Gracie's Good News!

So... Gracie had a check-up appointment this week to see if the antibiotics for her infection had worked and to see if the fluid had receeded from her lungs. The bad news is that when they went to check her infection they found scar tissue that they said was probably from her having an infection for such a long time. The super good news is that the fluid was gone from her lungs!

These are her x-rays from the last two visits. The one of the left shows there is fluid in her lungs- see the white horizontal lines (fluid) at the top of the black triangle section (lungs). Then if you look at the right one you can see that her heart (white circle in the middle of the black triangle) is still HUGE- its not going to go back down- but that the fluid in her lungs is a lot lot less.
She is still on her lung medicine but at a lower dose so that it doesn't mess up her kidneys.

Other good news- we had friends over for dinner last night and I was super nervous we'd end up ordering a pizza but dinner was a success! Well, they ate it and said they liked it so I'm assuming they did but regardless, I really liked it and will definitely be making it again.
I made Italian Baked Chicken and Pasta- I doubled the recipe though since the other comments said it didn't make very much. It was really easy and came out really good. Definitely will be looking for more Giada recipes to use in the future.

On the job front: I still haven't heard back about the job I interviewed for but I went to the staffing agency on Friday- what a disaster! The lady at the front desk was super unprofessional. She talked on her cellphone to her insurance agent about lowering her rate and how much would be coming out this month, blah blah blah all the while I'm trying to hand her back the paperwork she had me fill out. She even answered the office phone and asked them to hold! Then they went out back to smoke but there was so much of it in the office I thought somebody in the waiting room was smoking... ridiculous!
After all that nonsense they only had one office job available. She said I was over qualified and it didn't pay what I wanted but I filled out the paperwork for it anyways. I'm dreading going back to the agency on Monday but they emailed me 6 "tests" (typing, excel knowledge, etc) that I had to do and then I have to call back on Monday.

And I'm soooo ready for Valentine's day to be over. The commercials are ridiculously annoying and people put entirely too much money and attention into it. Such a waste. Bahaha- and I'm not even single.

Most of the snow melted today. Sooo ready for spring! I love the sunshine :) Gracie and I will definitely be going to feed the ducks this week.