I've been trying to get all my errands done before all the craziness sets in with people coming in for the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl. We've already had too many crazy drivers on the road with the recent Barrett-Jackson car auction and now the bowl games and the Phoenix Open coming up.

Heard from Gary's niece that she and her husband from Seattle will be in town for the Super Bowl. He went last year when the Seahawks played in New Jersey, but this year they will both be going to the game. Last year they would have been cheering for opposite teams as she is still a big Denver Broncos fan. lol This year, they can at least cheer for the same team. We certainly don't want the Patriots to win - the team who thought it was okay to deflate their balls to avoid petering out in the playoffs, will now have karma come back to bite them in the a$$ at the Super Bowl. lol

Got my vehicle in for it's first real checkup since I bought it - no need to rotate tires yet since I barely have 2,000 miles on it, but wanted the fluid levels checked and tire pressure checked so stopped by the dealership yesterday. Waited nearly 1.5 hours just for a fluid check, and told them next time I will take it to Meineke and get in and out in 15 min., even if I have to pay $20. When I'm paying $22/hr. for a caregiver for Gary, it doesn't make sense to waste my time sitting there that long for a simple fluid check. I later ran into a Toyota salesman at the casino - now I know why my car cost so much - that guy was stuffing hundred after hundred dollar bills into the machines.........lol

We are continuing to put ear drops in Gary's ears and he has good and bad days with the hearing.....still getting a ton of crud out of the ears, but refuse to go back to the quack Dr. Currently looking for new PCP and a neurologist for him. My shoulder is doing better - have been doing the therapy on my own and trying to avoid using that side when transferring Gary. I think I'm having more problems with fatigue right now than anything - hard to get a good night's sleep when he wakes me several times during the night to hold the urinal for him. Last night I was up till 11 doing laundry, then he woke me at 1:30 and when I turned on the light to grab the urinal, I noticed blood all over his pillow. He had scratched the inside of his nose and made it bleed and had blood all over his pillowcase and his face. I ended up running another load of laundry at 2 in the morning and finally got back to bed around 3 a.m. Some days I feel like I'm just a zombie, going through the motions. Try to get my naps in the afternoon when he naps, but dogs hear everything outside and bark if a car door slams, or the gate opens or a UPS delivery driver rings the doorbell...yesterday I was lucky to get 1/2 hr. snooze before that happened.

As soon as Gary wakes up today, I will get him showered and take him out for pancakes. We need to stop at the grocery store and get some more wet wipes and look to see if they have the baby monitor that they show online as $10 less than the exact same thing at Walmart. I got a gift card for the grocery store earlier this week with a thank you card from the friend in park who recently lost her husband. I'm in the market for a baby monitor for the back bedroom now that Pookie's hearing is going bad also. Strange, how her and Gary are both losing hearing about the same time - she's going on 11 yr. old and has been with us since right after his stroke. I depended on her a lot to alert me when he was awake or trying to get up if I didn't hear him from the other end of the house. Unfortunately, our younger dog - the Chihuahua mix only barks at things outside, so not much of a service dog like Pookie has been all these years.

Sarah