glad the weekend is over.

The title of this post is something I normally would NEVER say.  This last weekend was filled with stress and frustration though so I'm sort of glad it's over and a new week has begun.  I'll give you a quick recap to let you know why I feel this way.

Friday night started out with a mouse issue.  About a month ago, we found two mice in the vent/fan thing above our stove.  They managed to fall into it from a hole above (that we think leads out to an old chimney) and were unable to escape.  One was barely alive and the other still very much alive.  So we removed them of course, cleaned up, and that was that.  One morning last week I heard A LOT of activity in the same spot and told my husband, "The mice are back".  I didn't hear anything after that but Friday evening when I got home from work, I could smell the evidence.  Unfortunately, Seth was at the Phillies game (in which they were eliminated in round one of the playoffs for those who don't follow baseball - another issue) and he didn't plan on coming home until Saturday morning.  The smell became progressively worse throughout the night and since I couldn't confiscate of them on my own, I had no choice but to open all the windows.  It helped a little but ew, gross.  I wanted to vomit.  Fast forward to Saturday morning when Seth takes the vent/fan off the wall and finds FOUR dead mice.  Bad start to the weekend.

Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon was filled with my dog having seizures.  A little background info.  Our 100 lb black lab was diagnosed with epilepsy at 2 years old (he's 4 now), takes medicine for this chronic illness and occasionally has seizures.  We have gotten used to them and how to handle the situation and he's never had more than 2 in a 24 hour period.  We don't know what prompted it, but he had 6 seizures in a 30 hour span.  They were happening about every 5 hours and he was in a haze the rest of the time.  We both thought he was going to die.  Our Vet is closed on Sundays so we called the emergency animal place and they said they would do a physical exam for any kind of increased seizure activity and decide where to go from there.  I knew waiting another whole day would make us terrible pet owners, so we decided to pay the $100 exam fee and have him looked at.  Here's where I don't understand.  This Vet suggested that it could be a reaction to an allergy flare up (never suggested to me before), his allergies look like they are caused by an inhalant (never suggested to me before) and he should have allergy testing (also never suggested to me before).  These tests would run us another few hundred dollars.  They suggested keeping him overnight to do a seizure watch and they would give a shot of valium if he seized again plus do a round of blood work.  This runs oh, about $850.  We opted to bring him home instead.  Fortunately, he did not have a seventh seizure but he's pretty out of it.  I don't expect him to come back to reality for a couple days.  I'm just at a loss as to what we do next.  We should follow up with our regular Vet but I'm sure they will want to see him and run more tests.  We love our dog and I don't want him to suffer, but he's cost us thousands of dollars in the 4 years we've owned him.

So, I'm sure you can see why I'm glad the weekend is over.