Back from vet
We went to see the vet this morning so Jake could have his blood-platelet count tested. The vet tried to get the blood from his arm but apparently he wasn’t having it, so they had to stick him in the jugular. This when he’s got a clotting problem. Anyway, there’s a little hole there, but they say he stopped bleeding pretty quickly.
I will get the results of this test on Tuesday, but they’re probably going to be a little misleading. Since he had a plasma transfusion last week he’s apparently running on borrowed platelets. The vet said that the ones he got should last about two weeks, and hopefully by the time his body destroys those it will have also started making new ones of its own, thanks to the steroids. If it hasn’t I don’t know if he will need another transfusion to hold him over while they start new (stronger) meds, or what will happen. Overall he seems well, but his gums are still really pale, and that bothers me. One good thing is that the vet found a chewable form of prescription Vitamin K for him that is only about $5 a week, as opposed to the prescription Vitamin K we had to get at Walgreen’s that was $80 for a two-week supply. This whole ordeal is kicking my savings account squa in the nuts, so that was some welcome news. Jake is now a member of Walgreen’s prescription savings club though, which I find hilarious. He has his own account, and I would have to pay a fee if I wanted to use it for me too.
After the vet we had to go to the grocery store which was right next to the vet, and I was not driving 20 minutes home to drop him off and then 20 minutes back just because society somehow thinks that dogs in bags are less hygienic than toddlers running around wiping their grubby hands on everything. (Sorry if you’ve got toddlers and think they’re all swell & totally clean, but this is a pet pet peeve.) So even though I’ve never really carted Jake around in a bag like I did Bruiser, I found one big enough for him and snuck him into Trader Joe’s. He did fine, just chilled out in there once he was all zipped up and no one called me out on it, so that was good.
Now we’re home and I need to get started on kicking out some serious words for NaNoWriMo, which is why I took all these Fridays off in the first place. But first – lunch.
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As for the rest of the stores, remember that the same rule that keeps your clean pets out of a store, keeps big slobbery Saint Bernards from sniffing the produce. ;-)