Woah! OCTOBER??

Wow. It's sure been a while, eh? Life's been pretty hectic. With the loss of my brother, to Pea's chronic UTI...not having a good Holiday season.

Pea is not doing so hot. Not to worry, nothing life threatening. She's had a UTI for the past month, at least. She's on abx, but golly if it's not a persistent bugger. She also is quite stuffy at night and sometimes during the day. My poor humidifier has been working overtime to say the least! She's still doing well on the Honest Kitchen "Thrive" diet, so that's fantastic! I'd like her to gain another 1/2-1lb at least. It just doesn't want to happen. I still see ribs, but thankfully they're a lot less prominent than they were.

Otherwise, I'm sad to say there's not much more to report. She's still as impish as ever. My other brother is staying with me for a while and said today how he had come down to make lunch and found her snoozing on the couch instead of in her 24" tall expen.... Yeah. No more "heat tent" for Pea. (I put a blanket over 1/2 of the top of the expen to trap in the heat from the radiator along the floor behind it)

Oh, you want MORE Pea stories?? Well, Pea sure likes food. ANY kind of food. And she'll do crazy things to get to it. Like jump out of her 24" tall expen right into my brothers-girlfriend's plate of spaghetti. Knocking the whole thing to the floor. Mental note...no more huge, snuggly, stuffed dogs in Pea's expen either.

Seriously, she is a flying monkey. When she's not jumping on to things, she's climbing up them. Up on the back and arms of the couch. Talk about a heart attack.

I'll be sure to update with more "Pea stories" when they happen. It'll give me something to write here anyways besides, "Nothing to report today". And since I'm off work tomorrow, I'll try to get some more pics to upload. :D

xoxox

S

Update on Pea's Eye Situation

Her lens fell to the back of her eye last night, where it's "supposed" to be. She really isn't in any pain from what I can tell. Her eyes are wide open, and she's as...spunky (to put it nicely)...as ever. We still have an eye appt on Nov 1st. I'll probably update after then with a post. Hopefully I'll get some more shots of The Pea this weekend when I have time, and the lighting is right.

Pea's Eyes

Pea has 2 different eye drops that she gets daily. One is tacrolimus to increase her tear production. And the second is demecarium bromide to keep the pupil in her "floater" eye constricted, so her lens doesn't bounce about causing inflammation. Well, this morning I saw Pea's cataracted lens was laying forward in her eye. This is bad bad. Verrry bad. Last time that happened it became so inflammed and caused her so much pain, she couldn't keep her eyes open. I ran to the kitchen to grab her drops. Hoping if I could get it to fall back, maybe it wouldn't get so bad. Well, of course....I'm out of drops. SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT. So I'm sure her eyes are going to go all crazy painful again. My poor girl. I've ordered the drops from the vet, hopefully they get here soon.

Which brings me to another thing. These drops are crazy expensive. So I requested a prescription to find out if I could go somewhere local to find them (Her eye doctor is in IL), and possibly get them cheaper...OF COURSE NOT! No one can get a hold of the ingredients (It's a compounded medication). Well, at least I can get the other one at Drs Foster & Smith (they're in WI too, and offer free shipping on their meds!)

I just want to have my own pity party. Don't mind me.

*UPDATE* I may have found a place in Milwaukee that says they can make me demecarium bromide. Thanks to the lovely ladies of SilverHounds for doing a bit of research for me. I've got an email into them to see if they offer them as liquid for eye meds!

I forgot! Dummy....

Well, I'm slow and forgot to try my new blood draw "trick". So we didn't do a curve this weekend. However, she is still doing pretty well on the HK Thrive. Sometimes her urine test strips read a little higher than I like, but I've never gotten a "high" reading yet using them.

I'm a tad worried about her today. I don't know why. Just something keeps bringing her to my mind. I'll feel much better once this day is over.

Artsy Fartsy B/W Pics!

It's been SO LONG!

I know. I know. I hear it in my sleep! I need to post more of The Pea. I'll give it a go. I've become lazy, recently, because she's been doing so well. There isn't much to get excited about!

So The Pea is good. Maybe a little too good. She's a naughty little imp. She lost a bit of weight when I was fighting with her food trying to find one that worked for her. Well now I found one, and I'm sure she'll be back to fab in no time. She's now on The Honest Kitchen "Verve". It smells DELICIOUS! And it's easy for her to eat. I promise I won't change her food again, unless absolutely necessary for her wellbeing.

I love having the little brat around. I finally have a pup who likes to wear clothes! She's the only one, and I'm so glad I didn't donate of all the stuff I bought for the others that they've never used. Today she's sporting her "Boo!" jammies, just for Halloween. I'll definitely try to get a pic. She's so adorable in them. All I'm asking for Christmas is JAMMEEZ for the Pea Monster!

She's also the funniest little thing. She doesn't even try! I find myself laughing at her silly antics more often than not. And it's truely funny. Like when I wake up before the alarm, face to face with a little blind Peanut. Her little tail is just going a mile a minute. I know what she wants. What every girl wants. Food! Or how about when she gets "lost" in another room, and can't find her way to me. She barks her fool head off until I come to the rescue. I think I'm going to teach Fozzie to "Go get Sweet Pea".

She's also fearless. She can get onto the couch just fine. But will get mad if you forget to help her off. When I go over to grab her under the belly to lower her, she'll take a LEAP off of the couch, expecting to be caught and slowly lowered. The poor thing has fallen off the couch more than once doing this. Thankfully, she's a tough 'ol gal. And gets right back up, continuing on to wherever she wanted to go in the first place.

That's about all I got for now. She's still getting 1/4 c of food/meal and 1unit Novolin N. This weekend I'm goin to try a new "trick" I learned for getting a BG reading. Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to do a curve to verify just how well she's doing on the new food.

Wish us luck!

xoxox

THE NEW PICTURES!