So June brought me something rather surprising to be grateful for. My shih tzu “Foo foo” (don’t ask my ex husband named her that) is fairly old – probably 12 years at least, and definitely overweight – 22 lbs or so the vet told me, but I do love that little dog. Well 2 weeks ago Thursday the little darlin’ took a nasty fall down the steps and injured one of her front legs. My room mate woke me to tell me this at 6am banging on the door and hollering “Come quick, something is wrong with Foof!” which is always a nice way to get woken up (sorry for the sarcasm).

So I looked her over as best I could at that ungodly hour and sure enough she can’t put any weight at all on the front left leg and she is whimpering and crying in a tone that would break any one’s heart. So as soon as I could get her over to the vet I did and I asked for the worst case scenario because I really wasn’t sure how I was going to pay a heavy vet bill right now. He told me that if it was a complicated fracture they would need to call the specialist and then it would run 3 grand at least.  My heart sunk and I stated sobbing because to be honest, I would not be able to swing that.

I left crying and praying that I was not going to have to put my dog to sleep that day. It had been a really bad couple of weeks emotionally for me and I went home and cried hysterically that I was not sure how I was going to handle having to say goodbye to this little creature that had been a part of my life for so long. But Universe or God or what ever merciful force dwells there in took pity on the two of us and I got the good news that it was a fairly minor fracture. They bandaged the hell out of it and sent her home with some anti inflammatories and told me to keep her off it as best as possible and check back in a week. Well she is still limping a bit (especially when the little brat tries jumping around on it like she is still a puppy) but for the most part I got off lucky with ONLY getting hit for a $400 vet bill. Whew!

Yeah OK .. $400 was pretty much not in the budget this month either but it sure sounded better than having to make the decision to put her to sleep because I couldn’t afford to fix her leg right? So my room mate kicked me $100 and I had $120 worth of unexpected dungeon rentals that week and well that brought it to a very manageable sum and gave me a tremendous amount to be grateful for.

As a side note, the vet warned me that I should do my best to keep the wrappings dry and considering how much rain we have had in the month of June that was going to be no easy task.  He gave me an IV bag cut open at one end and suggested I could just slip it over her leg when she went outside.  Um well yeah OK in theory but that did not stay put at all.  Perhaps it might if I duct taped it to her cast but it just seemed way to bulky and clumsy.  So I decided to go with what I know and slipped a condom over her leg which solved the problem perfectly.  I considered tell him of my clever solution so that he could suggest it to other patients’ people but I was not sure how well that would go over. 😉

Which seemed to kick off a trend because a few bridges have begun getting mended in my life. 🙂 A very dear old friend with whom I had a serious falling out with several years ago contacted me out of the blue on Fetlife and we sat and drank coffee and chatted about old times and caught up on a bunch of stuff for a couple of hours today. And best of all… another sad situation in my life moved a bit this morning and shifted enough to bring me a gift this afternoon that I was totally not expecting but …I can truthfully say that today ended up being the happiest day I have had in over 3 months!!  🙂  Yayy even!! 

I am still flying and would love to share more but it is way too personal for this venue… those of you who know me best know what situation I am referring to and will know soon enough why I am so happy!  Like grateful beyond belief … more so than I could even begin to express today and I think I am going to hit the jacuzzi with a glass of wine for a nightcap and count my many many blessings.  Much love to all….  Suze