Cosmo

Thank you to everyone who has given me encouragement since my post, Poor Pup.

Cosmo wasn't released until 6:30 pm tonight. Since he wasn't ready to be picked up until the clinic closed, our vet had already left so I know nothing about the surgery or how it went. :( Joe picked up Cosmo on his way home from work and they told him that the results will be in the early part of next week.

Cosmo has a HUGE scar on his chest. I didn't expect it to look quite so awful, but because he's only 10 lbs it covers over half of him. They shaved the area and he's got bloody stitches so of course the poor thing will be on pain medication for awhile. Good news is that he is acting normal, aside from walking kind of weird (probably because of the incision). I thought maybe Joe would be carrying him inside but Cosmo ran into our house, full of energy and his tail wagging, very excited to be home. He went right for his food and water (he hasn't had anything since yesterday) so at least he seems to be recuperating well! (Both dogs are recovered now from whatever ailed them over the weekend.)

As for me, I spoke too soon last night when I said that all I had was a sore throat and cough - today my nose started running like Niagra Falls and by late afternoon I felt MISERABLE. I haven't had a chance to take my temp, but I was burning up & sweating an hour ago. Logan has a runny nose and cough, too (virus #7 of the year) but of course when I'm sick I have no energy at all (plus my period is due any minute) whereas he seemed to have more energy today than normal! It was a hard day since I felt like being alone in bed all day but I don't know if it's because Logan could tell I wasn't acting normal and so he decided to be a daredevil or what the reason - but he was trying to do all kinds of dangerous things today that he hadn't attempted since he was 14 months old. He also decided to be picky again about his food. He wouldn't eat vegetables yesterday or today - or really anything nutritous, so then when I refused to feed him what he wanted, he threw temper tantrums. He hadn't thrown any for awhile but thankfully they are still short so he gets over them quickly and returns to playing - until later when he realizes he hasn't eaten and then the cycle begins again. This happened before and it was just a phase so hopefully this time will be brief, too.

The funny thing is that this week he has been saying his FIRST SENTENCE - every time he wants something he says, "I want that!" Needless to say he is saying it frequently, lol.

He also is very empathetic. Any time I have any inflection in my voice (for example, if I can't find my keys and I'm like, "where are my keys?!") he starts whimpering and his face gets all contorted. He becomes worried if he thinks something is broken or if I get hurt or am sad. I've been telling him that he is a kid and he's too young to worry!

I forgot to mention that when we hung out with Joe's HS friends last Fri. night one of the couples has a 2.5 year old girl and she was a total doll. Logan was playing in her play room and of course he had to collect all of the balls he could find. I'm still new with the whole comfort object thing since he never had anything until a couple of weeks ago. Some days he's glued to balls and takes them to bed with him and other days he doesn't, so I forgot to pack them on the trip. So when it was time to leave, he would not let go! We kept trying to entice him to throw the balls or give them to Delaney (the little girl) but he wouldn't so I had to peel his fingers away for him to let go. As we carried him away, he was screaming and very upset. Well then Delaney came running after him and insisted that he have one of the balls! I was so touched at how sweet and selfless that was. We tried to refuse several times but she and her mom insisted we take it. Logan was immediately happy and DID NOT LET THE BALL GO the rest of the night!!!!

I've covered everything else from our week, except that yesterday (our first day back from our trip) I took Logan to Babysitter's for the morning but she called me to pick him up early because during the 11:00 hr he'd fallen asleep on the floor and didn't move despite her moving him to a crib, the other kids playing loudly, and then them starting lunch! (Not like him at all) She was really concerned and so was I when I got there and he didn't move from the crib (he saw me but continued laying there). I picked him up and he was just like a rag doll in my arms with his head on my shoulder. I talked to Babysitter for a minute and he didn't move at all, nor when I put him into his carseat. When we arrived home I put him in his crib and thought he'd be out for a long time. Instead, 15 minutes later he woke up! I wondered if it was because normally he eats lunch before I pick him up and put him down for his nap. So I fed him . . .but he ended up being full of energy and totally happy yesterday! He didn't end up taking his nap until 4 pm! I had to wake him at 7 because I didn't want his schedule to get off. Thankfully he went to bed for the night at 9 pm and slept 'til 7 this morning and has been back to normal with his sleep since. Joe assumed his falling asleep at Babysitter's was because he was tired from the weekend and not his virus.

This morning we took a quick walk, and in the afternoon he played outside in our yard briefly. I feel absolutely awful right now so I am actually going to bed already. This will be it for my blogging this week. Sorry no memes - I'll get back into that next week when I have news about Cosmo and hopefully am recovered!