I'VE SEEN BETTER WEEKS!!

Well, let's face it -- this hasn't been a great week. First, I have been nursing a cold all week, which is never fun. And then Rufus became ill, adding to my woes.

The cold really hasn't been such a bad one but for a day or two I felt like a person in an ad for a cold medicine. You know the ones: the man or woman comes onscreen and complains of runny nose, red eyes, scratchy throat, and hacking cough. Then they take some wonderful elixer and all their symptoms just disappear. Well, that didn't happen to me. Instead, I took a pill plus Advil and I still felt like someone had dumped me in a swimming pool and hung me out to dry.

Then on Wednesday Rufus began throwing up. After he had completely emptied his stomach (on the white carpet, of course), then the diahrrea began. And that was still happening this morning. I can't count the number of times I have cleaned that up (still on the white carpet). Last night I covered the bathroom floor with puppy pads, then got up with him four times during the night and changed them. If I didn't feel so sorry for him, I would be drowning in self-pity, but having suffered through the same thing last November in Florida (remember the raw oysters episode?) I could only have sympathy for him.

So it was off to the vet this morning before I had even had my coffee (I took it with me). They couldn't find anything majorly wrong -- just gave him some meds to stop the diahrrea and some special canned food that would be easy on his stomach. And of course charged me $163.00 for my trouble. Now he is sleeping peacefully beside me as I type.

Ah, what did we do before Rufus came into our lives? How boring it was and how restful! Sigh!!!