At the vet's

Unfortunately I had to go to the vet this morning with Mac. She has been eating reluctantly the last couple of weeks, and loosing weight. Yesterday evening she threw up and had a blood strain in it, all in all she did that 5 times last night (it turned from yellow, quite normal, to brownish, which is not good). Fuck, that can't be. The advantage of the Internet is that you can find any information at anytime on almost everything. I found a veterinarian hospital in Leduc that opened Saturday morning at 8 am and Joka found a possible cause of what could be wrong, and she was pretty close if not spot on. So of to the vet this morning to have Mac examined. It turned out pretty good as she has no pain spots anywhere, temperature is ok, no lumps and bumps. So most likely she ate something wrong, has an infection where the stomach and the bowel system connects or she has the flu, even H1N1 is possible according to vet Ed Doornebal. Yes a dutch-man from Maartensdijk who emigrated to Canada in 1952, his parents had a farm and his primairy language, until age 6, was dutch. So he could understand me when I was talking to Mac, it turned out later, when paying the bill ($120). In the mean time Mac is on medication to ease the stomach, a penicillin cure (just to be on the safe side) and a acid re-leaver, the last one I had to get at a pharmacy. Before spending dollars, how dutch indeed, on blood samples and X-rays; lets see how it goes the next couple of days. If there is no progress we will dig deeper and take it from there, she is a geriatric (10+) dog and you never know what going on in the liver and pancreas, Ed told me. Luckily there is progress and the meds are working, Mac is already more cheer- and playful and wants to eat (looking for her bowl), which she is not allowed until Sunday morning. All is going well, she wears her party-hat and looks very happy. Yes?

Update 01-18-2020: This one, a Rhino fight in South Africa, I got from Niko Reijneveld