Definitely not one of the great Christmasses on record

Well, the last 48 hours have been a mixed bag, to say the least. I had noticed on Monday that my big tub of goo, Leo, had been a bit lethargic but by Wed. I noticed that he was eating very little. So I scooped him up and took him to the vet (less than 6 minutes away). I happened to look at him to pat him, just before pulling out of the driveway and noticed he had peed in the box. Well, when I got him to the vet we put him on a table in the examining room and when I put in paper towels to sop up the excess, I realized it was all bloody. Then when I started to move him, I noticed that his chest was all bloody and that the fluid in his box was full of something like pus (which is what it turned out to be. Well, that got everyone jumping. The techs hustled Leo to the back where they do all sorts of things like ekgs,blood tests, etc. and shaved his chest. When they brought him back they showed me the most enormous hole I have ever seen.

To make a long story short, he had a spectacular abscess, a temperature of 106 and a wound draining what seemed like gallons. I asked them to keep him overnight, since they could keep him quiet and confined. They had gotten his fever down by morning which made all the difference in the world to him. They had also bathed him which made all the difference to me. Since he is hard to medicate, they gave him an antibiotic shot that lasts for 7 days!! (Isn’t science wonderful?)I also have to squirt some stuff on the wound several times a day that is supposed to be some sort of miracle medication. Thankfully, he doesn’t mind.

Now that is ultimately, good news, because I am so thankful my baby is better. But that is not the end of it. I popped a small Butterball Turkey in the oven this afternoon and prepared a veritable feast. However, the turkey was horrible. How can a turkey be horrible? I love turkey but even the top most breast meat tasted more like dark meat than anything else. Had the turkey gone bad? All I know is that my Christmas feast was ruined. Thankfully, there was plenty of food but still.

OK. Leo is much better, everyone had enough to eat… maybe it wasn’t so bad after all. Plus, I am in the south so all I had to contend with was rain and it had stopped by this a.m.

I guess, I have to face it. I am a whiner.