What I Did Today

[la_samtyr]

LeeAnn's ears have been bothering her for the entire holiday weekend (of course), so today I took her to the v-e-t in Aurora. This was not appreciated. As far as she is concerned, I take her to the Chamber of Horrors. Anyway, I taker her inside and there is a little kid racing around and wanting to "pet the cute puppy". I smile and hold her on my shoulders and hope he doesn't try and pull her tail or something because she is *not* a toy (though she is a toy breed, aka "barking doorbell"); she is a live, sentient being who is also middle-aged in dog years and shaking like a leaf -- her usual reaction to the Chamber of Horrors. Fortunately the kid and his family leave without incident. The doctor checks her ears, LeeAnn shivers and screams when he touches her left ear and thus we discover that they are inflamed but no (yeast) infection has set in. I am told that I am lucky to bring her in at this stage because usually he doesn't see this until the infection is well-established -- which makes me wonder just how anyone with a furkid can *not* notice such a thing. The good news is that it will clear up easily but I will have to give her periodic ear drops as a preventative.

Also, I discovered that the "Crossroads Death Corner" -- a weirdly *bad* intersection around here -- is the main source of car-related deaths in the county. I've driven this road thousands of times, practically my entire life -- the local news just did a segment on it -- and yet, I damn near got nailed today *despite* knowing all this. I'm glad that the pavement wasn't any slicker because otherwise the semi (and just what the *Hell* was a semi doing running w/o lights on a very gloomy, drizzly day in the first place? Idiot!) would have nailed me for sure and since I had the stop sign, it would have been my fault.

Comments

[boltonia.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear you didn't get pasted! :) I'm curious though, which is the Crossroads Death Corner and could I have traversed it when I visited you? There was one Y intersection on the northern outskirts of GI where I had to evade a clearly drunk driver. It was most satisfying to have to pull aside seconds later for a cop in hot pursuit!

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Oh Yikes! Glad to know that the dui was caught! Yes, we drove this road when we hooked on to I-80: this is a blacktop that runs east of town and hooks on to 14 -- once you cross 14, the blacktop becomes a gravel road that runs north of Saronville and the northern edge of Sutton. It's just... I don't know, it never used to be so bad but it sure is now. Maybe there ought to be a SPN ep of it? ;)