Janie / Daisy Update:
The day after Daisy got here she was already on her way out...let me explain:
As I told you in my last post she came in the door and made a straight line underneath our bed! Well, Janie in all of her 47 lb glory squeezed herself under there with Daisy! It was a site to see! I don't know how - either Janie scratched herself on the bed frame or because Daisy DID NOT want to play with the big puppy she swatted at Janie. Who knows? All I know is later that afternoon I looked down at her and her eye was red or rather her third eyelid had popped out - gross, I know!
Debbie and Bill picked Daisy up that Wednesday before they left to go to Florida - now Daisy is an official road dog! I felt really bad that we were unable to keep her - she's a real good dog - she's just a dog that doesn't like big puppies! She assuredly had a better time in Florida than she would have had under our bed for the 10 days she was schedule to stay here!!
We spent that night looking up "eyes of E. Bulldog's" and everything we came up with told us that Janie had "Cherry Eye" which involves surgery! Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep!
After Daisy was gone I took Janie to the vet and she told us that Janie sure enough had a scratch on her eye but she did not think it was cherry eye. She gave us some drops to help heal her scratch but would not heal the eye lid hanging out. We had to heal the scratch before we could put steroid drops to help the eyelid. So, we went home with drops...How was that - putting eye drops in a bulldogs eye? Let me just say I invented my own way of doing it after wrangling her to the ground, wrapping my legs around her to try to stop her from squiggling away and missing her eye completely, wasting the expensive eye drops - I decided that it would be best to "sneak attack" her!! I wait until she is fast asleep, pry her eye open and WHAM-O the drops go in as she gives me the "look of disgust"!
A week later Kam and I load her up to take Janie for a re-check and yep, the scratch is still there although this time it is smaller!! The vet decided to draw blood from the "bull headed" bulldog, to make a serum that will help her eye heal better, this was an experience to say the least! There were three people other than the vet holding the fatty down - have I mentioned that EBG's have STRONG leg muscles? THEY DO!!! She did not like it and there were several times during the experience when she looked up at me with VERY sad eyes as if to say, "why are you letting these mean people do this to me, you HORRIBLE woman?!" She ended up getting enough - Thank the Lord!!
A week later we brought her back and the scratch was better!!! It had gone down in size but was still there. Still no steroid drops, although the eye lid doesn't look as bad!
One more week later (I think - this has been a long experience!) we dropped her off to be boarded so that we could go to Branson to celebrate our SEVEN year anniversary!!! When I picked her up this Monday the vet said that there was still a scratch!! UGH!!!
Anniversary Trip Update:
A week or two before we left we had planned on Kamryn staying with Bill and Debbie but Jerry decided to give Kamryn a choice...and to our surprise she picked Branson! I know right, she skipped out on MeMe to go with us, her parents! WOW!
Thursday at work Jerry did something to his back and the whole time we were up there he hurt - I was constantly putting Aspercream on him. He did manage to keep up with Kamryn and I while we shopped (good for us huh?!). Friday evening we toured the Titanic museum, which Kamryn thought was an actual boat and by the end of the tour was asking to "get off here". Saturday we shopped at the different outlet malls and went down to The Landing to let Kamryn look at the "fishies". After that we of course, went to Cold Stone Creamery - LOVE that place!!! After supper Saturday night we played "Golf Game" where the theme was "Dinosaurs" - Kamryn LOVED the place and actually beat Jerry and I - at least the first half of the rounds - half way through she was too bored by it! LOL!! I was really proud of her though, she did really good!!
The only part of the trip, other than Jerry's back hurting him, that was a problem was that the pollen up there is just now blooming so our allergies acted up on ALL of us!! Now Kamryn and I are sneezing, coughing and blowing our noses - have I mentioned how much I hate pollen?!
Before we left on our trip I was able to complete some shirts for my nieces...I love how they turned out. Although I found out yesterday that Audrey's neck and arms were a little tight but thankfully my sister can sew too and I think she'll be able to fix it otherwise I guess she is going to have to mail it back to me and I can fix it...not a big deal!!
Audrey's shirt 
Anna Grace's shirt -- I LOVE this one!!!
Well, that's all for now!! I'll let you know how Janie's eye is doing next week when we go back to the vet.
I want to end by saying, I am SO blessed to have such a loving husband and I am so happy that he has put up with me for SEVEN years!! It doesn't seem like we've been married that long, I guess that's a good thing, right?!
I LOVE you Jerry and here is to another seven times seven years!!!!!!! CLINK!!!!!!!
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