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May 15, 2006
Guilt
Rationally, I know that getting Gbic's teeth cleaned was the right thing to do. Emotionally watching her coming out of the anesthesia for the past 6 hours has sucked. Despite my guilt, the vet reported that the cleaning went well, and no major problems found. While they had her under, they removed a few skintags, and ran some bloodwork on her. Everything is normal and happy, or within range for her phenobarbital.
I'm still feeling crappy, still with the pain in my ribs/right side. I started freaking myself out this afternoon with the power of google and "self diagnosis". Ya know, the site is called WRONGdiagnosis.com for a damn reason. So, after panicking about gallstones, gallbladder disease, liver infection, liver cancer, leukemia, pelvic inflammatory disease and endometriosis, I went upstairs and stretched. Hrm, seems the pain goes away if i stretch and am in good posture. Shocking. In the absence of... well, death, I guess, and lack of acute pain, or intermittent pain, we're back to the pulled muscles/slept funny diagnosis. I was scared enough to eat better today, hopefully I can keep that up.
It was warm today, bordering on hot. For the most part we stayed cool inside. Finally got some heat build up in the evening, but as soon as the sun went down, I opened the screen door and we're busy sucking in the cooler air to store for tomorrow.
Gbic's still a little unsteady on her feet, and she's alternated between silence and puppy whining since we got home. But, she had some food and some water, and even went on a little walk so I'm sure she'll be much better by morning.
Posted by jodikins at May 15, 2006 9:24 PM