It’s not just racers. The younger dogs and pups currently in training will likely be looking for homes too.
I know it’s said in here, but fostering is just as needed as adopting! The greys need a place to stay while they recover from medical treatment (usually just neutering), as well as a place to be introduced into our world! (Many have never seen fans or stairs before)
So adopt, foster, and volunteer! Get these pups some homes!
Once again, I kinda wish I could get some Singulair. It really really helped when I was given that before back home. Not just with the asthma, but with the general allergy fuckery driving it.
But, it’s like 3rd line for asthma treatment under the cookbook formulary system here, if adding regular inhaled steroids doesn’t do enough. (Also not nearly as cheap as the steroids 😑) And there are actual reasons that I don’t even want to try daily doses of even inhaled corticosteroids, with diabetes and a history of Cushing’s so my system is extra sensitive. Seems like an unnecessary risk.
Anyway, Singulair is rarely enough used that it’s not even readily available through Dodgy Online Consultation, because I got desperate enough to look into it a while back.
Feeling a little more human after I managed to get a couple of hours of decent sleep a little while ago. (Plus another about an hour of keeping waking up coughing, but it was just about tolerable and I was so not getting up yet if I could avoid it at all.)
That’s probably better than I managed in a stretch after bedtime earlier, with the inhaler and plenty of Robitussin before getting down. And propping myself as close to sitting up as I can. One benefit to already having the ridiculous pillow nest going: a little adjustment, and we’re good to go 🙄
So yeah, it’s turned into one of THOSE cold/flu asthma flares. The neighbors probably want to strangle me by now, never mind Mr. C sharing a bed with that hellacious cough. (More an issue with some of the attempts at napping, given our usual sleep schedules.) And it’s still early days, from past experience 😩
Even if it’s not doing as much as I would like, at least I do have rescue inhalers which are helping some now. And I have a lot better idea of what helps/does the opposite. Unlike with all the bouts of “asthmatic bronchitis” when I was a kid. No blackouts yet, so far! And I’m doing much better at keeping warm food down with inhaler access! *fingers crossed*
The situation right now is still reminding me too much of that.
Though, maybe best of all? I don’t have to look forward to sitting in a classroom all day–on maybe a few hours of bad sleep, with what feels like broken ribs. And likely with the teacher acting like I keep having coughing fits on purpose to be disruptive* 😑
(I did end up staying out a lot with that every winter, but when each episode hangs on for weeks? Really can’t stay home until it stops. Even without abusive attendance policies then.)
Really wishing this crud would hurry up and finish, but it could definitely be a lot worse.
* Unlike this one professor late on,, who got very concerned at the sound of it and kept trying to get me to go to the ER. A more reasonable response to someone having breathing problems in front of you, but kind of funny in another way.
that time Sybil called Sam smol and angry and he was too smol and angry to notice
Awww
It’s the “until some days later” in the last line that really puts the finishing flourish on the joke.
Vimes, halfway through the carriage ride back to Ankh-Morpork: WAIT A MINUTE
when you gaze in awe at the deeds of carrot, detritus, dorfl, agnua, buggy swires, the librarian, wee-mad-arthur, and reg shoe- and then find out they all report to someone
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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