Smokey's surgery

Smokey's surgery went well - a large mass was removed from his neck/cheek area, and he's already starting to get his voice back, no barks yet but he can do his whine again.    Its funny to realize we pay a lot of $$ for him to get his whine back, we did and we are glad to hear it!  Recovery is going as well as can be expected.

The poor boy hates the cone, but has to wear it so he can heal properly - I thought 10 days, but found out yesterday probably 14 days before he gets his sutures out.  He did get a drain taken out yesterday, so that should help him be a little more comfortable.

We do love the vet we take him to, they kept him overnight after surgery even though he could've gone home -- with our AC being out, and also with a little, curious dog too it was the best decision to have him in the cooler, vet kennel for the night following surgery.

I was telling Kevin last night that a dog recovery may be worse than a person's, at least the person can know WHY the surgery happened.

Life as a Country song

Have you ever felt like your life is a country song (and by country song I mean the ones where everything goes wrong)? That is how I am feeling right now - believe me I know I have MANY things going right in my life, its just hard to not get stuck on the things going wrong.

the big ones:

Smokey needs to have surgery to get his bark back.   He has lumps that we've had looked at before and they are benign fatty tissue; but one looks to be growing on his neck and it may be pushing on his larynx -- it sounds more like he's wheezing (and he was mistaken for a PARROT) when he tries to bark, which is so odd since he usually has a ferocious bark.   He's our old guy (we've had him almost 12 years and he was about full grown when we got him) so there is some worry with having him sedated, but it should help him feel better, and if they can they'll remove some other lumps that may help him move better.

our AC broke on Friday night.....it runs, but doesn't cool.....this is the third house we've had AC issues, so we always knew it was likely to happen....I looked it up and it was late April last year we had the issues (and June...)    I guess we are lucky it didn't happen on a holiday weekend, especially since we'll have guests that same weekend!

In good news we do have water pressure in our kitchen sink again...that was fixed on Friday.