" Our Alternative Child "

Never has those three words struck home or been any more true then they have in the past two days. If anyone knows us in the slightess, they know how we feel about Baby Girl. She is with us 99% percent of the time. She is in every sense of the words our Alternative Child.

She had a Vet. appointment when we came home this time to have some dental work done. Three days before the appointment we had to give her this god awful tasting medicine twice a day. Me trying to hold her while Ruth Ann squirted an eye droppper of the dreaded liquid into her mouth was a mix of strength, balancing act, self-defense and comedy show. As soon as the deed was done we offered tithes of treats to help her get the taste out of her mouth and while she gobbled them down you could hear what sounded like degrading remarks of us under her breath.

So, the big day came and Ruth ann took her to the Vet to have the work done. Minor procedure......" NOT "!!!!!!! After she was put under for the extractions things went wrong....very, very, very wrong. Baby Girl went into Cardiac Arrest and flat lined. After a minute of not breathing and many attemps of trying to get to a vein they were able to bring her back. We were at my eye Doctors when we found this out. We rushed to the Vet's office to be there with her. They brought her our for us to see....the mood was that " This could be our last time "...and the sight of her yelled that mood. She was breathing in paused rasps, her little body limp and her tiny tongue hanging out of her mouth.

The doctor could not even give us her chance of making it. That night we had to take her to a emergency clinic about 35 miles from home, one we had never been to nor knew the people there. This had to be done so she could be put in a incubator to bring her body temp back up and for someone to be there to keep a watch on her in case she had another seizure. We got no sleep that night form being worried and checking in with the clinic through out the night. The next morning we had to pick her up and take her back to the Vet for them to check her out. When we first got to the clinic they brought her out and she just looked at us in a blank stare then she reconized us and was very happy to see us whith her way of hugs and kisses. The Vet looked her over and gave us the okay to take her home, and to call her if we noticed anything abnormal.

These last couple of days have been over-whelmingly hard on Ruth Ann and I to say nothing what it has been on Baby girl. We have cried and worried. I have been mad at the situtation. To say that Baby Girl is our Alternative Child is an understatement. People joke about how we treat her and spoil her and I guess at one time in my life before Baby Girl I would have also. But, after these last few days there will never be anything too good for her.

Thank God, our Baby is still with us.



You all be safe.............Later, Brad