Monday, October 23, 2006

Monday

 
This is my beloved Maggie.  I took a picture of her and tried to "scare" it up a bit.  This is what I ended up with.  Spooky?  The eyes are I think.  You can almost see the little devil jumping up and down in them! Oops, did I just see an ear twitch?

Maggie took a trip to the vet today.  No she isn't sick.  She really needed a nail trim.  She would lovingly clasp my hand in her front to paws only to leave a trail of blood behind! ouch!  LOL

She is packing on the weight.  I was afraid of that.  She's a whopping 10.3 pounds!  Hefty little girl!  So Dr H and I talked about her and a ::looking around to see where Maggie is::: different kind of cat food ::shhh.......it's d-i-e-t::: He gave me (err....sold me) a couple of cans for her to try.  Said most cats hate it and won't eat it.  Well either I starved my young'n today or she really liked it.  I will give her another day and if she keeps eating it then we will make the switch.

Animal Control came out last week and took my neighbor's dog.  (Now right up front I will tell you, if they came and took my baby I would go and it would be home with me the very next day.  Even if I had to sell my house.  That is just how I feel about my pets.)  Dog isn't home yet.  I wonder if they really wanted the dog, or if Animal Control found something terribly wrong and won't let them have it back. 

Provide free mammograms! don't forget to click!

Tomorrow I go see my new medical doctor.  I am so sick of having to get new doctors.  I had one I loved.  Then my insurance changed and he wasn't on their list.  So I had to change to Dr R.  He is supposed to be one of the best in town.  I hated him.  Really.  I would have rather been sick and dying than go to him. 

Then after a couple years my insurance changes again.  So I go back to the doctor that I loved.  Only to have him quit his practice 6 months later!  He quit to go to work at the hospital full time.  Maybe good for him but not so great for me.

He promised that he had helped to find his replacement and she was an excellent doctor.  HA  That's right HA I say.  The first visit with her I left in tears.  My dad's best friend had the same doctor so he wound up with her also.  He felt exactly the way I did about her.

I gave her one more visit.  I knew before I got out there that I would not be back to see her.  When I checked out they had a new poster up.  Another new doctor was joining the practice (there is about 10 doctors in this practice).  So I just opened my mouth and words starting falling out and I was saying something like "I want to switch to him.  NOW".  They said something like they have to talk to both doctors to be sure it's ok with the one I'm leaving (like I needed permission to LEAVE) and if he would accept a new patient (new doctor = guy needs patients right?)

I was so scared "the" doctor would call and want to know why I didn't ever want to grace her with my presence ever again.  But the only call I got was that I got in with the new guy.

So I go tomorrow.  Just the regular check up.  Not even any blood work (it's an afternoon appointment and I am not going to starve myself all day just "in case" he wants blood).  Hope it goes ok and that he has way better bedside manner than "she" did.

Weather is getting cooler.  I THINK time changes this upcoming weekend.  We are about a month away from Thanksgiving.  And that is just a month before Christmas.......me thinks winter might soon be coming.........

Glad everyone loved the links.  You know I have them all in another journal.........and I have more links in my emails that I need to load you down with.

Someone always asks where I get my links from.  Like I would give away my secret!  To be honest they mostly come to me.  I rarely have to go looking for some to share with you guys.  In other words, I have some pretty great sources!  :::eerie laugh here::

Love ya!
sending good vibes out to you too toonguy.  i loves ya, ya know?

Kathy

 

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, I hated when I had to choose a new doctor with my HMO. I hate that you have to have doctors on the plan. Why do they care who you go to? I always wondered about that. It took me about seven years to "break in" this new doctor. I had to tell him off a few times. He was treating me like I was just a dumb woman and that ticked me off and I told him so. It was awful. I wouldn't go to the doctor when I really needed one because I didn't want to see him. Thankfully, I finally got through to him and  he's not so bad now.

Angela
PS.....Why did you want to make your pretty cat scary? LOL!

Anonymous said...

Remind me to tell you about the witch doctor I used to have that I walked out on along with four patients at the same time! Yep, nasty old hag. Tammy

Anonymous said...

*wishing I had enough time to check out all your links*
Glad Maggie's visit went well. Sorry she's having to cut back. Poor puss!

Have a great day!
heather

Anonymous said...

scary cat...lol.

Astra!

Anonymous said...

Inverted cat - kinda weird lol

Anonymous said...

Just don't ever say the bad "D" word around Maggie.  We don't want her to feel deprived.......little fatty...........

Anonymous said...

Ihate drs I hate dealing iwth the medical community. that is a scary pic of maggie.

Anonymous said...

Hi Kathy,
I know what you mean about doctors...that is too bad.
Good you got rid of the b****!
Hope you like the new one.
YOUR cat looks creepy in that pic...but I know it's just the picture...
Have a good night.
Donna

Anonymous said...

I love ya too, Kathy!  It's not very hard to take a non-scary pic of a feline who is pretty evil in the first place.  I know.  Joan always looks like she is planning a murder -- while purring the whole time.  Cats are like that.

Russ

Anonymous said...

Ahhh Maggie's a tiny thing.  Just a mere 10 pounds.  My big girl, Darby, is packing it in at 19 pounds.  Now that's a chunky monkey for you!!!!  LOL

Deb

Anonymous said...

You and I have dealt with some of the same Doctor problems recently. I actually had one Doc that fired me. I have a Doc now that I really like. I sure hope she stays around a while. Regards, Bill.

Anonymous said...

I am happy Maggie is eating her Shhhh diet cat food. I hope you like the new doctor, I hate finding a good doctor then having them leave. The holidays are coming fast before we know it.

Anonymous said...

Why are doctors so mean? And when you find a good one they leave.. err. Your going for a check up. but nothing is wrong? I wont go unless i have to. Im such a baby...
Love ya Christine