(Proof My Dog is On More Medicine Than An Old Man)
The last few days have been pretty calm here at the manor, which is good considering last week was super stressful. Wednesday night it became fairly obvious that our dog Sarah was very ill. So Thursday we took her to the vet, and we discovered in the last few months she had lost an insane amount of weight. Now Sarah was very pudgy before but we hadn't put her on any kind of a diet. And we hadn't necessarily noticed the weight loss because she has so much fur! The doctor terrified us because she told us she believed it could be something serious like cancer. You don't necessarily realize how much your dog means to your family until you think about losing them. We were nervous wrecks! They did a full work up on Sarah, including x-rays and blood work. Ultimately, they determined she had a bladder infection, ear infection, and hypothyroidism (meaning that her thyroid is not producing enough hormone). It is a common disease for golden retrievers, and it is responsible for a lot of her symptoms & is very treatable. But the appointments and medicines ended up costing us about $600 dollars. Luckily, we had the money from A.'s promotion, but it was our whole vacation fund. Le sigh. But we're just grateful we had the money at all.
Sarah is finally doing better today, but her bladder infection gave her so much grief over the weekend. No matter how many times we took her outside, she always felt like she had to go to the bathroom, even though she couldn't actually go. So she would spend hours pacing through the house in a panic and it was so hard to see her so upset. And then the antibiotics were upsetting her stomach, so she was vomiting after every meal. So basically I spent all weekend pacing the floors right along with her, and trying to keep her medicine down.
Then, Sunday night I got into the car to run an errand, only to find out our battery was dead! And not because I had left anything on, but because my old battery had finally given out. So we had to replace that on top of the money we had already spent on Sarah! It was not a good week for our pocket book...
But we are trying not to concentrate on our ruined vacation plans or empty pocketbook. So we've been chilling at the house and catching up on some of our favorite shows on the DVR: Community, The Soup, Office, Modern Family, and Justified. Plus, we are just so grateful to see our goldie feeling better, and acting like her happy go lucky self again. She makes us laugh.
4 comments:
I have lost several pets in my lifetime...it never gets easier...never. I sometimes felt foolish at how emotional I got, but they become a part of your family so you sacrifice to help them and grieve when you lose them. I'm sorry to hear about your lost vacation...but I'm happy to hear Sarah is feeling better.
Poor puppy :( When my pup, Jack was a baby just home from the shelter, he was HORRIBLY sick. To the point that the vet was preparing me for potentially losing him. I had to wake up in the middle of the night to wipe his nose so he could breathe, come home from work at lunch to give him medicine, feed him frozen lima beans by hand... it was heartbreaking, but it completely bonded us. I love both of my dogs so much, but something about nursing him back to health just brought our relationship to a whole different level, as goofy as that sounds!! I hope your precious girl bounces back completely and your pocket book doesn't bounce at all ;)
poor sarah! i am so glad that she is feeling much better and you guys were able to pay to make her feel better. our pets are SO important to us that the pet almost always outweighs the cost!
xo
Poor poor Sarah Mcfluff! I'm so glad she's ok. How awful. Plus the cost of vets is SO expensive. It's so hard to see our fur babies sick.
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