March 4, 2021
Thor is home! Picture from this morning
I’m 32 weeks pregnant today. Yesterday when I got out of bed it looked like the baby had switched position and was making it’s way to head down. But then, five minutes later she/he was back to the same position she/he has been in for the past month or so. I have had two huge bumps sticking out most of the day on each side of the belly button. Baby seems to love my left side and pushes its whole body out which looks kinda freaky. And three weeks ago a smaller bump started to appear on the right side (and my lower right ribs became a fun thing to play with, I kept feeling and hearing little cracking noises).
But I definitely think the belly dropped a little bit yesterday. J doesn’t think so but I see a difference in the mirror plus my body feels different. I tried to do so many things yesterday before picking Thor up but I was completely out of breath. An hour before we went to pick him up I went for a walk. Not even two blocks away from out apartment I was so out of breath and dizzy that I had to stop. I squatted down on the sidewalk and messaged J just in case, and then slowly walked home. That was the shortest walk in the history.
We went to pick Thor up around 3pm yesterday. I stayed in the car and J went to talk to the vet. Took forever before they came out with T for J to carry to the car and put in my lap. Once he was on my lap I started to cry. The cone just makes him look so helpless and when he started shaking I just couldn’t hold my tears back. I think I cried three times in the first hour after picking him up, and then again a couple more times at night when he was next to me on the couch (I was watching the mini series “Unorthodox” on Netflix).
Surgery went well they said. He also had his teeth cleaned, so he really had a ruff day. Some say that dogs needs their teeth cleaned once a year but Thor’s teeth has been so good so we have waited, plus dogs have to be put under anesthesia and small dogs can’t always handle that. But since he is almost 7 years old we thought it was a good idea to do this now when he was put to sleep anyway. His teeth are great so we probably don’t have to do this for another few years which is good.
The stitch by his penis is a lot smaller than we expected it to be and it seems to be healing. He is peeing blood but that is expected. He has to get pain medication once a day and antibiotics twice a day and this is not an easy task. We are struggling. The pain medication supposedly tastes good and you can put it on his food (he has been eating and drinking which is great), but the antibiotics has to be given with a syringe directly into his mouth and he’s not a fan and he’s too smart so we can’t trick him. A challenge for sure.
He has been resting a lot which I’m happy about, that means he’s not in pain. He woke up a couple of times at night and J took him out (I’m busy taking care of and growing a tiny human after all so I appreciate that J was dealing with that). Today our building has been testing the sprinkler system (they do this 4 times a year) and the fire alarm went off five times. This alarm is the loudest ever made and it always scares the bazinga out of us, especially Thor which of course isn’t good since he needs to stay still and calm.
He’s hopefully back to his normal self in a week or two. It just breaks my heart to see him like this. And I wish I could have told him about it or be able to explain what happened. But it was for his own best, we didn’t want a trip to the ER. Now we are waiting for the results on what type of bladder stones it was and from there we can make decisions on his diet.
My little baby♥
We put him on the couch when we came home and he slept for a few hours
He slept with his eyes half open and was snoring louder than I have ever heard before