The sky was BLACK and it poured this morning, so I stayed home, did laundry, packed, fixed Daniel's supplements, and trimmed the dogs' nails. I'm flying to my brother's tomorrow and wanted to get all of that out of the way for my parents who are watching the dogs.
Then I showered and went to the hospital with my mother and aunt to see my cousin this afternoon. He's in end stage liver cancer. I was appalled when I walked into his room. There was trash on the floor. Not trash from him, but the staff! I kills me that the staff would take things out of sterile packaging, and toss the packaging on the floor. Just because he's REALLY sick, doesn't mean he doesn't care (or that his family doesn't care) about what his surroundings are like.
We stayed for about an hour and a half. Bobby was having a really bad day according to his nurse. We didn't want to tire him too much, so we left and went to grab something to eat (read: make sure my Aunt is eating.)
After we dropped my aunt off, my Mom and I went to the barn so I could trim Daniel's hooves. He was really good! He doesn't like his RF done - that's the one that has the mild ringbone. Not so much that he doesn't like it done, he doesn't like to leave that hoof on the stand very long. He gets impatient and takes his hoof off the stand. I'll have to ask Dawn what she thinks of this. Maybe I shouldn't have his hoof as high as the others? Dawn's coming to "check my work" on the 12th.
My mother has Daniel totally spoiled! She carries peppermints for him, and he hears the wrapper crinkle and gets all silly. I barely need a lead-rope on him when my Mom's got a pocketful of peppermints! He was sniffing in her pockets for more after he had the last one, the big dork!
Tomorrow morning, we're having lesson number two with Jill, and tomorrow night, I'm off to Louisville, KY until Saturday night!
