We finally received about 2 1/2 inches of much needed rain on Monday. Billy and went to the OHV Center on Tuesday for the February Safety Meeting. Not much happening there except to be cautious going around blind curves on the trails because the foliage is beginning to grow faster and a few small bear cubs have been spotted, so we must look out for Mamma Bear! JC and Kathy cooked three fantastic breakfast casseroles for everybody to enjoy, so a good time was had by all. Maggie had three days of diarhea followed by a bloody hemmorage on Thursday. Billy was at a Drs appointment in Gainesville so thankfully Sandy and Carl (our Forest neighbors) drove Maggie and I to the Vet in Palatka. After performing a few tests the Dr. determined that Maggie had Hemorrhagic GastroEnteritis (HGE). http://vetmedicine.about.com/cs/dogdiseasesh/a/HGEindogs.htm It was scary for us but we chose to bring her back home with us as opposed to leaving her at the Vet's office on IV's. The doctor supplied us with the phone numbers for four emergency vets to call if she should hemmorage again in the middle of the night. Thankfully, we shot a few syringes of Pedialyte down her and she slept peacefully through the night without hemmoraging. Wow! What a scare! The doctor asked lots of questions about what she could have gotten into. We are stumped because she is on the leash 99% of the time, and we try to watch carefully what she sniffs and eats in the forest.
Friday found us making a trip to Palatka to have the truck serviced while we walked next door to enjoy a lunch of Chinese food. I was surprised that the lunch was extremely good, because I had some reservations after seeing the sign outside that advertised SUSHI and BBQ. Really? Tomorrow is my Concealed Weapon Class that Billy signed me up to take. This will promise to be a new experience. Thanks for stopping in to visit. "Life Is Good Today!"
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