Snow and Surgeons

Tuesday was really weird weatherwise. When we got up it was so warm that a t-shirt was all that was needed. Two hours later it was freezing. And later in the day it was snowing!

Wednesday the weather couldn't make up it's mind at all as every 10 minutes the weather was different. Snowy, sunny, windy - just blink and it was different. We had quite a fun time observing this interesting weather phenomenon.

We spent most of Tuesday finding and going to a veterinarian to try and figure out what was wrong with Slugger's leg. The poor little guy had trouble sleeping last night due to his sore leg. When he got up he was three legged.

After a visit to the vet, we were informed that he has a torn ACL. The poor little guy. He was really starting to LOVE participating in agility. We feel so sorry for him. He's already had ACL surgery on his other leg and had to have two other leg surgeries as well. Seems like he spends most of his time recuperating from surgeries.

We were told that we should get the surgery done just as quickly as possible. With Lin's help, we found a really good orthopedic surgeon that could fit us in this next Monday. So we went to meet with him today (Wednsday) for a consultation. As he started to explain about the rehabilitation process we mentioned that we'd only be here for two weeks. The surgeon immmediately said we should go right home and have the surgery done by the same surgeon that has done Slugger's other three surgeries.

So we will be leaving tomorrow to start our journey home. We'll be arriving in Washington a full month earlier than planned. Sure hope it's warm up there!

During a few free minutes this morning I took Wazzu out to practice agility....in the SNOW! I should have thought to go out earlier before a lot of the snow had melted.



Wazzu thought it was really fun but I was way too cold so we stopped after two reps. Funny - Monday we only did two reps because Wazzu got too hot and today we only did two reps because I got too cold. Now you know another reason we don't practice!!

Tuesday evening we had a very nice relaxing evening having dinner and visiting with Lin and Greg Battaglia - and of course their seven wonderful dogs. Talk about a house full of love! Lin and Greg have just been so nice to us during our stay here. We are so grateful to them for all they have done for us. We feel very honored to have them as friends. You just couldn't meet a nicer couple. Certainly another example of what great folks agility people are.

Debbie
4/17-18/07