Well, I just wanted to give a heads up that I might be pretty unstable for the next while.

A heads upWell, I just wanted to give a heads up that I might be pretty unstable for the next while.
My family dog (admittedly, she's ancient as Golden Retrievers go) is nearly 15 and has a lump in her mouth that appears to have caused an abscessed tooth, and the abscessed tooth appears to have caused swelling in her cheek, which has swollen her eye shut. She has surgery on (hopefully) Wednesday, when the first doctor we talked to said she should get it operated on on Monday if we can. She has since started pawing her eye and it has started bleeding. As I am kind of a hypochondriac, I worry that she won't even last that long.
As a cheery Father's Day exercise, my sister (who my dad is visiting for the evening, after I had lunch with him today) tried to talk him out of spending the money, just as he had finally talked himself into that it could be worth paying for the surgery because at the rate she's been, she might last another year or two? (seems insane, but she's been very stable for years, o /  A heads upWell, I just wanted to give a heads up that I might be pretty unstable for the next while.
My family dog (admittedly, she's ancient as Golden Retrievers go) is nearly 15 and has a lump in her mouth that appears to have caused an abscessed tooth, and the abscessed tooth appears to have caused swelling in her cheek, which has swollen her eye shut. She has surgery on (hopefully) Wednesday, when the first doctor we talked to said she should get it operated on on Monday if we can. She has since started pawing her eye and it has started bleeding. As I am kind of a hypochondriac, I worry that she won't even last that long.
As a cheery Father's Day exercise, my sister (who my dad is visiting for the evening, after I had lunch with him today) tried to talk him out of spending the money, just as he had finally talked himself into that it could be worth paying for the surgery because at the rate she's been, she might last another year or two? (seems insane, but she's been very stable for years, o 
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(I also probably need all the friends I can get right now, since I admit as well that I am going to be in a very, VERY dark place for the next while if things don't turn around...)