Bargain Healthcare

My leg is not broken, so I've got that going for me. The Kinesio tape has pulled most of the bad bruise out of the  shin area and it's stopped hurting now that the bruise is superficial. The foot is another matter. I ran into my acupuncture doctor at the Sam's Club and she pointed at the wreckage in dismay. I told her the story; luckily in her view, OoA#2 can do no wrong, and she was not mad at him for dragging me off. Even though she's pretty sure he broke my foot. "Immobilize it" is her decree. Because there's no visible bruising and I can take some weight on it, she's pretty sure it's stress fracture type breaks from the foot getting twisted, and I will need to keep it taped up for about four weeks at least. Going to the pool is pretty great though, by the time I walk down the lane and back the foot stops hurting. I'm glad I have the daily water to move around in.
We bartered OaA#2's fixit skills for some extensive dental work that had to be done on his fat ginger cat. The poor thing had some type of very strong thin string lodged high on one of his canines, and it gave him a terrible abcess. The tooth had to be removed and surgery done. Luckily his vet is awesome; she is a cat specialist and knows we are both job deficient, and had failed gutters on her house. So the fella has two weekends of gutter repair, the cat has many hundreds of dollars of oral surgery and medicine, and the vet has a home with lovely pristine eyebrows. It was her idea to barter and such a huge relief. I am hoping it is a sign our luck is turning. I have been working very hard on re-doing my state hospital application form, and such a nightmare of typing you can't imagine, all for a job that is full-time no benefits bad hours but dammit a job. If I could just get one of these bum feet in a door somewhere.
I was elated this morning to find the ginger avenger in the back yard. The man next door had an aggressive calico who regularly came over just to beat up my two smaller cats. They started moving their territory farther away, which has been really distressing to me; I have this wonderful yard and I want them to stay home! The people who have been living there recently moved out and the calico is gone. It's taken a week for my cats to realize they can be in their own yard. I hope they stake it out. Old lady dog spends less than ten minutes a day in the yard doing her business, so she is no help with menacing strays. The cat vet says I should get traps from the shelter and box up the mean ones for the pound, and give car rides home to the ones with tags so they will be traumatized by coming to my yard and stay out. I feel like a BB gun on one pump would be more effective and make me look less crazy. Do they still make pump-style BB guns? I bet not. Paintballs are too hard, I know that.