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November 2013 Moms
cagoldi
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Leaving the baby with family for 5 nights/6 days. Can you help me plan?
cagoldi
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Next week we're going to FL for a wedding. A is not attending and he'll be staying with my dad and SM while we're out of town. I'm trying to figure out what I need to send over there to make it as easy as possible for them to manage. He'll sleep in a PNP that we keep at their house. It's really anyone's guess what he'll eat so I'm sending plenty of both finger foods and purees. Besides the obvious stuff like his medications, toys, clothes, and diapers what should I pack for him?
My dad does have a key to my place if I forget something. He knows where to find our life insurance and other important documents should he need them. I'll leave a list with his medicine regimen, doctors phone numbers, and his schedule. Both my dad and SM are his emergency contacts for DC and the pedi and have permission to sign him in and out, and seek medical treatment.
Anything I am forgetting? I'm afraid we'll get all the way over there and my dad will call me looking for something or with some rather routine matter that I forgot to
go over before we left.
That was pretty long. Sorry.
My dad does have a key to my place if I forget something. He knows where to find our life insurance and other important documents should he need them. I'll leave a list with his medicine regimen, doctors phone numbers, and his schedule. Both my dad and SM are his emergency contacts for DC and the pedi and have permission to sign him in and out, and seek medical treatment.
Anything I am forgetting? I'm afraid we'll get all the way over there and my dad will call me looking for something or with some rather routine matter that I forgot to
go over before we left.
That was pretty long. Sorry.
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Re: Leaving the baby with family for 5 nights/6 days. Can you help me plan?
Have so much fun
I was going to say Tylenol and Benadryl too and indicate the appropriate amounts since they are not on the label.
We are going to put a car seat in one of their cars so they won't have to mess with that, and we'll leave the umbrella stroller. I just realized we should send his little booster seat in case they want to go out to eat.
@mskatiep My dad lives about 10 miles from my house. As it so happens, my mom is going to be visiting for a few days so she will stay here and take care of Sinny (his OCD flares up if he's boarded). It probably would work out better if A could just stay here where he's at home base, but my dad and SM have been looking forward to it so I didn't want to change plans.
He was a sire for a breeder. It's possible he was taken from his mom too soon and that can cause problems. Cornish Rex were bred with Siamese when they were first introduced in the U.S., and OCD is more common in Orientals. Then he was shipped around in a crate all the time, and when he was rescued he was around a lot of other cats. He hates all cats so he really went nuts.
He is not medicated but it may come to that at some point. His evening walks help his anxiety. If he starts having issues he paces. He does figure eights in the living room just walking back and forth and looping around furniture. He will get a hot spot on his tail if we don't keep a close eye on him.
We always had someone stay at the house with him when we went out of town but that wasn't feasible for one trip. He was boarded but I bought 6 spaces and they opened up the adjoining sides so he had the ability to roam. He also had a window and his favorite piece of furniture. We paid the employees to give him a daily massage and lap time 3 times a day. All in an effort to give him as much attention as possible and hope it wouldn't be too much for him. When he came home he was a wreck. He never set foot in that little piece of cat furniture again and went back to excessive grooming and pacing. It took a couple months for him to get back to normal.