Might As Well Been Friday The 13th!

Well, I promised everyone inspirational, beautiful posts full of positive outlooks on life and new ideas. However, I am going to start off on a painful Friday post! Zoe, my cool little "ninja dog" as some refer to her, has decided that this Friday was going to be the day when her second (and only other) "good" knee was going to luxate, or dislocate for those medically unaware.

You see 5 years ago, as my wife and I were just starting out as a young couple, working crap jobs and trying to make it through graduate school, decided to buy a little Shiba Inu - Japanese for "little bushwick dog", but English for "psychotic, karate kicking, possum fighting, but check out my cute little black eyes" dog. Well, long story long, our little Zoe decided not to share with us that she would be the only little puppy from the litter who was born with hip dysplasia and 2 luxating patellas (again, dislocated knees).

So, at the age of just barely 1 year old, we had to venture into her "first" surgery. $1700 later and 2 months of rehab, which included Mike picking Zoe up to take her everywhere and Dylan playing nurse by giving faces of "haha...whose the bitch now?" looks all day long. Zoe sloowwwwlllly became more and more herself, and UNTIL now she has been all good!

Today, she decided that her knee would blow out! Please Zoe....please don't do this to me! Nope, we are not that lucky, after rushing her to the doctor and getting a fat bill to put the cherry on top of the cake, we now have discovered that she will be beginning the surgery adventure again. Kristin and I are very excited, note the sarcasm, about the next few weeks of putting her behind bars and punishing her for being such a psychotic dog. We will be fixing her second knee, and beginning back at step 1 of rehab all over again.

So all in all, today may have been Friday, May 21st, but it will go down as FRIDAY THE 13th in my book!