Friday!

Right now the house is quite.  No phones ringing.  Cats are behaving. 

Actually Sophie is curled up asleep on my feet and Sadie is curled up on my mouse pad.

I knew Sadie didn't feel well but I was trying to put off taking her to the vet because Dr B is on vacation this week.  I decided that I couldn't wait until next week.  We saw Dr H instead (they are in the same practice).  Sadie has a really bad infection in her mouth/throat area and that is why she hasn't been eating and drinking so little.  Dr H gave her some fluids, 3 shots and some meds for me to give her at home.

I now have 2 cats that I have to get meds into twice a day.  Talk about fun!

Yesterday after taking mom to the doctor  (the tests didn't show anything but they will run more later) I started in on the funeral arrangements for my aunt.  I went to the florist to pick out flowers for the top of the casket.  I picked brightly colored spring type flowers with some roses mixed in (Aunt E loved roses).  The off to the funeral home.  After showing me the prices of all the services (ready to faint here!) he showed me the coffins I had to choose from.  This was totally depressing.  And having to keep in mind prices made it worse.  I didn't want to pick out the cheapest thing but couldn't go too high either. (Luckily my aunt had bought and paid for her plot, marker and vault.)  After picking everything out and writing the obit for the newspaper I was off to the grave yard to sign even more papers.  The only thing I had to come up with money for was the opening and closing of the grave.  Because the funeral is on Saturday it cost an extra $100 for a total of about $856!  Why in the heck do you have to pay so much for digging a grave?  Didn't she pay enough to buy the plot?  By now I am tired, upset, my anxeity is out the wa-hoo.  Came home and gave Sophie her meds and then vegged out on the couch until I fell asleep.

Anyways, the funeral is tomorrow.  We are just having a grave side service.  Aunt E had always said she didn't want her coffin to be open.  In honoring her words there seemed no point in having a "viewing" night.  So the service is at 10:30 am tomorrow.  Hopefully the family will like the flowers and coffin that I picked out.  It was not an easy task.

Next week I will have to start "tying up the loose strings" of my Aunt's things  ......banking account, social security, her retirement from the bank, seeing if we will have to pay anything back to medicaid, figuring out what to do with her will.........but I will take Wednesday off.  Why?  Because Wed is my birthday and I am selfish.  I don't want to have to worry about anyone or anything except ME on that day.

Kathy