Like this:

this morning i woke up to find a very sleepy noah with a strange black growth on his neck… that wasn’t there tuesday (i know because i took his collar off cuz it seemed to be making his hair fall out, and havent put it back on since). it didn’t seem to hurt, but it was definitely STUCK and ATTACHED.  so, since he’s been throwing up lately and has been lazy as hell, and has an odd bald, and now reddish, patch on his neck, of course i was freaking out.

and by freaking out, i mean looking up pictures of doggie cancer all day. calling vets to see if i need to bring him in. yes, i’m *that* puppy mom. but, the vet said i should bring him in asap anyway, cuz that didn’t exactly sound like something all too friendly. awesome.

sooooooooo i get home… look at him.. and where the black thingy was this morning, its now a big red kinda bleeding lump but no black thing. so i’m of course lookin & feeling all of his skin for anything else (and he’s squirming trying to get away)… when on the side of his neck, i find ANOTHER growth. except this one is smooth. and gray.  look a little closer… this thing has legs. UGH! A TICK! and, lemme tell ya, this thing ate WELL. i’m talkin, brucie-and-the-chocolate-cake well (seen Matilda??).  it was disgusting. blood oozing out of it all over. he must’ve gotten it while we were playing outside in the woods (ha… as close to u get in philly) on saturday. so i pulled it off. flushed it. called the vet. who said that this mornings growth couldve been a tick that exploded (um, ew)… which is why it was firm and lumpy, not squishy smooth gray & bloody… but since he has such a reaction, and since he’s been throwing up and lazier that usual, i should bring him in within a few days for lyme disease tests, and possible prophylactic abx.

ticks are about the most disgusting things in the world, especially now that i found one sucking my dog’s blood. they’re right below large cockroaches, right about small cockroaches. UGH UGH UGH UGH GUH.

awesome. so now i’m itchy all over annnnnd thinking… if my dog had a tick… and maybe lyme disease… and my dog sleeps with me… *shudders* time to change bedding!

 

moving on to happier thoughts. i got a birthday card from jared today   he is not normally a sappy person… hell, this is the first card i have ever gotten from him… so on the outside, its a picture of two people holding hands (but actually its just their hands) in front of a sunset on a beach, and it says “sunrises. sunsets. and everything in between….” and on the inside it says “amazing. all because of you. happy birthday.”  cute!  and he wrote… “happy birthday baby! so… here is some starbucks for you <it came with a starbucks gift card> since i can’t be there to buy you any. also, be watching your mailbox. i sent you something else, but i sent it before you reminded me not to send it to your apartment cuz they suck. so i’m really sorry but you might have to go way out of your way to get it, i’m really sorry. either way it’ll be worth it, i promise. so, let me know when you get it and i’ll explain more when you do. i hope you have an amazing birthday baby. i wish i could be there to see you and huge you and kiss you. since i’m not gonna be there for it, we’ll make up for it over the april 4th weekend !!!  love you rhi-rhi!“  so obviously now i am SO curious about april 4th, because i can’t work the 4th or the 5th, and i’m not allowed to wear the dress he got me until then, and, well, i’m about the most impatient person in the world.  i mean i could sit here and guess, and yesterday he said he gave me more info than he wanted to, but somehow i totally missed that lol… i’m excitedddddddd about whatever it is!

bridget’s beaches premiers tonight… haha… i know that i sound like a complete airheaded girl for watching shows like this… but whatever

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