I PASSED!

This is the email I just received:

Hi Kristin,

I hope your pink eyes can read this:

You passed your first year comprehensive exam! Glenn would like you to talk
with him about your responses to the ethics/legal section, so please make an
appointment to talk with him, but only when you are doing better.

Congrats!

Annabel

WOOHOO! What the second part means is there may have been a tiny detail I left out or did not elaborate enough on that they want to make sure I know. No big deal. Either way, I passed!

Pink Eye

So I woke up this morning with my right eye swollen really badly. This is not that new for me....for whatever reason, if I cry before going to bed, I always wake up with eyelids swollen so bad they are nearly level with the level of your eyebrows and forehead. I thought that maybe since I've been sick that my eyes watered in my sleep and caused them to swell.

So, I got ready anyway and did my best to disguise the now minimal swelling with makeup. I had a big psychopharmacology exam this morning, so I didn't have a choice to miss.

Throughout the course of the exam, my eye continued to water and started seeping yummy green goo. Then, my left eye started it too. It isn't as swolen or irritated, but green goo isn't normal, which means it's in that eye too.

I called kaiser and waited on hold for 30 friggin minutes because of all this swine flu crap. They finally went, "yep, that sounds like pink eye" (which took like a minute to determine) and said that I didn't even need to go in. They are going to have a perscription sent to the pharmacy for me to pick up in a few hours.

Needless to say, I will not be attending my afternoon class. I guess with pink eye, you are highly contageous for 24 hours after starting the meds. I'm going to email my clinic professor now to see if she wants me in seeing clients tomorrow.

I think that means I'm gonna have to throw out all my eye makeup too. Poop.

Guess I'm on house arrest for the next 24 hours! Good thing I just went grocery shopping yesterday...

I feel terrible because Baby keeps trying to snuggle with me and I don't want to pass this nastyness along to her. Last thing I can afford is a big vet bill. But how to you explain this to a cat that wants to cuddle so bad? poor thing.

Oh, and I was kind enough to spare you pictures of the "greenish goo" coming out of my eyeballs. Sexy, I know.

Swine Flu

People are going WAY TOO CRAZY for this whole swine flu thing. Last night, I saw a report talking about how there were 9 confirmed cases in Canada. They then proceeded to show the entire country light up bright red like it was some kind of pandemic.

Really? You're going to light the whole country up for 9 friggin cases? Get real.

Not only that, but for every couple of confirmed cases in the US, they were lighting up entire states...I don't think an entire state needs to be lit up bright red for 2 confirmed cases.

I'm not saying don't keep yourself safe, but really...don't get caught up in all this over dramatization. We have a pretty good health care system here in the US and so far, no one here has died from it. Even if there are some deaths, it's important to remember that 35,000 people a year die from the regular flu.

Stay clean, stay healthy, and go see your doctor if you have flusish symptom. Seriously, we'll all be fine.

Vet Visit

So I got Tawny loaded into the carrier and took her to the vet this morning. I was hoping to schedule an appointment when Brian was off so I could have some help getting her little wiggly worm body into the carrier, but our schedules are so opposite that it would have had to wait another 2 days. I didn't know if she was in any pain, and didn't want to make her wait just in case.

So, I took the carrier out a few days ago to get them used to it. This morning, I threw a toy in right before it was time to leave and she ran right in after it. Easy peasy lemon squeezey.

She CRIED and CRIED and CRIED the whole way there. I'm actually pretty glad Brian wasn't there because he hates it when they are scared and crying. I'm totally gonna have to be the parent that takes our kids to the emergency room, lol.

She was scared and kept trying to hide through the whole exam. They loved her though because apparently it is rare to have a female orange tabby? They kept saying she looked like a creamsicle:-)

SO, they clipped her nails, gave her a rabies shot, and administered a deworming pill. They also gave me another pill to give her 2 weeks from now. They had me bring in a stool sample so they could analyze it and make sure she doesn't have any other issues going on.... I'll find out tomorrow if everything is ok, or if we need to take her back in.

$156 dollars...ouch!

She was very happy to come home and be let out of the carier. She's only been home for 2 hours and she is already back to her normal behavior. As I'm typing this, I'm watching her throw one of her toys in her water dish and then fish it back out. lol.

97 in April?!?

I've got to say...I'm certainly not ready for the heat just yet. My apartment felt like it was ON FIRE today when it reached 97 degrees in the middle of friggin April. This is the kind of weather Brian and I so eloquently refer to as "Ball Soup." I don't think I need to elaborate on that one...

I know the cats are feeling it too. Usually they wake me up around 6am when they start playing/fighting with one another. It was so hot that they both slept right on through the morning.
Not only that but I usually put Tawny's toys away in a little box each night only to wake up to find them scattered. It was so hot that all the toys were still in the box this morning.

Although I must say....I originally thought that having a giant window right behind my bed was a downside to this apartment. HOWEVER...with no AC on a 97 degree day, it is rather nice to lay in bed with a window fan blowing cool air in from outside right behind your head. I'm digging this.

In other news, it looks like Tawny will have to go to the vet. She pooped outside of her box today (which she has never done) and there was some blood in it. There is obviously something not right about this, and I have made an appointment for her to go in first thing Thursday morning.
Hopefully it is nothing more than some kind of tummy parasite or something else relatively minor. Maybe this will also explain why her number two's smell so incredibly foul. Seriously...it's like the worst ever.
Once again, I don't think I need to elaborate more on this point.

And on that note, I'll post more when I know the details.

Lazy Saturday

Happy Birthday Baby!

My baby turned 27 today! We opened his presents at midnight, slept in till 9:30, and then I took him out to breakfast this morning.

I tried to make fun of him for being old, but he turned it around and told me "well yea, but in woman years you're way older than I am."

At breakfast, he told me that I should "ask for the senior citizen discount."

That quick witted little snot...

That's why I love him:)

It's too bad I can't spend the whole day with him :( I had to have him go home around 12:30 so I could work on the numerous assignments due tonight and tomorrow. BUT, he's going to dinner with his family while I am in class tonight, so that should be fun for him :)

I was going to make him a cake but between the whole no bake cheesecake Holly made him, and the half of a no bake cheesecake and apple pie we were forced to bring home from Easter, I figured that would likely be a sugar overload. Maybe I'll wait a week or two and then make it for him.

Happy Birthday My Love!