It was late, quite late in the afternoon, before I realized that I had NOT done my blog for last night. That was because I had a tummy ache that I couldn't quite figure out where it came from. I hadn't eaten anything for several hours before I went to sleep (early again) and I figured that by the time I woke up to use the bathroom, I would be ready to talk about my (boring) day.
That didn't happen and the tummy ache just hadn't gone away. It took it continuing through most of today before I realized what I had done. I had eaten a lot of cheese over the past two days and you know what that does to your bowels. Uh huh! I was a bit constipated. Yikes! So I took some Miralax and just waited. Pretty soon, the tummy ache went away and I knew my plight would soon be over. It was. *Grin* And it wasn't like having an IBS attack. I'm beginning to believe that the IBS attacks I was having for a couple months before the dead section of bowel was discovered and removed was actually not true IBS. It was from the infection that the dead section of bowel was spreading. Hence, the appendicitis and the bladder infection I had when I went into the emergency room. I am very, very thankful that the surgeon on call had the experience he did (he's not what you would call a young surgeon but not too old either) and went with his gut feelings to do a little exploring. If he hadn't, I might have been buried deep in the ground by now.
If my memory had really been good, it would have occurred to me NOT to eat so much cheese so close together, especially after having the kind of surgery I did. Oh well. I don't think it will happen again any time soon. At least I hope so.
I had one scary thing happen to me today. I was scratching my head and felt something strange. It almost felt like a little scab and that bothered me. So I went searching for it and finally found it again and decided to pull it off and check to see what it was. Good thing I did. It was a tiny little tick! *Shudder* I put it on my desk top and there were a couple hairs caught up in it (which I thought at first was just the scab catching them) and....then it turned itself over!!!!!! The shape of it was definitely tick. I almost screamed because there was only one place it could have come from....Lady. It was so small that I knew it wasn't long out of it's egg. After shuddering, then squishing it dead, I went to check on the sprays we had in the house. Talk about spraying my recliner down thoroughly after I found out #1...that it was not hazardous to humans (it was slated for kitchen use) and, #2....that ticks were listed on the insects it could be used to kill. I DO know that it doesn't smell like many bug sprays do but then, it's not poisonous like many are. It's one of those *natural* type sprays that is not hazardous to the environment. I like those more and more these days.
I sprayed the hell out of the chair, mainly because the tick was so small (and who knew how many of those damn things had crawled off Lady?) and because I am sure they can hide. I even turned the chair over and sprayed everything I could reach. It's been drying for a couple hours now so I feel better. As soon as the Beast got home from the store, I told him what I had found and we put some flea and tick medication (the good stuff from the vet's office) and used it on both dogs. I then made sure we sprayed Baron's bed since Lady had gone to sleep on it earlier. Now we have to just wait and see. If we find any more, both dogs will get more of the medication and then I am going to have the Beast take Lady back to the vet's to have her check her out well since she is a double-coated dog and it may take something different to be sure all the ticks are gone.
My real concern is that the tick that I found in my hair was so small. I am not sure how long it takes for a tick egg to hatch so who knows how long these could have been on Lady? I sprayed my rug well as long as I was at it and I went from an almost full can of spray to an empty one.....LOL. But I got everywhere I know the dog has been over the past few days. The Beast just cleaned and vacuumed out my car (vacuuming will kill ticks, too) and I have vacuumed my rug once already. I will do it again in the morning and my recliner, too. I don't want to freak out my sister, who is coming over tomorrow so I can do her roots for her. We'll do that in the kitchen area but, after she showers, my computer room is the most comfortable place to be. I'll wash all my small blankets I have in here tonight so that should take care of everything.
We have a few more days of cooler weather but a return to the 70's and then up to the 80's starting on Saturday! Ahhh, sweet warm weather....
Sheepie came over yesterday and put up a nice little grave marker for Daphne. It really looks like a gravestone, too. It turned out so adorable. The Beast, the jerk, said to her...* Just make sure it doesn't interfere with my mowing!* And I know he wasn't nice about how he said it. Jerk! It's back under the tree area and no grass grew in that area even before Daphne was buried there. Jeez! Talk about insensitive.
Love you all. Hope you had a decent Hump Day. If not, so sorry. At least I know the camel didn't show up asking you to guess what day it was....LOL! ***Hugs***
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