So, contrary to my previous post, I have not been chilling in lovely Montreal since Friday as planned. In an unfortunate turn of events I have been sitting at home babysitting my pooch Bella in order to keep her from messing around with her tail. This is us above taken 5 minutes ago. The only good thing to note since Friday is that the sun is finally out today and Bella and I can sunbathe.
It all started on Friday evening when we showed up at the airport to discover our flight had been cancelled due to bad weather in Toronto. If you don't know, it's summer in Toronto and the weather is beauuuuutiful. But, apparently due to an accident last week with a plane slipping on the runway in some rain, they have become weather condition nazis and are canceling flights left and right. Worse news was that they couldn't get us out on another flight for 48 freaking hours. Can you believe that crap? So we had to made the sucky decision to cancel the trip altogether and go home since the tickets were too expensive to be there just 2 1/2 days. Did I mention this was to be our 1st anniversary celebration? (Not that we've taken a honeymoon yet actually, but still.) So on Saturday we're so bummed that we decide to plan something else last minute to salvage our vacation. We book a nice suite in Tahoe and rent a convertible to drive there in style, planning to leave Sunday morning. Come home from dinner Saturday night to find Bella has a huge open sore on her tail. It's a cyst actually, that she's had for a year and not bothered, that she suddenly for some reason decided to pay attention to and turn into a huge mess. We medicated and bandaged it and went to bed. Wake up Sunday am to find blood all over the house (wtw carpet and we rent nightmare!) and that she's turned the sore into a disgusting bloody puss-filled black hole on her tail. Call the vet and are told she needs surgery to have it removed. Lovely huh? So we cancel the Tahoe trip. Vet pre-op visit Monday, surgery Tuesday (today). So we now plan to spend our vacation time sitting at home, one of us having to have an eye on Bella every second as she tries to mess with her tail. Since our luck isn't changing just yet, we find out at the visit yesterday that the wound is too infected to operate on, and she needs antibiotics for 10 days before we can schedule surgery. Awesome, just what we wanted to hear. So anyway, that's my sad story, and now I have to get back to the sun.
Oh yes, photos first. Here is our depressed girl in a big Bite-Not collar which we hoped would solve the problem of her not being able to reach her tail (no such luck). Btw, if you are one of those non-squimish types and want to sort of see the open cyst, click here.
And actually there has been one highlight of my vacation - swimming with my neighbor twin babies who are getting so big! Talk about making me want a baby, these boys are the sweetest things on earth.
Just because, here are two photos from my days of volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the penguin exhibit. One of the best experiences in my life! They really did just jump up into our laps like that to get pats (they like little pats more then petting).
