Hi all. I slept most of the afternoon after getting my allergy shots. Then when I got up I had a couple important things I noticed I needed to deal with. So now that I finished doing that Tupac knowing how late it is and how I would normally be in bed with him cuddled next to me jumped up on my desk and laid down on his towel here looking at me. As if to say … Dude it is bed time or you will be ill in the morning more than you normally are. Dang even the cat is bossing me around. 🤪🤣😝😎🥰❤️😍💕. So I am going to finish off tomorrows cartoons / memes / and news posts and rush off to bed where Tupac and I will cuddle making him happy along with feeling important until Ron gets there to demand I cuddle him. Hugs
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
Scottie's Playtime 
love this. Cats do rule, don’t they. And they know, some of them, when you need company and when you need comforting.
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Hi Judy. I was telling Randy about a nightmare I had this week when I woke Ron up by yelling clearly and loudly “help, someone help me, help”. Randy asked how Tupac deals with it. I explained that unless I started to flail my arms and hands around and accidentally hit him in my sleep he is OK and actually tries to comfort me. For example that night I started screaming help when Ron woke me Tupac was over my hand and against my arm. It seemed he was trying to comfort me. Hugs
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Pets are really good at care-giving, other than that lack of thumbs thing. They do it mainly by nudging, as you say, Scottie. I like Tupac. I should send him some treats!
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Hi Ali. Yes and he still goes to my desk between 4 and five in the morning. That was when I used to get up and go to my office. He would go with me. I normally get up and feed him at night around four so would just stay up. Now that I am not getting up until later he is still going to the office after eating around 4 am and gets on the desk and waits for me to show up. But I have been staying in bed until 6 or 6:30, so he either comes back to bed to snuggle me or stays at the desk until I get up.
As for treats he is a moocher but we try to monitor his food making sure he gets only the softest foods and lots of gravy. He has been hurt damaging his spine and his intestines. He can’t poop as the poop gets too hard for him to pass, so we have to make sure he gets only soft food and lots of gravy with fiber. Now we have his poops soft and as he walks they pop out or do so when he is lying down. That is preferable to when he is constipated and can’t pass stool so he spots horrible liquid poop that gets around the blockage.
As for treats he won’t eat most treats and we feed him as much gravy lovers as he wants as he mostly licks up the gravy we shake fiber powder over. The only neighbor who feeds him now is an 80 plus yr old woman Tupac adores and she gives him soft treats as she understands what we are doing. So while I appreciate the thought I have to ask you not to do so for Tupac’s health. Thanks. Hugs
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OK, I won’t. But I think good thoughts for him! And all of you.
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Hi Ali. You are a wonderful person. Today after getting up late I tried to do a few things like reply to comments and set up tomorrow’s post, while I watch some videos on the other monitor. I have one load in the washer and one in the dryer. There are a lot of dishes I need to start on yet my pain levels won’t let me stand for long. So I need to dig into the extra built up medications. But as Ron says I keep having to use them and will some day run out. I am getting the extras by not taking the required full amount at night as I go to bed. However that causes me to wake up in distress with very high pain levels. I am already using a cane to walk around the house. The good news is I am getting better as is shown because I am not tired this morning and I did do stuff. But it is a slow healing process. I have to go start the dishes. I may not get the post done today as I lately have started to tire out by 3 pm. But I will try. The frustrating thing Ali is I only got about 12 to 14 hours up time before I got so ill but now I am lucky to get 8 to 10 hours of up / not in bed time. Not a lot of time to get done everything I really want to do while trying to help Ron keep the house. Hugs
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🫂 You should be tucked up in bed with your feet raised, IMO. But you guys are there and know what’s right. 🫂
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Scottie, it sounds like it was a pretty good day.
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Hi MDavis. It was all things considered. I got your email thank you so much. I will reply soon, and I am drinking a Walmart nutrition shake for every meal I miss. Where my days were one good morning and two or three bad days in bed, now I am normally having a good morning where I have more energy than recently so I don’t have to go back to bed. I either have to go to bed in the afternoon now or instead go to bed early like 3 or 4 pm. So I try to do the cartoons / memes / news posts in the morning for the next day and then I can go to bed in the afternoon when the pain is much worse.
Right now I struggle to get stuff done and still need to help around the house. Ron is trying hard to take on the harder stuff that requires me to stand or walk but because even the laundry requires that I tend to use extra medications. That is not good for my health nor for my supply of pain medications. But what is a boy to do? To function I need it until my doctor’s appointment in June. Thanks again for the email, it meant a lot to me. Hugs
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Hubby is where I learned about dissociation, but I do it myself. It’s really common when there has been trauma in your life and almost guaranteed for trauma at high levels.
Well, I’d been reading about it but it’s different seeing it and it’s weirdly difficult to see your own.
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Hi MDavis. Yes I do it also. It is the brain’s attempt to protect itself / the person’s ID from coming to harm from the memory. Hugs.
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