A Traumatic Day

This post is not about adoption.  But it is about motherhood.

Sort of.

You see, I have these two pugs.  You may have noticed their picture on the sidebar....  Well, the tan pug is my Penny Lane.  She was mine from before I was married.  And she is the closest thing I have to a child at this point.  This is her... being lazy as usual.  

Well today was her Vet visit.  She needed to get her distemper shot.  The first time she got this as a puppy, she had a little reaction.  Her nose/snout swelled up, and I had to take her back it.  It was scary for a new mother.  

But today was WAY worse.  They knew she had that past reaction.  So they gave her a shot before the distemper to make sure there would not have a reaction.  Then I had to run some errands, and I took her with me, just in case. But she was fine and dandy.

Then came 5:00.  

Penny just walked up to me and looked at me, and THIS is what I saw.

I don't know if you can tell from this picture, but her eyes are almost swollen shut, AND her little jowls are so swollen they are puffed and hanging down past her bottom jaw.  

I, like any concerned mother, went into panic.  I swooped her up, jumped in the car and started driving back to the animal hospital.  I called the Vet on the way, and almost started crying on the phone.  I was so scared my little pugs throat would swell shut and she would stop breathing.  I may have been over reacting, but it was scary.

They fixed her up with two more shots, and told me to do some medicating at home with over the counter allergy medication.  They DID say, however, that she would never EVER have that shot again.  Thank GOODNESS.

I can only imagine what it would be like to have a sick child!  Have a sick pug was traumatic enough.  I will be a WRECK once its my baby.