Just a quick reminder to y’all that it’s that time of year again!
I had to scramble at the library yesterday because I’d forgotten, and I had Joey and Daniel with me. Off the top of my head the best I could come up with was In the Night Kitchen for Daniel, Iggie’s House for Lena, and The Chocolate War for Joey. I doubt Iggie’s House has ever been banned, actually, but it’s by Judy Blume and it was all I could find on short notice while simultaneously keeping an eye on Daniel.
This has been a crazy month, absolutely crazy. Way too much going on. And over a hundred unread posts piled up in my bloglines… I would like to be able to say I’m going to catch up with everything this week but I already know that’s not going to happen. In fact I doubt whether I’ll be doing much blogging at all this fall.
I saw this one at Classical Bookworm and Slow but Steady. Go to Amazon.com, type in your own name in the search box, and choose the two best covers from the results.
Earlier this year, our cat Peter was diagnosed with diabetes. Lethargic, thirsty, peeing everywhere — the diagnosis was a no-brainer. The treatment, however, was not. Remember Bill, the wonderful, hilarious vet who removed a growth off our dog’s leg and kept it in a jar? Well, we got to know Bill a whole lot better last spring, because Peter turned out to be insulin-resistant. We upped the dose, and upped the dose, and upped the dose… Eventually we switched to a different type of insulin (human insulin, believe it or not — we’ve always suspected that Peter thought he was one of us, and now we know for sure ;) ) and that finally did the trick. Upping the dose is nerve-wracking because too much insulin can lead to coma, brain damage and death. Whereas too little insulin merely leads to lethargy and thirst and peeing on the floor.
