Lola Ding has been the same. I hope they find a hospice for her so they can make her last days comfortable. Alan has gone back to work so we haven’t gone back to the hospital for a visit since Sunday. We have been calling his mom daily to see if her condition has changed. When we last went for a visit we only stayed about 3 hours, much shorter then usual. It’s just too stressful and wears me out. Now that I’m home I have more energy hence today’s post.

Tonight was stressful too and totally unanticipated. Tonight I was screaming my head off and scaring the dogs. Waldo was creeping around all freaked out because of my screaming. Why the screaming? Because I saw a mouse on the kitchen counter.

A couple of nights ago Alan was wondering why Nestle had her head poked out the doggy door looking into the garage. And last night a car alarm went off so I peaked my head through the doggy door to listen for sounds of our car being broken into and I heard nibbling. We couldn’t figure out what the nibbling noise was since we don’t have food in the garage. It wasn’t until today that I figured out it was a mouse that Nestle has been interested in.

Alan told me to go kill it. What in the world was he thinking when he told me that? Kill a mouse? Smash it’s little tiny body and hope it died instantly?! That’s so gross. I was so freaked out, the baby was kicking like crazy. In between frantic screaming I tried to trap it in a big metal popcorn tin. I gave up when it jumped off the counter towards me.

And then when I called Helen to tell her about the mouse, I found out that my mom went to the emergency room tonight. She’s at home now and has to see a specialist. We don’t know what’s wrong. It’s been a really rough couple of weeks. At least I relaxed a little by drawing.