today...

...is off to a strange start.

after bringing the beastie home from his surgery (they have to send the tumor to histopathology to assess the nature of it - not as good as having it be a blatantly benign tumor, but not bad news yet), he was a strange little monkey. this was probably from the anesthaesia and not having eaten since sunday morning. but he wouldn't leave my side, poor creature, and was already on his second bandage, having removed the first while waiting for me to pick him up yesterday.

(random funny dog story: the vet brings her dog to work, and has just bought him a new anti-bark collar that sprays a short blast of citronella in the dog's face after barking to condition the dog not to bark so much. ernie was in his cage, and the vet's dog ran up to ernie, and ernie, being a dog-hater, barked at the vet's dog, setting off the vet's dog's citronella collar, and frightening the poor vet's dog so much he ran away and hid under the vet's desk for the next hour)

this morning, he was MUCH perkier, but his foot was 3x the size of his other front foot, and his toenails were purple. so i called the vet at 7 am and asked if it was likely due to the surgery or the tightness of the pressure bandage. she asked me to bring him in, i did and they rebandaged him more loosely. however in the office, he was jumping around so much he squished the swelling out of his foot and they thought i was batty for thinking it was swollen.

today, i must finish my grant proposal, get my work done, iron MORE clothes, and hope that it stops snowing because it makes it annoying to get to school to turn in my paper for class. but i don't need ironed clothes for class.