{"id":4579,"date":"2015-02-10T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2015-02-10T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:30:50","slug":"we-had-one-of-those-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/02\/10\/we-had-one-of-those-days\/","title":{"rendered":"We had one of “those” days"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, our 5-year-old six-battery battery bank was quickly dying. It got so we didn’t even have enough power to run a CFL to see to get up to go to the bathroom and put firewood in the stove at night. My oldest son, Bill, works for an RV dealership and can get Interstate batteries at cost so, of course, we had to save up to buy six new ones (more than $700). Then we planned to drive down to Bill’s Monday morning. Well, plans changed.<\/p>\n

Sunday, our Lab, Spencer, started acting like he didn’t feel well. He was panting and shaking and as the day progressed, he wouldn’t eat or drink. He was running a fever. We were very concerned and I called our vet, Dr. Fisher, in Cook. He said he might just have a GI upset and to see if he got over it by morning. He didn’t.<\/p>\n

I drove to Bill’s, 100 miles south, (mostly because I was SO chicken I couldn’t bear to go to the vet with Spencer) while Will, who is coming down with my COLD FROM HELL, offered to take Spencer to the vet.<\/p>\n

We found out that Spencer had a raging bladder infection. Easily treated with antibiotics. But the bloodwork also showed that he had Lyme disease. Luckily, he isn’t showing any symptoms so as soon as he gets done with the antibiotics for his bladder infection, he’ll go on another medicine for the Lymes. Wow, I think it’s a good thing that he got that bladder infection. If not, we wouldn’t have known about the Lyme disease until he got too sick to treat!<\/p>\n

\"Poor-Spencer\"<\/a>
\nOf course, we’ll take Hondo in too and get him tested and vaccinated. The vaccine isn’t 100% effective, but we’ll do it anyway. Spencer got two shots and pills to bring home. By evening, he was back to feeling good again, wagging and dancing when I got home. He’s also eating and drinking just fine.<\/p>\n

I brought the batteries home and Will carried them downstairs and up on our rack. They’re HEAVY and poor Will is sick. But last night we had lights! — Jackie<\/p>\n

P.S. My cold is gone now. Thank goodness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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