Busy week....

I haven't time to blog this week; I have been taking care of our dog, Chata. 

    All day Monday, she was just lying around. I thought she was just cold; it was very cold here Monday and Tuesday. She didn't eat much or anything. On Tuesday, she woke up and had diarrhea and vomiting, I was watching her all morning and that afternoon she had blood in her stool so, off to the Vet we went. She gave her 2 shots and some oral medicine. Then, told me to feed her suerox, the Mexican version of Pedialyte every hour and to also feed her baby food and to bring her back the next day for her next dose. 

       So, here I was force feeding Suerox to Chata every hour all through the night up until 3AM, I fell asleep.

       Miguel woke me up at 7AM to tell me that Chata was sitting up in her bed scratching her stomach a huge difference from the night before when she wouldn't even lift her head. Well, I took her back to the Vet, she got 2 more shots and the oral but, an hour later she was vomiting and was really weak again. The vet gave her another shot and she just got worse throughout the afternoon, I thought she was dying. We called another vet, one that my sister in law trusted a lot. He came and got her and said that she should have been given an IV from the beginning with her age. He gave her a 60% chance of living.

      Well, today 2 days later, she is eating food and getting better. We are going to see her this evening and she will be coming home in 2 days. If I had not of changed vets, she would have died. I learned from experience that certain ¨Vets¨ are not real so, be careful if you live in Mexico with your pets.

      She will get home just a couple of days before we leave to go to the US. So far, we are still leaving on Tuesday afternoon but, that could change if it gets more dangerous on the highway again.

       We have 2 birthday parties tomorrow, our nephew's 4th and my father in laws 54th and then on Monday, we have hired a Mariachi group to sing for Miguel's mom for Mother's Day and Miguel's sisters have hired a caterer for the Mother's Day Dinner since, we all are Moms except one of us. 

         Have a Happy Mother's Day to all of the Moms!!! Take care and have a good weekend.

Change of plans...

      Well, we were all set to get on the road tomorrow but, I decided to check the Travel Advisories on the US Passport site and guess what I found??

      Travel via road from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo and to Reynose is prohibited for employees of the US Consulate Offices due to the danger on those to roads at this time. SO, we discussed this and decided to postpone the trip until next week, maybe giving these people another week to finish making up for the fights they missed during Semana Santa and hopefully then it will be OK.

       I wouldn't be so worried about going if it was just me and Miguel but, my kids are going so, there is my main concern. Everybody says to leave them here with Miguel but, call me the overprotective mom but, I just can't leave my kids here without me knowing how it is here. I know Miguel and his family would take care of them but, it's the whole issue with the balaceras. A ten year old girl got shot in the head a couple of weeks ago for God's sakes!

      We are still considering moving to the border but, haven't made a definite decision, yet. I am going to give it another try at finding a job here before we do leave. Something has to give, the house we were going to get has been took off the market or something. The owner will not return phone calls or anything so, that is out now.

       This morning I was in a traffic jam on one of the major Avenues here but, it was not caused by cars but, by horse drawn wagons!! There were about 10 of them together, I told Miguel only in Mexico will you find a traffic jam caused by horse drawn wagons in the middle of the city. LOL Crazy.
     
       The heat has took a vacation, the high today is going to bening 26 celsius or 78F degrees and it will like that through Thursday and then Friday and Saturday will be 34C or 93F which is cool comparing to the last week which was between 40C or 104F and 46C or 115F.

       We didn't really do anything for Dia Del Niño because, we were plannig on leaving for the US tomorrow. We did go buy their favorite food (Carne Asada) for dinner and took them out for ice cream that evening, though.

       If anybody hears of any jobs in the Monterrey area, please post a comment or email me. Thanks ahead of time. I will keep an update on our postponed trip to the US this week. Have a good Monday everybody!!!