What a night. Coming back from the San Fran Marathon, rushing into work on Monday -- I was really looking forward to some down time last night and a rock solid sleep. Well, you can't always get what you want, right Mick -- this seems to be my re-occurring theme song.
Who knows why, but starting at 1 am this morning, Pene, our fox red (not really too red) lab starts shaking her head, licking her front feet, and pacing outside our room. I get up thinking she must need to go outside. She hangs outside for a while, I relish in a few minutes of deep sleep, then she lets me know she's ready to come back in the house. Well this continues, until my alarm goes off at 5 am.
Now it's time to get up and get my running clothes on, cause Jennifer will be leaving her house too at 5:30 for our regularly scheduled Tuesday am vampire run. So when I get up, and actually start waking a little I look at Pene and realize she doesn't quite look the same. Rather than a petite little red head, she now resembles more of a charpay. No wonder she was shaking her head and rubbing her muzzle -- it's completely swollen, she can barely see out of her eyes.
The vet doesn't get in until 8, so we continue our morning and get in a lovely 7 miles.
Just dropped Pene off at the vet (they didn't have any open appointments, so we needed to leave her there and Dr. Knighton will help her out between other appointments. I'm sure Pene's very upset with me right now, she didn't get her food, or walk and know she's stuck at the stinkin vets! Not to mention this funny look she's touting. We think she was bit by a spider, so hopefully soon she'll get a dose of meds that kicks down the inflammation.
I'm getting ready to go to work -- if they doctor Pene up this morning or early afternoon, perhaps we can both come home earlier today!
San Fran was great fun. I'll talk more about that later. Have a good day. aero
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