Rain has been predicted today for the last week. It’s super overcast and clearly about to rain. All the weather report says it’s going to start raining in an hour.

Tell me why my neighbor is washing her car and someone down the street is painting a fence???

Check out this brave strong little doggie, 3 days post op where both tibias were completely cut through, had the cut ends realigned, and metal plates screwed in

72 hours after!

@kingrat she will stay there for a night or two so hopefully they’ll be on it with the good drugs.

Thanks for all the well wishes. I’ll update here tomorrow. Today we went on a short sunny walk where she got to sniff and eat goose poop.

I know it’s what’s best but I also feel terrible taking her somewhere where she’ll wake up in pain

Dog surgery tomorrow… as long as nothing goes wrong again.

The ideal is doing a surgery called a TPLO where they put plates in that make the ligament unnecessary because it changes the geometry of the knee. That’s what Ruby had and is the surgery that holds up best.

The issue is that since Zora had surgery a few years for a congenital luxating patella, there is already a pin in her leg and if they can’t get it out, they have to do a different surgery that doesn’t hold up as well. And they won’t know until they try.

🤞

She’ll be in the hospital for two nights most likely and then comes home to recover. She’s likely to recover more slowly because of delayed healing from immunosuppressants and steroids and there’s a higher risk of post-op tinfection.

So I’m a nervous wreck on many accounts.

I get to sleep in my capsule hotel at the Mexico City airport for a few hours and would like to know wha this strange blue icon means. Maybe I’ll wake up to one of you having solved it.

More pics tomorrow

@kingrat i feel so powerless. Because we are and they are and we all are.

Today I saw crocodiles

My mom: Zora keeps pushing me out of bed at night

Me: you can just have her sleep in her dog bed

My mom: why would I do that?

My mom lets Zora sleep in their bed and then Zora stretches out her long legs and pushes my mom to the edge

Zora is only 35 pounds but looks really big in this photo

@kingrat no, im in Merida now. It was a ferry ride and four hour bus ride

there was an agriculture dog at the airport and a lady whose sole job was to say very loudly in English over and over YOU SHOW THE DOG YOUR BACKPACK

I am reminded that, while I love tropical beach vacations, I would have a hard time living in this kind of humidity for very long.

My hair is a disaster, my glasses keep fogging, and I am not comfortable sweating this much!

@kingrat the perils of no PTO.

I was crabby the day before and the day of both but I made it through! And I can mask crabbiness with kids at this point in my career.

But I’m REALLY looking forward to my time off.

@kingrat because my days start later, I did. I took a quick nap and saw students.

It was a bad choice but also I’m about to have almost three weeks of no income (students’ break and my vacation) so it’s r was somewhat necessary.

This week:

Monday: vet appt for bloodwork, clear liquid diet for colonoscopy prep (plus the grossness of colonoscopy prep) AND WORKING A FULL DAY

Tuesday: Colonoscopy AND WORKING A FULL DAY

Wednesday: dog oral surgery AND WORKING A FULL DAY

Wed at 7:40 pm: about to get into bed.

@kingrat good guess but no

Today’s advent calendar drawing is somewhere I’ve been! Who can guess?

Re: the colonoscopy: Kaiser says to start with a low fiber diet 3-5 days before the procedure. Well, which is it? 3 or 5?? That’s a big difference.

I have two weeks to keep worrying 😂

@kingrat 7 am (in two weeks)!