((((((((((Nowheretorun, splitimage, inky, angel, sky, bebop, fuzzy))))))))))), thank you for your words of encouragement...times like this, they really do help.

Yes, I still have the doggie from the accident.....the girl was badly hurt in the accident....broken back in 3 places, a hip & the other hip fractured.....she is in a rehab treatment center (cardinal hill) for 3 months getting therapy so she can walk again.....so I am foster Mom for that time. Things were going smoothly until something goes wrong....it just takes one wrong move to make everything fall apart sometimes. He is a very good doggie.......just very strong....much stronger then my soft fluffy american eskimos. He is about the same size, but having part pit bull in him.....the muscle strength is there behind him. I have a water bottle that I squirt at him when he barks at the dogs when I potty walk everyone. I have him attached to a long leash & then a leash that allows him just enough space to get around on the end of my porch.

Last night I collapsed after all was done......woke up realizing that I can't go to the Beth Moore conference......as I can't leave Leo alone to be the quiet dog he has to be for his leg to heal.....he goes crazy when he isn't around me & for him to get that upset with the broken bone would only cause worse problems even if it's splinted. I remember when Celia broke both bones in her leg.....they used marrow from her hip to fix the small bone & pinned the big bone. I had her in an xpen where she couldn't move around & somehow, she stepped wrong on the let & bent the pin a few days after the surgery......I kept her quiet so very quiet, but when it came to taking the pin out of the leg, it ended up breaking off. With that in mind, I can't imaging trying to make sure Leo (who can't stand to be away from me) will stay quiet with me away from him for the 24 hours to go to the Beth Moore conference.....he doesn't do well with other people either, so leaving him with a baby sitter isn't really an option either.....surely wish it was. Last night when he had to stay at the vet's, was the first time he has ever been away from me ever in his life.....except when I leave him tied up for a few hours to run errands in the hot weather when I can't take him in the car with me.......this is what it's like having a house full of children I'm sure......these guys are my children.

I am still feeling that the evil one is behind some of these things happening to keep me away from the conference.....but at this moment, I don't have a workable solution to the problem & not going at this point seems to be the only option.

Sky, Like you, I always make sure the pharmacy has the meds I need that was why I turned in the prescription yesterday....so no unexpected surprises would hit me....then wham anyway....as least they have the meds available when they can get their paperwork act together. The problem last month was that the manufacturer was back ordered & there wasn't a phramacy in the country that had the meds that they could locate that easily.....that was why they had to change the 100ugh patches to the 50ugh patches & just double the amount for the last 1/2 of the month.....but patience assistance (who pays for my meds) has a stupid system set up where they go by the #, not by the dose....some stupid thing like that....so it forces the Dr to have to call for overrides whenever anything is different. In KY, they can owe you for 72 hours, then the DA says you have to have a new script.....which was what happened when they couldn't fill the 100ugh patches.....it went 15 days & they still didn't have them in....they seem to have a pretty good working system here but then I don't challenge the system with the # of meds anyway.....just trying to get the minimum I need seems to be a hassle when the game rules are stupid at the patience assistance program....by looking at #'s of patches not the strength...that's stupid when they have the information.

I have to chuckle about the training on the american eskimo dog's....you can have the best trainers & they can know exactly what to do, but they have a problem.....they have a mind that goes south sometimes & they just go off & do whatever they want no matter who is trying to make them obedient. I trained Excell for both the confirmation & the lower lever obedience. we showed & I actually got his obedience title.....but it took forever as every show, he would find something different to mess up on. He would come when called & right when he got to me, he veared off & went back to where the other dogs were.....hit the edge of the ring running as fast as he could. The next show, he would find something else to mess up.....he knew it all & knew exactly all the obedience commands.....but when he switched off his mind.....there was no getting through......it seems this is a trait of the eskies.....I dearly love them for their independence, but it's frustrating when you want, expect, need, them to obey NOW....not when when feel like it......seems to be a trait of the breed maybe.....wonder what the dog whisperer would say about that?????lol. I'm betting that given enough time, he the eskies would respond to him that way too.......they just seem to have the "blow you off" modes that hit. I always enjoyed the agility with Excell also...but he had his favorite obsticals & no matter what directions I gave him, he would go back & do his favoriets over & over again.....blowing off the course......it was funny to watch, but frustrating to deal with.

I love this breed more that any others......even with their quirky personalities......maybe because they are so much like me at times.

Thanks for all your supportive posts.....I honestly appreciate them with all I am going through right now.

Off to go to the vet.....get the stitches out of Tawny from her spaying 2 weeks ago. & pick up Leo.....& they finally got my prescription straightened out.....they forced the override through now....not within the 24 hours......so I am good to go.....got to get those patches as all this has left me with the beginnings of a super migraine that started last evening.

Thank's again,
Debbie