We are NOT going to make it!

Shelby is going to be the death of me! Or, if not the death of me, definitely the cause of at least an ulcer.

I don't think the sedatives they gave us are enough and I have expressed my concern about this to the office but they keep giving me alternatives instead of Oking a higher dose or prescribing something more. The problem is that Shelby won't keep the e-collar on when we are not home and when we do let her out of the kennel she still has so much energy and wants to run and play. The problem with her not keeping her e-collar on is that I was worried that she would mess with the bandage over her stiches and yesterday all of my fears came true. Not only did she get the e-collar off again, but she ate the string that ties it on, making it useless, AND she pulled the bandage off her stiches. So now she is at home with only the measly sedative they prescribed and nothing keeping her from picking at her stiches! AHH! I just want to make it to Monday when she gets the stitches out!

Even after she gets the stiches out on Monday we are not out of the clear. The doctor said that the first 4 weeks are the most crucial, but that total recovery time should really be 8 weeks....we can't even make it through the first week!

It's a good thing she is so cute....

Sliced and Diced

Our sweet girl Shelby had surgery yesterday.

She has always had problems with her hind legs and in recent months it just seems to have gotten worse and worse, to the point she couldn't bear weight at all on her right rear leg. We took her in for a consult and were told what we already knew, that she would need surgery. So yesterday she had a femoral plateau leveling osteotomy along with some other stuff that I can't remember the name of. Her main diagnosis was a medial luxating patella, but they had concerns about her femur being curved that were confirmed when they got into surgery which lead to the leveling.

It seems, as odd as it may sound, that the easy part is over. The hard part will be the at least 8 weeks of recovery time. Dr. Keller (who looks EXACTLY like my uncle and is so sweet) said that for the first 4 weeks she needs to "be a rug"...yea. I go today to pick her up at around 3 and I am sooo nervous and scared for the next chapter. If she doesn't stay still and calm for at least these next 4 weeks she could cause the screws and plate in her lower femur to break out of the bone which I'm sure will cause a lot of pain, and another surgery.

Please keep your fingers crossed and send up a prayer for us, we are going to need all the help we can get!

Daddy In Training...

Found!

The missing wedding ring has been found!! Yippee!

Last night we got a call from Seth's grandfather saying that he had found Seth's wedding ring. Of course Seth was astonished and excited and wanted to know where it was. This started off a cute story which his grandfather is known for giving.

"Well, I was sittin on the couch eatin cherrios when I dropped one. Well it fell down in between the cushions, so I reached down to get it, and instead of pulling out a cherrio, I pulled out your wedding ring!"

Yea! We are headed to their house Sunday after church to retrieve it and spend some much needed time with them as well :)

Putting things in Perspective....

Wow....and I thought my day yesterday was bad!?!?

Please be praying for Haiti.

If you would like to follow a really good blog (people we know from church) who is also right in the middle of what is going on, please look here:

http://www.mangine.org/

What a day....

My day did not start off to well, and so far has not ended well, and by the look of things-it's far from being over :(

I had two "small" filling done in October and for some reason I had really bad sensitivity afterwards in those teeth which caused me to go back 3 times to try and fix whatever was wrong. After the last visit and no change I was refered out to a Endodontists, whom I saw this morning. I really liked the office and staff, but I did not like what they had to tell me.... Basically they said I need a root canal on each tooth as well as crowns on them to prevent further damage. What!?!?! How is that possible???

That just adds to money woes lately. I'm actually taking Shelby to the surgeon on Friday for a consult regarding her back legs. Update on that to come later...

Have a busy day at work, yada yada yada

Come home and all is well. Go to dinner at Cassandra's house have a great time. Come home to an empty 6pack of nasal decongestant (pseudoephedrine) on the floor...WTF?!?! So I call the vet and am told that if all 6 were eaten we could be in serious trouble as if one dog ate just 3 pills it could be a lethal dose. CRAP! So I start force feeding hydrogen peroxide and waiting. Ford throws up-Yea! Shelby throws up-Yea! I also talked to Seth and he is pretty sure that there would have only been a max of 4 pills left in the pack, and I found 2 on the floor, so hopefully if any were ingested it was only 2 and now that they've thrown up we should be in the clear! Talk about a scare!

I'm exhausted....

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas Everyone

Here are some of the cookies Mom and I made the other day.....
Sorry in advance, I couldn't get Slide to work, so there are a lot of pictures posted below!







And here are some pictures from our evening at Erin and Chuck's house for Christmas! They had a wonderful meal and it was so nice to visit with them and the rest of the gang!










I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas spent with family and friends!