by Ira | May 19, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | May 18, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | May 17, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | May 16, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
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,...
by Ira | May 15, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | May 14, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
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...
