A very busy weekend
On Friday I had a half day, because we were planning a holiday this weekend.
Firinel came up at lunchtime
and stayed with me in the office until
Floatyfish,
Onib and
Naltrexone came along. We
drove to Chinatown for lunch, then walked down through the city, passing many
interesting things including
the
Shoe (where
Xreekinghavocx said
hello to us) and finally ended up at
Infinite, where Awesome Kevin put
another earring in
Floatyfish's ear. Then we
drove back to
Floatyfish
and
Onib's house in Maryland
and played
board games.
The next day we were going into Baltimore, but
the Baltimore Marathon was
making the city impassable, so first we climbed up to
Turkey Point
lighthouse, and then we went to
Newark
instead for
pizza. Newark is a
beautiful little college town. When we got home, Fin had something like a bug
bite on zir tummy that had swollen up, and zie had the beginnings of a
temperature.
Moominmuppet advised us
to draw a ring around it to see whether it changed, so we did. Then I had an
email saying that the work site was broken, so while the others watched
Hedd Wyn, I worked
on fixing it.
After the film Fin's temperature was up to 102â and the swelling was worse,
so we went to
the nearest hospital, where
they diagnosed an abdominal
abcess and gave zir a lot of
antibiotics and painkillers. We got home at around three a.m.
Floatyfish was especially
helpful to Fin with getting zir comfortable and making sure zie had everything
zie needed.
The next morning we left
Floatyfish at the house and
drove
Naltrexone to
the airport; then
Onib dropped us off at home. Fin
still had a temperature, and kept asking me to bring duvets; by the time zie was
lying under four of them and had a temperature of 103·2â, we decided to
go back into hospital. They told us that zir white blood cell count was rather
high, and they were keeping zir overnight.
After that they sent me home, and it's a bit quiet here after all that palaver.
I think I will go and have a nice hot bath.