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Let the Fun Begin

tag1114 | 31 May, 2008 18:46

My daughters have been out of school for about a week and a half now.  And there's yet to be a dull moment though sometimes I wish I could find one.  Much of the happenings haven't been pleasant either.  The last day of school went well, I attended the awards day at school and off my daughters and I went to start our summer break.  All was good until that night when my youngest, who seldom complains about anything, said she didn't feel good.  She had a sore throat and said her stomach hurt.  Sure enough, she had caught whatever bug/virus was going around.  She had a severe sore throat for a couple of days, a headache and stomach ache.  But she recovered and everything was good.  On Monday, Labor Day, my parents took my daughters to the pet store to get another guinea pig to accompany the one my youngest daughter had picked out a couple of weeks earlier.  We welcomed Daisy into our family that day.  She joined Gigi in her cage.  We had gotten Gigi on May 10th.  Two days after Daisy joined Gigi, we came home from karate to find Gigi dead.  We were all just devastated.  We had only had her 18 days but were quite attached to her.  This was my youngest daughters first pet that was all hers.  She picked her out, took care of her and all.  So she began blaming herself, that she must have done something wrong.  It was terrible.  Such a sad night.  I called the pet store, who has a 14 day guarantee and they agreed to replace our beloved Gigi.  Now, as those with pets know, there is no replacing an animal.  But my daughter agreed she wanted another guinea pig, so we brought Lily home Thursday, May 29th.  She has joined Daisy now.  And we still have Peanut, our 1 year old guinea pig, who is a true diva.  Our princess.  Last night(Friday, May 30), Peanut begans acting strange, tilting her head and not being herself.  She did the head tilting about a month after we got her last year.  We read it could be an ear infection, took her to the vet last year, to be told she was fine and probably had a little dirt in her ear.  I hoped the same was true this time as we couldn't emotionally handle another loss, especially this baby girl.  This morning, she was no better, I called the vet's office and the vets that see guinea pigs or exotics as they call them, wasn't in and they referred me to another office.  That office was booked to the max but I could come on in, they would fit me in but I may be waiting for hours.  Fine, whatever it takes.  It was almost 10 by then and they were only open to 12 so I wouldn't have to wait more than a couple of hours.  So we took our Peanut in to be told it appears to be ok, she doesn't seem to have an infection or anything serious and the vet recommended we take some ear drops for her and give that a try first and if she doesn't get better within a week, we'll try oral antibiotics.  She still isn't herself, she just doesn't feel good, she lays her sweet little head down and looks sad and pitiful.  It's breaking my heart.  Oh and did I mention that Thursday afternoon my oldest daughter began feeling bad....YEP....she now has the bug/virus that my youngest had.  Only my oldest has it worse.  She's throwing up and is having a harder time kicking this thing. 

Yes, summer break is here....FUN?  Not yet....but it will be.  We're going to get every person and animal in this house healthy and well and then we're going to enjoy the heat and humidity that is summer in Tennessee!

 

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