A trip to the Vets!
Ok I am very tired tonight but I’ll try my best to make this entry readable and understandable. Today I took my dog to the vets, he hasn’t been well at all recently. We gave him some bones a few days ago, the next day he vomited and since then he hasn’t eaten and just seems out of it. He won’t go upstairs to his bed either, so I have been sleeping downstairs on the sofa (which is far from comfortable), and I’m sleeping on the sofa again tonight to keep him company, don’t want to leave Sam all on his own downstairs.
I took him to the vets this morning to get his nails clipped and explain what’s been going on. He has been drinking, peeing and doing his business, I think he does want to eat but just doesn’t feel like it for some reason. Anyway, they gave him an examination (my poor baby boy, finger up his bumbum, he wasn’t best pleased and hid his head under my arm) and said we could either try the medication which should get him eating by tomorrow or have an xray to find the cause of the tenderness on Sam’s abdominal area. I phoned my dad, and we both agreed to go for the xray as if there is a real problem, the medication only masks it and down the line it’ll be worse for Sam, he isn’t getting any younger. 
So… I had to leave my poor lil boy at the vets. When I said goodbye and was leaving, Sam wouldn’t walk with the vet so he gave him an ultimatium, “you’re either going to walk with me, or I’ll carry you”. He chose the latter.
It has been so hard. The vet said to pick him up in the afternoon but them 6 hours waiting at home for a call from the vet to tell us to pick him up was so long. Dad and I kept looking over at his bed, I came home from shopping expecting to see him, my dad was whistling to get Sam’s attention even though he wasn’t there. It was weird. I was so glad to get the phonecall and pick him up. 
The vet shown me the xray, it was all clear. The tenderness, he said, was most likely caused by some fluid but there’s no need to open him up or anything… no medication, either. The vet gave him an injection to stop his nausea and I was told to feed him on chicken & rice and see how he goes… if no improvement, go back for more tests.
Tonight, he hasn’t eaten anything. Le sigh. I am really hoping he eats tomorrow… even if it’s only a tiny bit.
Vet bills!! Oh yes… today…
Nails clipped: £4.50
Examination (consisting of the anal examination and just feeling around his belly): £18.50
Xray: £40
+ VAT
= £95.94 
But at the end of the day, I really do not mind paying out. I just want my lil baby to be healthy again.