Health

Gertrude is in trouble. Her health seems to be getting worse. She has been undergoing all kinds of testing. We are hoping it is nothing serious. However in the meantime, she is getting lots of mileage out of the testing. Every blood test is a serious thing. Every appointment with dieticians or giving a urine sample is a big thing. As a matter of fact there is this matter of giving a urine sample that she can't do it in the office. She has to take the container home and then fill it to the rim and bring it back the next day. It's almost comical, if it weren't so darned inconvenient.  The flu shot is another ordeal for her. Well, she outright refuses to get it using the excuse that her arm stays sore for a full year after getting the flu shot and that there must be something wrong with her arm. Like perhaps an allergy or something. Either way she won't get the shot, even though her doctor really wants her to have it since she has had pneumonia in the past few years which even put her into the hospital on one occasion. But small as she is, she is also as stubborn as they come, but I still love her and worry myself silly over her well being.