Psychotomy

K’s been sick the last few days. I think it was related to the beets tuesday. FYI : Beets should be cooked like potatoes. The recipe that said to put them in an inch of water to cook? Bullshit. Pure and utter BULL. Because then? After an hour? They’re still rather hard and inedible. But DK and I tried them, and I think I gave one to K (and DK probably tossed him some)

Except it turns out that, while beets are not toxic to dogs … they don’t agree with one another. *sigh* So K’s been sick the last two days, today I took him to the vets. 130$ worth of stuff (well, 900$, but because I went ahead and upgraded to the higher level pet health plan, a bunch more was covered) (that’ll cost like 200$ a year, but I was planning to do it in the next year or so anyway, because the one we were on was basically “well puppy visits”, and between being six and having DK around … K’s gotten sick more in the last year than in the previous 5 combined), and they decided that basically he ate something. That was their initial estimation too, but they ran the tests because the symptoms were the same as a bunch of really bad shit :/ tests came back negative though, including the (now included) X-Ray :o

They did decide that he had some infection (the nurse had said something about pancreatitis or something making him mucus-y, so I assume it’s the same one), and they gave him an anti-biotic for it. Some shots and meds for his tummy, but basically said he was fine. YAY!

And NEVER, EVER read the pamphelets they have in doctors (or vets) offices. Especially if you’re there with a sick baby or puppy. Because those things sound like whatever you’re looking at! HOLY CRAP! ACK! AUGH! *whew*

Got home and he’s already eaten a scooby that he’s been carrying around since Wednesday. So I think he’s doing better yay!

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