Well, the last two weeks of school were SUPER busy and wacky. So many crazy, sad, and good things happened!
THE GOOD
I had some amazing baby showers which I will talk about in another post....
THE CRAZY (meaning life's little things that when they add up make you crazy!)
My little girl Jordan, who many of you know, is a former student of mine who I mentor, ended up in the hospital with appendicitis! She is now 18 and a senior in high school (not so little anymore), but luckily she knew something was wrong and drove herself to the hospital before school started that day. They operated on her that night, and she was home the next day for recovery. I went and saw her the next day and as people are after surgery, she was sore and tired, but healthy and in good spirits. She has now recovered and is back in school.
The other crazy thing was that during all my driving around during that last week, one of my tires went flat, so on my way home from the doctor after a routine check, I stopped in at the tire company to have them check it out and possibly patch it. They said the one tire was irreparable (fixed by a gas station agent one year ago....I guess in a way that is not good for tires). The recommended I replace the front two tires altogether!!! My plan to cook dinner for myself went by the wayside as I sat in the restaurant next to the tire company and ate some quick Mexican food (a pregnant woman has to eat!) while I waited for the tires to go on.
THE SAD
During all the craziness with Jordan, I woke up the morning I was supposed to visit her and my cat was literally lifeless on the living room rug. I picked her up and she was like a rag doll. She would meow like she was in pain, but wouldn't move her body at all. I tried to feed her food but she wouldn't eat and she wouldn't drink any water either. I called Charles and asked him if he noticed any strange behavior from her the day before (since he was home) and he didn't. I called the vet and they asked me to bring her in right away. She is now almost 14 years old, and the reality that she might be dying crossed my mind many times. The doctor examined her and wanted to run some tests. They gave her fluids to re-hydrate her and sent me home with her and some antiobiotics. With the fluids, she was acting much more lively, but still not herself (not eating, but now drinking). Charles bought her some tuna fish and she ate that. The doctor called back a few days later for another test, but all results came back clean. So the good news is that nothing is really wrong, but the bad news is that we don't know what caused this. She is definitely on the mend now and is back to her usual, slow, but steady self.
We also took the opportunity to take our dog, Simon to the vet as his back legs have been giving him trouble for a month or two now. It seemed his use of them have deteriorated so quickly. From a lively, happy dog who runs laps at the park, he moved into being a dog who can barely go up and down stairs, whose back legs slide out from underneath of him on our hardwood floors (like Bambi on ice), and who seems to have little control of his backleg movement. Simon had a previous history with arthritis which we have been treating with glucosamine and easing up on his required exercise. I went in to the vet with him and the doctor told me at once that the signs were not good. He said that the movement of the legs were not arthristis related because Simon didn't show any signs of pain. Also he saw that it affected both legs almost evenly. The vet thought that it could be three things: a spinal injury, a spinal tumor, or a form of doggie multiple sclerosis. Considering our family history with MS, I was devestate and completely torn apart by hearing any of these options. And considering we have twins on the way, the idea of spending the kind of money we would need to treat any of these problems was completely overwhelming to me. Let's just say I had a good "third trimester" pregnany cry that entire day. We are still waiting for x-ray results to be analyzed by a specialist before we know what exactly Simon has to deal with and what options we will have. That little guy is truly our first child....Oh goodness...
3 comments:
Seems like Simon and Meece know that they need to make room for more kids. They have been your children for so long....
Here's a great website I have just started ordering a few things from:
http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/
Also, with my Gracie, she was not climbing the stairs either and not showing much energy. I have an Enagic water ionizer and give her ionized alkaline water and she perked up amazingly. (see the testimonies, including my own on www.kangen4pets.com)
And lastly, I now feed her my homemade 'doggie meatloaf' and she is looking and doing so much better. She gets a good dry food in the AM; and then a slice of doggie meatloaf in the PM: ground turkey; egg; 1 cup of oatmeal; and 1 cup of barely steamed fresh organic veggies, cut up (carrots, peas, potatoes, broccoli, spinach, squash, yams, etc.); sliced fresh garlic. Mix together as usual and bake for 1 hr at 350.
Hope any of this helps.
To Anne: I know....I have been thinking of that...and it is weird and sad to see the "changing of the guard." I think the hardest part is the resolution that we won't pay for any drastic medical treatments at this time for either of them due to the fact that they are both older, and that we have two new beings that will need our financial resources. That was the hardest thing to deal with. I felt like I was giving up on them in a way. We still don't know any diagnosis for Simon yet so we'll see what our options are.
To Gail: I had read some information about the doggie MS and they were saying that the symptoms can be treated by making some homemade doggie food which sounded very similar to what you are doing. As I said, we are waiting to see what the diagnosis is before we change anything. We'll keep you posted!
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