{"id":1095,"date":"2012-10-15T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2012-10-15T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:18:05","slug":"uti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2012\/10\/15\/uti\/","title":{"rendered":"UTI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I first got my Lina she was so afraid that she would pee at the drop of a pin, or a gust of wind, or a leaf or a blade of grass.\u00a0 She was so afraid.\u00a0 She\u2019s much better now four years later.\u00a0 So on Thursday night when she came running out of my office leaving a trickle behind her I thought \u201cwhat spooked you honey\u201d.\u00a0 We went for our evening walk and she kept trying to pee.\u00a0 Not until she came into the kitchen with me and peed right in front of me did I really get it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been known to give people\/dogs the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 I gotta work on that a bit.<\/p>\n

Somehow she made it through the night without peeing.\u00a0 I was vigilant in my awareness of where she was and what she was, or hopefully wasn\u2019t, doing.\u00a0 First thing in the morning I call the Vet and they can get me in at 11:45.<\/p>\n

Could you bring a urine sample?<\/p>\n

A what?<\/p>\n

A urine sample just put it in the refrigerator until you bring her over.<\/p>\n

You know she\u2019s a Pit Mix right?<\/p>\n

Yes we know.<\/p>\n

Seriously, how does one try and get a urine sample from a scaredy Mary Pit.\u00a0 Aggghhh.\u00a0 Well first you need something to put the damn pee in.\u00a0 So I guess a jelly jar might work, its glass, just came out of the dishwasher so it\u2019s sanitized (you know I hear Muriel in my head laughing about the fact that I have a jelly jar ready for action).\u00a0 Definitely can\u2019t have both dogs together or there will be pee all over everybody if I can even get close to\u2026.well you know.<\/p>\n

So Toto goes into the office.\u00a0 Lina and I go out, on a short leash, with the jelly jar.\u00a0 So she makes a move and I\u2019m right there except she stops and looks at me like \u201cwhat the hell are you doing\u201d.\u00a0 I know Lina; there is no dignity in this for either one of us.\u00a0 Ten drops at a time for the next three outings.\u00a0 What we do for our dogs.<\/p>\n

We arrive at the Vet, they take the jar, and we wait.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t realize that they were doing the urine testing right then and there.\u00a0 I\u2019m sitting and Lina is lodged firmly behind my knees between the bench and me.\u00a0 Several dogs come and go and she makes it perfectly clear she wants none of it.\u00a0 With every bark a little pee must fall.\u00a0 You can\u2019t make this up.<\/p>\n

Finally, they are ready for us.\u00a0 They want her weight.\u00a0 All I can think of are the grooves in the mat that protects the scale.\u00a0 One good pee and that thing is going in the can\u2026thankfully, mercifully she didn\u2019t let go of a drop.<\/p>\n

Urinary tract infection. No shit.\u00a0 And of course there are two ways we can go, first to get her through the two weeks of Clavamox (if I had a dollar for every Clavamox tablet I handed out I\u2019d be rich, to say I should own stock in the company is an understatement) then retest for infection.\u00a0 But you know, sometimes a urinary tract infection can be a symptom of an underlying issue.\u00a0 Is this woman trying to upsell me?\u00a0 Wait just a minute.\u00a0 She relents quickly when she sees that are-you-kidding-me look on my face.\u00a0 She\u2019s a better Vet than salesperson.\u00a0 So ok we\u2019ll retest after the two weeks of Clavamox and they hand me a tray.\u00a0 Designed specifically for \u201ccatching a specimen\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s about an inch tall with a pour spout.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Then they give me advice on how to go about \u201ccapturing a specimen\u201d because sometimes the dog can be spooked by the height of the tray.\u00a0 I fell out.\u00a0 The jelly jar is about three inches tall.\u00a0 When they realized I \u201ccaptured the specimen\u201d directly into the jelly jar my street cred went through the roof.\u00a0 I\u2019m just saying.\u00a0 They could not stop a) laughing and b) applauding my style. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

When we got home we issued the first pill with a peanut butter chaser.\u00a0 I was not going to get into a pissing match (pardon the pun) with this little one over eating a pill. Then we cleaned everything within an inch of its life and sequestered the girls behind bars in the foyer and kitchen which could easily be cleaned and re-cleaned if need be.<\/p>\n

The office rug went to the dry cleaner with the pronouncement of \u201cno judgment please\u201d.\u00a0 I went and bought a new rug pad because well you know.\u00a0 And then collapsed.<\/p>\n

By that evening, after only two pills my little girl was no longer trying to pee when she had just peed.\u00a0 Her sense of urgency had abated.\u00a0 She stopped panting. Her tail was wagging and she was happy and running the length of the apartment once again with no drips.<\/p>\n

And they were let out of the red zone.\u00a0 They both slept through the night, me not so much, one jump off the bed and they were getting whisked out the door.\u00a0 But no incidents, thankfully, mercifully\u2026we\u2019ve made it through our first UTI with flying colors.\u00a0 Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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