IT'S CONTAGIOUS..

Molly is very very blind.  She can see light and large movement out of one eye, but thats it.  As a result she runs into things, jumps exaggerately if she is touched, can't get through doors etc....  It doesn't help that she is almost stone deaf.  Her sense of smell is incredible though.  I made myself a turkey sandwich and she rose up out of a dead sleep like a magical entity.

And now we have another one.  Emma.  I know that over the last while her eyesight slowly has been deteriorating.  But after dealing with Molly, Emma just didn't seem that bad.

Kathy just got back from a two week trip and she called me to ask if I had noticed Emma's eyesight. Which I had.  But what she has described, Emma running into the parked car for one thing, is way worse than two weeks ago.  It seems awful sudden.  They took her to the vet and he says its just what happens with age.  Which might be, but I still feel there was an event of some sort to cause such a sudden increase in sight problems.  Lets hope she doesn't go deaf too.  Thats a true pain in the ass.

I took Molly to the vet the day after the kids left.  She had a massive cyst in her groin.  They drained it and gave her a shot of Benadryl and sent the fluid away for testing.  And.....it's her cancer..in her lymph system now.  She is fading fast.  And she pees everywhere.  I take her out constantly but it doesn't make much difference.  She is still eating like a pig though.

While she was at the vets, I had time to walk a ways to an upscale millennial type coffee shop called Beaucoup.  I didn't want coffee so I grabbed an orange juice.  I pulled out my debit and went through the motions and just as I took the receipt I looked at the amount.  $11.49!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  OMG!!!  Who pays almost twelve bucks for two cups of orange juice?  Dumbasses like me who don't check first.  Mind you, it wasn't just orange.  It also included tangerine and grapefruit and was actually the best damned citrus juice I ever drank!

I haven't made any forays out of this place, at least not more than a couple of blocks.  Today I went to whole foods, dropped a hundred bucks on two little brown bags of groceries.  Everything in that store is five dollars more than anywhere else, except for bananas.  And they don't have any thousand islands dressing.  What the hell!!??  In fact they seem to only have caesar (about twenty different versions), ranch, balsamic and blue cheese.  I did get some lox.  And a big loaf of very chewy rustic brown bread that I can't chew the crusts.

Anywhoo.  Tomorrow I may go meet April.  I am going to wait and see how Molly is.  I can leave her for a couple or three hours but I am not comfortable leaving her longer than that.  We will see.  TTYL

TRANSPORTATION:  This one is easy.  I hate walking so any sort of transportation is totally awesome to me.  Cars, trucks, buses, trains, boats, planes, skytrain, airport people movers, escalators, elevators, ....I am grateful for them all!