One thing this is certain: Addler would have died sooner or later. His bladder would have burst and that would have been lights out. This isn't a situation where I could have just sat around and said to myself: "he'll get better, just give him time".  No, time was his enemy.  I can't imagine how much better he must be feeling right about now.  Maybe he'll even start eating again.  

He was given numerous compliments at the first place last night.  One of the workers said: "Your dog is so beautiful. We get other danes in here that are heavy, but that is because they are fat. Addler is not fat at all". 

  At one point he started putting on weight - fat - so I put him on a diet.  He lost it and has never gained it back.  He's a bundle of muscle.  The size and weight of the dog dictate it needs some good muscles to enable it to be able to move around at all.  

It really hits me how hard this would have been to take if he would have passed. I come into my bedroom and there is no giant dog laying or sitting there. No big doggie waiting at the door to be let in.  

I just ran up to the store to get a bottle of Cumin for Taylor - she is making some sort of chili stuff in the crockpot for dinner - and it is stifling hot out there. I also found out just how drained I am of any energy. My plans yesterday before this situation with Addler came up was to get the water spigot installed and finish with the hot water line.  I've ordered the dual sewer outlet.  

Then tomorrow, get the trencher and get that done.  Then the next day, get the parts to install a panel and get the project done and over with.  Now? I don't know if I'm going to have time to do all of that before the day arrives I need it done for.

I may have to just risk it and have another ac unit on there.

Wait a minute.  I just remembered - my thoughts are all over the place right now - we had a second ac unit in the window of the shed while James was installing the drywall!  It was on for many, many days and the compressor rarely shut off.  That's the only real drain that New Jersey people's trailer has.  They are using a regular extension cord for that thing, it isn't on a 30 or 50 amp draw.  

So there it is. I've just taken the pressure off of me.  I can get a 15 foot strand of wire and another 20 amp heavy duty outlet, set it up back there and good for now.  Still want to switch out everything, maybe even put the water heater on a new circuit and just take some of the load off of the west side circuit.  

However....even taking the pressure off, there is still a couple day's worth of work back there.  But I can get it done - I think. I say that and then often times I get caught in some glitch/s and end up taking more time, energy and expense than originally anticipated.  I actually think I have an extra circuit breaker somewhere, just have to dig and find it.  Wire is the only real expense on that now, probably $45 worth. Circuit breakers are actually not that expensive and neither are the 20 amp outlets.  So maybe $60.  The outlet will be permanent regardless if I do an east side circuit setup - I have no power outside of the shed and I have needed it.  

Well I'm not going to stress over it. Try to get back to it tomorrow depending on what happens with Addler. I'm actually glad they're keeping him another night.  

Maybe I'll start feeling better later on and can at least go to Lowe's and get the parts I need to do the electrical job.  I have the parts for the spigot, the Y should be here today or tomorrow.  

I think I'll just shut the laundromat down during this upcoming day with 16 units pulling power and 9 of them on one side plus the shed.  After that I'm going to have some vacancies and less of a drain.  Just one day of a shut down - sorry folks, no laundry today. There is a laundromat about 2-1/2 miles away.  Or just wait until tomorrow.  

That's it. I'm going to try to take a nap again, I just got hit pretty good with fatigue.  

 So.  I'm up at 5:15 - a little early so I could at least get a cup of coffee in me.  Drive over there, discuss everything,  they bring him out. He (Addler, my Great Dane) looks even worse than he did last night.  They don't know what's wrong with him, but they said I need to take him to my regular care provider (this place closes at 7:00 am). Well, looking like that, indeed.  Not only that but they still had the catheter in him to pump fluid into him and they handed me a huge bag of IV fluid to give to my regular vet along with all the paperwork to give the vet as well.

My vet not opened yet, I just drove straight over there. 40 miles so it took a minute. I get there, there are vehicles in the parking lot but no one waiting at the door.  I just got out, left Addler in the vehicle and stood at the door until they unlocked it. I figured I might have a better chance getting him in - I trust this place, they have always done Addler good. 

Up to the counter, tell them he spent the night in ER, he's clearly not right and they want him to continue the care, can you take him in today?  Behind me? A dozen people with dogs.  Some with numerous dogs.  I don't know how long I would have had to wait, but I was glad that I didn't have to make Addler wait and I was/am very very tired.  Like, today is going to be a wash type of tired, getting nothing done besides getting the dog over there.

I hand them the paperwork, tell them there should be an email from the other place.  She found the email but their internet is down, she couldn't look at it. "I don't know, the internet was down when we came in here today". Yikes.  Addler was sooooo lethargic.  However, when I was leaving? This time he wanted to go home.  Sorry buddy, but you are going to have to stay here. He wouldn't go with the lady, just kept staring at me.  I walked out the door - it gets easier if the owner isn't around.  

I get a call 3 hours later.  They said they had looked at the x-rays the other place took and saw that his prostate was enlarged so much, he could barely pee and that's what's going on with him.  Oh.  She went into detail and said they put a hole - somewhere in there - to drain him.  Well, why didn't the other place see this?  "We were asking the same thing".  Instead of all of these tests and everything they did - and costing a truckload of money - they could have just seen what the problem was on the X-rays, which is the first thing they did???

Well, the said it will take quite a while to drain all of that. It's still morning and they already told me he needs to stay overnight.  See, I would have waited til today to take him in, but he looked so terribly bad, I just felt like I was losing him.  Addler is a special dog, at least to me.  I've lost a lot of dogs in my lifetime - he is 8 and very healthy other than what's happening now. I feel like he's got a couple more years left.  3 if I'm lucky.  The cost of all of this tho....nothing I can afford, I have CareCredit but it's going to ramp up the need to get back to work. I can see grand for all of this at both places combined by the time this is over.

Well what is causing this? They said highly likely due to the fact he's not neutered.  I wanted to get him neutered but I felt as if his age was too old to be putting him through something like that. She said we're going to need to discuss neutering him, but that's not right now. We need to get him better first.  Well, knowing what is wrong and taking the appropriate action, that shouldn't take terribly long.  I don't know what it costs to neuter a Great Dane, but I can tell ya, whatever your little dog cost? It will be 50% again more than that.  

I'm just relieved that they found out what the problem is. This is why I trust these people, they know what they're doing. They are no more or less expensive than anyone else.  

I didn't have to stay, at all. Just told them my name and number, they couldn't look up my file, asked me if he's been here before? Many times.  So that's that - for now.  I am not even going to be doing anything with that situation til tomorrow at the earliest. And if it is decided to neuter him, I have no idea how long they keep a dog for observation.  

But it explains why he had to keep going outside to go pee.  I mean, a lot.  That dog can hold a bladder full longer than most humans. Yet, he was continuously wanting to go out and go pee.  I just didn't notice that it was short time of peeing. I did notice he couldn't even lift his leg, that's how poorly he is feeling.  I had a helluva time getting him into that SUV last night and then this morning getting him back in there to take him to my vet.  He tried, I'll give him credit, but he couldn't lift his @$$ end up that high, much more jump into the thing like he normally does. That dog is heavy!

Yesterday, the dog wanted to go out badly, long before I normally let him out in the morning.  How did he let me know? By laying by the door.  He won't whine, bark, yip, nothing.  He never does.  If he's in pain, you won't know about it - at least not until he shows the obvious signs that emerged last night. 

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I feel like I'm half here. I am exhausted.  Bed very late and getting up very early, I am not even going over to the property today. There is a pop- up trailer showing up - there is only one space available, they'll figure it out, tho I sent them an email and told them which lot. These people always call when they arrive "well the email didn't say which lot number".  Yes, it does. I am sent a copy of the automatically generated email, they actually have to choose a lot before they can even register online and it is plainly written in the email.  ???

I have money to collect but that's over the phone - and only if they don't contact me by say..3 this afternoon. Maybe 5.  I don't know, but I can't sleep. I tried when I got home, fell asleep for a short period and then woke right up.  So I'm just sitting here rather - out of it.  

I'm going to scrutinize my finances today and see if I can make it on everything that's coming in. I have a full house of trailers right now, but that's not going to stay that way. I'll have 12 long term in there when all is said and done and the current short stays are gone.  If I could only get more of the short stays to show up on a much more regular basis....