Sunny, new jobs and New Years?

Some of you will remember the adventure Sunny and I had two years ago on New Years day. I had just accepted a job at Glen Lake and had that hound dog, Lucas, for less than 2 weeks and Sunny comes up with some infection that has her not eating or drinking for 2 days, and eventually vomiting at the foot of my bed at 2am on New Years day. I fret til about 8:00 am and call emergency care where a wonderful vet, Dr. Peck (who kept calling Sunny "your friend") ultimately made her all better (of course, the final charge for all that was about $1200!)

Well, here it is two years later. I am about to start ANOTHER new job with the Traverse Bay Area ISD, it is almost New Years and I am out in the backyard shoveling snow with Lucas and Sunny playing happily. As I finish up, I see fresh blood in the snow! Yikes. I check the indestructible Lucas (cuz he can get beat up or torn up and never a peep!). Nope. He seems fit as a fiddle! Sunny, too, doesn't seem in pain or unhappy. But as I follow the trail, it is Sunny and her back paw is a-bleeding.

I get her in the house, on the floor, but she has got so much hair! I try to stop the bleeding, but it just keeps flowing. Shoot! Call emergency - no Dr. Peck - but a great office staff who say "bring her on in". They did have to sedate her, and keep her overnight (poor Lucas, he was a quite lost with no 'mama Sunny' to beat on!), but thankfully, no surgery.

She is home, resting but very perky. She has lost a nail - they are not sure it will 'grow' back. They told me this happens frequently with Golden Retrievers. Thankfully, we are only a few hundred dollars poorer for the adventure and, this time, New Years day is still ahead of us! I am amused with the timing - how many more years can I expect all this excitement and flurry of activity from Sunny Day, I wonder?

Trish, my trusty photographer, is gone for the weekend, so no photos of Sunny Day and her paw (covered with a zip lock bag!).

Maggie