Crazy Lazy week

It's been a crazy, lazy week here on the home front. Crazy because I'm still trying to get all my transportation in place and am hitting a stone wall with my PCP's assistant. She is new and doesn't know how to do the PT-1 forms and they keep getting kicked back for lack for lack of correct information. Well it's the medical reason I need to go that's missing. You'd think that if Mass Health got the form for my PCP they'd realize that there must be a reason I need to go but here in MA you have to jump through hoops to get anything done. The system is so abused that now they make everyone jump through hoops to get the PT-1's. Plus it doesn't help that all my service providers are concidered out of the service area, which for me is Southbridge. Worcester is closer and has a ton more doctors but I live in Oxford and the service area for Worcester ends in Auburn. Sucks for me and the temp assistant because we have been going round and round for weeks trying to get these in place. All I did was move to another apartment in the same complex but because the apartment number has changed I need all new PT-1 forms. I only moved into the building before the one I used to live in so the cabs still come to the same parking lot but Mass Health has this stupid rule that if you move even one apartment over you need new transportation forms. Sucks.

I have also found I have a mouse and beetle problem. I'm not sure how the mouse got into the house but Sunday morning I got up to Middy chasing it across the living room floor. The last I saw of it it was under the heater in front of the front window. It even grabbed my charging cord for my I-Pod and was trying to drag that under there with him. Middy goes on point every time she hears the mouse and beetles and then chases them. Terminix was here yesterday to put down bait to kill them and now I'm afraid to let Middy chase and kill them. I don't want her to get sick from eating them. I don't know, however, to keep her from eating them at night when I'm sleeping. Any suggestions?

I tried a new way of limiting how much Dumkupf was eating to get him to lose some weight. I was given a suggestion of feeding him 3-4 times a day for 30 minutes but that didn't work. He'd chow down everything that was in the bowl and I ended up feeding him more than the recommended amount for the day. So I'm back to giving him 2/3 of a cup in the morning and 2/3 of a cup in the evening. I have to make sure that I stand over the dish in the morning and evening to let Middy eat first or the pig won't leave her anything. He tries to push her out of the way if I don't stand over the dish and push him away. It's OK in the evening to do this but they expect to get fed first thing in the morning right after I get up and all I want to do is put the coffee on but have to feed them first. That is my fault because that's how I've been doing it for years and now I can't change the system. I am going to start giving them water first then I probably won't mind as much standing over the dish to let Middy eat first. I just hope that she will eat more before the pig gets in there and wipes out what's left. I have food up high where he can't get to it but she doesn't like to eat up there it seems. She's just used to eating from the same bowl as the big guy and is to dumb to realize the food up high is just for her. Guess that's because of her retardation. She is an inbreed and is a little slow because of it. It doesn't make me love her any less. In fact I love her more because of it. It makes her special.

So that's how my week has been. Hope yours has been better.