Doing okay!! Thank you for asking!
She’s better today than she was yesterday. Yesterday she needed me all day, so I sat at her side, force fed her some pain medication, and carefully picked her up so she could go outside. She’s not allowed out for more than five minutes for the next seven days. But after that, she’ll be allowed out for under ten minutes. I bet she’s excited. She’s less drugged up today so she’s been more interested in life. She’s doing her best!
I have banned her from my new bedroom in the new house for now. She kept trying to work with that injury. We don’t want to tear the other tendon. They had to fish out the torn pieces of it, so the flushing out of the joint must have hurt like a bitch. Nothing salvageable, so they replaced the entire thing with nylon. Which means her leg will have residual lameness.
Which makes me think it might be time to start training my next doggo, because I think I don’t want her working too much anymore. I want her to be my friend for years to come with a good quality of life. I’ll figure myself out. My therapist and my doctor are pretty sure that one day I won’t need a service dog at all, so it’s been fun to practice :P
I found out that there’s a golden retriever shelter and a lab shelter near the capital of my state, close to where I live. I will visit both. I will let Nestle help me decide who I like. But not yet. My mom is taking me back in and there’s just not room to safely house two dogs. Not in my new house either. So, steps.
I wish a program dog was an option. I’m terrible at training. I’m really sad that insurance won’t help me with this.
But, I don’t want Nestle to be overworked. Someone at my work accidentally said a harsh joke (she wasn’t thinking, I let her get away with it because she looked worried that she’d f*cked up. But we’ve all done it :P ) which was, “Now you got to be like the rest of us and function without a dog” so I’m going with that :D
She will be able to run again after about a year. So, then she can be my at-home or in-grocery-store service dog. That should be fun and good enough.
Maybe at a work place as well, eventually, if the job doesn’t require too much movement. I’m really athletic but also lazy, so we can make this work!!!
Also my student loan people agreed to put me in deferment for about four years! So I’m going to get a more secure job eventually and pay that beautiful interest in the meantime. The monthly payment went up because of the interest, but while I’m not required to make payments, I can hopefully knock it back down! I hope it makes my credit score look nice
My mom hates that I’m optimistic about everything, including loans, lol. Not much else you could be about it, though! I’m more focused on Dove and Nestle anyway.
The man I’m living with is the sweetest, most chill dude ever. For the one month I’ll be there, he’s giving me a discount on the rent and not having me cover utilities, so I’m going to eventually make him some really nice food or something :)))
