Tony's Army Wife - surviving my first deployment

Friday, November 17, 2006

Not a whole lot has happened in the last couple of days, but I figured I'd make a post anyways.

Tuesday wasn't so bad. I got to talk to Tony a lot. Our Tuesday night is his Wednesday morning, and he had the day off Wednesday. We talked for quite a while. He wasn't in that great of a mood when we first started talking, but I was able to work my magic and put a little smile on his face. However, a short while after I was able to put him in a good mood, he received an e-mail letting him know that one of his buddies died over in Iraq a few days ago. This kid was one of Tony's battle buddies during his first tour a couple years ago. Naturally, he wasn't handling the news very well. It tears me apart inside knowing that there isn't anything I can do to comfort him when he needs it the most. And God forbid he sheds a single tear or two about it, his battle buddies will never let him live it down. This whole deployment is just breaking my heart.

On Wednesday night after I got home from working an 8 hour shift in the ER, I had to chase Max (one of our dogs, pure bred Chihuahua) up and down the hall to try and get a urine sample from him. He has had some recent technical difficulties with bladder control. He randomly pees a little bit while he's walking. My parents were upset at him at first, until my sister pointed out that it's just little swirls of pee and that he's not stopping and lifting his leg to pee. They finally brought him to the Vet to get him checked out. Unfortunately there wasn't a whole lot that they could do for him without a urine sample. So that's what I did for almost a good 2 hours... chased after him with a urine cup. I was hoping that I'd scare the piss right out of him. No such luck though.

Today the insurance company sent someone to my house to look at my car and give an estimation as to how much damage there is. Right now we're looking at $2,000. And that amount will most likely increase once we bring it to a body shop and have them throw it on a lift.

I just finished wrapping all of Tony's presents. Well, I wouldn't really call them presents, it's just your normal care package, except everything is wrapped in Sponge Bob wrapping paper. I need to go and shower now so I can make it to the post office and send them out!!

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