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Thursday, February 28, 2008

When it Rains....It Pours! :-(

As if we don't have enough going on with trying to get Roxi better! In between working all day, running back and forth to the vet every other day and doing our day to day things, we're adding one more stressor to the list.
When I got home yesterday afternoon I turned the heat up so it would be warm when we got back from the vet (our tempature goes down while we're gone during the day). I get home to drop Roxi off and to pick up Chris. We were heading to the pet store to get our reimbursement for our vet bills. As we were walking out, we noticed that the heat never kicked on. Normally we only keep our heat at 68, so we turned it up to 70 thinking when we got home it would be fine. What were we thinking......
We get home and the house is freezing. Immediatly I'm thinking how much is this going to cost, we have to get this fixed tonight due to it only being 5 degrees outside (we defiantly don't want freezing pipes), and having a sick puppy with pnemonia isn't good either. So we start calling 24 hour service places. Then we run into another problem. Because our furnace is older a lot of places don't carry parts for that furnace with them. So now we have to find someone who has parts! By the way it's already going on 8pm!
We finally find someone and we had them come out. He took a look at it and thank GOD all it was, was our ignitor. It was so old and falling apart, I'm surprised we've had heat at all this winter. But all got fixed and the man was very nice. He even gave us a pretty good deal when it came to paying, considering it was after hours!:-)

To update you real quick with Roxi, the vet gave her another shot of antibiotic and said she's a tiny bit better, but not enough. He said her lungs are still pretty congested. She ate a little more last night then she had been, so we were excited about that. Again this morning, she wanted no part of food. So that's our struggle right now, getting a 10 week old puppy to eat! So goes back again tomorrow for another follow up. Keep your fingers crossed that her lungs are better tomorrow!

2 comments:

Mrs. Eshbaugh said...
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Mrs. Eshbaugh said...

Oh no!! Don't old houses just stink? I am so sorry you had that problem... I've got a guy for you next time you have heat trouble!!! Hopefully it is nice and toasty warm now!