Losin it in Paradise

Well here it is Saturday night and it is 2am and I am half way thru my second night shift.  I am having a hard time getting used to being back on nights.  Course it doesn’t help when you haven’t been getting sleep during the day.

Got home this am and my DH meets me at the door, “something is wrong with Zachary, our cocker spaniel”  OMG, what is wrong? I say.   “I don’t know, he is acting weird” says my DH.  

Weird how?  says I.   “I dunno, weird” says DH     So, I check out said weirdness.  Zach seems a tad warm to touch and a bit shaky.  He also seems to be acting a bit paranoid.  Like a small dog that has two weird adult staring at him and poking at him would be acting like.   I said to DH, “Well remember, he is had some changes this week, I have been in the hospital, then he went to the vet and had his teeth cleaned, anal glands cleaned, and I have been home from work, and now gone and he is also sleeping on the floor instead of the bed for the first time in his life so maybe his is having some adjustment problems.”  My DH says, “no, there is something wrong with him and he needs to go the the vet”   Okay.  So we gather up the poor shaking paranoid cocker and put him in the car to he can go to the vet to be poked and proded and have stuff stuck up his bum and make him more paranoid.   Then the vet tells us he has a teeny tiny fever and give us some antibiotics to put him on in case his teeth cleaning!!!!!!! may have caused a bit of infection and that there is nothing wrong with him and we take him home.  then I go to bed and try to sleep……
I wake up and get ready for work.  And I am a work and the phone rings at 2130hrs, and it is my DH, and he say, “there is something wrong with Zachary”   And I say, What?  “and he says,” I dunno, he is acting weird”  So I say, Okay, what do you mean he is acting weird?  DH says, “I dunno, weird, like he is sitting outside..”  “and now he is inside and he is sitting over by the table”   OK…  So I tell him that perhaps they should both just go to bed soon and get some sleep and that maybe they will both feel better in the morning.   So I am not really sure what is going on, who is feeling weird, the dog or the DH.  The dog was acting a bit quieter than usual this morning, but Zachary has always been a very sensitive dog and I think the minute we started making a big deal over him he got anxious, he was fine when I got up and fine when I left for work, so DH probably fussed over him all night and made him anxious again, cause he is not sick.

But I am tired cause the 2 1/2 hours sleep I got just is not enought when I am working 12 hour nights

But it was funny…..yawn

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by islandgrl
Filed under: General