Burnt out

Here I am again, CD2, and I have had a mentally exhausting past 2 days.

Yesterday, Monday, we got an email at work annoucing that our next mandatory departmental offsite was also to include a baby shower for our pregnant coworker. Nice. I guess I don't have to worry about the debate over whether or not to attend. I later found out that she and her deadbeat, unemployed husband are down to one car because his died and they don't have the money to fix it.

I am really trying not to be bitter.

I got home yesterday to another "Congratulations on your pregnancy!" packet from the local hospital. The same packet that I received a few months ago. The same hospital where both of my D&Cs were performed. Someone is not paying attention there. Mr. Rhody wants to call and yell at them, but I think I talked him out of that.

I think I have a kidney infection again. I went to the doctor's office this morning. He seemed a bit skeptical, but I told him I had had one before and had all the same symptoms, so he gave me a prescription for Cipro and took a urine sample. He said I could take the Cipro until the urine culture came back in 3 days. Oh, and since it's CD 2 he couldn't just check to see if there was blood in the urine because, chances are, there would be. The good thing about CD 2 is I don't have to worry about what drugs I can / cannot take.

But there is some good news.

We got a second dog. Everyone thinks we're crazy, but we think it's great. She's a shelter dog, like our first. It did occur to me how there are so many dogs at the shelter that you can get one for free, yet it takes tens of thousands of dollars to adopt a human baby. Hmmm. Not that human life isn't sacred, but it's a shame with little value we place on animal life.

Anyway, our new dog is a sweetie, and it's good to come home to two tails wagging at the end of the day. It sort of makes everything else that we go through more bearable. I imagine this is what it's like to come home to a child. Hopefully, I'll get to experience that soon, but, until then, I can know that I've made a difference in two lives already, even if they are "just" dogs.