Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 268.5 lbs.

I just got home from a long and confusing staff meeting in which many changes our Health Care Center is undergoing were discussed. It has been a long and wearisome day, made harder by my friend and colleague Nancy’s announcement that she had to put her young cat to sleep today. Apparently he went into sudden kidney failure and became acutely symptomatic and couldn’t be saved.

Now I am weary in body and spirit. I haven’t mustered the energy or wherewithall to exercise or even walk in days now, and must try to do better by this soon. Honestly, I don’t know how some people manage to juggle families, careers, and themselves … I can barely manage just me!

I also don’t think that I drank or ate enough today — and will have to try to do both after I post this. All I ate was some leftover oatmeal for breakfast, two cheese sticks spaced throughout the long work day, a banana, and a few raspberries. Hardly any protein even. Bad me! At least I took my vitamins.

Not much else to say today, so I guess I’ll give us all a break and make this a brief one. Sorry, no real “juiciness” today!