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Hey gang. :) Just a quick update. We're home. Molly is home. Yep, glad to see us. I'm exhausted and not sure if I've even covered half the the updates from while gone. I'll have to do more on that tomorrow as I just hit an energy wall and heading to bed. Nothing computes up in the brain any more today. :)
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Oh doh... I think I just said "WELCOME HOME WE MISSED YOU" on the wrong thread! So pleased you are back with Miss Molly by your side :D:D Have a good sleep, hope you don't have work first thing tomorrow :D
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Welcome back!! HOpe you get some good rest. I am sure Molly is so happy to see you.
Whew, nope, today is a Family Day holiday here in Ontario and boy am I glad. I'm not even sure how I'm going to manage tomorrow going into the office, but my email shows that I need to be there, so guess I'll bit the bullet and go in.
I either got bit by mosquitoes or sand fleas, (i think mosquitoes) and boy did I have a reaction to them. All of them have swelled up like crazy and are huge. I can just imagine if this is how our babies feel when they are all itchy that it is just excruciating. ugh. The vacation though was fabulous, speed boats and snorkeling and swimming, too much food, it was all good. Just what the doctor ordered.
Molly is looking pretty good, although I wasn't happy since it appears they didn't put the cone on her to keep her from chewing at her tail. Our daughter called when she picked her up and said it looked painful and raw, so we suggested holding a cold water filled paper towel around it. That usually helps and she hasn't bothered it since we've been home. I'll keep an eye on her though, since I want it to fully heal and hopefully fill in with some more hair. Her tail has never been as fluffy as I'd like but that is because she has always sucked it I think. So, hoping that if we can keep her distracted from it, maybe, just maybe we can get some filler hair growing long enough so she can't get to the actual tail bone itself.
I'm glad to be home, but it's super cold here and they had more snow while we were away. Walkways are messy and a bit icy, so I will be staying inside for the most part.
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
P.S. vets office just called to check on Molly's tail and confirmed they didn't put the cone on her. I told them that I had mentioned that when I brought her in and they said, well, they didn't catch her ever doing it, which I said, well, that is kind of the point, she's sneaky about it, the cone would prevent it from happening. They said that the vet said I could bring molly into have her tail checked out by the vet at no charge. I don't think it needs to be checked out, it's raw from her chewing and sucking it, but nothing that needs to be treated. I'll keep an eye on her and not let her do it. I also noticed that they didn't give her 5 days of her glucosomine treats. hmmm
Hi Sharlene-
It sounds like the vets office dropped a few balls along the way! How is Molly's tail? How are your bug bites? Have they cleared up?
-Susan
Hi Sharlene and Miss Molly
Hope your itchy bites and Molly's tail is settling or I will have to send over cones for you both :D:D
Tomorrow is the last day of summer here, so maybe it is the last day of winter for you?!?! I will be pleased when I do not have to read about all you ladies shovelling snow, power cuts, walking doggies in icy conditions and generally freezing to death. It all sounds incredibly dangerous so my snow free lifestyle :D:D but I guess you get used to it. I lived in London for a year or so on my big OE in my younger days, I got so excited the first time it snowed until I had to walk to work in it .... bejeezus it was cold, my shoes were soaking and my feet froze. I think I may quite possibly have got frostbite, and people do that their whole life. A nice warm temperate country like NZ is the way to go :D:D
Hi Sharlene
Just checking on you and Molly. Molly is a fighter like you.
Thank you for being there for me and so many others.
Hugs Sonja and Angel Apollo
She staggered in from the snowstorm, wet hair plastered to her head, snow flakes stuck to her eyelashes. She walked slowly as her back had gone out with that last lift of the shovel filled with the wet, heavy snow.
With one short breath, she yelled "GET THE GROUNDHOG":p:p:p:p:p:p
hahahahahahahahahahha Addy you kill me. :D:D:D
Trish you described our weather exactly! It rained, it snowed, it did both, and that was just today!!!
Awww Sonja, thanks love, you are such a sweetheart. You know I only wish happiness every after for you and Arial. :)
Molly, well, she is going to need dental work. I'm putting it off until we can get some decent weather. I don't want an emergency to come up during a snow storm. She has to have at least one dead tooth pulled and I don't like the look of a couple of the back ones either. I wish there were doggie dental implants, but doesn't seem to be. Poor thing. Doesn't seem to be bothering her but I want it taken care of as soon as the weather gets better.
The tail saga continues. Some nights she ignores and others she is all licking all the time. Usually just as I'm about to go to sleep I hear slurp slurp and then you hear me saying "top of the voice" Molly, No, Stop it, go to sleep, bed.
Last night I guess I had a bad night, nose has been stuffy, hubs said that I snored, molly made the ruff ruff grunt, and back and forth it went between us until he went downstairs to the couch. I feel sort of bad, but since I've seen her do the same thing to his snoring, which woke Me up, maybe not that bad after all.
Itches. :( just when I think they are going away, they all start itching again. Hubs and a friend both told me I need to get one of those epi pens for allergies, that my reaction seems to be more than it has been previously. *sigh* I guess I'll do that.
On another note. it's been hellishly busy at work, and me no likeee. I'm missing out on my 1/2 day naps with this and now I've just turned down being made department manager. (that would really interfere with any potential naps and summer coming, it'll mess with my afternoon swims too) Yea I Sometimes get to work either half a day or do a split from home. Love that and don't want to give it up.
Hubs now says we should move to Costa Rica. Gee and I thought I was bad. Not sure what happened to my dream of Nice, France or Antigua even. *sigh* He swears he is retiring in 4 1/2 years. We'll see how that goes.
Addy, that's just how I imagine you all hahaha :D:D
Retiring sounds good to me Sharlene, especially in one of those warm places :D:D Sounds like Miss Molly has a habit, hard to break if she is doing it for comfort, little Miss. Wonder what you reacted to, other than the bites... you would think they would be settled by now. Wonder if you got a touch of hayfever from the plants where you went?? Hope it settles soon... nighty nite!