April 22, 2010

Life suddenly became complicated around here! My slobbering is worse today…but we gotta get some things done too.

Mamaw and Poppy went to the store together and got the groceries. They came home, put them away, and Mamaw left to do errands. Poppy left to go play golf. I spent hours in the kennel—slobbering.

When Mamaw got home, she got on the phone to Jessica, my Vet. Yep, they’re gonna take me in at 4:30 p.m. Boy, it took a long time there and I really didn’t want to be there at all. Mamaw kept trying to wipe my mouth with a towel. Jessica weighed me—I’m 21.3 lbs. Then she took x-rays of me. Now, talk about an unusual arrangement! She was feeding me during the x-rays! Well, I gotta take some medicine cause Dr. Jessica says I have a lot of gas! And on top of that, we gotta run to Hy-Vee and get some Pepsid—she wants me to take that too! Good grief—what we have to go through. And we don’t know why yet. This is an attempt to make things better for me so it’s a watch and wait thing. If I begin to vomit, I gotta go right back there so please God help me not to throw up!

And so I’ve been hand-fed, hand-watered and gotten all my medication for the night. Mamaw asked Poppy if our visit cost a fortune and she nearly fainted when he told her how much it was. I’m pretty special to them though so we will work it out…