Friday, August 1
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Just slogging through the day.
It started last night, just after midnight. Roxy was acting very strangely. She showed anxiety, was restless, licking her feet constantly, panting, and when I let her outside she didn't want to go to the bathroom, she wanted to eat grass.
These behaviors continued through the night, and when my husband got up in the morning, Roxy still acted strangely and went outside to eat grass.
Since we are here on the same day that most animals start acting weirdly, the Friday before a long weekend, meaning that if you don't decide to try to see a vet today you're stuck until Tuesday unless you want to pay a huge amount of money for the emergency/weekend rates (vets really have to stop that. Animals suffer and probably die because people can't afford those rates).
So I asked my Sweetie to please take her. They didn't have an appointment, but could try to fit her in, given her strange symptoms, which apparently ceased immediately upon entering the vet clinic.
I asked them to please recheck her for the markers of pancreatitis, since they said it might recur, and for a potential UTI, since she's having some accidents/leaking lately.
Her vitals and bloodwork were all good. In a way, it's good to have the pancreatitis recheck, because when we went through it last fall, her markers really didn't come down a lot after treatment, even though her symptoms improved (lack of appetite). This time, the markers were all normal again, so it's good to know that as a baseline.
Also no UTI, so they chalked up her leakage to just being an older lady.
Well, that was money for...I guess just peace of mind. It's bizarre though, I mean, why was she acting like that? Do I just ignore it next time?
So, my husband dropped Roxy off, I tried to sleep, but that failed as the vet's office called a couple of times with updates (I asked them to do so), and our neighbor asked if I could go over and let his small dog out to pee, and check on his big dog in his outdoor run. I said sure. By then I kind of gave up on sleeping, so I basically didn't sleep last night.
This is what happens whenever the world needs me to be answering questions or going somewhere in the morning. I GO TO SLEEP IN THE MORNING, but the world doesn't care so much.
So my Sweetie made me breakfast, we did chores, we walked over (very close neighbor) and the little dog in the house ran away and hid from us, and the big dog was leery, so I don't know that we achieved our goals. We tried.
Then my husband had all manner of errands to run in the city, but the key to it all was he wanted to drop off a bike to get fixed, and to go rock climbing. I don't think much of it other than getting the mail was related to our household needs. Some of it was for his job, because he offered.
I went to town and picked up Roxy, and she looked very okay and relaxed, not at all like her behavior last night.
I'm wondering again if she's having panic attacks. Some time ago she was panting and acting a bit weird, but it didn't last long that time. This lasted for hours.
I came home, sort of zoned out for a while but decided to still go see River. The young woman with health issues would not be having a lesson, probably because her family is going somewhere for the long weekend.
I will add that traffic everywhere today was nuts.
River had one eye that was puffy because there are now lots of flies, and flies like to drink the salty tears at the corners of horses' eyes, which end up irritating them, and sometimes causing an infection because flies have animal feces all over their legs.
I was kind of done mentally at that point. No sleep, and I apparently didn't have a fly mask at the barn, I might have to drive home and get one...AAAGGGHHHH!
I called my Sweetie, who said he'd get one from home, though that is not like it's just on his way.
I focused on cleaning River's eye and I was able to get him to let me flush it with the hose set on a very gentle mist. It seemed to help, the puffiness went down a lot in the next hour or so.
I worked with him for a while, his lameness was seemingly gone today, but who knows what's going on with that. He wasn't exactly focused, but I tried to do gentle work with him anyhow.
By then R came out to do evening chores, and SHE had a rough day too. She makes most of her money from dog grooming, and today she nicked a "blood tumor" on a sweet, elderly dog. It bled EVERYWHERE, and wouldn't stop bleeding, even though it was a tiny nick. She did her best to finish grooming the dog, had to bath it again to get all the blood off of it, had to try to at least put a gauze pad on the nick and wrap it onto the dog, then had to tell the owners they would need to take it to the vet since it wouldn't stop bleeding.
Then she had to clean her workspace before the next clients came, so they didn't see blood everywhere.
She said that the clients were understanding, that they had even warned her about this blood tumor, their vet said it might burst on it's own or at the least provocation, so R wasn't really "in trouble" with her clients, she just felt really badly about it, and it was gross.
My Sweetie DID find a good fly mask at home, and we all stood around and chatted for a while.
His errand for his job didn't work out either, though nothing specifically bad happened. The materials he was supposed to pick up and take to the work site got picked up by accident by another department in their order, and it's hard to say now where it is, and if they'll bring it to where it belongs.
Then we went home, enriched with a jar of raspberry jelly from R's mom to thank us for the berries we gave her.
We then went for a walk over to our neighbor's to try to meet his dogs while he was there, to see if that helps with them accepting us so we might do better next time in letting the little one out to pee, but the little one was in the house and didn't come out. We met the big dog, and hopefully he's less leery of us.
It was nice to chat with our neighbor. It would be nice if finally we get neighbors that are GOOD people that we can get along with, and not scary and potential serial killers or drug dealers.
It all felt like a very long, very complicated day of just trying to deal with things as they came, not so much proactive and feeling like I got to choose what I was going to do today. Lots of just reacting to the next situation.
Whew.
Just slogging through the day.
It started last night, just after midnight. Roxy was acting very strangely. She showed anxiety, was restless, licking her feet constantly, panting, and when I let her outside she didn't want to go to the bathroom, she wanted to eat grass.
These behaviors continued through the night, and when my husband got up in the morning, Roxy still acted strangely and went outside to eat grass.
Since we are here on the same day that most animals start acting weirdly, the Friday before a long weekend, meaning that if you don't decide to try to see a vet today you're stuck until Tuesday unless you want to pay a huge amount of money for the emergency/weekend rates (vets really have to stop that. Animals suffer and probably die because people can't afford those rates).
So I asked my Sweetie to please take her. They didn't have an appointment, but could try to fit her in, given her strange symptoms, which apparently ceased immediately upon entering the vet clinic.
I asked them to please recheck her for the markers of pancreatitis, since they said it might recur, and for a potential UTI, since she's having some accidents/leaking lately.
Her vitals and bloodwork were all good. In a way, it's good to have the pancreatitis recheck, because when we went through it last fall, her markers really didn't come down a lot after treatment, even though her symptoms improved (lack of appetite). This time, the markers were all normal again, so it's good to know that as a baseline.
Also no UTI, so they chalked up her leakage to just being an older lady.
Well, that was money for...I guess just peace of mind. It's bizarre though, I mean, why was she acting like that? Do I just ignore it next time?
So, my husband dropped Roxy off, I tried to sleep, but that failed as the vet's office called a couple of times with updates (I asked them to do so), and our neighbor asked if I could go over and let his small dog out to pee, and check on his big dog in his outdoor run. I said sure. By then I kind of gave up on sleeping, so I basically didn't sleep last night.
This is what happens whenever the world needs me to be answering questions or going somewhere in the morning. I GO TO SLEEP IN THE MORNING, but the world doesn't care so much.
So my Sweetie made me breakfast, we did chores, we walked over (very close neighbor) and the little dog in the house ran away and hid from us, and the big dog was leery, so I don't know that we achieved our goals. We tried.
Then my husband had all manner of errands to run in the city, but the key to it all was he wanted to drop off a bike to get fixed, and to go rock climbing. I don't think much of it other than getting the mail was related to our household needs. Some of it was for his job, because he offered.
I went to town and picked up Roxy, and she looked very okay and relaxed, not at all like her behavior last night.
I'm wondering again if she's having panic attacks. Some time ago she was panting and acting a bit weird, but it didn't last long that time. This lasted for hours.
I came home, sort of zoned out for a while but decided to still go see River. The young woman with health issues would not be having a lesson, probably because her family is going somewhere for the long weekend.
I will add that traffic everywhere today was nuts.
River had one eye that was puffy because there are now lots of flies, and flies like to drink the salty tears at the corners of horses' eyes, which end up irritating them, and sometimes causing an infection because flies have animal feces all over their legs.
I was kind of done mentally at that point. No sleep, and I apparently didn't have a fly mask at the barn, I might have to drive home and get one...AAAGGGHHHH!
I called my Sweetie, who said he'd get one from home, though that is not like it's just on his way.
I focused on cleaning River's eye and I was able to get him to let me flush it with the hose set on a very gentle mist. It seemed to help, the puffiness went down a lot in the next hour or so.
I worked with him for a while, his lameness was seemingly gone today, but who knows what's going on with that. He wasn't exactly focused, but I tried to do gentle work with him anyhow.
By then R came out to do evening chores, and SHE had a rough day too. She makes most of her money from dog grooming, and today she nicked a "blood tumor" on a sweet, elderly dog. It bled EVERYWHERE, and wouldn't stop bleeding, even though it was a tiny nick. She did her best to finish grooming the dog, had to bath it again to get all the blood off of it, had to try to at least put a gauze pad on the nick and wrap it onto the dog, then had to tell the owners they would need to take it to the vet since it wouldn't stop bleeding.
Then she had to clean her workspace before the next clients came, so they didn't see blood everywhere.
She said that the clients were understanding, that they had even warned her about this blood tumor, their vet said it might burst on it's own or at the least provocation, so R wasn't really "in trouble" with her clients, she just felt really badly about it, and it was gross.
My Sweetie DID find a good fly mask at home, and we all stood around and chatted for a while.
His errand for his job didn't work out either, though nothing specifically bad happened. The materials he was supposed to pick up and take to the work site got picked up by accident by another department in their order, and it's hard to say now where it is, and if they'll bring it to where it belongs.
Then we went home, enriched with a jar of raspberry jelly from R's mom to thank us for the berries we gave her.
We then went for a walk over to our neighbor's to try to meet his dogs while he was there, to see if that helps with them accepting us so we might do better next time in letting the little one out to pee, but the little one was in the house and didn't come out. We met the big dog, and hopefully he's less leery of us.
It was nice to chat with our neighbor. It would be nice if finally we get neighbors that are GOOD people that we can get along with, and not scary and potential serial killers or drug dealers.
It all felt like a very long, very complicated day of just trying to deal with things as they came, not so much proactive and feeling like I got to choose what I was going to do today. Lots of just reacting to the next situation.
Whew.
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Date: 2025-08-03 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-04 07:02 am (UTC)Her behavior was so strange, and given that it was Friday going into a long weekend, I felt that it was worth it, instead of the chance of her being very ill and needed an emergency trip instead.