Circle of Life

Yes, Lion King is one of my favorite movies…

Hannah was released from the hospital a couple of days ago.  It turns out she didn’t have pneumonia after all, but she had trachiitis, atelectasis, and constipation.   The irony is that Daddy and I thought that is why Hannah was in so much pain.  We had even expressed this to the ER doc multiple times.

She is doing okay now.  She still doesn’t seem to be herself yet.  She is running occasional low-grade fevers (under 100.5), and she just wants to be held all the time.  She is also a bit more floppy than usual, but we keep reminding ourselves that she was sedated for 36 hours and having to lie in bed for 3 days.

Next week we see her pulmonologist and we get the process started to see about her aspirating her reflux and other trach/pulmo issues.

The day after we brought Hannah home, we had to put our 14-year-old Beagle to sleep.  We knew she was on her last days for the past six months, but the two days before we had to put her down, she was throwing up a lot of bile-ish stuff often.  She didn’t want to move and slept almost 23 hours a day.  When Daddy brought her in to the vet, knowing what had to be done, the vet said that she had advanced cancer of the liver.

The kids were upset, but we had prepared them that it was going to happen sooner than later.   We also realized that we didn’t give our two dogs (Molly and our 13-year-old spry and active Cairn Terrier, Kenny) enough attention since Hannah was brought home, so Kenny has been reaping the rewards of an amazing amount of attention from everyone.

Then the day after we put Molly down, Daddy had to go out of town for a couple of days for work.

It has been a rough, rough week.  Very emotional.  Very draining.