Thursday, October 23, 2008

Losing one of beloved


I haven't been around in awhile, a lot going on, so I will get you caught up. The most important news is that we had to put down our 12 year old. I swear, it is so hard, you almost want to say you will never have another dog again because doing that hurts so much. But, we have always said the joy we get from them and the long time we have with them out-weighs the bad. We have also said we never want them to suffer and that's where we were with her. It's the first time we have actually made the decision. With our other two, the time was picked for us, they were in a crisis state and we had no choice. This time it could have been any time, but she really wasn't doing well at all, but that doesn't make it any better. Even though it would have been awful to find her, I many times wished she could have gone in her sleep, peacefully.

I have been trying to figure out how the other dogs are taking it. Chrissy has been cuddling with me more, but she does that when I don't feel good and I haven't all week. Max has been off hiding in corners and we hope he doesn't think we got rid of Monica and he's next. Daisha has been getting into trouble looking for attention and we figure they are all reacting to what's happened. I hope they are going to be OK when we leave next weekend, but since we have someone staying at the house the whole time I think they will be OK.

So we have had a rough week. We did it on Monday. I hope now after having to give Gracie away, and losing Tess and Monica, that we are good to go for a long while with our other 3. Our next oldest is 71/2 and then 4 and then 2. I do not want to have to go through that again for awhile God willing!

We got a bit of good new this week, WE GOT SUPERBOWL TICKETS!! I couldn't believe it! Months ago, Andy enrolled us in the raffle that they give for the 1% of tickets that are available to the public. It's like winning the lottery which is what we did for tickets. What makes it special is that the superbowl is going to be here in Tampa so we will be able to enjoy all the pre superbowl stuff that happens that week.

We leave next week for our away game and we are getting so excited. We got to see the lion king and we're going to some nice restaurants. If it's as half as nice as our Atlanta trip it will be great.

I have had some excitement with my health, first off my thyroid was way off, so we doubled up on the meds there and hopefully that will help. Something has got to help with the weight I have gained, I am at the top of any kind of accepting and I really don't like it, but I am trying not to freak. My pictures look horrible and I need to lose some of it, I feel like I am gaining every day and I don't understand why.

The other thing was my vitamin D was low and the doc sent me a script for 50,000iu's of it and she could have ultimately killed me. The last thing I need to do with sarc is take vitamin D. She could have thrown me into a horrendous flaire. Needless to say, I am looking for another doctor. I had been wanting to anyway as I didn't think we were on the same page, so this just made me do it right away.

There were other things I wanted to vent about, but they will have to wait another day as I am tired.

Good Night
Melissa

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