Emancipation was more common then, to get certain scholarships-it was not easy to lie about parent’s income, living at home, etc and not get caught-better to tell the truth from the gitgo-and my ethnicity didn’t get me a pass, like it would now.
i am $875 poorer, but took chan to the vet today bc her belly was big and i didn’t think it was from too many cookies. turns out she was filling with fluid from the congestive heart failure. they xrayed her and determined that it was indeed fluid and she gave me the option of having her drained. They use a syringe to suck the fluid out and got a HALF LITER, that’s the equivalent of a bottle and a half of soda, single serve size. They need to do a sonogram to guide the needle etc. So yeah, it was expensive. they are upping her meds and we are hoping to stave off any more accumulations of fluid. She said there are several cavs in the practice with congestive heart failure and they need to go in every few weeks to be “tapped.” i said we would not be doing that, that i would do it this time and hope that it would not recur. I have told them that we will not undertake extreme measures. i am not taking her to a doggie cardiologist. We will do what we can to keep her comfortable and happy for as long as we can. Since we thought she was going to die that night a few months back this is all gravy to me now. they have reconfigured her meds to help keep the fluid down. They are also expensive. I’ve been delaying Jules well visit bc of the $$$ we are spending on chan each month.