Meet Suzy - She Needs A Home (FL)

This is Suzy. She is about 1 - 1/2 yrs old, Red Doberman, all natural who needs a home.  She is in Lake Placid, Florida.  This precious girl stopped by to see us on her way to the rescue back in June of last year, and she still doesn't have a home.  She is a very active girl who would love a home of her own and a yard to play in.  She got along with both my male and female Doberman while she was here.  She wore my girl out.  If you know of anyone in Florida who is looking for a great active friendly girl, just share the link.  I've been trying to spread her information around to get this precious girl adopted. 

Here's some pictures of her when she visited our home.

She is a very happy girl. Look at her smile.

Here's one so you can see her wonderful tail.

 

 

 

Here she is playing with my girl Holly.  The other dog was a rescue too,

but he was already adopted.

 

Sunbathing Beauties

Today was a beautiful day outside.  Holly loves to lay outside in the sun.  Honestly I don't know how she does it because sometimes it does get quite hot.  When it gets too hot I make her come inside.  Once in awhile Lucas will be a good brother and lay down next to Holly.  I tried to sneak outside and take a picture of them both and all I got was one shot then Lucas saw me and got up.  Lucas is such a momma's boy. 

Got much needed house cleaning done yesterday.  Still needs to do a few things today, and would like to trim my bushes out front too.  We'll see how much energy I have.

My husband continues to do well.  He's light-headed, but that is from the medicine he's on.  We go to his Cardiologist tomorrow and hopefully he will release him to do his normal stuff again. 

Hope everyone enjoys their Sunday!!

Stones and Silly Dog

 

I donated to a rescue and received these really cute paw print engraved stones.  The company who made them are local to the rescue and donated them to the rescue.  You can check out the rescue at S.P.A.Y. L.E.E. and you can check out the company who made the stones at Love Rocks Inc. 

 

 

I took this a couple of weeks ago when Lucas had spent the day at the vet to have his lump removed. I think Holly was really sad and wanted to know where her Lucas was.  She loves her Lucas.

 

 

Hope everyone is enjoying the start of the week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can We Restart the Year Please?

So I know I'm not the only one with a bad beginning to the New Year, but this is ridiculous.  Saturday morning my husband had a heart attack.  Unfortunately he is following in his fathers path, but hopefully will not have the same ending.

He woke up Saturday morning and was going to take Lucas to the vet for a follow-up visit.  He felt some chest pain and got sweaty.  It went away.  He told me about it.  Then he was talking about going to the walk-in clinic. Ummm, honey, I don't think the walk-in clinic treat heart attacks so you might want to rethink that one.  He started getting dressed.  Got worse chest pain and fell back onto the bed.  I called 911.  No screwing around.

The ambulance was in my driveway working on him for about 15 minutes, then just took off without telling me where they were going.  Had to call and find out where they took him, very frustrating.  On the way I talked to his sister who is a nurse, and told her the symptoms he was feeling.  She said they weren't classic heart attack symptoms.  I started to feel a little relief as I was speeding to the hospital.

When I walked into the ER, they told me he was having a heart attack.  They took me to him.  He was breathing hard and his whole body was shaking.  Then they took me out to talk to me.  When the nurse talked to me I didn't hear a word he said and had to have him repeat it.  It's so hard when you're alone with no one else to help listen for you.  Then I had to help finish filling out some paperwork. 

They took him in to the Cath Ward, and they were successful in putting in a stent in an artery that was 99% blocked.  He said the other arteries looked good, but should be on cholesterol medicine as they are not as they should be for his age, mid-forties.

Well this afternoon he came home.  He was ready to come home yesterday, but he had to have another test today.  Never thought a release would take 5 hours. 

Now he's in bed sleeping for the last hour, and I'm about to do the same here shortly.  I'm taking a couple days off work just to make sure he'll be okay.  I'm sure he will be. 

Lucas Update

Lucas had his lump removed today.  The vet was going to put a drain in but decided to go in and remove the lump.  Apparently it just kept filling back up.  Where it was located, it was very vascular and they also had to remove a nipple.  They said it was bloody too, but he did well.  He's home now and he's supposed to be out for the night but his obsession with licking just won't have any of that.  They just woke him up from surgery at 5p.m. and I'm pretty sure he's not going to sleep any time soon.  I'm sitting at the table and I can hear his nose whistling from the other side of the couch.  We're all so glad he's home.  It's just not right without him not here.

And I still can't upload a picture from my computer onto here yet and I still don't know why.  I never had a problem before yesterday and now I can't figure it out. Grrrrrrr

Gotta go so I can keep and eye on my boy.  Have a good night all!

Out of Commission and Lumps

So last Friday I woke up with a sore throat.  I started taking cold meds right away.  Sore throat was worse by the end of the day.  Saturday morning I woke up with a sore throat and headache.  Ate breakfast and went back to sleep until 4p.m.  Made some toast and ate two bites, next thing I know I was hugging the toilet.  Went back to sleep.  Worse yet I woke up during the night with the dry heaves because I didn't have anything else in me.  Omg, I hate throwing up!  Actually took a migraine med Sunday morning and that seemed to at least help with my throbbing.  Sunday was pretty much a sleep all day too.  I haven't felt that bad as I did on Saturday in a long time.  Monday and Tuesday my butt was really dragging at work.  I'm actually surprised I didn't fall asleep.  I started feeling better Wednesday.  I still have congestion, but definitely better than the beginning of the week, but I sure feel like I could sleep for a week!  I don't know if it is a cold a flu a virus or what, but all I know is it sucks!  And of course my husband has to work on a friends car the entire weekend, so he was in and out of the door all day and the dog would bark and whine to go out all day.  Sometimes I ask my mom, "why did you let me get married?".

Tomorrow I have to take Lucas back to the vet so they can check his lump.  It has gotten to the point where it won't go down any more.  He's still on antibiotics.  She feels they may need to take it out, but she needs to look at it first.  As much as I don't want to have him put under, I really want the thing gone already.  Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

And now I don't know why, but I can't upload a picture from my computer on here.  I'm tired, I'm going to bed.  Have a good night everyone!