What's With The Stomach Issues

So Lisa told me last night that the dog was still kind of having diarrhea off and on and to possibly watch his diet. Diet? What diet? She eats one thing. And so this morning got off to a rousing start when I woke up early to take her out for her morning poop. But I had to pee first so I put her down. And I put her down inside the shower. I don't know why I did that really, just sort of a reflex cautionary action I suppose. Heck it only takes me a minute to pee anyway. And so what happened? He pooped right in the shower. And pee'd too, all over her leash. Sigh. What a way to start the day... cleaning poop out of the shower. Oh well, at least I could use TP and flush the damn thing in the toilet. It WAS a bit soft to be sure, but not abnormally so. And so I didn't think much of it and Johnnie and I headed off to school as per Tuesday morning routine. I must admit, my heart buoyed with happiness watching the kids play together in the front yard while waiting to get let in. Ahh that's their natural state. Just playing, having fun just running around. They're not complaining about masks, or lines, or getting their temperature or even that blasted daily pass you have to generate before even getting in line.  They're just happy to be playing with each other again... while we parents stand in line for them. The way it's supposed to be. And so I came home after Johnnie gets in and what do I see in the living room? Claire's semi-liquid poop tracking all over the place. Sigh. I guess her stomach isn't so good yet after all.  I guess I'll be monitoring for my watch these next few days.

I did read somewhere were you can actually give your puppy a bland meal to help calm down her gastro system. That means boiled chicken and rice. Lucky for Claire, I had made rice last night and I bought chicken this past weekend simply to add to my chow mein. I guess it isn't for me anymore I guess. So this chicken and rice mini-bowl is what I gave the dog for lunch and it's funny that for dinner she and Johnnie pretty much ate the same thing LOL. Johnnie almost didn't get to eat his regular fare too. He ate so much in the afternoon... and I mean he was snacking almost every hour... that his stomach finally got upset right after the Panda Express meal that he barely ate. I think the nutella sandwich on brioche that he ate an hour before that had something to do with it. All I know was that I was in the barbecue area making MY dinner, which was Italian sausage, trying to reprise our routine from a year ago. And when I came back, Johnnie told me that he had messed up. And he confessed that he went to poop and since I wasn't around he tried to wipe his butt himself. Naturally, he is not nearly as thorough as he needed to be and of course his poop was diarrhea-like as well. The result? It was as if he pooped through his pants. Poop all over his underwear. Sigh. If I'm not cleaning the dog's poo, I'm cleaning Johnnie's. Is this some conspiracy for me to be focused on cleaning shit this evening?? Now I'm wondering whether I should be eating something... is there some stomach bug going around? You know how susceptible I am to that stuff... Anyway the good news is that dog and Johnnie seemed to have gotten over the stomach issues somewhat by the end of the evening. The dog didn't poop when I walked her because I'm sure there was hardly anything TO poop. And boy and dog knocked off to sleep rather quickly this evening too. This week I had that FCC Telehealth grant thing to write up and I'm sure it's important but I wasn't going to get to it until later on this week let's face it. I may have gotten caught up on sleep once and for all last night but I still knocked off early myself. We'll just do a re-boot tomorrow.