Long Weekend... in 2019

It’s been a long weekend already.

I have Monday off for the holiday, but I ended up having to take Friday off as well.

On Wednesday one of my dogs just wasn’t himself. I figured he had a tummy ache. He seemed fine Thursday morning when I left for work. But when I got home he was holding his head to the side. At first I figured he had tweaked a pinched nerve in his neck area bc that’s happened before. So I put him in a warm bath to see if that would help. During the warm bath I realized he really didn’t want me touching one of his ears. Unfortunately it was after 5 at that point and my vet and the vet that I take the goats to were both closed. So I gave him some benadryl and called my vet first thing the next morning.

So we got ready and took him in. He had funk and infection in his ear. We decided that with him, ear drops just aren’t very doable so they put him under to flush his ears really good. Of course while he’s knocked out they’re checking him out really good and discover that his very back molar is abscessed and that’s probably what caused the infection in the first place. But you’d never be able to see it if he weren’t knocked out, so that worked out. So they yanked the tooth while he was out and gave him a steroid shot and sent him home. He threw up blood later that afternoon, but he’s been fine since. He probably just swallowed a lot of blood after the tooth pull.

He seems to be a lot better which is the important part, but after taking him, meds for him, and meds for the cat, I spent $300. Wasn’t really planning on that. I had already spent $140 on meds for my other dog this week. I feel like I’m running a senior citizens home for dogs lately.

Last updated July 10, 2020