2021 Life Logs, Day 144: Day School for Shadow, Writing, and Soccer
Date: Monday, May 24, 2021
Weather: Sunny, Much Cooler Than Yesterday; High 63, Low, 48 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Shadow had his third day of doggie day school and at the end of the day the trainer said that Shadow likes me too much. He has terrible separation anxiety when I leave him and gets way too excited when I come to get him. I pointed out that he has the same issue with Heather, Jed, Sam, Ollie, and Jonah and they have not been the ones that have spoiled him. That has been all me. But he ignored that and said that my relationship to Shadow is just not healthy for the dog. But he didn’t tell me what to do about it. In an upcoming private ‘people’ lesson I will hopefully find out what I should be doing. For this trainer, I know that means keeping Shadow in a crate at night and anytime I am not at home. But I hate the crate. I feel like I am abusing him. So therein lies the problem that I have to work through. Tough love. So hard.
While Shadow was in school, I met with friend Christina Brodie. She has been editing the chapters of The Voyage of Windbird for me and came by to deliver the last four chapters. She has such wonderful recommendations and I truly appreciate the time she has spent doing this for me. I gave her the last completed chapter and when she left, I continued writing. I have two more chapters to write to complete the first year of the voyage and I hope to have those completed by mid-June. Once Camp Oma begins at the end of June, I will continue to write, but would like to have year one behind me.
This evening I took Jonah to soccer practice near Hyannis. He plays for the Falmouth league as well as another league that has their practices at Cape Cod Academy near Hyannis. That is where we needed to go this evening. Heather had an important work meeting from 5 to 7 pm and someone needed to stay home with Sam and Ollie and get dinner on the table. So, I volunteered for soccer duty.
Heather and Ollie spent their day in Boston at Children’s Hospital which was a frustrating experience for both of them. Heather and Ollie thought the PICC line that was inserted for the infusion of antibiotics over the last four weeks would be removed today, but that didn’t happen. It will happen in the next couple of days, but since they are no longer to give antibiotics by infusion, why did the doctor not order the removal for today? So frustrating. And it was even more frustrating as Ollie has developed an allergic reaction to the dressing that covers the PICC line. The one bit of good news is that Ollie’s white blood cell count is normal which indicates that the infection is in control. Lyme disease is so difficult to deal with if not caught immediately, and in Ollie’s case it was not. Hopefully after almost three months of antibiotics, the problem has been resolved. We shall be hopeful that the treatment has been successful.
