February 20, 2012

  • Sorry 'Bout That

     

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    I hate not posting but yesterday this house was so cold that my arthritis in my hands made it tough for me to type.  I closed the door in my computer room and turned the heat up but once the pain starts, it's almost impossible to make it better.  I talked on an IM to Bratfink but even that much was both painful and kept to a minimum.

    The reason the house was as cold as it was mainly was because the Beast was gone.  I won't put on the heat from our unit because it really doesn't give much heat.  I DID turn the baseboard heaters on but I don't like leaving them on for long.  The Beast was gone because he had to be at the Eye Center in Birmingham.  He left here at noon, courtesy of our neighbor who volunteered to drive him since he couldn't see well.  She's a very nice woman and her husband has been the Beast's friend for a couple years now.  The one thing neither of them expected was that they would be there all damn day long.  I kid you not.  He didn't get out of there until 6:30pm and it was full dark out.  Although they claimed (the doctors at the Center), that his was an emergency, they treated it like it was a minor problem with keeping him waiting to be seen and checked once he had started the medication.

    THEN....they gave him the names of a couple doctors with a regular practice IN BIRMINGHAM to call for an appointment for follow-up.  They knew full well that he lived in A'berville (that's the local pronunciation) yet they would have had him drive that far just to see a local doctor.  I swear, they must pay each other for that shit.  So I hopped online and found a few local opthalmologists and sent the links to the Beast in his email.  It's HIS eye so I figured HE could chose one.  I did express my preference for the Eye Care Center in the town just north of us.  That's the one he ended up choosing and he has an appointment to see them tomorrow.

    I'm missing my HBO appointment today because I had to call the vascular surgeon's office because the wound he opened up a bit has gotten bigger and the seepage has developed a strong odor which can't be good.  It worries ME anyway until HE tells me differently.  I couldn't speak to an actual person and had to leave a message but I hope I made myself clear about the wound and it makes the nurse take notice and pass along the information to the doctor.  I hope to see him later today but who knows?

    It was weird being here all day knowing the Beast (who has little patience) was sitting at the Eye Center.  Poor Baron was nutty.  He could see the car was in the garage and kept going back to check that out.  I finally shut the door to the garage here in the house.  He wouldn't eat, he wouldn't go outside to do his *thing*, he just laid around, sighing.  He laid at the front door, then went to the open blinds in the bedroom that looks out over the driveway.  He would make these little whining sounds from time-to-time.  Then he would go lay on the Beast's side of the bed with his head on the Beast's pillow or so he could look out the window.  I hated to yell at him because I knew he was just feeling lost and worried.  Worried that he had been deserted, not that something was wrong with the Beast. 

    Baron finally DID eat but he didn't go out until the Beast was home and had taken off his jacket (so he knew that his *man* was staying).  Then he attached himself to the Beast and stayed within a foot of him regardless of where he went.  Even the bathroom.    When the Beast went to bed, Baron laid on HIS side of the bed until *I* came to bed.  Then he came over to my side (where HIS bed is located) so he wasn't laying on the cold floor.  I found him with his nose underneath the edge of my heated blanket at one point and it cracked me up.  I ALMOST invited him up on the bed where he could get warmer but that's not a good idea since it took us a while to break him of the habit.  As it is, we still find him there on occasion.  Usually when it's much colder than the 30 degrees it was yesterday.

    That's it for now.  Love you all.  Be good, stay warm and let you know what else is going on here later.