Rough week

I know I haven't posted in a while.  Things have been crazy, but luckily everything turned out ok in the end.

I heard back from my doctor.  He requested additional blood tests.  I don't know what they are, but I'm hoping it will give me a more complete picture of my thyroid function.  I also got a surgery date!  I'll be having surgery January 6th.  So next week I'm going to have to bike to the closer clinic for a pre-surgical visit and probably get my bloodwork done while I'm there.  I'm happy to be getting it out of the way.  Ironically, I will once again be having surgery immediately after my period ends.

So as of last Thursday, I had finished Christmas shopping for my husband.  I bought him some camera stuff and a new (to us) 10-inch tablet, since he has a first generation tablet and it's having tons of problems.  I wanted to get him a large one, since he had one before, and he likes watching videos, so I got him a used one since they're so darn expensive.  Then we had our company Christmas party on Friday and I won a 7-inch tablet (exact same tablet I bought for him, just smaller).  Now I'm not sure what to do with it.  Do I keep it for myself, even though I already have a tablet?  Except that mine is 10 inches also, and the 7 inch one will actually fit in my purse.  Or do I give it as a gift to someone?  I just don't know who...

Anyway, I spent the weekend working on a quilt for my nephew.  Here's a picture of it almost done:

My sister is going to do the binding, and then it will be finished!  I don't have any pictures of it without a cat on it, since I haven't been able to keep the cats off of it.  They think it's the best thing in the world.

I had Monday off from work, and so I was home working on the quilt with my sister, and as she was packing up to go home, our dog Lola had a seizure.  It was the most horrifying thing I've experienced in a long, long time.  At first, I thought she was choking.  My sister managed to corral our other dog, Apollo, who thought Lola was playing and wanted to get in on the action.  As her entire body convulsed, I tried to see if there was anything in her mouth, but then my sister pointed out that she was still breathing.  She finally stopped seizing (at which point I was terrified that she was dying), crawled into her crate, and wouldn't come out.  At this point, I had finally found the number for the emergency vet and was trying to figure out what to do.  Lola was barking and growling and acting like a completely different dog, which the vet assured me was normal after a seizure.  She suggested bringing Lola to the clinic in her crate, which unfortunately wouldn't have worked since it won't fit in my car assembled, and Lola isn't exactly a small dog.

Lola finally calmed down enough for me to coax her out of the crate, and my sister helped me get her into the car.  She was so weak and shaky at that point.  I sped to the emergency vet, and they got her in right away and starting testing for possible toxins.  They kept her overnight and then I picked her up yesterday morning and worked from home so I could keep an eye on her.  Her blood work was normal, so she either just had a random seizure or she has epilepsy.  I'm so glad she's ok, I was terrified the entire time it was happening.  The good news is that I finally had a chance to weigh her again.  When we adopted her, she was severely underweight at 47 pounds.  She now weighs 71 pounds!

In addition to that, my roof was fixed yesterday, just in time for a crazy rainstorm last night.  So between the emergency vet bills, the roof, Christmas shopping, and my upcoming surgery, this is going to be a really, really expensive time of year for us.

And last but not least - I finally got to start testing for ovulation on Monday.  Negative so far.  I'm not sure what I'll do if I don't get a positive this time.  It makes it seem like all this worry is for nothing.