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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Just One of Those Days [1]

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Date: 2023-07-20

It started out with my computer not working. Last night, my daughter was over with her 14.5 year old German Shepherd Koda who has doggie dementia and likes to hang out under my desk. She knocked the computer off the desk and while last night we thought we had all the wires back into my monitor, keyboard, laptop, and mouse, this morning my keyboard wouldn’t work. It took a 10-minute FaceTime with my daughter to get things working again but not without her informing me that I am going to have to purchase a new cord for my laptop as the one I have been using only fits into the external port. She says I must have a newer cord around here somewhere but I’m just not seeing it anywhere.

Then came the problem of dog sitting for her and her partner and the old shepherd and their 4-year-old pitbull healer mix for one night next week. They have a very small house and my dog Aggie doesn’t tolerate the pitbull very well. I’m too nervous about a fight breaking out over territory so we decided they would pay for a dog sitter to come stay with Aggie so I could spend the night with their two dogs. Seemingly the most stress-free way to go because of all the issues Koda has (all her meds, her anxiety, her fussiness over eating. I’ve known Koda since she was 7 weeks old so she does well when she stays with me but them getting a dog sitter to deal with all her complications seems a step too far. I called my regular dog sitter this morning and he doesn’t know if he’ll be available and will get back to me. So now we are in waiting mode with me having the other option of asking my friend who is 12 days sober to help us out, but that doesn’t sit too well with us. I mean, she could for all we know pick up a drink Thursday night.

I’ve been doing mindless reading, beach reads nonstop since the weekend. Hasn’t been that much going on in my social life.

I’m planning on switching over to nasal ketamine treatments at the clinic which is closer to my house but they still haven’t gotten back to me regarding scheduling. They are affiliated with where I went in San Francisco so they have access to all my records but I haven’t heard back from them since Friday and have emailed and left phone messages. They said they were reaching out to the psychiatrist who was working with me and he’s the director of all their clinics so is really busy. Now I’m thinking of just returning to San Francisco for treatments. I think they have really helped. While I can’t say I’m thriving, I have noticed I’m not as anxious or depressed as I was nor am I obsessively worrying.

So what’s new in your life today? This is as usual an open thread.

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