The appointment with Jesse's speech pathologist went really well. I hadn't noticed just how often Jesse stuttered so it was handy to have it pointed out to me during an activity that the speechy did with Jesse. The speech pathologist has designed a program for me to do at home with Jesse and it's pretty easy to follow. I started to implement some of the speechy's suggestions last night but noticed that Jesse didn't really like when his bumpy speech was pointed out to him, even though this is what I was told to do. Hopefully with a little work from the both of us we can get on top of his stutter.
The vet appointment went ok. I was told there wasn't an awful lot I could do that I hadn't already done. Apparently the spot on is working but my poor cats are still crawling with fleas. I keep trying to pull them off but the cats don't appreciate this and start to scratch and bite at me. They will tolerate me brushing them but all that's doing is removing the excess fur and not the fleas. Luckily the pest man is coming tomorrow. I can't wait for the place to be sprayed. As soon as I finish writing this I will have to do a quick tidy up of all the rooms so it's easier for him to spray. Speaking of pets our dog crawled under the temporary fence in our backyard this morning and destroyed everything under the neighbour's back patio. So she isn't in the good books with the neighbours at the moment. If insurance hadn't stuffed us around we could have had our fence fixed over a week and a half ago. Instead they keep delaying paying us out our claim which is only resulting in more damage being caused to each property by the two dogs. Not to mention the cost of putting up the temp fence! Ah insurance gotta love it!
On a totally different note, I'm still spending WAY too much time Googling colonoscopies. I really need to stop that! I am becoming incredibly nervous and I'm trying really hard not to cancel it this time round. I know I need to do it but I am really really not looking forward to doing the bowel preparation. :( This time next week I'll be glued to my toilet seat. Yuck!
Also went ahead and booked the trip to Cairns last night. A holiday should do us all some good and I can hardly wait. It will be so good to visit my hometown again and catch up with family and friends. I also want to see if I can still handle the heat and humidity over there as I am considering a permanent move back to the East coast of Australia sometime in the not-so-distant future. I've picked the hottest time of the year to go - it will also be cyclone season and stinger season. So if I can handle it at its worst then I'm sure I'll be loving it at its best.
That's about all for now. Hopefully once things have settled down a little I can get back to focusing on restoring the balance in my life. My goal has become a little lost in all the problems that have kept cropping up lately. But hey I guess this is what life is all about - still managing to balance one's time appropriately even when the unexpected arises.
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