{"id":3220,"date":"2013-11-14T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2013-11-13T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T17:33:27","slug":"blue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/2013\/11\/14\/blue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue is not sleeping. She has severe degenerative arthritis in her spine and hips and I think she is losing her sight. It&#8217;s either her eyes or her mind. Regardless, neither of us is sleeping and I am exhausted. She is my girl, so I also worry about her constantly and the vet is at our house every week. I was sitting up with her last night at 1:00 a.m. thinking bedtime has become a disaster, an absolute fiasco, so to entertain myself I decided to listen to This American Life. 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She has severe degenerative arthritis in her spine and hips and I think she is losing her sight. It&#8217;s either her eyes or her mind. Regardless, neither of us is sleeping and I am exhausted. She is my girl, so I also worry about her constantly and the vet is at our house every week. I was sitting up with her last night at 1:00 a.m. thinking bedtime has become a disaster, an absolute fiasco, so to entertain myself I decided to listen to This American Life. Ira Glass soothes me. 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