The week of March 2nd

It was a productive week. I took Rusty to the vet for more tests, went to the dealer for a safety recall and oil change, and met a furniture company at the apartment to fix the broken couch leg from our move. Many of these items were on my to-do list for a while. I took Audrey to ballet on Saturday morning while Andy took Matthew to his first baseball practice. He will play on the school/church league with 2nd graders for coach pitch. We had to buy all new baseball stuff since it was buried in storage and easier to go buy all new instead of rearranging boxes.
We found out Rusty has Addison's disease and that's why he isn't eating his food. Andy has been urging me to take Rusty to the vet for a while but I just thought it was the transition that made him off his normal schedule. Rusty is normally 60 lbs but is now down to 47 lbs. We had a barium test with a series of x-rays to see if he had blockage in his intestines but that showed everything was moving along like normal. Thank goodness! We didn't want to have to perform surgery on him in his feeble condition. We were also concerned about cancer but the MRI showed nothing so that was a relief, too. The vet gave him pretnisone and a shot that we need to keep up every 25 days to get Rusty back to normal.

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