Dog to the Vet

Sonia Dog is scheduled for a trip to the vet's office today for a regenerative procedure called ProTec Platelet-Rich Plasma. Her joints have been bothering her for a while now, and, for the past couple of days, she's been in too much pain to mount the stairs to the master bedroom. Instead, she yelps her distress from the first floor and won't quit until Fiorella comes downstairs to bed down on the couch with her.
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As Fio understand it, the vet will withdraw blood cells from Sonia and replace them with hyped-up cells, and we should see noticeable improvement in about a week.

Wish us all well.

Communication Deprivation

It's official.  The land line is off till Thursday--THURSDAY WEEK--when the Verizon repairman appears.  Supposedly.  And it will be fixed.  Supposedly.

But Fio, you ask.  You and Husband surely have cellphones, don't you?  Well, yes, Fiorella answers.  But we live in a cellphone dead area and can only use our phones when we're leaning off the second floor balcony or are up at the mailbox beside the road.  Or, of course, when we are driving.

So--no incoming calls, no outgoing calls for a week and a half.

In a way, it's rather freeing.