She confirmed he was in congestive heart failure. Had fluid in lungs, around heart/heart enlarged and in abdomen. She suggested a medicine for us to see if we can get him to breathe easier and give us some time to accept we are in process of losing him - but more likely to be a more peaceful decline and little longer. W/o medicine he was struggling to breathe.
That, plus dental surgery + several household problems - was an EXPENSIVE weekend.
Thursday night I got home from work in the city. I took this cool picture of the moon and planet/star? with the train.
We caught up, I enjoyed a show to relax and then we went to bed. I heard an owl outside, so I went to open the blinds so I could open the window and the blind broke the bracket. We could have just replaced the one blind hardware - but they were the ugly thin (and yellowed) cheap looking kind - so we just went ahead and replaced all 3 windows plus door - yikes, cost like $370 and was a LOT of work for DH. I mostly just handed tools and provided moral support.
Then next morning our dryer broke. So we googled what might be wrong and DH watched a couple videos on You Tube and off to the appliance place we went! We got the small part and DH put it it - viola! Saved $1200 there! So happy, we went ahead and went to a 'junk' festival in a pretty town about 30 miles away. SO glad we went, we found a metal trellis that perfectly fit in between our garage and detached carport-turned-shop. Looks very nice and prevents people from just creeping in there (I watch too many Dateline - type shows!).
I got some more landscaping finished in my yard. Some I was NOT planning. We got over 6 inches of rain on Sunday, washed a bunch of my mulch out - so I will now gradually switch out the mulch to river rock. Since it is pretty expensive, I will have to do it gradually and perhaps over time, the time saved not always having to replace mulch from a portion of our yard that has drainage it will pay for itself. You can sort of see the water flow under deck from right and go out the far side. I need better pictures.
Next day I was going to vacuum but my $600 Dyson (about 4-5 years old) just quit. We tried getting it to start again, just not working. So we bought a Shark this time. Hope it works well and lasts a while!
Now I am tired and broke! At least this is my last week of work for a while, which makes me have anxiety. I just hope that my DH and my sweet boy do OK for 3 days without me.
