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Shiny_Rock
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It was a long weekend in Australia this past weekend, and it was a horrible and good weekend for me.
It was horrible because, as some of you may know, I brought home a new puppy, which we have named Lucy, on Thursday night. On Saturday, she was showing signs of having a stomach upset, which in the morning I didn''t think too much of because we had accidentally changed her diet. But by Saturday night, she was refusing food and water, and had been lethargic all day. I took her to the vet sunday morning who decided to keep her overnight. I was pretty distraught about this- having a sick little puppy. I also thought it may have been my fault for changing her food. Then on Monday morning, the vet called and said that overnight there had been blood in her stools and that all her symptoms now fit in with canine parvovirus, which if you don''t know the disease, is very serious and can be fatal. I spent most of yesterday crying and feeling hopeless
The good part of the weekend was how SO reacted to Lucy going to the vets. He was so supportive, made sure I got loads of hugs and looked after me. He made sure we shared the burden of this news. And he was distraught as well. He can be a bit tight with money, but he assured me that we would spend as much as Lucy needed to get better, because she was a part of our family (yes he said family) and he couldn''t think about not trying to get her better. His love for me, and for our little puppy, really shone through
It was so good to see this because as some of you may remember, we had been having a few issues a little while ago and I had felt like all of the stresses in my life, I had to deal with on my own, not together. Now I realise that whenever he can, wheneer he knows how, he will be there for me and support me. He cannot ease the burden of my study etc, but he can ease my burden over something like this, and he will.
This made me feel so much more in love with him again, and really optimistic about our future once more. And like a true LIW, where I had been quite mellow about getting engaged for a while, as soon as I started feeling like this again, I began dreaming of our wedding day
It was horrible because, as some of you may know, I brought home a new puppy, which we have named Lucy, on Thursday night. On Saturday, she was showing signs of having a stomach upset, which in the morning I didn''t think too much of because we had accidentally changed her diet. But by Saturday night, she was refusing food and water, and had been lethargic all day. I took her to the vet sunday morning who decided to keep her overnight. I was pretty distraught about this- having a sick little puppy. I also thought it may have been my fault for changing her food. Then on Monday morning, the vet called and said that overnight there had been blood in her stools and that all her symptoms now fit in with canine parvovirus, which if you don''t know the disease, is very serious and can be fatal. I spent most of yesterday crying and feeling hopeless
The good part of the weekend was how SO reacted to Lucy going to the vets. He was so supportive, made sure I got loads of hugs and looked after me. He made sure we shared the burden of this news. And he was distraught as well. He can be a bit tight with money, but he assured me that we would spend as much as Lucy needed to get better, because she was a part of our family (yes he said family) and he couldn''t think about not trying to get her better. His love for me, and for our little puppy, really shone through
It was so good to see this because as some of you may remember, we had been having a few issues a little while ago and I had felt like all of the stresses in my life, I had to deal with on my own, not together. Now I realise that whenever he can, wheneer he knows how, he will be there for me and support me. He cannot ease the burden of my study etc, but he can ease my burden over something like this, and he will.
This made me feel so much more in love with him again, and really optimistic about our future once more. And like a true LIW, where I had been quite mellow about getting engaged for a while, as soon as I started feeling like this again, I began dreaming of our wedding day