what would i be, if i didn't have you, jewel?

jewel's sick today. was having poor appetite, vomitting, and had blood in her stools. sigh. damn worried for her.

anyway. they've got stupid vets at mount pleasant animal hospital. don't ever bring your babies there.

went there at 8.30am hoping to see the vet as early as possible, since, afterall it's a 24hrs hospital. arriving there, i was greeted with a sign at the door which wrote this:

With effect from September 2004, we will not be open 24hrs due to the lack of staff. For house-calls, our charges are $250.....

-__-" they ARE supposed to be a hospital, but yet they are not open 24hrs?!

WTF?!

so anyway the receptionist told me that i had to wait until 9.30am for my turn. DOH. so i told my mum (who by the way, took a half day leave just to bring my dog to the veterinarian) that we might as well go back to our usual vet at telok kurau.

stubborn woman. she refused. -__-"

what can i say, since she's my mummy afterall.

while waiting, an elderly lady came into the hospital with her husband. she came in, and walked a big round as she smiled at all the pets (cats, birds, fishes, and dogs).

for a moment, my mum actually thought she got the wrong clinic - my mum thought she wanted to bring her husband to see the doc. hah!

ANYWAY.

out of nowhere, the clinic assistant popped out, and handed her an urn.

my heart almost dropped to the ground. my goodness... after chatting with her (she came over to pat jewel on her head), i felt kinda sorry for her.

having a dog is like having a child. and losing it, means that all the unconditional love that your dog has given you, has now vanished into thin air. so much like how we take things for granted, and suddenly, they are taken away from us.

i'm sorry to hear of your loss, auntie. =(

glancing around the hospital, i see a big dog in front of me (don't know what's the name of the breed, but it looks like the beethovan dog). anyway, the dog's eyes were red and watery, his lips were drooping, and the most scary sight was that you could actually see his bones protruding out of his fore legs.

sitting there, i could sense that he had already gotten used to the pain. the look of tiredness in his face showed me that he was not a young pup anymore. he's been through life, and have probably lived it fulfilingly.

oh doggy, i feel for you. i hope you get well soon...

so anyway it was our turn to see the vet, and in we went with jewel, but out we came without her. they had to run blood and rectal tests on her to find out what's wrong.

jewel came out shortly, but we had to wait a long time for the test results. zzzzz. test results out - all's well. -__-"

so what exactly is the problem with my dog?!

doh. the vet doesn't exactly know, and says "it's probably some gastric infection in the large intestines." ar huh. and she couldn't give me a definite answer.

went out of the room, nonetheless. waited and waited. finally, at 11.30am (gosh, we stayed in the hospital for 3hrs?!) and $138.41 poorer, mummy, jewel and myself left the whitley road hospital.

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gotta keep my poor darling company right now. talk to you guys another day. i've got some things to blog, which i'm unhappy about. but i shall leave it for tomorrow or something.

ooo. did i forget to mention that jewel's got her grooming appointment tomorrow? heehee. =) cherrios!