It's Tuesday

Well, sort of...Blogger will post it as Tuesday, and my day hasn't ended yet, but it's really already Wednesday :)

Today went pretty well. I took Lily to the vet. The vet has no idea what is wrong with her tail, although there is definitely something wrong. It's not broken, and it's not neurological damage of any kind. She's on aspirin for 3 days, every 12 hours, to see if that helps at all...it won't hurt. And if she's still not better by Friday, we'll put her on antibiotics. Apparently a lot of things can cause a dog to not move their tail. Intestinal upset, respiratory infection...she doesn't seem to have either of those...swollen anal glands...no problem there either. The swelling in her tail is actually completely unrelated to the non-movement. I found out today that there are glands at the top of all dogs' tails. A huge pack of glands, and sometimes they increase in size--perfectly normal. She doesn't seem to be in any pain, and the vet squeezed her tail really hard...all the way down, and also along her backbone, she didn't even flinch. The aspirin is just in case there is inflammation somewhere. We'll wait and see.

Lily was the first appointment of the day, so I made it home in plenty of time for the girls' ortho appointment. DD14 is doing well, although some of her lower brackets need to be removed and replaced at the next appointment. Nothing she did, but they didn't tell me why. They were saying something about her gums...so perhaps they are too close to the gumline? I don't have a clue. Her teeth are straightening up so nicely! I didn't realize how quickly it would happen. She hasn't had the braces on for a year yet--will be a year in May. the overbite has significantly lessened, and just in the last couple of months, a bottom tooth that was behind the others is in perfect place! I'm very happy with her progress.

DD12 will get spacers in March when they both go back. Then she will go back the following week for the anchor braces, and top brackets, and headgear! She is to wear the headgear as much as possible--pretty much any time that she isn't eating or out of the house. Most kids only wear it at night, but because she's homeschooled, she can wear it all day. The more she wears it, the quicker she'll be out of it. :) She has to have one baby tooth removed for now. The adult tooth is in, and the baby tooth just moved out of the way--it sticks straight out from her gum--instead of getting loose and coming out. We'll take care of scheduling that when she has her cleaning at the end of March. The orthodontist said it won't impede his work at all, but it does need to come out. She has another on top that has done the same thing, and it will also need out at some point. As for all theo ther baby teeth--9, we're hoping they will come out on their own. She's just now--at almost 13--getting her 12 year molars in. Her teeth were always late.

When we got home from all of that, I realized I'd forgotten to stop for more Diet A&W and toilet paper. All I wanted to do was take a nap, so I did! We can live with using paper towels until tomorrow morning. I slept for two blissful hours. Woke up at 6, mixed up some pancake batter for the family's dinner, and went to work.

When I logged in for work, I was excited, because they had me scheduled for ASI training. ASI is a program where they send out DVD's of television shows to willing participants, and then we call at a set appointment time to interview them about what they watched. I don't know a lot about it, but it seems much more exciting than what I've been doing, and I've been looking forward to it since I got hired. My excitement didn't last long, though...due to my scheduled shift time, I was bumped out of ASI training, and replaced with someone else with a compatible shift time. :-( If they'd have told me yesterday, I would have gladly changed my time to fit the schedule. I hope that I will still get to do it at some point. 

Tomorrow will be busy, although I won't be going anywhere--except a quick run for TP and get the mail. I'm going to work on my excel project tomorrow and help DD14 get caught up with school work. She falls a behind every week, and we have to take a day to catch up every week. But, I don't have to work!