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Day 2,905: Wiped

Ooof. Busy day. Going to be a busy one tomorrow, too. Coco goes to see the neurologist in the morning. I have quite a bit of Netflix work and TWO clients tomorrow, which I’m totally excited about.

Busy day.

Need to sleeeep. Night night.

Day 2,904: Sassy

Coco be getting SASSY.

She’s getting her strength back, and she does NOT like to be contained. As chill of a dog as she is, she definitely has her routine she likes, and we’ve not been able to do it lately. Crazy girl.

She’s still improving. Steadily. Feeling good. Better. She seems normal, actually, but I know from the doc recommendations and just reading on my own that she needs rest, still. For a while. So, we keep her crated as much as possible. Especially with house guests. Joe, Madhu...

Day 2,903: Just Right

Cooper found just the right spot to lay down on the bed.

Coco is feeling better. She saw an acupuncture vet today, and got the okay to be able to walk around the house. But, still no running, jumping, stairs, or play time. I feel like that we can do. And she’ll still get crate time a lot, too.

I’m so relieved. She’s no longer in so much pain. I think she’s going to be okay. In three weeks…all goes well, she should be back to normal.

Work was disjointed today, but I did it. I haven’t had...

Day 2,902: Early Bird

Gonna get up early tomorrow, and I suppose by that I mean on time. Have to. Shit to do.

Today was good. Talked about regret and despair in therapy today, and how regret in particular makes me think about time travel stories. Really, at the heart of every time travel story, is regret. It’s the wish we have when something happens that can’t be undone; we dream about what it would be like to be able to undo it.

Powerful stuff. It’s why we love those stories. It taps into grief, despair, regre...

Day 2,901: Joe 4.0

Happy Birthday to one of my best friends. Joe.

He’s in town this week/weekend with Madhuri and Ashika in tow, and it’s so, sooo nice to have them. We went and had Korean Barbeque together and it was gd delicious. Then picked up cake from 85º just down the street. A chocolate mousse cake. It was sooooo good. Sang happy birthday and gave him our card and little gift, and then talked for a good long time about life and getting older and creativity.

I love Joe. He’s a good man. I love his fami...

Day 2,900: Singin

Coco is improving. Thank dog.

She had another episode this morning of really bad pain, BUT…it wasn’t as bad as I saw it happen yesterday evening, and it passed much faster. She relaxed and laid down after just a minute or two. And it didn’t happen again for the rest of the day!

In fact, she was feeling so much better, she wanted to walk around the house a bunch, which I was reading in the doctor’s notes that she’s not allowed to do for a few weeks, SO…

She’s now in a crate. Poor thing. ...

Day 2,899: Touch and Go

It was touch and go with poor Coco today.

She was fine when she had her meds in her. But, oh boy, when they started to wear off, she was really in pain. Exacerbated, I think, by me picking her up to take her outside to go to the bathroom, and then eat dinner.

That sequence—she was about 5 hours into her meds at that point—sent her into an acute pain episode where I think she was having back spasms. Her whole body was rigid and shaking, it would arch her head back, and she’d pace around fra...

Day 2,898: IVDD

It’s almost 3:30 right now as I right this.

Coco…suddenly was in acute pain tonight, right as we were getting ready for bed. Shivering. Hardly able to move. She would yelp whenever I would pick her up. I knew something was wrong.

I took her to the ER and the doc says it’s likely that she has IVDD, which essentially means that her spinal discs are degenerating, and one is causing an impingement on her spinal cord. To what degree, we don’t know for sure because the doctor didn’t think it was...

Day 2,897: Pistole

Whew.

Long day. But, I did it. Got my shit DONE. Need to do the same tomorrow.

Haven’t written a word in a week. Don’t like that. Going to fix that tomorrow morning, come hell or high water. You heard it here first. The task is outlining! And I need to get Author Notes and a blurb to Craig.

Did my A/V Club stuff, too. Wracking my brain to think of swag to give them for volunteering like they are. Thinking special lanyards and maybe I can VistaPrint an A/V Club logo or something to slip ...

Day 2,896: Someone To Love Me

Today I decided that I’m obsessed with Lil Nas X’s “THAT’S WHAT I WANT”

It’s so good. The whole album is sooooo good. And it’s so gratifying, man, because I really wondered if he was going to make it in the rap/black music scene as an openly gay man. Lotta homophobia there. But, at the end of the day, all that matters is that you’re dope. And Lil Nas X is DOPE. He’s undeniable.

I want to be that good some day. Undeniable.

Working on it, guys.

So damn good all I have to be is me. All ...