With just hours away from 2025 I have to say I'm more than happy to leave 2024 in the dust.

It's been a mixed bag. Starting in January I found myself nightly caring for my Nephew's aging greyhound getting about 4 hours sleep at night and having to go to work the next morning. I'm not going into detail how Coal's health declined so quickly as it's been documented in previous journals.

Then came a slew of firsts. The first bladder infection, You reach my age and see blood in your urine you think it's either an infection, kidney stones, or prostate cancer. I got lucky and it was only an infection. Also had a ultrasound performed checking for Kidney Stones. Didn't find any so that's a plus.

Then Coal passed away and I took it really hard. He was the closest I ever came to having a dog of my own. He's in my thoughts daily.

Then came more procedures. Had a cystoscopy performed. Some of you are wondering, what the hell is that? Well I'm going to tell you. It's a procedure where they insert a camera the size of the tip of a pen into the urethra and passed into the bladder. They look for cysts and cancer. Fortunately they didn't find any. Also fortunate they numbed the area. All you out there fantasising about putting little furs down into your willy for pleasure YOU HAVE NO IDEA!

Also had my first prostate exam. If you ever wondered what it was like to be a Muppet, There you go. Why he had to stick his finger up there all the way to the knuckle I'll never know, but muh num a num.

It ain't over yet. Still need a CT Scan in the Spring.

Well here's hoping 2025 will be better.