Well Miss Bailey made it through the surgery fine, thank you God!! She was very sore for the first couple of days, even with the pain meds, and would stand kind of hunched over and was very subdued. I was supposed to keep her quiet and no jumping on or off furniture, running, etc. At first it was really easy, but now that she's recovering it's a bit more difficult! But her stitches look good to me, and she seems comfortable and pretty much back to her usual puggy self. The stone analysis came back as being a struvite stone, which from what I've read means that it was probably caused by the bladder infection, not the other way around. All of the pets are now on filtered water and Bailey is on a *month* of antibiotics. We have the dogs on a prescription diet per the vet, but they both started itching like crazy only a couple of days in after starting it. I tried to do some research on that... I have come to be very suspicious of veterinary nutrition advice after my experiences in the equine side of things! :-/ The prescription dog food is high in fat and sodium and has a lot of corn in it. Umm - how is that good for them?? My plan is to finish out the bag for Bailey only, to make sure we get her pee ph lower, and while she's on the antibiotics. After that I will switch her back to Wellness, and we will keep adding wet food and water to it so we are sure she gets more fluids. As best I can tell, making sure she doesn't get more bladder infections is the key to her not getting any more stones!
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| Lily blooming in our backyard. Everything is absolutely gorgeous everywhere you look ~ spring has definitely sprung! |
At the same time as the situation with Bailey and Mario, my car was repeatedly not starting and needing to be jumped. This has been going on for awhile at a sporadic rate, and then more recently it was dying roughly once a day. Today while Mario went to Santa Barbara for work, I took the car to the shop to be looked at and walked home. That was not in my schedule for the day, as I have 5 horses to catch up on that fell behind the schedule, and I wanted to go in and get another (final?!) beta draw. That will have to wait until tomorrow.
And finally, last night when Randy came by to watch the game with Mario, a pipe broke in the kitchen wall... water spraying everywhere inside the sink cabinet and the wall. They turned off the water to the whole house, and Mario was up at the butt crack of dawn to go to Home Depot and get some stuff to try to temporarily fix it. It worked, we were able to take showers this morning, and he is going to try to replace the whole pipe asap. To be honest, though, we need to get the entire house re-piped, as the plumbing is from around 1950. That's what - 7-10k? Urrmm... yeah, not sure how that will happen. We might need to do it one pipe at a time for the next 10 years.
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| Flowers in a vase at Buttonwood winery |
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| Setting up lunch at Roblar with the birthday girl |
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| Mario hugging "Big Ben" the 400 year old oak tree |
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| Sossity hugging Big Ben |
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