Leia’s birthday present arrived this morning. (One day early) I thought it was so funny to watch her follow my Mom to the kitchen to watch my Mom open the box. She knew it was for her because she could smell the pill pockets I ordered.
I snapped some pictures in the house but my Mom got butter ones on her walk:
But, this picture was my favorite!!!
She’s SO pretty in pink!!! I think she reminds me of Kate Moss because we try to get her to smile but she remains extremely stoic, just like Kate Moss did. I had to explain who she was to Sean. How would he know her when he was born in 2001?!
I need to give some background before I explain. I have had a Medical Guardian device for about 2 1/2 years after I had a fall. We test the device every month and my Mom makes sure that I am wearing it when she takes Leia for a walk. But then today, this happened:
I was sitting and watching TV just after my Mom and Leia had just come back from their walk. I could see a red light out of the corner of my eye and then it started to vibrate as if I had called the emergency line. An operator came on and spoke with us but he obviously could not hear us that we were okay and didn’t need any emergency vehicles at my house.
My phone rang and it was my friend and neighbor who I listed as a contact in the case of an emergency. And then I heard a fire truck coming. I live around the block from Beaumont hospital so I hear ambulances all of the time! When we first moved in, Sean and I had difficulty sleeping but after a while we would block it out and remain sleeping. But hearing the ambulance this time was different because it stopped right in front of my house!
My Mom ran out of the house waving her arms to tell them that it was a false alarm! She told me that both a firetruck and an ambulance arrived and the driver gave her a thumbs up when she yelled that it was a false alarm.
After they left, my Mom stayed on the phone with Medical Guardian people. My device was wonky because it went off again. The operator told us that I would receive another call because the ambulance was going to come again because the device went off.
As I was sitting there listening to their conversation, I started to cry and I had no idea why I was crying! I think it was my PBA mixed with the realization of the fact that this could eventually be a serious thing! Throughout this whole ordeal, Alanis Morissette was playing in my head even though I never thought that that song, particularly, one lyric would pertain to me:
We got Leia on April 28, 2020. She was six months old. I asked The woman we got her from if she knew her exact birthday and she did not. When I made Leia’s first vet appointment, they wrote that her birthday was October 28. I told Sean that we could celebrate their birthdays together and they could be, “Birthday Twins.” He kind of shrugged and said okay. He didn’t really care.
But, I do!
Last year, we didn’t make a big deal about it and that was that because it was in the middle of Covid! But this year, I started thinking and it was brought on by my Mom, who bought Leia a sweater. It was too small so she is going to return it to Petco. Well, I got paid this morning and her birthday is around this time so I made a purchase at Chewy and I just got confirmation that it received and soon will be shipped. I have not told my Mom but I want to surprise her. I’ve never had a daughter and Leia’s color is pink.
Last night, when I was getting ready to get into my bed, I started joking about Steel Magnolias and when Julia Roberts says that her wedding colors are, “Blush and Bashful” but Sally Fields corrects her and tells her that her colors are, “Pink and Pink.” It seems those are Leia’s colors too:
And like so many of my Facebook friends told me, I have found her favorite toy. I got her one of these as well:
I talked to Sean on the phone yesterday. He asked me I watched, Hocus Pocus and when I told him that I did, he asked if I like scary movies. I told him, “ABSOLUTELY NOT!” He then told me that I need to find a new Halloween movie. I didn’t think so at all!
He then asked me if I could say the movie verbatim. He laughed at my silence and I told him that I never have thought about it! I then proceeded to tell him the first five minutes of the movie!
He laughed pretty hard at that and told me that it is really bad! I then proceeded to quote Max, Allison, and Dani when they are in the alley behind the Italian restaurant. I told him that I really like the movie and it doesn’t matter that I can say the dialogue verbatim! I think I would mess it up a bit because sometimes I have difficulty speaking but I think I would do pretty well!
We had this conversation yesterday which marked T-15 which means that his birthday is in two weeks from today!!! In .T-14 days, I will have a 20 year olds as a child!!
Yesterday, my Mom had a fall. She was out taking Leia for a walk. Leia did NORT cause her to fall but rather something in the city sidewalk! Something was sticking up out of the normal sidewalk. Her foot got caught and she fell. When she fell, Leia thought she was playing and she went to jump on my Mom but my Mom told her, “No!” and told her to sit down.
Leia is NOT Lassie so she does not run and get help but our sweet girl just sat down next to my Mom until my Mom got her bearings together. She finally came back into my house and put frozen corn on her face because she had an abrasion on her nose and a scrape on her knee.
it was my aunt who convinced her to call the police. She did and made an incident report. Two police officers came by and she showed them where she fell. They took pictures of it and asked if she was hurt and she answered in the affirmative. She told them her face and one police officer shined the light on her face and was surprised at the abrasion on her nose. They took pictures of her face and her name as well.
My Mom is feeling better today and her abrasion looks a little bit better. We laughed at the fact that Leia did NOT come and get the help for my Mom but she stayed and comforted her.
She can’t get help when someone is hurt and she can’t even pick up my phone when it falls on the floor from my wheelchair but I will take her over Lassie ANY DAY!!!
Leia had an appointment yesterday because she is itching like crazy! Hi can’t afford any further allergy testing but she got another prescription and she needs to take baths more often! I am totally OK with that!!! My Mom and I pool our money to pay for all of these appointments.
My Mom told me that I have never had a lavish lifestyle having sent Sean to Catholic school and I did it by myself. I can’t when I am paying for her care! But, I told my Mom that it’s OK that she is a money pit because we love her so much!
I looked at her and kind of laughed and said that Leia is going to continue to make sure that I do NOT have a lavish lifestyle!
I’ve been wearing compression socks all of the time since 2015. My Mom noticed and commented on my legs yesterday. She has been putting them on for me and washing my legs since then. Today, she washed my legs even though it has only been a few days since she did it last time. She wants to tend to the sores on my feet. She said that I have skinny legs! I have NEVER had skinny anything! But I guess about a year of drinking 67% of my food is catching up with me. The speech pathologist (who I see in November) asked at my swallow test if I have lost weight without trying. I answered in the affirmative.
My Mom had me listen to this song yesterday and we listen to it today as well:
I have been on Twitter for a little bit about 7 1/2 years. I received this alert from this post that I posted on the seventh:
The stats are up from this post:
So I’m getting all of this traffic but there is still NO answer! It would be easiest if I figure out how to put a, “Follow” Button on the first page of my blog but I’m still hovering around 3700 followers. It would just be easier if I just got that answer!
With a dead accessible van, my Mom did the next best thing for me! She bought Simply Apple (which tastes like cider when it is heated up) and old-fashioned donuts.I had some yesterday when I watched Hocus Pocus:
Well, I put my wishes out in the universe and today my wish was granted! My mom talked on the phone with my nephew yesterday and he went to the Cidermill today with his girlfriend. They brought cider and donuts to us:
By now, you all know that I am like Homer Simpson when I comes to donuts, especially Cidermill donuts! So, I had to partake today as well! It’s a good thing that I am more lax in my diet this close to the end of the year!
