Friday, July 28, 2006

Full of poop, full of heart or full of shit?

We took RT's poop to get analyzed again. $50.00! FIF-TY bucks for me to gather and transport his poop the the vet. Jeez. It' s more expensive than diapers. I am praying with all my might that the little buggies in his poop are all gone. If not, I might puke. For he has taken to the wonderful past-time of eating his poop now. Fantastic. Less to clean anyway.

So I finally got a call from the cardiologist a few days ago. I have Mitral Valve Prolapse with, of course, a leak or murmur. Why wouldn't I really? It only makes sense that the palpitations and other wonderful symptoms should all point to that. And why should I ever be normal? I can't. It's not in my nature. The doctor had some woman call to relay his message from the results of my echo cardiogram. Wouldn'tya know, I get the most moronic message-relayer out there? I had questions like: "Why is it only dental work that needs a pre-treatment of antibiotics and not, say, a kidney operation?" Her answer: "I don't know!" I felt like Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High...I. Don't. Know...Can you repeat that? What a loser. Why call a patient and be ready with some answers to questions she might have? That would be way too professional for me.

Between the poop and the heart I am ready to scream. By the way, Fa hasn't even looked at the potty since her last review of it...I just wish she'd use it regularly already....What's so special about pull ups anyway? I think they are ugly. There are so many cutsie undies out there in the world..I know, I've bribed her with about 100 different pairs...She's just not interested.

She's just not that into them. I guess.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

eeep~! Ok Hoping both you and Artie feel better soon!

The heart condition seems crazy but from the website you linked, manageable. Still very stressful.

Potty training, although far from an expert....I just let our daughter go without diapers, naked waist down for a week. Within a few days she understood the feeling to go and now can go on the potty IF naked! hehe Now we have to work on the rest!

Anonymous said...

We bribed Ariana with Polly Pockets. She wanted them so bad. We told her only big, potty trained girls can have them. She started going to the bathroom on the potty the next day. 2 weeks later, she was trained totally.

Don't worry, no bride walks down the aisle with diapers on lol...

I have no clue about your heart problem. I hope it's not too bad. Very scary though. Can you treat it with meds?

Artie will train too... One day, you'll laugh about this (or maybe not lol)