{"id":8350,"date":"2012-08-13T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T13:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2012-08-13T07:05:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T13:05:18","slug":"another-visit-to-the-doggie-e-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/another-visit-to-the-doggie-e-r\/","title":{"rendered":"another visit to the (doggie) e.r."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last night we were watching the first &#8220;mission impossible&#8221; movie which seemed rather dated &#8211; tom cruis dangling from a wire was fumbling around inserting a FLOPPY DISC into a computer &#8211; and mollie was acting really lethargic.\u00a0 we thought it was because she&#8217;d eaten half a loaf of french bread that was sitting on the counter when i went for a bike ride yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>but then, we got up to go to bed and she suddenly lurched up and twitched and jumped.\u00a0 a seizure.\u00a0 oh my god.\u00a0 then she started panting really heavily and her breathing seemed erratic and there were a few frantic minutes of trying to find out shoes and carrying her out to the car.<\/p>\n<p>i took her out to the yard to see if she had to pee while kevin ran inside to find his shoes.\u00a0 mollie not only didn&#8217;t want to pee, but she just sat there in the grass, and then she laid down, and she never, ever acts like that and she was just lying there and i was SURE SHE WAS ABOUT TO DIE AND WHY THE HELL IS IT TAKING KEVIN SO LONG TO FIND HIS DAMN SHOES???<\/p>\n<p>she was lying in my lap as kevin drove and WHY COULDN&#8217;T HE DRIVE FAST, LIKE A COP???\u00a0 there was almost no traffic at maybe around 11 on sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>we finally made it to the emergency animal ER and there was a poor little kitty lying on an examining table in one room.\u00a0 i hope it was ok.\u00a0 they took us into another room and had us fill out papers and WHY COULDN&#8217;T THEY MOVE FASTER?\u00a0 i was still convinced that death was imminent for our dog.<\/p>\n<p>on the way to the vet, the only thing i could think of that she could have gotten into was the liquid fence, the horrible, putrid stuff that i had sprayed on the hostas the night before because the deer had started eating all the flowers off the tops of them.<\/p>\n<p>finally, FINALLY, the vet came in and i told him about the liquid fence and he didn&#8217;t seem worried about it. he wanted to do some blood work on her, and he said she was pale.\u00a0 how does he know that, i asked kevin. it&#8217;s because her gums were pale.\u00a0 who knew?<\/p>\n<p>anyway, bottom line, she&#8217;s pretty fine now although very groggy, but that might be because of the valium the doctor gave her last night.\u00a0 she could have seizures once in a while, but she&#8217;ll be ok as long as they don&#8217;t last for a really long time which would make her overheat and then she&#8217;d have a brain tumor or something.<\/p>\n<p>we were home by 12:30 last night, and mollie was lying quietly on the bed with us.\u00a0 it was a peaceful night except some kitties were fighting kind of loudly.<\/p>\n<p>and this morning i&#8217;m sitting here quietly and les paul is lying under the computer desk looking up at me like a little angel, and after a while i realize he&#8217;s gnawing on some hanging thing and in the back of my mind i think it&#8217;s the shoe string that hangs down, but WAIT A MINUTE&#8230;THAT SHOE STRING IS ON THE DINING ROOM CHAIR!<\/p>\n<p>he was dilligently gnawing away on the NEWLY-REPLACED COMPUTER CORD!<\/p>\n<p>bad, bad kitty.<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s chester, who is lying like this a lot in the front hall when we come home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8351\" title=\"a3\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/a3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i am hoping this will be a more mellow day.<\/p>\n<p>ok then,<\/p>\n<p>mrs. hughes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last night we were watching the first &#8220;mission impossible&#8221; 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