Sammie is sick.
Sammie is sick. Between a case of diarrhea and nausea she’s managed to get herself dehydrated and is now on an IV. The vet says she will recover alright but she’s going to spend at least tonight with the vet. I’ll be leaving work in a few minutes to go sit with her for a while.
I asked the vet what was causing this and he says it could be one of two things, food poisoning or stress. He asked me how long this had been going on and I told him at least since this past Thursday but possibly longer. I’ve been out of town for two weeks and my wife has been taking care of her. This fact has him thinking it is stress from my being gone. I tend to think he’s right.
Sammie is a Boxer. Even though she is a small Boxer she is still a strong animal and her energy level is high. Before now my wife has never had a problem controlling her on a walk. These past two weeks Sammie has managed to pull her down twice. She was just a lot more high strung than even normal for her. Yeah, she’s been stressing.
What do I do now? Even though my traveling has reduced I’m still going to be on the road some. I think it might have been easier on her when I traveled so much because she didn’t get use to me being home.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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