It’s Friday night. I’ve made it through the week and honestly I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. Let’s see….Sunday night I find ants on my side of the bed. Not little sugar ants, big carpenter ants. Not just a couple, a couple dozen. It was icky, it was disconcerting. We killed off all that we could see and finally went to bed, but I didn’t rest well.
My schedule on Monday was back to back calls. I had to take the girls to the vet. The vet tells me she couldn’t hear Sheba’s heartbeat very well. So now I’m worried. I go back to work and have to put up with more calls. We’re both exhausted and we find even more ants. Great, just great. This time they are on Jeff’s side of the room and they are on the window in the sitting room. Jeff had sprayed after work, he sprayed them again, we were smooshing them with paper towels, but there were more and more. FINALLY we got them to the point that we weren’t seen many of them, so we tried to sleep.
Tuesday was another back to back day with calls. In the morning I called the pest dude, getting him to come figure out why we have ants. The highlight of Tuesday was the arrival of my new desk!!! (which was ordered in June).
With working at home, my computer desk was too small to fit my desktop computer, my laptop computer and Sheba, so I needed to get her a bigger desk. 
Yes, I bought my cat a desk. As you can see, she’s made her self quite at home. 
Yes, pest guy came. He looked, he looked and he looked, but he didn’t find anything. He did spray everything he could see. Tuesday night we cautiously look around the room as we’re getting ready for bed. Three and only three ants were seen and smooshed. We slept a little better.
Wendesday brings yet another insane day at work. The news from the vet was Sheba not only has a suspect heart, but she has kidney disease. Yeah, that’s what I wanted to hear. It certainly didn’t sound good and what I researched on the internet didn’t look good. Wednesday night was not a good night, but no ants. Wednesday ran into to Thursday, with work being completely insane again. My mind wasn’t completely on it. I was sad, I was confused, concerned. I didn’t know what to think. Jeff and I were both mopey and I think the girls picked up on that. I know we didn’t sleep well, but no ants!
Today, that brings us to today. I think I had 30 minutes that weren’t scheduled, but they were used. I took Sheba back to the vet for chest xrays and an EKG. The vet said she couldn’t see Sheba’s heart on the xrays. She didn’t know if we were dealing with heart disease or not. The other vet will look at the films tomorrow and give me a call. She seemed more positive than the original vet. She also told me the kidney disease was just in the early stage (which I had researched last night), so there wasn’t anything imminent to worry about. I left feeling much better than I had felt all week. Of course I haven’t gotten the results from the EKG and don’t know what’s obsuring the picture of Sheba’s heart, but it seems as long as she’s happy, alert, eating, playing and purring I don’t have a lot to worry about immediately. After all, she is a 16 year old kitty.
I figured she would be so mad at me after taking her back to the vet, but shortly after we got home she was back in the office jumping on the desk. She was even playing with my pen, batting at it and chasing it. I haven’t seen her play like that in quite a while.
I’m going to have to work this weekend, there is so much I have to do to get one client live and start another one. I couldn’t do anything more tonight. Sometimes you just have to stop.
I am so ready for bed. I think i’m going to relax and read a couple of magazines. I will be sleeping in tomorrow and it will be wonderful.
