Joy is acting normally again. What a relief! She has to wear a cone still because she wants to lick where her IV’s (yes, plural ) were put in, and she has to eat a special diet for the next week or so…but she’s otherwise very much into her normal routine. I can’t...

Joy is home. We got the phone call this morning that I was hoping for so dearly last night: all of her tests look good, she’s been eating and not throwing up, she’s peppy, and she’s ready to come home. We picked her up in the afternoon. She was very wiggly and happy...

Joy should be tromping on top of me right now, demanding my attention, wanting to lick my face as hard as she can before settling down into the nook of my shoulder, belly out, paws dangling over her chest like a rotisserie chicken, and letting out the biggest sigh you...

Joy was admitted to the hospital today. Sigh. Vitals are still all good! But, she wasn’t improving with the meds they gave us—the opposite, really, she seemed to be getting a bit worse with losing her appetite yesterday—so when I called the doc this morning to ask...

Joy…well, she got me up at 3am to vom—the burping bile kind, that’s all she’s doing at the moment, which I suppose is progress—and I could not go back to sleep after that for the life of me. Sigh. I was literally awake until 6am. I slept for about an hour after that,...

Another day hijacked today, le sigh. It’s Joy. She got us up throughout the night again, and then had tummy issues again in the morning. So back to the vet we went, except nobody had an appointment today, so that meant the ER. Sigh. She’s okay. Ultrasound was clean of...

Today was not the day I finished. But I grinded. I left too much of the end of my outline unfinished. That, in a nutshell, is the reason for the slowdown. It’s cost me probably…three weeks? Wild! But true. It doesn’t matter. I’m still right at the finish line. One...

Whew. So…today got hijacked starting at 3 in the morning when Joy starting waking up every couple hours to go outside. She peed, pooped, and then started puking. She was normal after that for breakfast and walks, but then starting around lunchtime she started to get...

Hey, so Widow’s Bay on Apple TV+ is fun! Three episodes in and it’s very funny. And our friend was in the last episode, which was amazing. She did great. Truly…very much enjoying the show so far. I worry it’s heading towards all-of-the-everything type premise, like...

Had a really good day of writing today. Very productive. Not quite as many pages as I wanted, but damn near close. And some of them involved reimagining some stuff, so there’s that. Tomorrow should be even better. Whew. Wiped. A little zonked, but mostly just wiped....