Aye Chihuahua!

It’s days like today that one would wish Blue were a Chihuahua. That way we could easily “accidentally” run over her with the car or something like that. You know it is much harder to get rid of an 80 pound dog. If I have forgotten to fill you in on the saga of poor Blue and her stupid inflamed nerve, I just had an interesting conversation with her doctor. As it happens Blue has been suffering from neuritis in one of her front legs ever since Christmas. It took us over 3 months and a lot o’ moola to figure this out. Now she is on steroids and nerve pain meds and the plan was to wean her slowly off the steroids but that is not working. Anyways, to make a long story short her doc says what Blue is going through is pretty unusual and she wanted to do a biopsy of her nerve and do some other stuff to her to see something…didn’t quite catch everything because I stopped listening after she told me it would probably cost close to $5000!!! Then she went on to give me the numbers of a few people that do acupuncture on dogs…she didn’t recommend any chiropractic treatments (thank goodness, that would have really put us over budget!). Aye-yai-yai, I mean Blue is a great dog, but we could buy like 15 other dogs to replace her with the money the doc wants us to spend on her…or invest that money in training to turn Bailey into some sort of a super-dog that didn’t shed fur all over the place…or we could use the money to hire a hit man to knock off Blue and use the left overs for a sweet vacation…or pay for 2 months of daycare, but that is a different story. I guess there is always a silver lining though and I think the good news is that we decided to try out some other immune suppressing drug and that means a trip to Sam’s club to pick it up, and that means $1.50 hotdog combos!