Well it turned out to be an asthma attack. My calf has been hurting since last thursday and that is just a strain, just a coincidence it was hurting at the same time.
Gee, I have never had an asthma attack when I wasn't working out or cleaning using bleach. Bummer. I sure hope they don't start coming more often.
By the time Rick got home to pick me up I was pretty miserable, but the ac in the van helped and I took my asthma med. Of course I had to have this happen on a holiday. Urgent care was closed and I had to go to outpatients. Everyone in town was there I think. Then they gave me a blood thinner and when they took my IV out it bled all over my shirt and pants. I was going to stop at the store on the way home and decided that would look weird. So here I am, breathing better after a treatment and in time for Rick to BBQ supper. Thanks all for the well wishes. Crossing your fingers worked!
I am on my way to urgent care. I have been having pain in my calf and now am having some shortness of breath. Lets just hope it is a sprained muscle and an asthma attack and not a blood clot. I haven't had the best of luck lately.
My Slideshow 5/28/07 Turn your sound up. I think the pictures turned out pretty good at this site. These are some double petunia's from my planters along with some other flowers I planted.
I checked on the baby eagles this morning and was thrilled to see them taking their first trial flights from the branches to the nest and back to the branches. Practicing beating their wings they look ready to take off at any second. Once they fly from the nest will they come back to it or will it sit there empty?
Well, off to ride.
I just got off work and had a pretty good weekend. I am off now until Tuesday because of the holiday. Zoey is ripping around like a nut with her tail tucked between her legs doing this happy nut and run crazy routine she does every once in awhile. We are trying to stop her from popping a stitch,but she is grinning madly with this wild happy glee in her eyes. She wants her breakfast and she is going to act like a nut until she gets fed.
That is what is nice about being a dog or animal. Zoey doesn't realize she has cancer. None of the fears about the future and what it may hold are clouding her brain. She is feeling better this week, her incisions aren't hurting her, she had a great long walk and a mad dash through tall wet grass to make her happy and Rick is making her a yummy breakfast. Life is good.
I have convinced myself they got all the cancer when they removed the tumors and she is cured. She is too happy, too shiny, too loved to have anything seriously wrong. I filter her water, I feed a great food, we have always taken care of her. She was poisoned a few years ago and we almost lost her, but for the most part she is the picture of health. I will keep thinking that. Thursday we see the vet. By then we should have the final report on her mouth cancer. I want to write it all down so I can look it up. I can't remember a thing he told me when he called. I just went into shock I think. Then I will look up clinical trials, and see if they have anything if he thinks it is bad. But I think she will be fine.......please, please, please, let her be fine.
Today I am sleeping until 1 or so and hopefully going on a bike ride. Should be a good day for it. Hope everyone has a great weekend and holiday. Be safe. We have already had our share of accidents.
Keep an eye on the baby eagles. They should be flying anytime. They look so much bigger then they did when I first started watching.
It is hard to tell from the pictures but the entire woods are full of these purple flowers and the heavenly smell is heavy in the air. Perfect for sitting outside and you can see them all over. I love this time of the year with all the flower smells.
I was getting ready for work yesterday and a friend of my son's came over. Zoey acted like a nut barking and leaping around until she saw who it was and somehow managed to give herself a large hematoma on one of her incisions. I held pressure to keep it from getting bigger and called the vet but they didn't call back by the time I have to go to work, they called like 5 minutes after we left but it didn't get any bigger. So now she has this chicken egg size lump under one of her incisions. I sure hope it doesn't break open. What a mess. A hematoma is a blood filled lump by the way.
Had a good night at work last night until this morning when I my patient coded but they survived and the overtime is a good thing. I slept well and am getting ready for the shower.
Well the vet just called. The lump on Zoey's leg was cancer and they think the one in her mouth was a cancer but they are double checking the results. So I am sitting her in shock right now. I never expected the one on her leg to be cancer, we all thought it was a skin tag. The one in her mouth she only had about 3 weeks before it was removed so hopefully we caught it soon enough. Oh man, I am trying not to cry here. They think the type of cancer it was on her leg that surgery should be enough treatment, especially since her lab looked so good. She has a small lump on her forehead he now is going to remove since we got these results when she goes for her suture removal. I have to go. I am stunned and can't see to write.
