The Dahlia

Oh what have I agreed to? 

Okay. Okay. Alright. Okay. Oh my God.

Doug has a coworker who's 53 yr old brother recently had a stroke. She asked for help with his dog while he is in hospital and rehab. And well, Doug asked me, and I said sure. 

Dahlia is a 3 year old black lab (and I said OH! Like the Black Dahlia?) And I figured what the heck, Doug figured what the heck. And yeah. As long as Toffee is good with her it'll be okay. And we know Toffee is good with other dogs. so we'll give it a shot. 

We went to pick her up tonight the next county over and brought her home. She rides wonderfully in the car and is a good bean.  The dogs met through the fence, got some good sniffy sniffies and had some back and forth wonderment. We brought Dahlia into the yard, and she and Toff ran and played. There was rough housing and playing but nothing bad. Okay then. 

Let's go inside. 

From 6pm until 11pm, these two did the usual dog thing. Wrasslin, Face Fighting, tug-o-war, bone chewing. It was literally non stop. Non. Stop. Exhausting. Some blood was shed but we do not know who's blood. We just found blood. 

Doug went to bed at 10, and hoped they'd just come into bed with him and .... go to bed. But they got in bed and continued to do the same shit they'd done for hours. So he kicked them out.

I had a few more things I needed to do, so I hoped Dahlia would just come sit out here with me but she paced and whined and cried, and pulled all the toys out that I put away. Toffee is a little possessive and maybe jealous with her toys, and keeps taking them into her kennel, which is kind of hilarious. Dahlia won't follow her the whole way into the kennel, she stands outside. And then steals the toys.

4 hours of outright chaos. 

I just threw them outside, Jesus I hope that we can just go to bed. I'm already exhausted. But no. They're still going at it. 

I just did an inside 15 min. to burn some time while these two are still going hard. I hope tomorrow is much better and more relaxed. 

And the next 6 weeks? are too. 

I also drank a lot more wine than I should have. 

Pray for me.

Digits below. Better photos in the better daylight.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. 15 min / .67 mile indoor walk. 8k by bedtime.

blood glucose:

9am: 187
4pm: 190
11:30pm: 193

food:

coffee/water
11am: English Muffin w/Turkey and hummus
noon: metformin
6pm: 2 hotdogs and a lot of macaroni salad
7pm: metformin+jardiance
white wine (not mixed with anything)