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Friday, May 15, 2015

 

Doing Nothing Half Way


Nothing ½ Way

My motto has always been:  Anything you do, give it 100%.

I’m thinking Lucky and I took this a bit too seriously this past week.

It all started about a week and a half ago.  My allergies seemed to be subsiding so I stopped the daily dose of Zyrtec.  At that same point, Lucky began yelping at intermittent times when touched at various points in her tiny little body.

Both of us just kept up our routine of walking.  However I did have to carry her home on a couple of our strolls.  I realized that my “lack” of allergy symptoms was in my head.  My eyes started tearing, my face was stuffed and hurting and the post nasal drip had made my throat sore and itchy-causing a lot of coughing.

Lucky and I kept on ignoring the signals our bodies were sending to us.  She wanted to be cuddled but not touched.  I thought ignoring the obvious and re-start the allergy meds would be enough.

Well we were WRONG.  Monday morning our wonderful Dr. Young was booked but had me drop off Lucky so she could examine her between appointments to see what was up.  3 hours after I left her in the most capable of hands-our vet said that her ears and teeth weren’t the problem but her feeling was that she had pulled a muscle in her back leg.

She had been playing ball with the kids and she did play with my parents Chihuahua all week so we supposing that somewhere along the line the damage was done.

Picked her up and was told to give her some anti-inflammatory meds for a few days.  If it worked, great!  If not then she’d recommend an x-ray to be sure that there wasn’t something more serious going on with her hip.

At the same time, I was almost ready to call UNCLE and take myself into Immediate Care.  The coughing was doing nothing positive for my cervical bulging discs.  Okay-my neck is KILLING ME!  Yet, I held off another day. 

By Tuesday morning I felt like a bus had run over me (and who would know better how this would feel?).  I went in to be seen.  Guess what?  The immediate care doctor was sick.  Wound up being an okay thing.  They put me into my GP’s line up.

He looked at me and told me I did have severe allergies but I also had: bronchitis and a sinus infection.

Put me on an anti-biotic, a prescription nasal spray, told me to go back to taking the Zyrtec (something I had already done 3 days before), take sinus/cold/cough during the day and Benadryl at night, take a lot of Vitamin C, continue my constant intake of water and rest.

Got home with my bag of relief and called the nice woman I was supposed to interview and through my coughing I re-scheduled our chat for next week.

Lucky hasn’t been quite so “lucky”.  Poor dear is still not doing so well.  She is now on some meds because the pain brought up her tendancy to have nervous colitis.  To say we’re worried would be an understatement. 

At the end of it all, I realized that I lived up to my motto-never do anything ½ way. 

I need to change my motto.

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