I've been SO sick! + concert fun!

So the last week and a half have been HELL! I've been so incredibly sick. I'm just now finally starting to feel normal again! I've had a lot going on in my life lately. I did in fact get to go to that Matchbox Twenty concert I mentioned in my last blog post! It was friggin amazing! I actually got to meet Kyle, the guitar player..he was a nice guy! I even have a pic to prove it!

the problem was, I had already been feeling a little under the weather, but in order to meet the band I had to wait outside in the FREEZING cold (think like 5 degrees) for like 2 hours. Was totally worth it, but didn't help with me being sick! I ended up going to the doctor and found out I had the flu and an ear infection..JOY!

On top of my recent illness, two days before the show, I went to say hi to the rats and noticed blood in the cage. I immediately started to panic- when I see a situation like this, I allow myself 5 seconds to panic then I push it out of my head and deal with the problem. So my first thought was Sandy's huge tumor had ruptured--I checked her and she was fine. Then I checked my older lady Dee, she was fine too. Then I grabbed Lucy and noticed she had a decent sized circular wound right near her vaginal opening. It seemed rather recent and I couldn't tell if it was a ruptured abcess, a bite mark, or a ruptured tumor (unlikely cause I hadn't seen anything and she's fairly young still). So first order of business was to clean it up and inspect it. With some help from an online forum I'm a part of we decided that it was probably an abcess. I have been keeping it cleaned up and the hole is really small now so it's healing up great, but it gave me quite a scare. I was really scared because it was so closed to her vagina that it could cause some serious problems like infection or trouble urinating. But all seems to be well with her and she's on the mend.

Sandy's tumor is just..ugh..I know I mention it every time. But I think I may have to make the decision sometime in the next week or 2. It's just so rough for her now :( She's having trouble getting up and down ramps and stuff now. So we'll see how it goes.

I'm going to film this weeks Friday Fact's tomorrow, I think I'm going to do a video about the best litter and bedding for rats..hopefully I won't have any issues uploading like I have been. That's all for tonight.

Daily Boggles:

• I've been watching a lot of Survivorman, incase I ever get lost in the wilderness (hahaha..I don't like outside)..but it's cool to see how people survive.
• I woke up with a horrible migraine this morning, ugh..I hate this time of year- the weather can never decide whether it wants to be hot or cold.
• I finally cleaned my room up really good today- it needed it! THEN my stupid shelf/clothes rack fell in my closet! 1 step forward 2 back- RIGHT?! ugh!