Bubba Update

With all the birthday hoopla - I forgot to give an update on Bubba.  As you may or may not know, we've been doing the vet thing with him again because his skin is out of control.   He, of course, has another staff infection that came out of nowhere and got out of control FAST!  His hair is coming out in clumps and he's bald in many places on his hind quarters.  Jim says he's starting to look like Shirley McClain's dog in Steel Magnolias.  He's not that bad but I feel bad for him. Anyway - first we need to get that taken care of and then he's starting on a new medication. We had to switch his antibiotic because as I suspected, he was immune to the one we had been giving him.  He's also on a week long prednisone regimen and still on his thyrosyn (thyroid med).  Once the prednisone is done, he starts on cyclosporine and some keto med that boosts they cyclosporine's effectiveness.  Guess what the downside is?  Yup...the two meds together will cost about $200 a month.  However, we're hoping that once he's on the meds for a month, daily - we can move his dosage down to every other day.  It is never ending with this boy.  And don't get me wrong I love him SO much but my pocket book doesn't. 

BTW - Bubba's currently out on the step, just outside the sliding glass door, scraping his teeth against the snow and ice.  God - maybe he's allergic to snow!  Oh jeez...we'd be in big trouble.  If that were the case, I think Bubba would choose to suffer through his pain...he loves snow that much!

Okay - so I had good intentions of staying up to watch Downton Abbey last night but since Sami decided it was time for me to get up at 6 AM yesterday - my eyes couldn't stay open that late.  I'll watch it tonight...along with Walking Dead.

Speaking of Sami - lately, she's been getting Jim up at 2 or 3 AM and she never does that.  But I figured it out.  She's responding to Bubba.  He's the one that has to go out and she hears him either coming upstairs or whining and then she jumps on Jim so he'll let them out. (How good a girl is she for not waking her Mommy up!?)  Jim kept wondering what the heck was going on because she'd jump on him, he'd let her out and then she'd just stay on the deck and eat snow.  Whereas Bubba would run out and head down to the yard.

Okay - so another short week...Friday off.  YAY! And next Monday!  Double YAY!!!  K - best head to work...figure out what I'm doing.  Later!