Im a freak attack when it comes to my baby boy!

As many of my friends and family already know my little boy has been really sick. Yes he has asthnma but it has been over 2 years since his last major full blown attack! Knock on wood we can go another 2 years before the next one.. or I have an even better idea lets not have this again. It started Sunday night, Im pretty good about staying on top of it but this time it got out of control. Monday night we end up in the er.. Thats the pic you see. They wanted to put him in the hospitall but since they seemed to manage it pretty fast they went ahead and let us go home! Sometimes I wish they would just keep him. Then maybe I would have some help. Dont get me wrong I have tons of really awesome neighbors that will drop everything and come running but I would much rather have my hubby here to calm me down. I tend to freak and get emotional when I dont know what to do. So im an asthma nazi. Im on it like jelly on peanut butter. We have done this before but I knew from Monday that this was different and that something else was going on. They didnt do a chest xray Monday night so I made an appointment and took him in to the dr for them pretty much to do NOTHING. Keep giving him his treatments every two to three hours.. REALLY how high can one little kid get and be able to handle from all the treatments.. Yesterday the fever shows up and gets as high as 103. 2. So of course im freaking Now What? So there is something really behind this episode. So what is it and why has the er and dr missed it. Really do I have to do everything on my own. They look at me like im crazy when I tell them No thats not right. I know my kid and there is something that has to be causing this... But what do I know Im just the Mommy right.. So here we are Wednesday.. Day 3 still having asthma running a fever and completely exhausted. Whats the point in even going back in right, they will just tell me give him medication for the fever and continue the treatments! oh and did I mention that they put him on 30mg of prednisone (steroids) a day for the next 4 days. Ok fine Ill do what you say, but I still say you are wrong.. The prednisone is doing an awesome job of keeping his airways open even though he continues to labor to breathe he is moving air.. My poor little baby boy. Wish us luck ... We go back to the dr tomorrow morning at 9am! This time to see his peds dr. I hope this isnt the flu. so backtrack update... I'm fostering a new dog which makes 5 , my kid is really sick!, I watching Nena for a couple of hours today, my house is a wreck, oh and did I mention that we bought a new truck a Ford F250! I'm about to go into hibernation. Wake me up when summer gets here!!

Bonnie Mae Update!

Miss Bonnie is doing so well! She is such a sweetheart! She loves to be loved and she loves to be spoiled... She even likes to be dressed up! lol :) After her heart worm treatment Im going to dress her up and have a little photo-shoot. It is going to be really cute. She just stands there and lets you move her legs around to get the sweater on her... She is a nut. The sweater was donated to her little shaky bones by my neighbor/ & friend Mrs. Jenne. She is awesome!! Im going to back track just a bit just so you know where we started so you can get the whole picture. She really has just blossomed even in this short amount of time. So day one at the Carrington Zoo was A NIGHTMARE! Im not even going to try to sugar coat it.. She was scared, she had been washed and she did not like my dogs even looking at her. You may have read in my previous blog that I head so much growling that I made myself think I heard it (lol) even when there wasn't any going on! Maybe im just borderline crazy!!!! oh well! Day two we did a little better I still had to keep her separated from my puppies to make her feel more comfortable! She is Princess Bonnie Mae :)I want even get into the fun parties she threw on her own this weekend. But just let me say that this poor baby girl is terrified to death of being locked up. I learned my lesson the HARD way!!! he he he. Thanks Bonnie you could have told me this.. If only these guys could talk. Wouldn't that be cool! Then we could have laid it all on the table at the very beginning. Oh well a girl can dream right.!!! Well so today is Day 5, and she doesn't have to be separated at all. She goes out with all my other kids sleeps with them! Plays with them. Its so awesome to see that only after 5 days of tender loving care she is completely comfortable and being herself. I got to take down my baby/ doggie gate so all 5 of them now have free rein on my bedroom. Which my little puggies love I think they live on my bed! Last night I had 3 dogs in my bed!!!!! Oh and a sick 5 year old! It was a really interesting night. :)We are working on sitting when she gets a treat.. She kind of looks at me like im crazy...."Hello no comprende your english" Like I said we are working on it. She is awesome on a leash, she doesn't pull at all. I actually had the guts enough to let her off the other day and she loved just running around. Then last night I introduced her to my cat. Sammie wasn't happy but Bonnie did pretty well. We still have some work to do on that too! but considering its only been 5 days Im so impressed! She is such an awesome dog. She is fitting right in. She is great with kids, Awesome with other dogs (when she knows they aren't going to take her food) and we are working on the cat thing.. Oh and did I mention she is completely house trained. Completely. If she needs to go out she stands by the back door. No accidents at all since day 1. She really is an awesome dog.. I just hope we can find her equally AWESOME people..

Just a reminder...
We still need donations to get this baby girl her heart-worm treatment. If you could spare anything please please please send your tax deductible check to :

BARK
PO BOX 264
CLIFTON TX 76634

Also, Dont forget to put for Bonnie's HW Treatment in the memo line..

Also BARK is asking for blanket donations.. Old , new whatever you want to get rid of. Those can also be sent to the same address that is listed above...

Please help get Bonnie ready for her forever home & of course lets help BARK keep that babies WARM . Thanks for reading!

Sanity really? What is that? I dont have it?

Here' the prelude to my last blog. Bonnie: She an approximately 2 year old female great dane/mix that was found wandering the roads of Clifton TX. The rescue organization that is responsible for her meeting me is BARKrescue.org.. Wonderful group of people.. some of the nicest Ive met in my life! I ramble alot so excuse me and im easily sidetracked so if I jump around Sorry..and get over it! They think she was beaten and most definatly starved.. The poor baby only weighed 68 pound at the vet yesterday which for her size is not good. Im not sure how long she was at the pound but long enough for her to be deathly afraid to be locked up and left alone. I found this out the hard way. We are on full day two with her here at my zoo and im seeing alot of progress. The growling situation we had going on yesterday has slowly calmed down,. I heard it so much yesterday that I actually imagined her doing it poor baby and she wasnt. lol I prob even dreamed about it. :0 pretty sad but who said this was going to be easy right? Wheres my handbook! My sanity outreach right now consist of a circle of three wonderful women and of course my hubby who is helping me alot. His response to me today is "kelsie, you are way over thinking this, just do what you do and fit them in.." lol ok ill try that. I will admit i have a problem. My dogs are very much apart of my family.. They sit on the couch, they lay on my bed, I luv them!!! dogsdeservebetter.org is one of my all time favorite sites to read about wonderful outcomes of foster doggy mommy's! they do wonderful work.! So the point to these blogs is of course to vent my frustrations. Im a first time foster dog mommy. I have no idea what Im doing. At some point I may actually completely loose myself mentally. (Which by the way is pretty normal for me" Like my husband said I over think things. Im high strung, I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks and well Im a scorpio! Look it up they all go hand in hand with my zodiac sign.. But most importantly I have a humongo heart. I love all animals... cats dogs, birds, whatever~! they are all wonderful creatures and it makes me so mad to hear that they are beaten and abused and dumped on the side of the road... So all this leads me to now. Im a geographically single mother of a wonderful 5 year old monster :) and Im a mommy to 5, 4 legged shedding messy creatures!!!! I have a kitty named Sammy she's pretty cute!!! I found her when she was 2 days old on my hubby's grandparents farm. After a little bit of manipulation on my part ( aka waterworks) he he he.. I got to bring her home. That was a nightmare. But she is a great cat and rids my yard of all mice and other critters. Just this last summer she took out a whole nest of mockingbirds. They now know her poor thing.... She sometimes gets attacked when she is just sitting in the middle of the street. Cracks me up but oh well she did it to herself right. I actually had to take her to the vet this last summer because one of the mama mockingbirds actually pecked her in her head! it was pretty gross. So thats Sammy! I had a sweet orange kitty named Luckie who actually found me but she was hit and killed just a couple of months ago.. She is still very much missed!!! Then there's Harley my first of 5 dogs... lol he's pretty weird! He has allergies which I swear come from him being allergic to himself... ha ha ha Figures right.!!! Then theres Bubba. Sweetest dog ever! We rescued him from a rescue down in Kyle TX another middle of nowhere rescue on my part lol :) my hubby really does luv me!!! He was pretty funny at first! He wouldnt have anything to do with me. If I fed him he wouldnt eat so my hubby would have to dump out the food and then feed him again and he was fine. Crazy dog!!! We finally became freinds when my hubby had to go to the field for two weeks (army lingo, its where they go play soldier, i think its rediculous but thats could fill up a whole blog in itself so I wont get started) Then there was stitch (who is now in doggy heaven) He was just walking down the street all beat up full of mange. He evidently knew where he was going cause he really did look like he was on a mission... lol. I miss that dog. His little tongue hung out the side of his mouth and sometimes he was downright the grumpiest old man ever!!! He would have been great as a pet in that movie Grumpy Old Men.... Then came Mollie.. Our great dane. I said no of course at first but you get me looking at puppies and Im in.. She has the biggest personality ever on a dog.. She is the Queen B of my zoo. She runs this house... a step down from me of course... She actually runs my whole cul-d-sac! ask anyone around here , her and Sammie take turns. Then came Tonka.... he is Harley's son. I wont go to into that story about as how that happened its xxx rated LOL.... we all know how it happens!!!! My harleys wife gets prego with ONE puppy and Tonka is it. I couldnt sell him, or adopt him out I had to have him he is my babby's baby! they didnt even like eachother at first really!!! pretty funny... Hello you are family. tonka meet your daddy! Daddy meet your son. Yeah they had no idea!!!! So thats how I ended up with my zoo... Oh and of course I have a 5 year old son on top of all the other madness!!! I love my life though I wouldnt want it any other way!!!!! So as you can READ he he I have always picked up strays and saved animals but this was my first step to the big leagues ( thats what I call it) I had no idea it would be like this. Its hard. Emotionally, Physically. I have knots in my shoulder from all the stress. But it will end in a happily ever after!! When my Bonnie girl gets to go to her forever home! So I thought it would be interesting to blog about the good the bad... my other life on top of this doggy saver one... Someone out there will be interested RIGHT??? and of course to get some followers that might be willing to send in some money for her cause! That was my main goal. but im liking this blogging! It really relieves some of my stress :) I have enough right now... well enough for me but im high strung so my high level could really equal someones low level stress. Who knows but regardless this is my mission! Welcome to my blog!

What makes Me, ME!

OK so I'm not sure exactly what happened yesterday but I woke up to an email involving this pretty little baby girl and it took about 2 seconds for me to make a decision to become a foster dog mommy! Also bear with me for this is my first blog ever in my entire life! The email was sent from my aunt and it said that if she was not picked up today ( which was yesterday 01/05) the pound was going to euthanize her. So without thinking too deeply into it i decided I was going to save her..Broke my heart. I had to save her! I made frantic calls to my aunt and to a wonderful lady by the name of Judy pleading with them to save her I was coming to get her. Well she was in Clifton TX about an hour and a half away so I took my kiddo to school and waited. Meanwhile I got to explain to my hubby what I was doing. He freaked. "Kelsie, why this dog" "why now" " this is an everyday occurrence why do you feel the need to save this DOG"??????????. He had tons of questions none of which i knew how to answer appropriately (he he he) except for I don't know, I just feel like this is what I am suppose to be doing today! He eventually gets kind of on board. So I drive about an hour and a half to a small town out in the middle of nowhere to save this dog. This is wear I meet Judy. She is a volunteer for a group called BARK out of Clifton TX. Cute little town downtown was perfectly preserved and painted all different colors ( for anyone who knows me I LOVE COLOR) anyway very cute town. So we pull up to this dump... seriously it was a shed in between these two huge gas barrels. I have no idea what it was but it was suppose to be the pound! wow is all i can say!!!! per Judy the were fixing it up lol Right. Moving on there she was !!! BONNIE. she was so sweet . Went straight up to Seth and wagged her tail. Now the adventure begins. She stunk oh my gosh did she stink. I didn't even want to put her in my car! She smelled worse than a skunk! Thanks to a local groomer she was bathed and her nails were cut and I bought her the cutest color with little pink hearts on them! what a sweet man to do such a deed and to not ask for anything in return. I was floored. What? I didn't know people were still this nice and here I was in Clifton TX ( who really knows where that is) and I have already met two of the nicest people I have met in a long time. Surprised me!!!! OK so we start the trek home. She was sooooo good in the car. She just laid down in the back with Seth and we were off. Ok I'm warning you here comes the sad part. We are now at the vet. So far so good everything checks out. No worms, AWESOME, then she slams it down on me! She is heart-worm positive.. I think I might have stared at her blankly forever. I didn't know how to react. I was freaking. Great I do this great deed I save her and now what I do. ???? What is heart-worms? Can she give it to my dogs?? Is she going to die... Seriously did i save her from death row at the pound only to loose her to these pesky worms. Really! I didn't know if i wanted to scream or cry. So i think i might have done a little of both lol! I don't remember. Yeah it was one of those days!!!! So she gets her shots everything is a ok other than the heart-worms. I call Judy ( remember the lady from the shelter) and i tell her I don't know what to do.... First thing she says is CALM DOWN lol ( that's pretty hard for me to do) we will figure this out.... So to just skip to the AWESOME OF AWESOMEST part.... we are accepting donation through BARK ( don't worry Kelsie this will get done) ha ha easier said than done. So I'm asking pleading even. Please help this little girl. She deserves a second chance at life. I just wanted to get my story out there i will blog later to backtrack tell everyone how it feels to officially be a foster mom... But really if you can help.... PLEASE PLEASE anything will help $2 $5 whatever u can spare. thank you from the bottom of my heart for even reading this. It means a lot.

All donations are tax deductible and can be sent to:
BARK
PO BOX 264
CLIFTON, TX 76634
Please put "Bonnie's HW treatment " in the memo line of you check and make it out to BARK.

Also check out BARKRESCUE.ORG they have tons of babies that need homes.