home with a bunch of meds that he has to take but he seems to be doing much better. Friday when I woke up, I couldn’t log on to work because it told me I could not connect to the server. After spending 40 minutes troubleshooting with tech, we discovered I had to change my password, so finally I was able to work.

After work we headed out to Okotberfest which wasn’t as fun as I thought. According to Robby it was pretty lame compared to the year he went so I’m glad it wasn’t just me. Today, I just worked and spent the rest of the day lounging around the house. My week was a mixture of worry, panic, and pain in the ass with all my systems issues. I’m glad it’s over.

1 We found this out afterwards.