Day 243

Mentally, today was a lot better than yesterday.

I got up with the alarm and played a little Minions.  I started a party.  Through out the day I played a little.  By mid afternoon I had constructed a machine and filled in all of the used up resources.  There's nothing to do now except wait until tomorrow when the machine construction is complete.

Before I ate I went out and spread out some gravel on the worst of the muddy spots in the driveway.  It turned out to be good timing (see below).  I worked for a little less than an hour and was soaked with sweat by the time I was done.  That's a job that can only be done in the morning.

I talked with Ellen on the phone about getting the doctors to take an interest in her.  By noon no one had returned her calls.

Lucy hadn't been out for a coupe of days.  So I took her with me when I went to get the mail.  That meant that I would have to take her home before I went to the hospital, but that was OK.  It was 94 degrees and she did 21 long retrieves.  I was really happy.

It was 2 buy the time I took Lucy back.  I had a quick lunch, put her in the cage, and went to the hospital.  I called Ellen to say I was coming and she said that the surgeon was coming to see her.

I sat with Ellen all afternoon.  The surgeon showed up about 6.  He looked her stoma over and put some more medicine on it.  He said that he was puzzled by the bleeding, but he didn't think it was serious.  He did suggest that he do the reversal surgery before the chemo.  I guess he plans on removing the drain tomorrow and maybe letting her out on Friday.

I left about 7 and ate dinner at Schlotsky's before going home (I love coupons).

When I got to 45 it started to rain.  It rained heavily the rest of the way home.  Luckily it was tapering off by the time I parked the car.  I still got a little wet.

The new gravel did make a difference.  The muddiest spots aren't there anymore.  There's some more places I should do, but I'm running low on gravel.