There's nothing like a freshly-baked cornbread to go with your usual Friday night pasta. And after sucessfully baking a Betty Crocker Milk Chocolate Brownie for last weekend's superbowl get-together at Mai and Jason's house, I got really ambitious. And with all of the cool cookware we received from the wedding, I am more than excited. I've had the box of Jiffy's Corn Bread mix for a while, since I tend to buy these things when it's on sale, for $1 a box. It serves 6-8 muffins. A piece of egg, a 1/3 cup of milk, and 20 minutes later, we popped a bottle of Blue Moon beer, and it's dinner time.
The quote is from the movie "Life" with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. Another favorite quote of mine from the movie is "my name is Jiggly Jiggly" by Bernie Mac. I can't find that reference through IMDB, but that was a pretty funny scene. God bless him. He died of pneumonia a little over 2 years ago. Yet antoher reminder that life is short, so enjoy it while you can, because you'll never know what tomorrow brings.
Anyway, Monday night, we came home to a very sick dog. Tico's food bowl was barely touched, and he vomited in the living room. He won't touch any food, and his energy level is 10% of what it used to be. The entire night was a crazy event of picking up vomit, moving him to the bathroom, giving him water which he could not even hold down - - it was insane. He was vomiting, but that was it. So I took off work the next day and took him to the vet. I don't think I can take a chance coming home from work on Tuesday night and see Tico in a worst light than he was before. I can't say the D word, but it was a scary Monday night.
I have a gripe about vets in general. And Banfield is starting to tick me. They are nice; but one thing that I don't like is the huge turnover in the doctors; and they are less experienced than the last one. And with all of the tests, medicine, etc. that they put in Tico, they still could not find out what's wrong with him. I told the doctor maybe it's because of the food that I gave him; because I fed him a Beneful wet product that was not his usual diet; and she flat out said no. Maybe because we went to a family park, and the local dog park, and walked around the block this weekened; maybe he contracted from something or someone there? Still no.
She said maybe there was something lodged inside his stomach; so we should do x-rays; maybe he ate some chemicals, so I had to question myself to see if there's anything in the house that he could have eaten - - no. Maybe some neighbor threw some chemical stuff over our fence - no. So a few hours and a couple of hundred dollars later, we still don't know what happened to Tico.
He's back to normal now, but he definitely lost some weight from the ordeal. I wish he could tell me what was wrong with him, and what he ate and all that stuff; but he can't. All I know is that he needs to change his diet from now on so he does not eat too much bad crap. And being on a tight budget, I tend to go for the Beneful dry dog food and Alpo wet food stuff because they are cheap and Tico loves the taste of the Beneful over the Costco brand. But as someone has told me, Beneful are basically just corn and fillers. And having had a weak stomach; I have to choose brands that are more organic, and has real meat ingredients with no corn and soy products in it. In other words: expensive. But going to the vet and losing one day of work is way more expensive, and the heartache of seeing your dog suffer is priceless.
And so we learn.
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