Life with Greta

Man sometimes it feels like life just throws everything at you at once. I feel like right now we have a lot on our plate, but isn't it always one thing or another? I do feel like we've been blessed so much as well. I think everyone in our little family has had to deal with something lately, including our Great dog. I know it's a post about a dog, (With a million pictures) but I guess if you don't understand it you don't have a dog. :) Or one as great as ours. Ha! When we moved here our dog started having nose issues. We first thought it was allergies, cause we've dealt with those a lot with her. It continued to get worse, and once we could afford the vet they told us it was a sinus infection and that if would be healing with antibiotics. They said that if it didn't go away with those meds, it was something worse and that she'd most likely need surgery. Well it didn't go away and we couldn't afford the vet again, so she had to wait. We felt bad, but when you have no money you have priorities and she wasn't at the top.

When we got home from our Thanksgiving trip she got worse. A LOT worse. She has had constant boogers coming from her nose, and she was always exhausted cause she couldn't breath through her nose. Well, she then started having blood instead of boogers and she looked really bad and was acting really weird. SO we worked some things out to go into more debt to get her some help. They took x-rays, and found that she had a fungus in her nose and a serious infection. The fungus the doctor had only seen twice in his career, Greta being the second. We were just grateful it wasn't a tumor. So she got stronger antibiotics and a fungus medicine that made her very sick. She stopped eating for a week and we could hardly get anything down her, even when we stopped the fungus meds.

We finally got her to eat, and lowered the dosage on the fungus meds to once a day. So her evenings she's a little queesy and sad, but she's eating and doing better and fattening up a tad. Dealing with her puking and not eating, and shaking blood all over our house constantly has been challenging, and not fun. Poor thing. We pray she's n the up swing. If the meds don't work, we have no other options. We can't afford a specialist in Vegas, so I guess we'll see. Gabe prays every day her dog will be better, it's really sweet. Can't blame her, we all love this critter

Life with Greta is always an adventure. She's always ready to play or to cuddle you. She is such a cuddler. She also loves to lay on our clothes, blankets, pillows, or anything else that finds it's way to the floor. She tries to sleep on Gabe's dress up clothes, stuffed animals, or anything else that is comfy. As soon as "Daddy" gets home she's ready to play, and he still makes sure she gets to go outside and run around a bit. She loves to follow the kids around wherever they wander to. She loves it when Gabe plays with her, and lets Ollie climb all over her all the time. She loves the outdoors, hiking, biking, or just running around. She's so good with other dogs. She'll play with anything that is willing. She still thinks she's a lap dog, and obnoxiously attempts to lick anyone's face that comes over. She is such a kind, caring, patient creature. We love you Greta girl and are so glad we have you around.