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Canine Influenza, Oh My.

by Erin on July 23, 2009 in trials & tribulations with Comments Off

Not sure if anyone is familiar with canine influenza (H3N8) but now I sure am.

We had a little incident with the pup and decided to get her into an obedience school. She’s there for 7 days (Tuesday-Friday) when she starts this noise thing, like a backwards sneeze (there is such a thing!). Then, her nose starts running. This is after she had gone to the vet 8 days prior (which cost me $295). So the vet gives us some antihistamine ($14) and an antibiotic ($84) and a bill ($166). Not 7 days later and she’s got green gunk coming out of her nose. So I call the vet. Yep, canine influenza, aka doggy flu. Adding more antibiotics to the mix ($180) and the grand total of vet bills is: $641. Sigh.

On the positive side, she is getting better now and I hope to have her back in school come Tuesday. :)

Death warmed over. Almost.

by Erin on March 4, 2009 in trials & tribulations with 2 Comments

Never fails. A nice 3 day weekend and I get sick. Not only do I get sick, but it snows the most it’s snowed in years, so the kiddo is home too. And it lasts two days. :|

I am still sick. I don’t know what it is. Feels like a mix between a regular cold and a sinus thing. Putting it mildly, I am NOT in the mood for ANYTHING.

Which, is not a good thing because the kiddo has a dentist appointment today. After the last fiasco, and the ability to let him out of there alive, I don’t know how I can survive today’s appointment while sick. On the positive end, it’s a pedodontist visit, so they better be able to handle his fear. He’s got at least one cavity that appeared after his tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, so I think they nicked the bad tooth. Doesn’t bother him, but it bothers me. :(

So all this dentist stuff and school stuff and work stuff is enough to drive me insane — not that I haven’t often been there.

Where is spring already?! I bought a 4 pack of flower bulbs at Costco (god I love Costco!) which included two tulip vases, one mini daffodil vase and one hyacinth vase. All are doing nicely, but the daffs have bloomed. I’ve got even more today! This is the only sign of spring I have. :( Looking past the daffodils on my counter you see the mounds of snow outside. Bleh. Come on spring.