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The lovely and talented Casey got to spend part of her weekend in the hospital with what were thought to be broken ribs courtesy of a "tussle" in Saturday’s game. X-rays said no, just deep contusions meaning that her streak of game appearances is in doubt his week. Like me, she’s not real big on the Vicodin Express to Happyland but, as of tonight, I think the all-important "goddamit, that’s hurts!" demographic may have pushed Vidodin into the lead so, right about now, she’s probably as stoned as she would have been every night had she had gone to her second choice, UC Santa Cruz.
Back here on the mainland, Fenway (seen above modeling a kicky new scarf given to him by the nurses at the vets) seems to have developed a mouth problem. Last night the ever-observant and sniffy mrs tbogg, noted that Fenway’s breath had turned wallpaper-peeling awful which is unusual because at his age he’s moved somewhere past puppy-breath and into the "breath smells like hot" days. Later in the evening, and by "evening" I mean after we went to bed, he expressed his discomfort by walking on us while we were asleep. A half hour of sleep: walk on my chest. Another forty minutes of napping: stand on my head. Repeat all night long. Discomfort for everyone!
For his part, Beckham kept licking around Fenway’s lips/jowls, so we followed his lead (not the licking part) and it was definitely something wrong in the mouth. As with Satchmo, first thing in the morning, off to the vet we went. Something is wrong, but it couldn’t be established exactly what it is, so tomorrow he gets knocked out for a more complete oral exam as well as x-rays. The smart money right now is on an abcessed tooth. Tonight he’s zonked out on painkillers and antibiotics and earlier I watched him walk headfirst into some cabinets which was sad/funny, but mostly funny.
Bassets are, by design, sad looking and an unhappy basset puppy with a sore mouth is like a vale of tears made hairy.
I just hope he doesn’t need braces.
Now off to bed for me to catch up on some sleep. You’ll just have to get your Sarah Palin fix elsewhere like here where we find out that Palin supporters are every bit as stupid as her and have to be shielded from ‘gotcha’ questions (like "why do you support Sarah Palin?") from the press. For such a disorganized campaign, they sure employ a lot of control freaks…
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Keeses on the top of the head to both the L&T Casey and poor widdle Fenway.
It never ends. It’s like Aunt Edna’s ass — it goes on forever and it’s just as frightening.
>> a vale of tears made hairy
Amen.
Ribs – ouch. That’s a sensitive area. I’ve had broken ribs a couple of times and badly bruised ‘em another time. They all hurt about the same and for just as long. I hate to say it but those’ll be painful for a while. Finding a way to lay at night can be challenging. I hope the L&TC feels better soon. I passed on the Vicodin but that’s me.
As for Fenway, I hope (and bet) it’s something sort of simple like a tooth. That’ll make dog (or cat) mouths stink like you wouldn’t believe. Or maybe you would.
Best wishes to both patients, and let’s all hope for a speedy recovery for both of them.
I’m going to give Beckham the benefit of the doubt and conclude those were sympathy licks and not “the pet is on his last legs” vulture tasting test.
Kidding! I know Beckham’s not that Cheneyesque.
Sorry the number one kid’s ribs are contused. That’s gotta hurt. Thankfully, there’s no Fenway where’s she’s at to walk on them.
Best of luck to the young ones for a speedy recovery.
P.S. Fenway, stay out of the candy.
Your Vet has to have a special place for your family in his practice. Like maybe his 3rd 401K for the vacation home in Vail…..Here is my wish for a speedy recovery for both the “Kids”. Sleep well
UC Santa Cruz…Go Slugs!
Santa Cruz is teh awesome. However, they do walk around nude and stoned all day (you DON’T even wanna know what they do at night).
Also, the “Unhinged One” gives out everybody’s home phone numbers. The Lovely and Talented Casey doesn’t need enraged Malkinites calling her in the middle of the night.
Sorry to hear about the childrenses. Ribs and teeth just aren’t fun to fix: one takes time and the other takes money. But if that dog needs braces, I want photos. If it gets headgear, I demand photos. Also, what kind of dentures do dogs get? Will his dentist have to go to the dumpsters near the dogtrack to get some parts?
You know, TBoggs, dental implants are well worthwhile these days. They run somewhere around $5000 or so, but hey! Money well spent if it keeps teh dog off ur head.
Ribs + “tussle”. In soccer, that would most likely mean being stomped while on the ground after a tackle. It only hurts when you laugh. Or breathe.
One of the “free” cats I adopted earlier this year turned out to have bad gum disease, so at age 2 she had 7 teeth removed and the vet has told me that she will eventually lose all her teeth. Till then, she stays on crunchy food. I must admit I love the way her little pink tongue sticks out since there aren’t any teeth there to hold it in. However, picturing Fenway in the same condition — not so much.
He is in great hands. If it is just a tooth thing, get him caps while your at it. I think Hollywood is calling…
My sympathy to your daughter. Though it was eons ago, I remember such injuries from football. No fun at all.
Get well and best wishes to L&T Casey and Fenway.
The Lady Utes soccer team (Univ. of Utah) is playing UC San Diego this week; wasn’t that the team that had the “come to jeebus” coach that you wrote about some time ago? Whatever happened to him?
Isn’t is marvelous that Beckham is doing his job as a big brother and communicating with the humans? He can’t possibly be Cheneyesque…he’s an intelligent BASSET.
Casey–sending you healing thoughts. There seems to be a lot of players I have to do that for these days.
Great gosh almighty, that Fenway is clever! Never thought I’d have anything in common with him, healthwise, but I too have an abscessed tooth and get to have a root canal in a week or so. Note the Pollyanna-ish phrase “get to”: at least there’s insurance, thank G-d.
On the weekend, a flight attendant spilled a whole glass of ice water into my lap while I was dozing, and I barely budged. Stranger things have happened. I’ll stay out of TMI-Land…
Best wishes to all. If I tried to step on the manly Mr. Biscuitbarrel while HE was sleeping, I don’t like to imagine what would happen.
Dental person here. If it is an abscess, then antibiotics are coming. In a person, you’d have them on them for at least a few days to get the infection under control because if the gums/bone are too infected, the anesthetic isn’t adequately effective (it’s a pH and biochem thing – trust me on this). For a Bassett, they’ll have him under a general no matter what so the solution to the whole issue will arrive sooner than with a human, with more antibiotics as he heals.
Ribs require the tincture of time, so there is no easy fix there. Everyone be gentle with each other; I wish I could get that across to the whole of humanity but you know how it goes.
Having had a Siamese cat with wallpaper peeling breath it turned out to be abscesses and the removal of several teeth and antibiotics. She’s fine now, toofy-wise, at least. She’s now got a kidney infection and has to be wrapped up in a towel like a papoose and get vile tasting antibiotic drops shoved down her throat. It’s a wonder she hasn’t clawed my throat out while I sleep…
Best wishes for both of your patients — I’ve had one bone bruise in my life and I fervently pray to never, ever have another.
The L&T Casey has given in to the halcyon world of Vicodin, but is still extremely perturbed that a blind side hit when she “didn’t even have the ball”, and “should have been a yellow card” is going to break her streak of collegiate game appearances. We are feeling those perturbed vibes all the way across the Pacific ocean….. “god d#$n, stupid b#$%h, when we play them again I’m going to….” you get the picture. I give Tbogg full credit for the salty language although he will beg to differ.
Fenway is fine. A bad case of the dog equivalent of “trench mouth” or just a really bad bacterial infection of no known origin. Great….general anesthesia, tooth cleaning and tongue scraping, and $500 later, no known origin. And it could come back. Whoever said that we had paid for Dr. Marvil’s vacation home…you’re right. But he takes wonderful care of the mutts so it’s okay.
And Sarah Palin is still retarded. Not even Dr. Marvil-dog superhero-could fix that.
No, but he did look awfully cute in his superhero bandanna!
Poor Fenway. Wondered if it might be a retained puppy tooth — those are relatively easy/cheap to get rid of & the adult tooth usually grows in just fine once the antibiotics take effect — but no such luck, I guess.
(Poor Casey, too, but she seems to be quite capable of taking care of herself!)
MrsTbogg: the L&T C needs to enlist a centre-half on the squad who is a paid-up member of the centre-halves’ society (motto: get your retribution in first.) There will, presumably, be a return fixture at some point. Or there will be a fixture with the miscreant elsewhere this year, and a centre-half elsewhre who is more than willing to put in a… let’s say, ‘calibrating’ tackle early on.