Abbye did not have a good Thanksgiving evening. First, she suffered the indignity of my cramming a pill down her throat when she refused to accept it wrapped in even the tastiest of morsels. Then she had another bout of throwing up, making us despair that we were making any progress on her recovery. To make matters worse, we were unable to get another antibiotic tablet down her before bedtime.<\/p>\n
When we awoke this morning, she just laid in her crate, eyes half-closed, refusing to even acknowledge our presence. We began to discuss potential options, one of which was to hurry her back to Midland and leave her with the vet for continual monitoring. How bad did things seem? MLB<\/acronym> had tears in her eyes as she said “I just can’t bear the thought of her dying over there by herself.” I had no good words of comfort.<\/p>\n We decided to go for a run, hoping that the cold air and exertion would help us focus on what needed to be done. When we finished, she kept going a few more blocks while I went in the house to check on Abbye…who, by that time, had apparently decided that the joke had gone far enough and was trotting around the house looking for a handout of leftover turkey. I put her on the leash and we set out to meet MLB. Abbye was as animated and alert as she was before all this started.<\/p>\n So, we’ve gone from cutting our trip short to return her to the vet in the hope that he might somehow save her life, to MLB going shopping with my mother and our niece. Abbye’s now asleep in her crate, which is her normal mode this time of day. And we’ve decided that the antibiotic was actually making her sicker instead of healing her. She’s had adverse reactions to antibiotics in the past. As it turns out, her refusal to take one last night was probably the key to the apparent turning of the corner.<\/p>\n And, as far as why she refused to acknowledge our presence this morning, I think it was her way of expressing her absolute disgust with the lack of respect accorded to her yesterday evening when I manhandled that pill down her throat. Let that be a lesson to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How quickly one can go from planning a funeral to going shopping. That beats the reverse sequence by a longshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbye","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}