JESSIE'S VEGAS

While visiting a reptile store(one of my newest fav pastimes)I spotted a huge iguana closing his eyes while a customer stroked his head.  "If lizards PURRED he'd be making that sound right now!" I mentioned. "For sure!" the guy in the faded hoody laughed."Sometimes I come in here just to see her. She is actually a female." "Obviously I am new to reptilian ownership, " I explained. "I still can't tell the difference". He laughed again and told me they were addicting creatures. Later, at home, I decided to try the patting the head  trick with Jessie's lizard "Buddy" who I call Kevin Bacon---cuz I'm a child of the 80's. "Mom, did you know when you pet a bearded dragon on the head like that you might be causing him pain?" "But he is closing his eyes and looks like he is enjoying it!" "Mom, that is a common mistake. I did some research and bearded dragons have a third eye on

Last week on Mother's Day I awoke at 4 am and started urinating straight blood. The rest of the week was "hard". In the last month I have been in the ER twice peeing straight blood. I have either a defective bladder sling, hidden kidney stones, kidney infections or all of the above! In the middle of everything, my beautiful daughter Alyssa sent  a portable angel of healing and I was so grateful! It reminded me of a dream I had many years ago about a different "angel". It made me realize that many situations in life come around full circle. The person you maybe helping today ie: your kids, might be the person helping in your tomorrows! July 22, 2020 "When one of our children was young, she suffered from Tourette’s. She not only had auditory and visual tics, but she often threw hour- long tantrums that affected the whole family. We tried a lot of therapy, programs and medications to assist her. Despite all these interventions, it was not until I had a dream t