Dodging Bullets

Joel and I have dodged two huge bullets in the past two days. Yesterday I took Stokley to the vet because he had been having issues with his back right leg. If he jumped off something and landed on it wrong, he'd not put any weight on it for a while. Since it happened about 4 times over the weekend, we thought it was time to get it checked out. The vet kind of scared me at first because she was pretty sure he had torn his ACL --- which meant surgery. The cheaper of the surgeries was $1000 and couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't happen again. The second, better surgery which kind of reconstructed the knee was about $2500. So I was sitting there thinking where are we going to get this money and looking at Stokley saying how can I not spend it on you. But after looking at the x-rays, the vet didn't see any signs that the ACL was ripped. So she thinks he probably just sprain (is that the right tense?) it. I was so relieved. We just have to keep Stokley calm and rested for 2 weeks --- no play dates or long walks. And he has to take some anti-inflammatory medicine.

Secondly, Joel has been having some issues with his front teeth and wasn't sure if the nerve was dying or if he needed to have them replaced. So he went to the dentist today, a dentist that goes to Riverview and is a friend of ours. He doesn't think that the nerve is dead, so no root canal. He just grinded a bit down on Joel's teeth and said things look ok! Yeah -- no new teeth for Joel.

Praise Jesus!