Sugar glider penis issues...

I know, not the most appealing title, but it's basically what we've been dealing with all day. LaVaughn and I heard distressed crabbing coming from Chloe and Boone's cage today, so we immediately checked it out. This was at 9 AM, mind you, we were both still sound asleep at this time. When we got there, LaVaughn saw that Chloe was chasing Norman around tugging on his penis. I kid you not, she was pulling and biting with all her might!

We got him out of the cage as quick as we could and put him in a cage by himself.

I've been consulting with people that have extensive knowledge in this department and as of right now, a vet isn't necessary. If he's showing no signs of improvement by tomorrow, then we're going to the vet. Until then we're applying Vetericyn and Vaseline to keep his penis moist until it retracts. We've also applied Preparation H once, which is all we can do in a day.

I'll be so glad when the swelling goes down and we can put this behind us.

In other news, it's cold as hell outside and there's still snow on the ground from Tuesday nights mini snow storm. Jeez Tuesday was a nightmare. I had to work 1-7, but I knew I wouldn't be able to stay my entire shift, so I got someone to cover 4-7 for me. I'm so glad I did too, because it started sleeting right after I left.

And of all days, I get this notification in the car -- more like a warning -- saying that the left rear tire was flat. When I looked it said that it had 11 pounds in it! I quickly went to the nearest station and put 29ish pounds in it. I had to pay $1 for air, which sucked. I also couldn't figure out how to administer the air into the tire until I let ALL of the air out of the tire causing it to go completely flat. Luckily I got it aired up before my time ran out.

It started sleeting and freezing rain while I was squatted outside trying to get the air compressor to work. I still had to go to the store for a couple things, get gas, and go by Redbox to return Uncharted. It was a nightmare day. The roads kept getting worse and worse, but luckily they cleared up the closer I got to home.

What takes me 30-35 minutes to get home took me an hour that day.

I sewed a 9 piece cage set Wednesday, then played the sims for a while. I started obsessing over Norman as soon as I got up today, then cut out 2 cage sets that I can hopefully sew up tomorrow. I've been worrying about Norman and playing the sims the rest of the evening. Very boring stuff.

We have to go to town tomorrow and get some KY if Norman has shown signs of improvement. If not we'll be going to the vet.

Well I guess that's all for now. Hopefully tomorrow I have much better news to share. Until then...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here are some pictures of all the joeys from Wednesday:

Cordelia

Dale

Jim

What a day...

Talking about something out of a movie, this was just that.

Just a little back story: We've needed new tires on our car for a couple weeks now, so we called the auto place and had them order some. Well, they got them in yesterday, but couldn't put them on until today. That was fine with us. Well, we've also needed a new battery for the car for a while, but always put it of.

Ok, our right front tire was low today, so we had to air it up before we left. We get it to about 20lbs and decided that would get us to the auto place. We would've aired it up more, but we were using a hand pump, so it was kind of hard. Anyway, we decided to go ahead and go early just in case we needed to stop half way and put some more air in. We get a little over 2 miles down the road and decide to pull over and see how it was doing. So, we pull in to some church driveway and check it out. It seemed to be holding air pretty good, but we wanted to air it up a little more, just to be safe. After we do that, we jump back in the car and get ready to leave. I'm sure you can figure out the rest of this for yourself, am I right? That's right, our battery was dead. We were like in the middle of nowhere (we live a ways out of town) and didn't have either of our phones with us... go figure. After a couple minutes, a guy pulls up and offers to go grab a cell phone for us. Naturally, we said sure. He left and came back about 5 minutes later empty handed. He offered to give us a ride to his place so we could use his phone. We said, "No, that's cool." and just decided to walk back to our house.

After about a mile and a half of walking in the heat, we really started to feel it. So, after our 2 mile walk back, you better believe we were happy to be home. I think we almost cried, lol. We ended up borrowing a car so that we could go get a new battery from Walmart. And can you guess how much an Everstart battery is from Walmart? It was $91 (without tax)! I mean, it's worth it cause we were desperate, but damn man. After we got that, we went back to our car, changed the battery and headed home.

And here we are. Now we're $100 short and still don't have our tires. Better luck tomorrow. Until then, love and peace...

-Megan

Song of the day: Bad Moon Rising by CCR