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Friday, August 10, 2007 I swear it seems to just be getting worse around here. Lucy is now having issues with health and it's just freaking me out. My dog Clementine (about 5 years or so ago) developed an extremely rare and unknown skin problem. It happened right after she lost her life mate Lacey...yeah I said Lacey. We attributed a lot of the skin problem to the depression she got that may have lowered her immune system enough....or so the vet said. Well the other day I notice Lucy just chewing away are her paw....which Clementine used to do all day long to the point they bled. Well I pick Lucy up and her paws bleeding. I inspect her whole paw and can't figure out why she's chewing it. I tell my dad to get the hydrogen peroxide so I can clean it up. As I'm pouring the hydrogen peroxide on her paw I look at her right inner thigh and see these black spots. When I take a closer look it seems to be either a massive ammount of bug bites, or she's nipping at her inner thigh and making herself bleed there as well. So I tell my father he has to take her to the vet tomorrow. I'm not going through loosing another dog to a skin condition and depression. He takes her in and the vet tlls him to put cortizone cream on her thing and make sure she's getting lots of attention. He thinks that this is a result of depression and frustration of no one to play with. How am I dealing with this......not well! I'm stressed beyond beliefe and feel like I'm going through anexity attacks regularly. I know it's not only due to Lucy but it sure isn't helping the issues. We have decided to give Lucy undivided attention to see if this allieveates the problems and if not we'll be getting a new dog. I'm still on the fence about it all. If it comes down to it, getting a dog will be a lot cheaper than taking Lucy to a dermatologist where it's almost whopping $500 a visit. A new dog would be cheaper lol!! We're going to wait and see though.This weekend M and I are going to look at invitations and do our food and cake tasting. I'm also doing my first trial run with my hair. I'm hoping not to have a full on panic attack when it comes to the hair thing. Work has just about killed me I think. I love my job, I love my patients, and for the most part I like my co-workers. However my supervisor (yes the new one) just asked me to reschedule my surgery.....ummmm no! He wants me to move it up yet another month to October or to January. Like I told him I've already moved it up a month from December to November and moving it to January is just out of the question because it's right before my wedding. So I saw my surgeon on Wed. and he wrote me a letter stating basically the same thing. I love my surgeon! So I'm still scheduled for November 1st. On top of this, we're unbelieveable short staffed and starting yesterday we have a new computer program that EVERYONE is having to learn....including the nurses and doctors. This means a typical 30min appt. takes an hour. Stick a fork in me I'm done!!! Labels: I'm Done |
About Myself
I'm a newlywed who got married on March 15,2008.
I'm currently living at home with my mother, husband,
2 dogs, 3 cats, and 5 tortises. We're saving up for
our first how which we'll hopefully buy soon. I'd
love to start our family, but that like everything
comes in it's own time.
I recently lost my father, and am dealing with his
death the best way I know how. Surrounding myself
with the people I love, and enjoying life like he
would have wanted me to.