Post-op pregnancy... and bad dog stuff

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I posted awhile back about a blow... with my husband picking up some

stuff that I didn't like, but he did give it to someone else.

This is crossposted from my AMOS profile.

I'm experiencing a different waiting game. Waiting for when my period

would be due to take a pregnancy test. I bought a two pack of

pregnancy tests last night and neither one of them worked. You pee on

a stick and one section is supposed to be pink no matter what and if

you are pregnant the other section will be pink. Well, neither

section turned pink and based on the instructions it says RE-test.

ARGH.

If you have never had animals... you may not understand my prayer...

but our 3 year old Rottweiler female, Baby... injured herself last

night. Not sure how...At this point, the doctor is guessing it's a

torn ligament in the back left leg and possibly ankle. She is putting

zero pressure on the leg. They'll be doing X-rays. The doctor

mentioned the " S " word of " surgery " and there is NO way we can afford

something like that right now. I don't know what I am asking you to

pray, I just know that I don't like the idea of... " well we can't

afford surgery, so let's put her down. " That just seems cruel and

unusual to me, but so is letting her suffer. My eyes are wet and my

heart is aching... I'm waiting for x-ray results.

Fast forward to the night of 07/16/03, so she ruptured her arterial

c... ligament. It's a common football injury, but even with surgery,

she'll never walk the same again. Surgery was going to be a mortgage

payment and a half to two mortgage payments and it wouldn't

necessarily repair all the damage. You guessed it, we were going to

have to put her to sleep. Here is something amazing. The technician

that did the x-ray is going to adopt Baby... she has a wonderful

temperant and disposition and the technician is going to assume the

vet bill, pay for surgery and own Baby. SO we are relieved that she

is going to live, but still devastated. My husband and I cried A LOT

today. We got Baby shortly after we moved to this house.... mind you

it's only been 16 months... but she was my first furry child at this

house. Part of me has died today.

My MOST RECENT update

*UPDATE on 07/17/03*

Well, I started to bleed today. That means I am probably not

pregnant. Who I am fooling thinking that it would happen like last

time. I stopped the pill and conceived three weeks later. ARGH. I was

trying to time it for an April birth, so that I would done by the

time I'm thirty. SO much for planning. I'm going back to the bathroom

to put the tampon and pad on. ARGH.