13 March …
More rain … and more snow … followed by freeze and melt … followed by more rain and more snow … followed by sun and melt … followed by more rain and more snow. This has been going on since 3 February.
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Tyler and I had a scare thursday morning with Siku, the family dog. He had what looked to this old ED nurse just like an epileptic grand mal seizure … clonic to tonic followed by confusion and instability. Something similar had happened once before and had been diagnosed as garlic intake. I had given him some leftovers which contained garlic not knowing it is classified as a poison for dogs.
But this time I had not given him anything other than his regular dog food. He had been out for a pee break earlier but had been out for less than twenty minutes and came in for breakfast. He had been normal until a bit before 0900. Then he had two spells about fifteen minutes apart.
Tyler took him to the vet’s and the diagnosis was idiopathic epilepsy. Seems if it going to show up in a dog, it is at about this age. He is now on an anti-seizure drug twice a day.
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I may have written about this before, but if so … forgive me.
I think it is an important thought and I just finished reading a book which brought it to mind … again.
A bit ago a friend, who holds an Austrian passport, told about returning from a trip overseas and being put by government agents into a small room on arrival at the airport where she was held for several hours with no explanation. When they finally came to release her they said her papers were all okay. She said something to the effect of “Of course they are.” and asked “Why did you lock me up?”
The answer was “Because we could.”
Later I read something (probably on one of the Facebook accounts I check) about people (the t family) doing something questionable. When asked “Why?” the answer was …
“Because we could.”
Then came the thought disturbing book titled “the Power” which had been listed on one of the net “must-read” book lists. This is on page 324 …
One of them says, “Why did they do it, …?”
And the other answers, “Because they could.”
That is the only answer there ever is.
Think about it.
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I told you the family (Mark, Kamille, and Paul) were away last week. I was wrong about what Kamille was doing. It wasn’t Eastern Star. It was an educator’s seminar.
Mark and Paul spent a lot of time, by Paul’s choice, at the Railroad Museum. They did get to the Capitol Building and Paul brought me a mini-mug souvenir.
Kamille and Paul got home late friday night and came down sick sunday morning. They both have been unable to keep anything down ever since.
Tyler has been working three jobs and he was out Sunday with just plain exhaustion.
Mark got home sunday afternoon after his trip back east to help with the funeral of a friend. John went to get him at the Medford Airport.
Monday and tuesday both Kamille and Paul stayed home eating rice gruel. Tyler was able to go to work. Mark was tired, but well.
Through it all I’ve been okay. I started to say “fine” and then remembered Louise Penny’s character Ruth’s definition of “fine” and decided to say “okay” instead. Don’t get the reference? Check out one of the Gamache books or Penny’s web site.
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The other day I was asked what song should be my theme at this point in my life. I thought of “I’m Still Here” from “Follies” by Sondheim and looked it up. The version I really like was done by Elaine Stritch …
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNy4MNHrxFo&ab_channel=ElaineStritch-Topic).
I’ve been toying with finding an instrumental version and going karoke. Now that’d be a laugh. However, in the search one item set me back a step. It was the third item on the Google reference list when I looked for “I’m Still Here” … it was “Mortuary Makeup for Difficult Bodies” posted by Ask A Mortician.
Guess it’s a good thing I plan to be cremated.
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So here’s the thought for the week …
Appreciate being alive so intensely that all the trivial and minor things that don’t go the way you wish are irrelevant and inconsequential.
The thought that reverberates in your mind will be, “I am joyful that I am alive right now.” (and still here.)
‘Til next week …