Recap.

Are you ready for my recap?

Here we go...

On Friday April 1st we got a phone call that The Husband's dad (my father-in-law) had been involved in an accident.  The Hubs was at work so I left the kids with my parents (thanks mom and dad!) and dashed to the emergency room.  It was pretty obvious that my FIL had broken his leg but we didn't learn the extent to which he had broken it until after they finished all of their scans and x-rays.  The hospital that he was in was not in any hurry at all.  Seriously not impressed with this place and will never go there.

Anyway, he broke it pretty good.  I can't even begin to describe the damage.  Lots of reconstruction was needed.  They waited until Monday the 4th to do the surgery because a cardiologist had to make sure he'd be okay for surgery due to his age.

On Saturday, Chloe started coughing.  And by Sunday Jake was coughing as well and had a snout full of snot.  Did you know dogs get boogers?  Me either, it was nasty.

Sunday also brought my sister-in-law and brother-in-law into town.  They had come down just to visit us, not knowing that they'd get here just after my FIL's accident.

So Monday brought surgery for my FIL and a very expensive trip to the vet with both dogs.

The vet diagnosed kennel cough and gave each dog a shot of antibiotics and other vitamins as well as antibiotics to give them at home.  It is next to impossible to give medicine to a dog that is too sick to eat.  I've spent almost every day this past week shoving pills down their throats.  Mainly Jake's throat.  Chloe finally discovered a love of Spam and is now taking her pills with no problems.  Jake on the other hand, had to go back to the vet on Friday because he wasn't eating or drinking at all.  We finally were able to entice him to eat last night with some leftover pot roast and so we snuck his pills into it.  Whew!  Fun, right?

My FIL's surgery on Monday ended up being eight and a half hours!  He came out with a lot of internal hardware:

That's including 2 plates and about 23 screws.

They started physical therapy the next day and hopefully he'll be home in the next week or so.

This last week wasn't all drama though.  We enjoyed the hot weather by pulling the jumpy castle out for the kids to use.



My sick puppies sharing Chloe's bed.



And even though they're sick, they are learning to love each other...slowly.  :)