It’s been a long week.

I'm sorry I've been neglecting you all again, but if you haven't heard about my horrible week I'll share with you some highlights. Mind you it wasn't incredibly terrible, just a wee bit stressful and frustrating. So let's start back to last Sunday. Emily and a bunch of other people went on a hike and I had the morning to myself with a still recovering Tucker. Well everything was fine until my friend Kat calls me and says that Emily fell on the hike and cut her head open. So I find out later that Emily was trying to avoid the water on the trail and grabbed a vine that snapped leaving her to fall roughly 5 ft on her face. Owwww! So she was in no shape to do anything and while I worried about her I tried to study for my Nutrition exam. By the way I ended doing fine on the exam, but still between Sunday and my exam on Wednesday it didn't seem like that would be the case. My Sunday night Tucker was all better and Emily was trying to sleep off her injury. By Tuesday both Tucker and Emily weren't feeling so hot again which was great news for me. Kat and I forced Emily to see the nurse because her swelling was bad and of course the nurse sent her to the doctor who gave her meds that her a little loopy. (This part of the week was very amusing). So anyway on Tuesday night Tucker decided it was time to get sick again and he started throwing up. Emily stayed home from school and so she was able to keep an eye on him Wednesday, but by Wednesday night he was coughing and wheezing so I decided that I would contact PAWS to take him into the clinic. On top of all of this on my way home on Wednesday I got a flat tire! Emily and I got our neighbors Josh, Kevin, and Sean to help us change the tire, but unfortunately the spare was also flat. So then I had to call Ross Security (apparently they help with tire situations) to have them come and take me and the tire to get repaired. After about an hour outside of this pretty sketchy shack called Tony's Tires the tire was patched and seemed good as new. Our game plan for the next morning was to go to anatomy, take the anatomy quiz that was scheduled for 9, and then go get two new tires put on the car. That didn't exactly go as planned because I finally heard back from the PAWS medical coordinator and she said to bring Tucker into the clinic. After the anatomy quiz I drove home, picked up the puppy, drove back to campus (mind you the tire is already low on air at this point), and run into the clinic. I planned to just drop him off but I had to be there because they thought he could have parvovirus. Good thing he didn't and upon a physical exam no one could find anything wrong with him, but the vet wanted to do an ultrasound, blood work, and x-rays. Since we had to wait for PAWS to approve any medical treatment I left the puppy there with plans to pick him up after classes for the day. Finally I was free to get those tires so Emily and I drove into town to a place our friend used recently to get tires. We were pretty much lost, but luckily a nice worker helped us determine what size tire we needed and they put them on. That took about 45 minutes so we moved on to the next task which was picking up Emily's package from the post office. After trying all three doors that led into (what appeared on the outside) as the same building we found the area where we were supposed to go to pick up packages. They have to open all of the packages in front of you to determine how much you owe in customs fees so something that should take 5 minutes ended up taking a while. In all fairness we made it back to campus with two new tires, Emily's packages, and the two of us in time for us to grab food before our next class, so that mission was a success. After classes I went back to the clinic to get Tucker and of course they weren't ready. They were finishing up the ultrasound when I got there and I waited for them to tell me they found nothing and decided they didn't have to do the blood work or the x-rays. It was a little crazy because three people were telling me different things, but eventually they gave Tucker antibiotics and deworming medicine. He's all better now so hopefully that is helping some. Unfortunately the day after Tucker started feeling better I got sick. What started on Thursday night as a sore throat has turned into a full blown head cold/sinus infection type thing. I'm feeling slightly better today which is why I can actually put glasses on my face and write this blog, but all and all I'm still feeling crappy. My excitement for the day was obedience training class with the kennel dogs and oh yeah bringing my trash to the dumpster and finding a random guy just sitting inside. Let me just say it was extremely creepy!!! Along with this post I'll uploading some awesome pictures of yesterday's weather. Who else can say they saw a funnel cloud and a rainbow in the same day? (Well except those that saw it with me!).