It could have been worse. While ailing in bed yesterday, I sat up to take a sip of Gatorade. I didn't sit up enough, though, and the viscous reddish-pink fluid tricked out of the bottle, down my chin, and onto Theo's head. It looked like someone hit him on his matted head and he bled out. I dabbed at my little victim with a tissue, but Gatorade is powerful.
When Husband came home from work, he told me that we both looked awful. This was probably saying less for me than for Theo, as I had just taken a shower, and he hadn't been bathed in years. "Why didn't you put Theo in the wash?" he asked. "It's long overdue anyway."
The pathetic part of all of this is that I wanted to wash Theo up, but I didn't have the strength to deal with even a simple task like that. Today, however, I am 115% better. I put Theo in a pillow case and when he came out of the machine, the Gatorade-assault victim look was gone. He also smelled fresher. Hurray for the new washer!
*Theo is my long time companion bear.
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Oh man. For a minute, I was thinking Theo was the rabbit and I thought that you HAD to be joking about the pillowcase. Whew.
ReplyDeleteThat would be pretty awful. Although it reminds me of a joke that my friend Steph and I used to have. Not long after I adopted Tycho (the rabbit), I went on a series of trips for work. Husband was not pleased that he had to clean the litter box so often, as I had pledged that I would take care of that if we got a bunny, so Steph and I used to joke that Husband would put Tycho in a plastic bag and throw him out while I was gone. I'm not sure why this was so hilarious, but for some reason it was. Seven years later, Tycho is doing well, although not so good with his litter box in his advanced rabbit age.
ReplyDeleteIt was hilarious because we would ponder whether he would kill Tycho before stuffing him in the trash bag or just stick him in it while he was still alive and dispose of the bag.
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P.S. Don't forget the Bunny Suicides book.
P.P.S. I don't think Tycho's advanced age has much to do with his poor little box usage. He has been pretty pathetic about that for years.
In his defense, he was great about it before he had the abscess.
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