Poor Astro.

I love my best friend, and I love her dogs (Quazi and Astro) just as much.

Now, baby Astro is going through some things that's concerning me. Since I've been noticing that he's losing a lot of hair, his skins red, he keeps biting his little feet and lately, I've been seeing that he's rolling around on the ground and scratching his face a little more than he should. Now his left eye is swollen and red and it's starting to lose a little bit of hair. Another strange action that I've been seeing Astro go through is that when he bites himself, he's also plucking out the hair which is a strange behavior in dogs. So, that raised a really big red flag for me.

With my great searching skills and dog experiences that I've had throughout my life with dogs, I think I've gathered up enough information to possibly say that it's mange. It's common and it comes from mites... And he needs some special attention. He needs to change his diet and needs more care. He needs to change his shampoo, food and put in more supplements to increase the condition of his skin and he needs antibiotics.

The more I watch him, the more he's reminding me of Bruno. (my own dog)

Hopefully, we can take him to the vet next week when we all get paid.

Motherly,
Otter

Everyone's Sick!

Everyone's sick. (except me) Emily and her boyfriend both have the flu, but Emily is experiencing the worst symptoms and it's kind of scaring me... Lol. And Astro and Quazi are also starting to have diarrhea again. -_-

The only body pain that I'm feeling is from the PT. That one really kicked me. HAHA! But other than that, I'm not sick. I rarely do get sick so I'm good but I worry that I might because everyone else is sick and I don't have medical insurance and money to even pay for any of it. So, I must stay away!

GAH! My thighs and calves hurt~ I feel like I have to waddle around the house or waddle wherever I go now.

PT and Flu?

Soooo... PT... KILLER.

I arrived at the office at 7:30am, ON THE DOT. And where was my recruiter? LATE. Oh yeah, who's awesome? Me. Two others showed up and then my recruiter showed up and the reason why she was late was because she discovered a new running route for us. (Damn you, Ssgt!)

She had all of us gathered and counted us. Then she drew out the map of our route, after we all confirmed that we understood, she let us go out of the office, stretch and started running. I was so nervous, I would have soiled my pants.

But, I was a trooper. HUAA!

1.8~2.0 miles. 90 push ups. Roll over. 90 "scissor kicks". Roller over. Plank for a minute. Roll over. 90 bicycle crunches. Roll over. Stretch it out.

That kicked me tooshie but I feel great! Even though I stopped at like, 100 yards away from the office. BUT, I'm not as big of a pansy as I thought I was. Woot!

Then I came home, and realized that I still have to walk the dogs. HAHA. And then guess what I found out? Not only is Emily sick, but so is her boyfriend. Great. It's not an ulcer, she has the stomach flu or food poisoning. Thankfully, I'm super healthy. So I rarely get sick. I haven't had a cold in three years and I've never had the stomach flu before nor have I ever been food poisoned. Haha.

Last night, I bought chicken noodle soup for Emily, with some saltine crackers and 7-Up for her stomach. And that should be like, four days worth. If she's not back to her old self by then, she needs to go to the hospital or back to the clinic. Thus why I always tell them to eat veggies NOT JUST BABY SPINACH, I'm talking about hardcore veggies and protein and some good carbs. Not that lame Mexican diet with flour, corn and freaking potatoes and hot sauce. That stuff is weak.

So now, I have to take care of two four babies. (that includes the dogs)

Yay for me (not),
Otter

PS: See how great of a friend I am?