Missing Geena, and Mastitis...Again!

Well, last night at 7ish I started feeling a little under the weather. And then it hit, hard! I've had this over a dozen times. Milk duct infection...ouch! Very frustrating not knowing why I got it too. I don't feel over tired and I didn't do anything to compromise the ducts... mysterious. Anyway I went to the health clinic here in town at around 12:30am and the nurse there was able to convince the Dr.-on-call to give me a scrip for cloxacilin sight unseen. I think she knew she was dealing with a professional-mastitis-mama. So since then I have been on a combination of antibiotics, tylenol and advil. I hate feeling like this. And to top it off today was Bel's first day of preschool (or Pre-K as they call it here). Po was awesome though. He got her and Bean all ready. Prepared Bel's snack and backpack. Even did her hair. I love him! Now he's upstairs getting our guest room ready for my Dad. My mom was supposed to come but she has a cold and doesn't want to get us sick (or sicker in my case).


We are off to visit Po's family for thanksgiving. We are really excited to finally be going out there. The 2 sad things are first that we won't be able to visit with Po's brother. He's in basic training for the military right now and will be unable to get home while we are there. The second sad part is that their dog Geena was put down last week. She will be sorely missed being the only dog that Bel has ever felt really safe with. She's had this fear of dogs ever since an episode with an overly friendly husky puppy in our last town. So unfortunate because she was really in love with dogs until then. And now she won't be able to spend time with Geena. The rest of us are heart broken too. Po's mom mentioned in an email to us that she stroked Geena's velvet ears as she was being put to sleep. A beautiful black lab that we will be forever missed.