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03:54, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 .. 1 comments .. Link

WHEW. I promise I have plenty of good reasons I haven't posted in five days!!

Thursday night of last week, right after my aunts and uncles left and Todd left for work, I ended up having to take our little hedgehog to the animal hospital emergency room by myself, which was SO scary. Augh. I still hate thinking about it. Long story relatively short, I guess he got a piece of hair wrapped around his foot which cut off the circulation, and then the whole foot got horribly infected; by the time I realized something was seriously wrong, one of his toes had fallen off and he was bleeding *everywhere* and then he bit me pretty badly (understandably - I was hurting him!) and then *I* was bleeding everywhere and panicking and didn't know what to do. I put cornstarch on his foot to try and stop the bleeding, but I couldn't tell if it had stopped it or just slowed it; finally getting my whits about me, I remembered that there is a large animal adoption and medical center on the bus route I take, so I finally got poor Frankie packed into his carrier with blankets and a hot pack (it was FREEZING outside and hedgies can't get too cold), threw some paper towels around my hand, and headed to the bus station and then to the hospital. They people there were SO nice, but I was terrified - alone, afraid for Franklin, missing Todd. They took us into a small, sterile exam room where the vet tried to look at his foot (not easy - hedgehogs ball up and get very prickly when they aren't in good moods!), and then they took him into the back room so that the exotic tech could look at him. I waited in that little room for 40 or 50 minutes, alone and not having a clue what was going on, which was SO scary. Ugh. At long last they did bring him back and hook me up with plenty of antibiotics and painkillers and sterilizing solution, and I got home about 3 hours after I'd left (the worst part, I think, was that I was so shaken up when I got home that I tried to go into the wrong apartment and pounded on the door and started crying because I thought I was locked out... mah! :-S). I know a lot of people think of animals as just animals, which they are, but Franklin is our baby right now and just because he's an animal doesn't mean I can't love him and take good care of him and make sure he lives a good life - and he has SUCH a unique personality and is adorable and wonderful and makes us laugh.

He's doing fine, for which I'm infinitely grateful, but it's been tough; I was worried sick all weekend, since his foot still looks pretty bad as it's trying to heal, and I've had to force feed him oral syringes of antibiotics and painkillers twice a day every day. He's an angel during the whole process, which makes me feel even worse; he has no idea why I'm torturing him like this, and yet he accepts it nonetheless!

Definitely makes me feel for any parent who's had a sick child. If I feel like this for my *hedgehog*, what am I going to be like with a child? This whole concept added to my worries, too; I don't want to be one of those moms who worries constantly about her children even when they're perfectly fine. That's not healthy. Todd tells me all the time what a great mom I'll be, but I'm not so sure. I want children *so* badly, but can I let go and relax enough to raise them well? :-S Ack! So many thoughts and worries. Sorry if I sound a little scattered - I feel very scattered these days!

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On the good side of things, however, my weekend was great. I had Sunday off for the first time since March or so!!! I've been trying to go to church with some friends of mine for ages now, but again, have always been scheduled for Sundays so it just hasn't happened. Finally, I had a free day, so I got to attend the service. Best of all, Todd has the day off as well, so he got to come! My friends had never met him before, so it was exciting for them to meet. They have seven *fabulous* children whom Todd simply adored, as well (he LOVES children, and is much better with them than I am, I must admit. Then again, that's why he's the teacher, and I'm not, haha!). They went to Greece for the summer so I hadn't seen them in several months, and all in all it was a nice little reunion. Best of all, I found out that my current house is much closer to them than where I lived before!! For some reason I thought they lived much farther away than they do, but it's only a fifteen minute drive or so, maybe an hour walk - hooray! I hope I get to see them much more often. They are a great family. Georgia, the mother, taught me how to change my first diaper (cut me a little slack - I'm an only child. I did grow up with my 11 first cousins, but I was the second youngest!), her husband Phillip is a wonderful conversationalist, and their older children (all girls) are smart and fun to be around, while the younger kids (all boys) are too cute! ^_^

After church and lunch with this family, Todd and I were walking around and discovered the Arboretum that we live next to. We knew that the Arboretum was around here somewhere, but what we didn't know is that it's about a two minute walk away! I'd had no idea. It is FANTASTICALLY gorgeous, especially now that the leaves are starting to change. I can't believe it's so close to our house - I can't wait to go exploring with him! To top off a fabulous day, I made delicious fried chicken without a recipe and we cuddled and watched an episode of ER on DVD. I love days off with my man! We have such a good time together.

Tomorrow I have off for my commute to the barn, riding lesson, and commute back - I'm excited! The evening is free, so maybe I'll have some more time to blog and read here on HSB. It's nice to have a little down time.
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08:39, Thursday, October 9, 2008 .. Posted by morningsunshine
oh Sarah,
I had to laugh at your comment! not the content, just the tone, especially at the end. I COMPLETELY understand what you mean. I was totally bored in high school too, but was unable to get into a number of honors/AP classes because my grades were not good enough (why do mind-numbing busywork that you figured out on the first 2 problems or retained the first time you read it..... I NEVER did homework, resulting in bad grades. it flummoxed my teachers when I would ace the tests without homework.)
A lot of times when someone has a really LONG comment to someone else's blog, they link to it saying something like "I was reading over at ***** and she had an interesting post that made me think. My comment was to long to post there, so here it is, and I would like some other feedback about it. What do you think?"
I am so glad you have come to HSB! I just feel a kinship with you (of course, that might just be my heart-deep desire to be in New England this time of year! LOL)

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