Thursday, 19 March 2009

• displeased

  i am thoroughly displeased right now.

  first, i'm not told that Elfie needs eye surgery until *after* i have picked her up and left West Virginia.

  second, it's not *just* surgery for her eyelids.  she's got a hole in her right cornea too, so she needs surgery asap (so i booked her in for tomorrow).
  

  third, post-op, she'll need to be given eye drops 5 times a day for 2 weeks.  my options are to come home every day at lunch, or to put her in doggie day care.  neither option is too much to my liking, but i'm gonna have to pick one because i *know* my boss will *not* be cool with me taking another 2 weeks off "for a dog" as he calls it.

  fourth, this is a serious expense.  which means (sadly) i likely will have to cancel my vacations for 2009.

  for the record, nothing really would've stopped me from adopting the puppy.  seriously, she's got Shadow's face... so i *knew* the second i saw her that i was going to bring her home.  but damn!  they should've told me beforehand so that i'd at least be prepared.  i am not cool with this.  the association offered to pay for the surgery because they should've told me first and taken care of it before giving me the dog, but having been down to see one of their fosters (ironically, one that is better than the one at which my puppy was staying) i feel bad accepting money from a place that really needs every cent they can get.  but this is totally UNACCEPTABLE behaviour.  i teeter back and forth between being downright furious and being understanding of their circumstances, but i think i'm just more pissed about the fact that someone (the foster) knew Elfie had this condition and instead of doing anything about it, just let the poor puppy go on in pain and discomfort in both her eyes for this long.  THERE'S A HOLE IN HER FUCKING CORNEA!  it's not a hangnail!

  so being the sucker that i am, i only asked them to pay for half the surgery.  i'll call them tomorrow to discuss this.  we'll see how this goes.

  in other news, i guess it's good that i was trying that $1/day food thing.  i went a little over because of the road trip down to West Virigina, but i didn't go over $5/day last week which honestly, is still quite formidable.

  in an hour and a half, i'm going to take Elfie to get pre-surgery blood work done.  seriously... she looks so sad and pityable right now.    the lampshade is already on to prevent her from rubbing her eyes anymore.
  

  
  

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