Update...

Well, it has been a busy 2 weeks here, so I wanted to pop in now that I have a minute, and update some....

Kent has gone back to school, and is having fun being in the 7th grade. He got his reading diagnostic's test back, and this child of mine who just 2 and 1/2 years ago thought reading was retarded scored 12.9+!!!! That means he has a reading level above a high school graduate!!! Holy Cow!!! I am so totally proud of him, infact this week he checked out "The Count of Monte Cristo", and told me this AM that it is the best book he has ever read... go figure, my kid LOVES the classics!!! He is still "grounded", but he did help with yard work this past weekend to earn some TV/Video game time, and he actually spent some of that time reading. I am just so over joyed that he seems to be finally getting it about school and grades. He is still having a hard time following his "schedual" for personal care, so he has to stay grounded til he gets it, but giving him stuff to do to earn time with his tv and stuff seems to be working a little... We will see how it goes....

One of the other reasons I have been so busy is that BB had to have heartworm treament, and we brought her home on the 1st, and she was a little out of it, and was sorta swollen on her right side, but they told me that was normal. Friday I had to call the vet cuz the swelling got a little worse, he told me to give her some Rimadil, and keep an eye on her. Saturday and Sunday the swelling got worse and worse I mean she literally looked like a hunch back, and she wasn't even able to whine enough to wake us up to let her out, so she pottied on the floor... well on Monday (Labor Day), I noticed that her teeth were chattering and it was pretty warm here.. about 80, and she was hardly walking at all. I couldn't get her to eat unless it was canned puppy food, and I had to put it in my hand to get her to eat it. By Monday night she was looking even worse, and I could tell she was HOT, I brought her in the house, put her in a kennel, and turned a fan on her. By midnight she wanted out, and since it was pretty cool I let her go back out. Tuesday AM when I got up, she looked so bad I just knew I had to take her in. I called the vet, and they told me to be there at 12. So at about 11 I started getting her ready to go, and she was so lethargic she was stumbling like she was drunk, and she was having a lot of trouble breathing. She wouldn't get in the van on her own, and when I put her in, she just layed right down... not like her at all, that girl LOVES to go for rides. By the time I got her to the vet she was gasping for air, and wouldn't move on her own at all. When we went in the office, she just fell out right on the floor. They rushed her back to a room, and about 10 minutes later the vet comes out to show me that tehy pulled 10cc's out of the hump on her back. He told me that she had gotten an abcess, and that her fever was 105.9. I just started bawling, and he told me that they wanted to keep her, put her on anitbiotics, and give her fluids because she was really dehydrated. So I left her there, and called them about 5 to check up on her, they told me her fever was coming down, but they were going to try to get more out of the abcess. The next morning I called, and he told me that he got an additional 20 cc's out the night before whe they drained it, and that he still wanted to keep her one more night. Well the office closes early on wenesdays ( 1 PM), and about 4:30 the vet calls me and tells me that she was going down hill fast, not moving her right leg, and not getting up at all, so he wanted to cut into the spot and put a drain in it. Well, a little after 6 he called me and told me that they got over a cup of fluid out of it, and that it was one big one and about 10 little ones around it. He also told me that they were filled with gas so when he popped them, they let the stuff out, and it smelled horrid, they also got some fibrous tissue lumps out of it that were pretty big.... YUCKY!!! He put 3 drain tubes in her hip, and I went to see her Thursday, and she looked so sad. I went up because they couldn't get her to eat, and they thought if I tried maybe she would eat for me. She did, but not that much. I have to tell ya it was breaking my damn heart to see her like that... So, the vet and I talked, and decided that it was best if she stayed with them until the drains came out so that our other dogs wouldn't bother her to much, so she gets to come home today if all goes well with the drain removal. I have to say that I was pretty pissed about this whole thing and they know it to. See I expected them to shave her where they had to do the injections (they do one on each hip that go all the way through the muscle to right next to the spine) and I told them when I dropped her off that she had gotten out that weekend, and had been in the swamp, and I hadn't had a chance to bath her. So I was a little supprised when went to get her, and all they had done was pour surgical scrub on her and then did the injections. I KNOW that is what caused this abcess, she was full of germs from playing in the swamp, and then they pump all that poison into her, and I can almost put money that she got some sort of bacteria off the needle since the abcess was under the muscle, and right near her spine. Needless to say all I am going to have to pay for is the meds, and they decided to start shaving and then scrubing the dogs getting this treatment from now on. Go figure, it takes my dog almost dying for them to change something like that. The vet told me he had never seen anything like that happening before, ahh hence my name change to "Murphy"!! LOL I will be so happy to have her back, and all the other pups miss her to!!

As far as I go, I did some research, and decided to try a Soy cycle this month, just to see what happens. It is supposed to behave like Clomid when you take it, so we will see... I have been noticing some "talking" between my ovaries the last 3 days since I stopped the soy, so I will just have to wait and see. I am going in to see my PCP for my yearly work up, and there are a few things I am going to ask her to do... one is check my thyroid, because it has been sorta high, normal, but on the high end of normal, and when I was going through my records, I noticed several times that it was over 3, and since that is the new high, I think there is something to it... that would also explain sooo many other things that have gone on with my body in the last almost 18 years, so I am really going to push the issue. I found my old Infertility records, so I am going to drop those off to her so that she can look at them and add that info to my letter to the ins. co. I really hope that this cycle with the soy will work, but if not I am going to keep doing it til I get back into the RE.

Well, I have a ton of stuff to do today... trying to get ready for Ms. Ophelia to make her landfall, so have to pick up the yard and all that fun crap... UGH that is the only part I hate about living here!!! I hope we are still here in a few days... God knows we need the rain, but not the 15 freaking inches they are calling for!! So, I am off for now.....