Nalene health concern (Globe and Mail)
So it looks like our old favorite drinking aid, the Nalgene bottle, has been pulled off the shelves by MEC. As I look in my cupboard, at last count I owned minimum 8 of these bottles, both Nalgene brand and other knock-offs, all containing the evil Lexan. What do we use for water bottles now? Stainless steel?
It's been a long, hard, stressful week. Tuesday night, I thought all was going well with Abbey's recovery from his tooth extraction. Around midnight, he was whining and standing on the bed staring at me. Thinking he just needed to pee, I took him out. 2 hours later, same thing. But after getting back into bed, I touched his stomach, trying to convince him to lie down and he screamed out in pain. That was enough to scare me and I called my vet to get the emergency number. 2:30am in the morning, I'm driving to the Ottawa Veterinary Hospital and checking him in. They immediately took an X-ray (note to human medical clinics: learn from vet hospitals! medical attention happens immediately!) and discovered he had a severe case of bloat (colic) and needed emergency surgery to decompress his stomach. I left him there and spent a sleepless night at home. The next few days were up and down with him developing more and more problems - weird pancreatic values, long clotting times, blood in his urine, a strange rash on his abdomen. Thankfully, the bloat did not occur, but these other problems were odd. Our final thoughts are that they were complications from either a drug or the anesthetic during the tooth extraction. Yesterday he was finally getting better, eating, up and socializing at the clinic. I went and saw him last night and he was exhausted - we had a nap together on the visitation room couch! The day before when I visited he had been in pain, slow, not social, etc. So seeing him last night almost back to his normal self was a huge relief. I picked him up today and he's sleeping soundly on the couch. I think the next couple of days will be fairly low-key for both of us! I'm so happy to have him home safe and sound. It's been a huge stress to have him away from home, especially since none of the vets were sure what was wrong. And he'd seen minimum of 4 vets during his time at the hospital, none of which was his own regular vet! That's hard on both of us. But he's home, feeling well and almost back to his normal self. Yeah!!
On top of the stress of him being in hospital, I've been at physio every day this week, attempting to get this shoulder back on track. Today it's doing a bit better, and I've been told to forgo the sling while at home and use the shoulder a bit so the muscles can start to strengthen. I've also got a few exercises to do each day to get it back into shape. It's still in alot of pain, especially down the side of my neck and into the trap muscle, but I think I'm going to stop taking the pain killer and just take Aleve.
Wow, what a week. TGIF definitely!! 14 more days until I leave for Thailand, which is almost shocking. The next two weeks will go by fast - Christmas lunches, Andy's coming to town for a couple of days, exams to mark. Yeah! Then off, off and away into the wild blue (warm) yonder! I should be go to train by the time I hit Phuket. Maybe not to do MMA, but certainly to be back on the bag, running, and maybe doing some sparring. I'll be so happy to get back into the gym. Being inactive is very, very frustrating!
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