6.9 Location - We're At the Vet! And No One is Crying!

Bestest Friend and I are doing a blog project. Each day we will write a post on a pre-determined theme chosen by a random noun generator. The theme for the ninth day of the month is "Location."

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For those of you who are new here, let me fill you in on a little bit of backstory about Hannah the Dog. We adopted her in June of 2019. She was a hot mess from the moment we brought her home. She was SUPER SWEET and QUIET and got along well with the cat, but she also had skin infection after skin infection, tapeworms, hookworms, and she tried to be well-mannered, but she just wasn't well trained.

So we figured out that she has some unspecified food allergies and put her on a prescription food. We started bathing her in a special shampoo and put her on doggy Claritin (Apoquel) and she stopped scratching and biting herself. We got her certified as a Canine Good Citizen. At about nine months in, we noticed that she had pain in her legs sometimes. She would cry when she had to lay down. And it took us a long time to get her diagnosed with a hard-to-treat spinal infection (discospondylitis) and we spent years getting her treated and back to healthy.  We're just now weaning her off the last medication for the treatment of this infection. There have been so many antibiotics, xrays, and MRIs, but we're finally seeing what Hannah is like as a healthy dog. 

The long and the short of all this is that she had a regular vet appointment for vaccinations and a general check-up on Friday and when the person booking the appointment asked me if I had any health concerns about Hannah, I was able to say no. For the first time ever. Yay Hannah!

Don't get me wrong. The list of things we had to do was pretty long: weight, vaccinations, nail trim, express anal glands, and check out two small bumps. But none of these things was stressing me out. She's lost a couple of pounds, but her weight still looks good, she took her vaccinations like a champ, nails are done, anal glands were quite full and she's bound to feel more comfortable now that they're emptiy, and the vet looked at the cells from the bumps and determined that they're benign, so we'll keep an eye on them and if they change in size or shape, then we'll be concerned.  Clean bill of health!

And since we were there on Friday, they do Facebook Friday and take photos of the patients they see. Of course, Hannah was a willing model. I bet I know who she's looking at. 

And, of course, she also is a total goofball.

Here's to the least stressful vet appointment ever!

Happy Easter, all. I'm sure there'll be an update about our excursions out of Wisconsin later this week. Complete with the requisite photos of an egg hunt!