Monthly Archive for May, 2007

Things at the Carlson residence are not so great. They don’t totally suck though because we have each other. Let’s all barf now. But seriously, I was sick and had a cough and had allergies really bad and had leaky tampons and all that drama and now I’ve been very busy playing nurse because Adam has been sick for over a full week. Whatever I got he got a million times worse times a hundred. I’ve never seen him miss this many days of work or be taken down to this degree by something. AND then on Friday Gus started to limp. She is favouring her right paw and it is heart breaking I can’t take it I can’t stand to watch her walk. She is my baby. We have suspected she has been getting the arthritis in her front legs for a while now and we have been giving her treat-ish looking things called ‘Hip Action’ that have Glucosamine in them or we were and it seemed to help but now she is actually limping limping like LIMPING. Adam built her makeshift stairs to get up on the bed. I helped. He made the first level out of our guitar hero boxes and the PS2 box is the last level. Then we put cat nip on it to get her to use it. She is using it but not every time she gets up and down off the bed and we have started to give her the Hip Action every day and upped the dosage to two a day as we don’t know even after Adam doing some reconnaissance online how much exactly we can give her. It seems to be helping I THINK. There is really nothing we can do the vet will just overcharge us to tell us what we already know and make us get million dollar x-rays, she is just getting old she is in her 14th year now, it is just really hard to watch I’ve never watched anything get old and die or get sick and die and I always feel too old to have not have gone through that I’ve only suffered far away losses or sudden losses. I have moved things in the apartment as well to make jumping less of a strain on her wee legs pulled the chairs out from the table so she can get to the window more easily and other things that will make no sense unless you have been in here but will hopefully help her because we can’t stop her from jumping, for the last while if we see her about to jump off anything we’ve been grabbing her and placing her on the floor. But she is definitely slower which makes me sad. Both of my best buddies are ailing but I am doing my best to take care of them. Gus probably won’t get fully better I think I am just going to have to get used to her getting older and all the crap that comes with that. Adam is a mans man and he plays the martyr well but this virus has got him good and it sucks seeing him so ill. We have been watching movies though! That is about all Adam can do. I”ll only mention Pan’s Labyrinth because it rocked like Guitar Hero having a third game coming out [very soon] it rocked THAT HARD and it didn’t scare the crap out of me like David Bowie did.