Poor Emmers.

This precious little princess's life has sure been rocked!  First, we bring home a puppy. A Puppy.  How dare we.  Then, said puppy brings her kennel cough.  I never really payed much attention to what kennel cough was because I really didn't think Emma would ever be somewhere she could catch it.  Unfortunately, she wasn't immunized for it and sweet little Bella brought it to her.  It's not uncommon for dogs born in the conditions Bella was to be carriers of several things.  The puppies are commonly born with them since the mom's are infected.  I guess we were pretty naive when we got Bella because we didn't even think of that.  Poor Emma suffered the brunt of that one.  She coughed and coughed and coughed and coughed.  It was absolutely horrid.  I had brought her in right away and they started her on an antibiotic and gave her a cough suppressant.  It didn't work.  After 5 more days of misery I brought Emma back in and they thought she was getting the start of pneumonia from all the coughing.  They prescribed her a stronger antibiotic and a cough suppressant with a narcotic in it.

They had to do x-rays so I asked them to email them to me "for the kids."  They didn't have to know it was actually for me.  At any rate I find medical things interesting whether it in humans or animals.  I learned that Emma might have a few fat rolls around her neck...

 We are very grateful that Emma is finally getting better.  And...I think Bella may be growing on her, just a little.