Catching Up
27 August 2021 21:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endless_musingsHere I am playing catch up once again on this little outlet of mine. I still don't know if anyone actually reads this thing or not but I am still happy to have something that is a recording of my thoughts and feelings. I love writing so much I don't know why I don't do it more.
The last time I wrote in here was well over a month and a half ago it damn near feels like a life time ago. So much has happened since then but I will try to do a quick recap of everything.
First and Foremost my little Angel of a Chihuahua Nacho became really sick his vet seems to believe that he had a heart attack or a virus (Covid Virus...Yes animals can catch it too) as the enzyme levels in his blood work were off. He became so weak and stopped eating at he was still drinking and urinating though. I had to make a little harness to support his weight when I would take him out to use the rest room. The poor thing was on his last legs and my heart was breaking for him. The vet suggested putting him down but stated that he didn't seem to be in any pain at the moment. I told her I would hold off for a bit take him home and see what I could do. For 18 days I syringe (with a children's medicine syringe) I gave him Bone broth with added fats, Meat baby food and Fruit baby food to get his bowels working again and pedialite. I would wake up every 3-4 hours to feed him and care for him. I sang to him, read to him, watched movies with him and did everything I could to assure him how much he was loved and cared for.
On the 18th day We were sitting on the couch watching a Hallmark movie (yes Nacho likes to watch TV) and I was eating a Granola bar. Nacho started becoming really interested in what I was eating and I offered him a bite and he ate it. Gobbled it down and wanted more. This was his first real solid food the whole time he had become ill. I ran to the kitchen and gathered any meat I could find for him and he ate his fill. I cried tears of Joy as I knew this was the positive step to get him on his road to recovery. He had already lost so much weight and had become Jaundice. Once he started eating the meat after a few days he started eating his solid dry dog food again as well. Needless to say that since then he has become a chow hound eating anything and everything that is healthy for him. I make sure that he has chicken daily along with his dog food. He has put back almost all of the weight he has lost and all of his colorations have come back. His personality has returned as well as his strength and he is running and jumping and back to his old self again. He is nearly 10 years old (he was adopted but based off the age they gave us and how long we have had him for I would say this is an accurate estimation) but being that he is a Chihuahua I was not ready to give up on him and live without my little side kick. I knew he was strong and a fighter. I am so glad I gave him the change to recover and not just put him down. Everyday that I have him is truly a blessing and a gift.
Nacho is not the only one with health challenges I myself have been going through some issues of my own. I don't want to get to deep in my issues on this type of forum but basically a mass was discovered on my liver that is precancerous and is currently being treated it is small and was caught early enough so I feel optimistic. Also my pancreas is also failing and I am being treated with several medications and treatments for that as well. So far things are working and there has been some improvement as over a month ago I would get violently sick anytime I would eat. Also my blood sugars levels would be really high or really low depending upon how my body decided to function. I have spend a good deal of the last month in and out of bed due to fatigue and side effects to my treatment and medications but I am finally starting to feel normal again.
The last major bit of information and the first time I am talking about this on any social forum due to a non disclosure agreement I was made to sign. On August 6, 2021 I was laid off from my Job. The Orlando office leaving only the Arizona and California offices in our division. I had a feeling this was going to happen due to certain contracts not being renewed due to Covid. Again I can't talk too much about it but it's just sad that we were a little blindsided and didn't even really get a chance to say good-bye to anyone. That's the way it goes sometimes. I honestly didn't even mind that this happened. I wish I could give reasons for that but that would break the non disclosure agreement. However what I can say is that I meet one of my dearest friends N at this job. She has been my rock through this whole past year. We had each others back thick and thin. I told her she is the best thing to come out of that job, and I mean it. In fact she is such a good friend that she found us another contracted Job working for an HR firm. My contract starts in about 3 and half weeks and it will be working from home again. I am so excited to be working with her again even though we are way more closer than work besties.
I am taking advantage of this down time to finalize some of my treatments and get as strong and healthy as I can until then. Maybe even work on a few projects between now and then too. Who knows but I am enjoying my time off as my vacation since I would have most likely have taken it by now. I can definitely say having gone through so much in the last month and a half I feel like I am stronger and more mentally sound for it.
The last time I wrote in here was well over a month and a half ago it damn near feels like a life time ago. So much has happened since then but I will try to do a quick recap of everything.
First and Foremost my little Angel of a Chihuahua Nacho became really sick his vet seems to believe that he had a heart attack or a virus (Covid Virus...Yes animals can catch it too) as the enzyme levels in his blood work were off. He became so weak and stopped eating at he was still drinking and urinating though. I had to make a little harness to support his weight when I would take him out to use the rest room. The poor thing was on his last legs and my heart was breaking for him. The vet suggested putting him down but stated that he didn't seem to be in any pain at the moment. I told her I would hold off for a bit take him home and see what I could do. For 18 days I syringe (with a children's medicine syringe) I gave him Bone broth with added fats, Meat baby food and Fruit baby food to get his bowels working again and pedialite. I would wake up every 3-4 hours to feed him and care for him. I sang to him, read to him, watched movies with him and did everything I could to assure him how much he was loved and cared for.
On the 18th day We were sitting on the couch watching a Hallmark movie (yes Nacho likes to watch TV) and I was eating a Granola bar. Nacho started becoming really interested in what I was eating and I offered him a bite and he ate it. Gobbled it down and wanted more. This was his first real solid food the whole time he had become ill. I ran to the kitchen and gathered any meat I could find for him and he ate his fill. I cried tears of Joy as I knew this was the positive step to get him on his road to recovery. He had already lost so much weight and had become Jaundice. Once he started eating the meat after a few days he started eating his solid dry dog food again as well. Needless to say that since then he has become a chow hound eating anything and everything that is healthy for him. I make sure that he has chicken daily along with his dog food. He has put back almost all of the weight he has lost and all of his colorations have come back. His personality has returned as well as his strength and he is running and jumping and back to his old self again. He is nearly 10 years old (he was adopted but based off the age they gave us and how long we have had him for I would say this is an accurate estimation) but being that he is a Chihuahua I was not ready to give up on him and live without my little side kick. I knew he was strong and a fighter. I am so glad I gave him the change to recover and not just put him down. Everyday that I have him is truly a blessing and a gift.
Nacho is not the only one with health challenges I myself have been going through some issues of my own. I don't want to get to deep in my issues on this type of forum but basically a mass was discovered on my liver that is precancerous and is currently being treated it is small and was caught early enough so I feel optimistic. Also my pancreas is also failing and I am being treated with several medications and treatments for that as well. So far things are working and there has been some improvement as over a month ago I would get violently sick anytime I would eat. Also my blood sugars levels would be really high or really low depending upon how my body decided to function. I have spend a good deal of the last month in and out of bed due to fatigue and side effects to my treatment and medications but I am finally starting to feel normal again.
The last major bit of information and the first time I am talking about this on any social forum due to a non disclosure agreement I was made to sign. On August 6, 2021 I was laid off from my Job. The Orlando office leaving only the Arizona and California offices in our division. I had a feeling this was going to happen due to certain contracts not being renewed due to Covid. Again I can't talk too much about it but it's just sad that we were a little blindsided and didn't even really get a chance to say good-bye to anyone. That's the way it goes sometimes. I honestly didn't even mind that this happened. I wish I could give reasons for that but that would break the non disclosure agreement. However what I can say is that I meet one of my dearest friends N at this job. She has been my rock through this whole past year. We had each others back thick and thin. I told her she is the best thing to come out of that job, and I mean it. In fact she is such a good friend that she found us another contracted Job working for an HR firm. My contract starts in about 3 and half weeks and it will be working from home again. I am so excited to be working with her again even though we are way more closer than work besties.
I am taking advantage of this down time to finalize some of my treatments and get as strong and healthy as I can until then. Maybe even work on a few projects between now and then too. Who knows but I am enjoying my time off as my vacation since I would have most likely have taken it by now. I can definitely say having gone through so much in the last month and a half I feel like I am stronger and more mentally sound for it.
