It's Been A Week



Sweet Bella as a baby



It's been a week since my Sweet Bella past away.

I am doing better.

Maddy Jean is too.

She still isn't eating though.

Had her checked at the vet and everything is ok.

So, I'm just trying new things to get her to eat.

Tuna juice over her food worked yesterday.

The weather has been nice lately.

Warm enough to sit outside with Maddy Jean.

Meredith Ann spent most of the day with us.

I attach her to her leash and then to the baby sitter.

(a rope attached to a shovel)

It works great.

She's the only cat that will allow me to do this.

She is so mellow.

A lot is going on around here.

Getting both my human kids packed.

My son is going to college for his freshmen year.

My daughter is transferring to a new one for her Junior year.

Both are going where there will be very cold Winters.

(we get a bit of snow but not a lot like they will get)

So, that is my update.

My soul is healing.

I look at the clouds and think of Bella.

She loved life.

She would want me to go on.

To enjoy each day.

Will I get a new dog or puppy ?

I'm not sure.

For now, I will enjoy Maddy Jean.

If she continues to be lonely, I might.

~ JC ~

Thank You

Thank You

to KC at the Cat Blogosphere

for making this for me and Bella.

Sabrina Isabella was ten years old on June 21st.

She was my birthday present.

I always told her she was the best

chocolate that I'd ever had.

Thank You to all of you

who have left comments.

I will try to visit your blogs

sometime next week.

It has helped my soul to know

that so many of you

understand what I am feeling.

The loss is so great

that it is hard to breath.

Maddy Jean and I are doing better today.

We're sticking together like twins.

Again, Thank You

and I hope you have

a Purrfect Weekend.

Bella would want that.

~ JC ~

Sabrina Isabella

Update ~ At 3:12 pm

Sabrina Isabella

went to sleep.

I just left Bella at the vet.

If you could all say a prayer or just a wish

that it's just old doggie illness

and not the terrible posibilities

that were told to us.

I would really appreciate it.

I'm trying to be brave.

She isn't just a dog.

She's my dear sweet daughter.

Not good.

Not good at all.

Just keep her in your thoughts today.

I'll know more this afternoon.

~ JC ~

Million Dollar Dog

Friday Update On Bella

My Bella is ok.

Tired and thristy but ok.

The prednisone causes her to be very thristy.

That causes her to moisten everything.

One day I washed all the bedding.

Next it was the carpets.

Vet got the results back from

 the very expensive lab.

A staphyloccoccal infection

(I think that's how it's spelled)

  and yeast are what showed up.

No change in her already expensive foods.

Just keep giving the prednisone

and ear meds twice a day.

Our vet said something about

 coming in every three weeks

with her due to her chronic condition.

Does he need to upgrade

 his boat or something ?

But, look at those eyes ...

She had me at the first tail wag.

My Sabrina Isabella is napping.

Home and recovering from her day at the Vet Spa.
On Saturday, I noticed that her right ear didn't feel right.
I called and got her in first thing on Monday.
Ends up she had a hematoma in her ear.
 They cleaned, drained, and injected meds into her ear. 
Even clipped her toe nails. (That part was free)
 She came home with two meds to take twice a day.
 Her lab result, which cost a lot, will be back this week.

My Bella has had trouble with her ears since she was a puppy.

 Always an infection or just me having to clean them daily.
She has been a sport about it.
Well, not really but she knows the routine.
 You know how they say if a dog tries to get away
 from you that they've been abused.
Not so in Bella's case.
She just knows her ears are going to be cleaned.

So, now she is on the mend.

 Will have to have meds for two months or longer.
We don't seem to be able to get her ear problems to go away.
The results last time said it was wheat.
No wheat food for her.
I'm that lady in the dog food aisle reading the ingredients.
She also has a tendency to gain a few lbs
 so I'm looking for that lowfat non wheat food.
My question is, do dogs really like blueberries ?
Seriously, that's all that's left to feed them.

That and pomegranate ?

I told Mr. Boatman that these are my last dogs.

 He just looks at me and shakes his head.
Knowing that I am a big dog lover and I might say it now
but when my two girls are gone,
I'll be finding an older dog that needs someone to love them.
 I'm a dog chick magnet.

I have to mention the price.

I was proud of myself that I didn't say out loud
what I was thinking when I saw the day at the spa price.
Just under five hundred.
Yes, you read that right.
I didn't even open my mouth with the OH MY GOD look.
 Nope, I waited til I got in the car
 to check the receipt one more time.
Cause I thought maybe I didn't see that right ...
not putting my reading glasses on to sign the paperwork.
Nope, it actually was more than I thought.
 I thought I saw three when it was almost five.

I told Mr. Boatman when he called to see how she was doing.

 He was a bit shocked to say the least.
 Oh, well, it's only money.
YIKES !!!

She now is napping by my feet.

 My million dollar puppy.
With her bionic leg last year and her tumor removed the year before, she's adding up to be a very expensive dog.
The kind you grab instead of your photos.
Ok, you grab the photos but you run back in for that dog.

My hope is that her next surgery ...

Vet said her teeth need to be cleaned
and her two new tumors need to be taken out ...
can wait til next year ...
 after my coma brain memory has forgotten
how expensive Vets can be.

I'm off to refill her water dish.

 Prednisone makes her thristy and of course
that makes her incontinence problem worse
 so I'm washing her blanket.


And, I'm thinking 
it could have been worse.
Next time I see a cute face
I'm running the other way.
Really .. I am ...

~ JC ~