The past couple of days sure have been hot! The best way to stay cool is to either take a nice, refreshing bath or lay by the fan.

I would love to lay right in front of the fan but the breeze is just a little too much and makes my ears feel funny.

Mom wasn't too happy with me last night because it was pretty warm in the bedroom and I just wanted to snuggle up all night right next to her. I swear, she spent half the night trying to push me over while I spent half the night trying to stay close!

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Today I feel like my old self again! I’m eating, drinking, running around and playing with toys. I just don’t want to quit playing! Guess a whole day and night of rest after the experience I had does wonders. Uncle Chip is a little leery about playing with me outside though because he’s afraid I might get sick again.

Mom stopped giving me the pills for the coughing/hacking since I’m not doing that anymore and they really whack me out. The vets office said if they are doing more harm than good, I probably shouldn’t take them. She still has to give me the antibiotics until they are gone though.

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I went into the vet earlier this morning and after I was examined, the doctor said Mom and Dad had to leave me for a few hours. The doctor made me go to sleep while she explored and she found a “grainy substance” behind my soft palatte. (Mom thinks the “grainy substance” is sand because when I play outside with my toys they get all full of sand.) She flushed it out and I was good to go in just a couple hours. When Mom picked me up I was still really groggy and not very happy about the whole situation. I cried and whined all the way home… mostly because I couldn’t pant like normal when I ride in the car.

That stuff the doctor used to put me to sleep was something else! I was walking around the house like I was drunk and Dad made me get off my look-out-the-window couch because I was wobbling and he was afraid I would fall off.

Mom and I went to sleep for several hours this afternoon and I’m feeling a somewhat better now. I’m still not quiet ready to eat my hard food yet but it will take a little time since my throat is really sore. Mom did feed me some cheese though but I found out she hid one of my pills in it without me knowing.

By the way, I’m not very happy with Mom and Dad because they left me at that place… I’ve pretty much ignoring them since I got home, except when they take me outside.

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This is pretty much all I’ve been able to do all weekend.

Uncle Chip called Mom at work on Friday afternoon and told her that I had vomited several times and there was a little bit of blood in it. Mom couldn’t leave work so she got a hold of Dad right away. He came home to take care of me. After Dad got home I was only sick once or twice but I still wasn’t myself so he called my doctor. She told Dad I wasn’t allowed to have any food or water for 12 hours and she said the little bit of blood was because I vomited several times and it probably irritated my stomach lining.

My doctor called the next morning to check up on me and, although I wasn’t throwing up anymore, I still had this coughing/hacking kind of thing going on. She told Mom it sound like I have like a blade of grass or something of the sort lodged behind the soft palette in my mouth (I guess it’s pretty common with short-nosed dogs) and if I’m not better by Monday morning I have to go in to see her. It kind of stinks because I can’t run or play like normal without coughing/hacking. Even when I get excited (like when the kids come over) it happens too. Today is a little better… it still happens but not as much as yesterday.

Mom says that when I go in to see my doctor on Monday, I will have to go to sleep for a while so they remove the blade of grass (or whatever it is) lodged behind the soft palette. I'm kind of nervous because I never had to go to sleep before when I saw my doctor.

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Dad and I love to do lots of things together... go for rides in his Jeep, hang out by the lake, kick back and watch television on the couch and, most of all, play in the mud!

I love Dad!

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There was all kinds of activity going on at our house this past weekend. Chip and Dad fixed the floor where our old chimney used to be. I wanted to help too but Dad said I couldn’t so I was the official supervisor.

Bonnie also stopped by to help out Uncle Chip putting up doors and priming the drywall in the basement. She brought Annie along too and we had to baby-sit her for a while. I really, really tried to get along with Annie. After all, she is relation and we will be seeing a lot of each other.

Things were going pretty well until she got overly aggressive and whacked me in the eye with her paw. That wasn’t very nice of her, especially since I was just getting over getting bopped in the other eye a few days earlier.

The next day Annie came back and things were going really, really good. I let her sit up on my look-out-the-window couch and we were even running around chasing each other!

There she goes again getting overly aggressive and grabbed me by the neck with her mouth. I don’t like that kind of rough-housing.

There were also lots and lots of people at our house over the weekend. We had Aaron’s birthday party and Rachel’s college graduation party. I wasn’t feeling very well the night before Rachel’s graduation and kept Mom and Dad up half the night. I had a bad tummy ache and ended up having a big accident on the carpet in the bedroom. I felt really bad about it and thought I was in big trouble but Mom and Dad said everything would be okay. After the accident, I felt much better and slept through the rest of the night. It took Mom a while but she finally figured out what gave me a tummy ache… she spilled hamburger grease on the floor and I licked some of it up. Looks like hamburgers are off my list of good things to eat.

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Mom has been way busy lately and not had time to keep up with everything up I’ve been up to. Plus, she says our internet connection stinks and uploading pictures and visiting everyone is super slow because we have to use dial-up until the cable is run to our house. I don’t know anything about that stuff but I do know whenever Mom is on the computer, she sits there way longer than she use to. Anyways, here is what I’ve been up to, Part I. …

When Dad was away last weekend I had to stay with the kids another night while Mom worked. It wasn’t so bad and Kady is really getting use to me being around. She even got up close and personal (sniffed my butt) until I turned around to see what she was doing then she took off running. Kady was really curious when Dave was playing with me though. I think she wanted to get in on some of the action.

I think Winston isn’t like me invading his territory too much though. He wasn’t willing to share his bed with me. He let me put Bunny in the bed but made me sleep on the floor! Guess that is payback from when he slept at our house and I made him sleep in the dog bed while I slept with Mom and Dad.

I got a slight injury that night too. While Dave was playing with me and a rope toy, I got bopped in the eye with the knot of the rope. Man, that really hurt! Dave told Mom I yelped and I never yelp. He felt really bad for hurting me. There was a little swelling for a day or so but the eye is all good now.

To Be Continued…

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It's a beautiful day! The rain finally stopped after several days and I can run around outside again. The only problem is we have lots and lots of mud in our yard. Already three times today Mom had to wipe me down with a wet rag when I came inside. And, I was having a blast rolling a big basketball around the yard until Mom and Dad saw how muddy I was getting.

They took the ball away and made me go inside. They really need to loosen up and have some fun too.

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I was fast asleep yesterday under a warm, fleece blank and suddenly I heard Mom open a bag of chips. I couldn’t resist the crinkle of the bag and wanted some so I made my way partially out from under the blanket. Mom took a little too long to offer me some; my eyes got heavy and the warm, fleece blanket felt really good… I fell back asleep in no time without so much as a little taste.

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