Nadi's first visit to the vet in over a year

Because Nadi doesn't really get up to a whole hell of a lot other than sitting on her various beds in my house and going on extremely controlled walks in my neighborhood, she isn't really exposed to a great deal of possible disease and sickness. She doesn't like other dogs but doesn't try to fight them so there is no chance of anything happening there, well, there is also the fact that I hover near her like a hawk whenever she does have a chance to get near a dog.

I still feel obligated to take her to the vet for a checkup every now and then plus her vaccinations were out of date so I figured I would go ahead and do it. As you might expect Nadi really doesn't like going to this place.

I don't think that Nadi really understands what this harness is for because we don't use it very often. I originally purchased it to take her cycling with me but ironically, the bicycle was stolen the same day that I bought the harness. I have since purchased another bicycle and today was the first time I took her for a ride on it. She just hovers and accepts her fate when she is in it and she chills. I think she enjoys the opportunity to have a look around and "fly" but just like I expected, she hates having the thing put on her. A lot of people deck out their dogs with outfits but I am not one of those people. Nadi has never worn clothes and now that she is 11 years old, this is probably not the time to start.

She sat calmly on the doctor's table while we waited for the lady and her very long-winded explanation of what is going to be done to her but we were there for some pretty routine stuff. The woman is from a former Soviet country, I don't remember which one, so she is very serious about her work. It has been my experience that almost anyone from one of these countries is just serious by default. Therefore I got to hear a bunch of stuff about procedures that means nothing to me. I guess I appreciate it but I am not a vet, so this information isn't something I can soak up. She got a series of injections, which she doesn't mind at all but the part she didn't like is that they drew blood from her leg. Nadi really doesn't like it when people handle her legs. It took the vet and 2 techs to hold her in place but once the needle was in her leg she just endured it and it was over in no time.

The reason for this was so that we can have her blood tested for everything. It costs something like $70 to have this done, which is quite expensive for this country where everything is cheap, but I would much rather spend a bit of money to prevent something than break the bank fighting some sort of disease that cannot be stopped once it is in place.

I'm waiting for the extensive results, but the only thing the doc could see that was even close to problematic quickly, was that her platelet count was kind of low. I don't even know what that means but the doc didn't seem to worried about it so I will not get worried either.

There's Nadi afterwards showing her complete and total disdain for the vet's office after the procedure. I thought her little bandage was kind of cute but of course, Nadi hated it and kind of refused to walk once I got her home. She is such a sensitive little thing.

Look at that photo above, there is a dog weighing scale next to where Nadi is sitting. Some good news for me happened as well. The last time I was at this office over a year ago I asked if it was ok for me to weigh myself as well and they said "sure." The scale only goes up to 100kg / 220lbs and a year ago I got an error message meaning I weighed more than 100kg. I stepped on it yesterday and got back 92. So that's good!

The vet suggested that Nadi might be a bit tired for the rest of the day due to the injections and boy was she ever! She snoozed the day away and later on when I suggested that we go for a walk she wasn't interested. I think that is the first time in her life that has happened. I made her go anyway and her spirits picked up once she walked the sleep out of her eyes.

Today she is fine and back to normal and probably really excited about the fact that barring any sort of tragedy, we will not be going back to that awful place that she hates for at least another year.