On a scale of "he's totally fine, go to bed then get up super early for surgery yourself" to "stay up all night at the emergency pet hospital", where does this rank?

I'm sure it's all taken care of but call the vet where he regularly gets care and ask. I wouldn't personally emergency it while normal everything else is really normal. But I'd have it looked at sooner rather than later since I can't think why it'd appear. Stuff like that often requires hands on critter. Disclaimer: IANAD or vet tech but I fake working in a clinic on a regular basis.

Also I hope your surgery went well.

Surgery went very well, faster than predicted (3 hrs instead of 7, woot!), no complications or adverse reactions except for the itching. Oh, the itching. I know well enoug to never put Oxycodone, hydroxodone, or tramadol in my mouth...but whatever the injected into the spinal block is itcherrific to the max. Even with two full doses of Iv Benadryl I'm awake from then constant need to scratch. Did have to take my gallbladder too which is a little sad but apparently the adenoma was clnging to the gallbladder and could not be separated. In the hospital for another day probably. Thanks for all the ~ma, it really works! I'll be calling the vet tomorrow and a friend can take him in since I don't want saddle mom with a miserable vet experience. And I took the friends cat to the vet just a few weeks ago when she was out of town so it's favor repaid :)

Just FYI, I've had my gallbladder out since last year, and have noticed no affect on my digestive system at all.

I'm hacking my way through a thicket of onerous phone calls. Go me! (Of course, some of them I need to actually follow up on, like going to the hospital lab to get blood drawn for my cholesterol test.) But still. Onerous phone calls, off the list!

I also need to figure out what I need to take to the Social Security office so that I can go get my name legally changed before our first anniversary (not that that's a legal deadline, or anything; I just thought it would be nice to change my name by the time we've been married a year, which is Sunday [whoops]).

t edit Also booking the pinup photo shoot, which is making me nervous as hell. Sheesh.

So, it's been two and a half months of just my income supporting the household--and the bank accounts are in good shape. Some of that is the incredible generosity of wonderful people, but I don't think those influxes are affecting standard cash flow. Apparently my income is sufficient for my needs. Hubby's drugs were very expensive, and he had a tendency to buy little whatzits that caught his eye. I could rarely tell him no. The storage shed is no longer there and I've cut the phone bill by three quarters. If there was a bill I was missing, I think I'd know by now.

Gosh. Now I just need to make sure the yarn buying doesn't get out of hand.

I feel so sorry for widows who weren't significant income producers and who didn't manage the bills like did. My loss is immense but it's not catastrophic to running the household.

Connie - excellent news. I'm glad that the practicalities are going smoothly.

I had a follow up doctor's appointment today for something, I don't remember what, the doctor was honest says she can't remember either she thinks it was to follow up with medication refills and about my blood work.

I had more blood work done and I made an appointment for my first mammogram. It will be early enough in the day I don't have to put in an unavailability time request.

In a few weeks I have to see my shrink again. He'll have my blood work and I have to admit I haven't been taking my morning doses of Lithium because of side effects and then I was doing fine so I just stopped.

I don't think he'll be happy but I've been coping well enough.

Connie, it's good to hear that you are in a good place financially and you don't have that extra worry.

Connie, that's good news. It wasn't a huge change for me since I was the breadwinner, but it's still a shock to the system.

Medical~ma, askye.

I scheduled my first mammo today, too!

And I'm SO glad to hear that your finances are doing well, Connie. What a relief.

It makes it easier to contemplate that $300 worth of work on the Jeep's heater. I don't think I can blame Ancestral Puritans for a reluctance to spend money. Perhaps it's the two parents who grew up in the Depression. Though that goes both ways, doesn't it? One type is spendthrift, one is reluctant to spend anything.