What a Weekend!

So...as you know, we went to Arizona this past weekend. We packed up our car & doggie & headed out @ 6am Friday morning. Now let me back up, to complete this story, you need to know what happened on Wednesday night. We went bed as if it was just another night & was awoken by a wet feeling in the bed @ about 4am Thursday morning. Bear had let his bladder go again in the bed. So, we are figuring that something is still not right with him. We called the vet again & let him know what had happened. He said he wanted to get a blood sample from him to run more tests. So after Mike got off work Thursday, he went & picked up Bear for the vet & took him to get his blood test done. The vet said that he wouldn't have the test results until Monday morning, so we decided to have a nice Arizona vacation, but Thursday night it happened again, Bear couldn't hold his bladder!

So Friday morning, we were off. Bear did really good on the drive down there & we made it to my Father-in-law's girlfriends house, and by the way, Mike got pulled over before Lake Powell by a Utah Highway Patrol, but he kindly gave us a warning & let us go on our way! We went to dinner @ Barrows Pizza (it was amazing, my husband didn't lie) & after that had a nice relaxing evening shopping for St. Patricks day attire for the next nights parties! Friday night it happened again, Bear had an accident. So by Saturday morning & 3 nights in a row of this, I knew something was not right.

Saturday was spent @ the Renaissance Festival. We all got dressed up (which is not really me) & went. It was a fun day. We did a lot, eat big ole turkey legs & drank a ton of pop (it was extremely hot this day) We were done with that about 4pm so we went back to Lorina (Father-in-law's girlfriend) house to get ready for the St. Patricks day parties. We went to a party & ate some food & then Mike & I decided that we wanted to go visit others while we were in AZ! As soon as we got out to the car from the party, Bear had emptied his bladder on the drivers seat! We were really frusterated & upset @ this point. We were figuring that he was already starting Kidney Failure (the vet said after the last tests that he would have this later on in life) We went & visited my Aunt Shawna & Uncle Walt in Glendale & then on to Mike's friend from High School's house - Ryan! It was a late yet fun & entertaining night. Saturday night Bear had another accident.

Sunday we spent the day at the SwapMeet & a Mall in Arizona, that was a nice & relaxing day. It was kinda rainy & stormy out, so it was nice to spend the day in. We left Bear in the Laundry room Sunday & he had 2 accidents in there. This is not normal for him. His schedule before all of this started happening was we would take him out in the morning, leave for work & he would be out for about 8-10 hours & not pee anywhere. Take him out when we get home, take him out again before bed & then we go to bed. About 8 hours of bed time & no peeing. He did good. So we know something is not right with him. We are figuring that he is going about every 2-3 hours.

Monday was the dreadful day of the test results. The vet called & he let us know the blood work came back & said he is in Kidney Failure. Bear needs to be on a special diet that will be easy on is kidneys & give him all the vitamins & nutrients that he needs. The vet is optimistic that this Food can help him to survive for about another year, but it came on fast, so he might not have very much longer. Monday was no a good day after that. It was a very emotional & stressful day. We went & visited Mike's Grandparents because I have never meet them before. His Grandma is not doing to well, so it was good for me to meet her & for him to see them again. After that we just drove, we decided to stop on Page & get a Hotel room for the night seeing as how it was 9pm & we were both physically & emotionally drained.

Tuesday we sleeped in, which was much needed. We finally got out of Page @ about 11:45am & drove home. We got home about 6pm! This was a much needed Vacation to visit family & friends that we haven't seen in a while & it was good to get away, but I am so glad to be home & the next step is to figure out what we are going to do for Bear! If you have any comments or suggesting, please let me know. Hope your St. Patricks day was great & Hope you have a great Easter if I don't blog before then! I will try to get Ren Festival pix up & just Vacation pix in general when I get home!