I feel like I should have something useful to report. Like… Monkey is all better now! (He’s not.) All of the doctors called back, with definitive answers! (They didn’t.) The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42!! (It is, but I’m having difficult figuring out how to apply it.)
In the meantime, inbetween phone calls to various doctors I am making soup and doing things like buying a coat for my dog. Yes. I’ve become the kind of person who says “buying a coat for my dog” and it actually MEANS I spent money on canine apparel. The end times are nigh. In my defense, this here is a very southern pup and we’re supposed to be headed home to New England for Christmas and dogsicles are not my favorite. Of course, at this point, it’s unclear if we’re actually making that trip, but if we are, goshdarnitall, I have solved the problem of keeping Licorice warm.
That may be the only problem I’ve solved, but I needed a little victory today.
Clearly, you’ve won.
Any victory is worth celebrating. Woo hoo! successful dog coat purchase! What does it look like?
As someone waiting for medical test results and answers before the holiday (albeit for significantly more mild issues), I feel ya. Maybe I should go buy a dog coat. I don’t have a dog, but whatever.
Hey, it IS a victory, if it’s a snazzy coat.
Having to wait for test results is usually a good sign. They fast track the more serious results because treatment can’t wait.
When life feels out of control, it helps to feel like you’re on top of at least some aspects, for sure. Will Licorice be modelling her new coat for your faithful readers? :)
Thinking of you. Know the feeling of waiting for test results. And hoping for the lesser of two evils instead of hoping for nothing because the lesser at least means they found “something”… Must be channeling you, too, as I used the word “redux” on my facebook status yesterday as we had Thanksgiving redux for dinner. I soooo knew it was a word, but looked it up anyway. Thanks for using it on Want Not today!
Heck, if this weather persists, Licorice will need that coat here!
Here’s hoping answers (good ones!) come today.
Don’t forget the matching booties. Road salt creates a super-chilled slush, and my little dog would like your little dog to know that it HURTS to walk in that stuff. Of course, my little dog is a complete pill about wearing his coat and his booties, resulting in the situation we had today where I had to carry my dog home from his walk. I felt for him – the windchill was -19C (-2 F), so it was pretty cold to be out there without coat or boots. Still. How humiliating to be carrying a dog on his walk. Either my senile years have come early or the apocalypse is nigh.
You are Taking Licorice With You to the Snowdrifts of upstate NY. Have you SEEN it recently?? She will not be able to see anything but snow from her vantage point… then again there may not be be much to see from YOUR vantage point if it keeps up as it is…
I hope you get answers – good ones! and fixable ones! and things to make everything happy and shiny again! Because darn it – one of us deserves to go home for the holidays and it’s not looking like I get to be that one.
Yay for victory, however small!!!! New England??? As in NH???
@Diane – go ahead and buy yourself a new coat. Dog coat = people coat. Same win effect :)
So, will we see Emo Dog emoting about her new torture device?
Gentle hugs heading your way – both for the stressed, worried Momma and to the sick Monkey.
Hoping you hear SOMETHING soon. (And I just bought 2 sets of doggie booties — yes, booties — snowballs on paws are uncomfortable to walk on and too cold for me to pry off with my bare hands.)
every victory counts my dear, every single one.
Hugs. And who says dog coats don’t solve the world’s problems?! (FWIW, I’ve been where you are with the waiting and phone calls. Amazing how they’re all “Check in with us first thing-this is important,” then become all “huh?” when you check in first thing.)
Oh no. You need some answers doggonit (see, what I did there? joke-heh). Seriously, hoping you get news today and that Monkey improves enough to go back to school.
May I suggest: “How many roads must a man walk down?”
Just thinking about you guys… hope you get some good news soon.
I just want to bring you rainbows. And chocolate. Because everyone knows that most things are made better with chocolate. Sending hugs, too.
You are preaching to the choir! I write stuff I finished on my TO DO list just so I can mark it off!!! Sad, but true!
A victory is a victory!!!! :)
To keep Licorice’s tiny little feets from getting cut on the ice: http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Durable-Dog-Boots-Medium/dp/B000TEQTOS/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1292272158&sr=8-16. You can get less expensive ones, too. The choices are virtually endless, just like girl shoes!
Don’t feel bad, Mir. I live in San Diego, and my very large, tough-looking pit-bull (who is unaware that she is not a lap-dog) owns a sweater. Truth be told, it is a pink dog-hoodie. Because she is a princess, and does not like the cold, even the very mild cold we experience here in San Diego. Said dog will refuse to go outside even to use the bathroom for the entire day until it becomes a complete emergency if it happens to be cold or rainy outside. I am not a dog-clothes-buying kind of person, I fretted a bit over the buying of dog clothes, but decided, hell, the dog is cold, buy her a sweater already. A dog sweater for actual cold – perfectly reasonable.
I hope it’s houndstooth. {hehehe}
Hey, what? I dress up our Rottweiler. She needs it. Or so I think. She disagrees but she doesn’t get a vote.
Knocking anything off the to do list is progress, in my opinion.
Thinking of you, best wishes xx
Please don’t buy the dog boots. If you do, I’ll have to look at you in a whole different way. Just sayin :-)
I never thought I’d be someone who says “I am cooking for my dog”, but then one almost life-threatening illness and some liver damage later, and here I am cooking for my dog. Maybe I’ll buy my pooch a coat too ^^ You’re a good doggie mama Mir.
Every Victory Counts! Good Luck getting the coat on the dog…. Don’t ask me how I know about that issue.
Another Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fan?! Only books I’ve reread many, many times.
Little Licorice is probably going to need that coat – the cold is hard on the little dogs. And it’s been a cold start to winter here, probably same there.
Aargh on the Monkey front – hoping (good) answers come soon.
Will Licorice have to wear antlers, too?
I’m still praying for you and the monkey. Keep us posted!
Licorice is the perfect dog for a coat. She probably requires one by virtue of her breed, or something.I bet she’s CUTE in it! :)
Hope Monkey feels better SOON and you get some answers.
The dog coat is a double-win. You get to see her in a coat, which I’m sure is a very cute sight, and you have a perfectly good, functional reason for it, so you don’t have to feel like one of those people who dress their pets up like babies just for the sake of the cuteness.
Hey, a victory is a victory!
Pretty please, will you take a picture of Licorice in her new apparel and share it with us?
I think we would all very much enjoy Licorice modelling her suave new apparel. Please to share.
We just packed away our faithful, dear, departed dog’s coat and boots. He did get ice balls between his toes without the boots in the snow…and he was so darn cute in them!
Any chance you can find a good doctor for poor Monkey in New England? They have good doctors up there.
Disclaimer: I’m a bigot when it comes to people with southern accents. I don’t understand why I always assume that they are not smart.