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
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We miss you and look forward to a great 2011! Mary is working on a big New Year's Eve dinner, making chili for 15 people. We may set the clocks ahead three hours so we can celebrate before all the "seniors" fall asleep. Peace, Max
Maggie, how fun to read your blog! I had not heard about your difficulties last year with Sunny so that was news and now this year, again!!! How about going on a cruise next New Years and taking the dogs to the kennel!! ( by the way, is Lucas a dog?? and what is going on at Glen Lake Schools????) your Empire friend, carol peterson
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