Haku's surgery tomorrow, and a bit of fangirling

[la_belle_laide]

I am fangirling skitty_kitty so hard today, for uploading a file of herself singing so freaking gorgeously. With her bird singing along. Holy crap. Talent. She's dripping with it. I'm impressed and a little intimidated. (You'll be pleased to hear, Hati, that iTunes chose to play JGL's "Nothing Big" randomly right after your song. Awesome.) Speaking of, you best put that up on HitRECord, damn it, so I can flail for you there.

Hmm. Just had a thought. Will PM you or something.

Well, in other, less fangirly news, Haku had his pre-surgery consultation today. Apparently, ACL repair surgery has come a long way since I used to sit in on the procedure at The Bad Place. I'm pretty sure The Bad Place still does it the old fashioned way, so I was really glad to find out that Haku's surgeon is doing it New and Improved. Even though it's costing $2500 +.

I definitely have to be a hooker now. I think I'll be a specialty hooker, you know, for men with unusual tastes or something. Guys who like funny-looking gals who can just tell them jokes all night, OR! Maybe they want a gal who can arm-bar them, throw-down, or submission-hold, maybe break a finger or two and call it a night. There's gotta be a fetish market for that. Sure.

I kid, I kid. Really. ^_^;;

The worst part of Haku's surgery is going to be the post-op care, because if he so much as moves the wrong way in the first six weeks, then it's all for nothing because the prosthesis over-stretches and they have to go in again. Keeping Haku still for six weeks. Yeah.

And I was thinking, Well, in this case (the $2500 debt that I didn't see coming,) it looks like I'm going to have to not even wait until I take my state boards, and just go desperately job-hunting now, and take something really quick, whatever kind of spa work that comes along, and work under someone else's license. But, if I have to keep Haku from moving around for six weeks, how am I supposed to do that if I'm working full time? And it's six weeks until I take the board exam, anyway.

But listen to this. Yesterday I was at work, chatting with this old guy about dogs and such. He's getting a puppy and he said he just lost his old dog over the summer. He got all teary-eyed and said that most people didn't understand, that the dog was a member of his family and not a day went by that he didn't think of her. I told him that I knew the feeling.

He went on to tell me that his older dog had torn his cruciate and had surgery in NCY to repair it ("about $9000!" he said, the whole time my head spinning and the words echoing: "OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND.") I asked him how his dog did after the surgery and he said he did great.

Then I told him that Haku is epileptic too and missing a kidney and blah blah, if it's not one thing it's the other and the guy goes, "Oh. Well, in that case, you might not have him for much longer."

I just stared at him for about twenty seconds, because I wasn't sure if I heard him right. He must have wondered at my silence because he clarified himself by saying, "Well, when dogs are already sick like that, they don't really live a long life. Add on something like this and, you know."

Seriously? All I could come up with to say to him was, "Well. Have a nice day."

REALLY? Do you honestly think that's okay to say to anyone? How is that even acceptable?

For the rest of the day I felt like he'd laid a curse on me and my dog, and I kind of still want to punch him in his useless piehole. Because that was a mean, stupid thing to say. And it reminded me very much of Dr. Dickwhistle from The Bad Place.

I actually did discuss that with the surgeon and she was like, "That's preposterous. Yes, we take extra precautions with the liver and kidneys and seizure watch, and especially because he's a Saluki, but it doesn't lower his chances any more than about 2%." She explained that it was a quick surgery, too, about 30 minutes. Which is like a quarter of the time that Dr. Dickwhistle spent doing his neuter (cryptorchid) surgery when he was a puppy, and a lot less than his exploratory last year.

So I think he'll do okay tomorrow, but the recovery is going to be a bitch.

Does anyone want to hire a fighting girl for a beat-down? ;D Haha.

Comments

[skitty-kitty.livejournal.com]

I love you, girlie, it means a lot coming from someone as awesome as you! :D

I'd bitch-slap the dude if I could. :P Nothing but love and good vibes to you and Haku!

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Well, it was really awesome and it blew my hair back. :D

Thanks man, I wanted to bitchslap him too. It sucks how we need, like, jobs and such and we can't do things like that. :/