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3.3 miles walked this morning with both doggies...crisp and sunny with a stiff breeze.
I'm functioning on less sleep today. It stormed last night so my Nervous Nellie was up in our faces, panting and shaking, even with her medication. I really need to work on conditioning her to the ThunderShirt so I can try to utilize it when it storms.
Then, about midnight, in the midst of the storm, our neighbor (yes, that same neighbor, same kind of situation from about a month ago) called to ask for a ride to the hospital. Her husband had been having trouble breathing and so had gone to the hospital in the ambulance. Must have been a quiet approach, as we never heard any siren...we were sound asleep. Anyway, she said she hadn't been dressed to go along right away with the ambulance, so she now needed a ride to get to the hospital. And, as luck would have it, the 2 neighbors who are friends with this couple happen to be gone again, just like a month ago when they were all gone for Thanksgiving too. So, what was I gonna do? Say "no"?
So, I got dressed and drove her to the hospital in the middle of the storm. Not sure what today will hold. She obviously got home somehow, as she picked up her paper from the doorway where I left it. One of the neighbors who's gone, had said he tries to get the newspaper up to the door for them in the morning because neither one is very steady on their feet to make even the short walk down the driveway to the mailbox. Because this neighbor was going to be gone for a couple days, he asked my DH if we could take over the newspaper "re-delivery" while he was gone. OK, fine.
And again, the issue comes up of compassion versus enabling. I look at last night as an emergency and I did what any neighbor should do under those circumstances. I would never have made a midnight phone call to someone whose name I didn't even know a month ago....I would have called a taxi, relative, or a very, very close friend.....but that's me. I'm not sure if the guy was released from the hospital last night, although, from the sound of his condition, I doubt it. I'm already re-preparing myself so that I'm not turned into a private taxi service.
Diet Calendar Entries for 27 December 2011:
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1304 kcal
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Fat: 87.83g | Prot: 91.88g | Carb: 31.24g.
Breakfast: Brown Sugar & Honey Breakfast Sausage, Pieces & Stems Mushrooms, scrambled eggs. Lunch: Armenian cucumber, Wishbone ranch dressing, romaine, Organicville non-dairy ranch dressing, salad toppins. Dinner: Heinz reduced sugar ketchup, beef patty, Sargento colby jack cheese slice, sweet onions. Snacks/Other: honeydew melon, Sargento string cheese. more...
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1873 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 57 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 3 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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