Jasper's Spa Day

Today was quite busy with preparations for our trip to Maine!

Before that chaos, I spent the morning and early afternoon in the electrophysiology lab at St. Mary's, watching defibrillator implantations. Beth and I have been trying to set this up for awhile, just so we would know what sort of procedure our interviewees will have gone through. As with all surgeries, we spent much more time hanging around in between procedures, waiting for patients to come and go, than actually watching the implantation itself, but we still got a good idea of what it's like. And I did get to wear a very zippy paisley-print radiation-shield apron!

Once I came home, I set about getting things ready for our trip, and making sure that the house was ready for our friend Anna, who will be staying here and looking after Jasper while we're away. Jasper got a bath in the bathtub, which worked out great...he didn't even shake water all over the bathroom, and stood quietly even when I was soaping up his face and then dumping water on his head. I forgot to bring the camera in to get a photo of the bath itself, but below is a shot from later this evening, with Jasper wrapped in a blanket to stay warm as he dried off. We also clipped his nails, gave him his heartworm-prevention chew, applied his tick-killing stuff, and trimmed around his eyes. Now you can at least see that he has eyes underneath all of that fuzz. Unfortunately that made a big glare in the photo that I'm not talented enough to get rid of...



Now I'm stalling to avoid packing. The Sox are losing so wretchedly, however, that it may drive me upstairs any minute. Ah, wait, they've just hit a homer! And another! And another! Hope springs eternal!