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Poll: Rep Retirement Lodge 205: Are you a hockey fan?

Poll: Rep Retirement Lodge 205: Are you a hockey fan?

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Good morning Lodge.

Happy bouncy ball table for me. I hope to secure a happy table in Vegas this week too.

NaSK and I fly out tomorrow night. We're leaving the parasite with grandma. Parasite is angry we aren't taking her. I told her she has to go to school, but I will take her to Frozen Four next year.
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
Good morning Lodge.

Happy bouncy ball table for me. I hope to secure a happy table in Vegas this week too.

NaSK and I fly out tomorrow night. We're leaving the parasite with grandma. Parasite is angry we aren't taking her. I told her she has to go to school, but I will take her to Frozen Four next year.
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It's good to know you're there!
I'm watching in a sports bar in College Station, Texas. It's 2-2 right now.
Believe it or not, I'm the only one wearing a hockey sweater in this place! In fact, it's the same jersey (home white) I wore when I met you in Anchorage in Oct 2009.
Good times, and go blue!
 
Good morning Lodge.
Storms ripped through our area last night and decided to target hockey. Damaged roof at Yost and took out a wall at the local Vet's Memorial Park ice rink.
 
Hey Lodge.

Just need a place to vent. My 12 year old rescue dog had been having off and on issues for the past six months. For like one or two days, would eat grass like a cow. Healthy poop, and she felt better. She was also on an anti-inflamitory and pain pill because of her arthritis and bad hips.

Then her rescue sister of 9 years passed away suddenly this spring. Unknown growth in the chest gave way and hemorrhage blood. Had to put her down.

So she was a single dog for a month. Then we brought home a foster.

Sometime this winter, or maybe in a fit after her rescue sister passed, she started getting the upset stomach a little more frequently. Again, a healthy poop, or a puke and rally, and she was good to go.

Then comes Memorial Day weekend. We take her and the new foster on vacation to the UP. Two hours from Marquette she throws up. A first for her, as she's never been car sick or ever had issues on drives. Feed her at the hotel and she seems okay.

Then she throws up over night. Twice. Next day feed her and after a few hours she throws up. Make chicken and rice for her for dinner. Throws that up. Cut our vacation short to bring her to an ER vet near our house (closest to Marquette is Appleton, and thats halfway home for us).

ER vet runs tests and determines theres an obstruction. Schedule emergency surgery for Memorial Day (she was struggling).

Get soaked for much more than I was expecting since it was after hours AND a holiday. Three socks, a ton of grass, and some bits and pieces of unknown material along with some undigested food. we dont know how long the socks were there as the vet had to triple bag them to keep the smell in.

Recovery seems to be going well. Over the weekend she still has an occasional fit once a day where she seeks out grass (or anything) to soothe her stomach. Then Monday comes. I get home and find a fitted sheet from our laundry torn. Hard to tell how much is missing as she tore into a corner of the sheet.

Three trips to the regular vet, three x-rays showing what appeared to be some obstruction starting to move through her system isn't moving at all. At one point Wednesday, doc gave her a colonoscopy and found bits of plastic from what I think was a dream catcher a friend made us that was on a shelf for a decade (at least for as long as we've had the dog).

Take her to the regular vet this morning, nothings changed. Time to pop her open again for the second time in two weeks.

They find 2' square of fitted sheet. Miscellaneous fabrics. Some miscellaneous plastic.

She survived her surgery and will be kept for a couple days of observation. Then we get to bring her home again.

I know how much I'm invested. She's absolutely healthy in every other way other than her arthritis and age not letting her have long walks anymore.

I know the inevitable is quickly approaching. I just don't want to rob her of some good time she has still, but she seems to be wanting to meet her rescue sister at the rainbow bridge a lot quicker than we want her to.

I just hope we can get her healthy and get some more good years from her.

But is it wrong, if she doesn't change this behavior and continues to have intestinal issues where she gets destructive, to put her down? Should I have just done that after Memoral Day weekend?

They say you'll know when it's right because they'll tell you. I just didn't think actively eating bed sheets, dry heaving, and scooching ass across the living room carpet was the sign. 😂

The second guessing is eating at me.
 
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