May 31, 2021

Where did the month of May go??? Today is Memorial Day and Edna took John to hike for the day. I really needed a break so it's a beautiful gift. I can spend the day doing whatever I want! John woke up kinda early today (I was still asleep) and that woke up our old dog Parker. Parker is getting pretty blind and only cares about food, so somewhere in the process of John getting out of bed, or maybe back in, Parker bit John's foot. He was probably trying to get John to feed him breakfast. It was just a little nip, no skin was broken, and I couldn't even see a mark. But John lost his mind! He was very mad I wouldn't take him to the doctor and was very worried he would die. While we were lying in bed I started writing down what he was saying, so here's a sample of things he said, ranting for about half an hour: "I wish you cared about me. I can't believe you let this happen. Please go call the doctor. There's no telling what kind of damage is occurring. Why did you let this happen? It could destroy my brain. I can't believe you don't care. I'm pretty scared about this right now. The dog has put stuff in me that shouldn't be in me. You haven't called anybody! We need to make sure somebody is not going to die. I can't believe this! I'll probably be dead soon enough. You've got your license! (That was sarcasm, he was saying I don't have my medical license so I don't know how to handle his dog bite.) When you don't pay attention that's when things really go bad. Please call a doctor and at least tell them what's going on. Christ! I'm sorry Lord I didn't mean to say that. Apparantly I'm too stupid for anybody to do what's right. I need to walk back to where the house was. I was stupid enough to think someone would do something to get it taken care of. It's a holiday - it's a horrible day because nobody listens to me. You should call somebody. Now I'm dying cuz things weren't done right. I guess we do nothing until my leg falls off." Then he fell back to sleep for a bit.