Our Precious

Yesterday was quite a busy day, sort of.

We had lunch with Karinna's group of friends. It was at Tung Lok Restaurant at Paramount Hotel.
It was a little harder to find, but the food is generally ok.
We had Dim Sum for lunch, and had a Peking Duck.
Yum yum.

Of course, they will chat chat chat like don't know what, and by the time we left the place, it was like 3pm.
Hmmmm. Talkative huh? :P

After that, we drove down to Lok Yang Avenue, the other end of Singapore at Tuas area. Damn far.
There was a Toy Warehouse Sale, so we went to to see if can find any suitable things (not toys) for our coming little boy.
Well, it was quite an unfruitful trip there. The only thing fruitful is that we roughly know the price of some of the things we probably will need to buy soon.

Then, we went down to Kaki Bukit, to check out more baby stores.
Saw some baby cots, strollers, sterilizers etc. Need to take note of some of these so that we can do some purchases when there's sales going on somewhere.

Reached home at about 7.15pm, my sisters came over to my home to play mahjong with my monther-in-law. I didn't even know they were coming. hahaha
And we went home just to get 2 bottles of red wine, as we're going out to a BBQ somewhere at Changi. More specifically, it's the SAFRA Country Club.
Karinna's colleague was having a birthday celebration there.

We reached there about 8pm, took some BBQ food. Rather ok, the home-made curry was nice. And then people started playing mahjong as well.
We didn't play initially, but some kakis need to leave for home, so we took over the seats for a while.
In the end, lost some money. You win some, you lose some.
Just that I usually lose more. :P

By the time we reached home, it was like past midnight.
Bathed and then watched TV, as Karinna waited for her bird nest to be ready for consumption.


It was around 1am or so, our little Precious jumped off the sofa, and then we realised something was wrong with her right-hind leg.
It was pretty stiff, and she was limping as she walked off!

Alamak! Si mi dai ji?!?!?!!?

Then I carried her to the sofa, and layed her down. Checked here checked there checked everywhere, her legs seem ok to me, I don't feel anything weird with it, nor did she yelp for pain or anything.
Massaged a while for her as well.
Still, limping as I put her down on the floor.

No choice, put them into their sleeping area, and then decided to bring her to the Vet in the morning.

Somehow, Karinna cried as we were going to our bed.
*sob sob*
She had quite a bad night, trying to check internet for Vets' place. We placed the dogs in our room for the night, and we know that our Precious was very uncomfortable.

So morning came, checked and called a few Vets. Most places are closed.
In the end, found one which is opened on Sunday, and appears to have pretty good reviews from some forums in the internet.

So we called, and went for the earliest appointment.

The Vet checked and checked and checked, and also did an X-ray for Precious. In the end, the conclusion is that there is no fracture, nothing appears to be wrong with the bones etc.
A likely cause would be the soft tissues of the nerves, which would not be captured from the X-ray films.
Possile to have some swollen tissues around the spine area that causes her to loose her motor skills on that leg.

Need to monitor her, and was advised not to let Precious did high impact activities like jumping or standing on her hind legs.
But they are dogs, how to bed-rest them right? Hmmmm. That's a hard thing to do.

She was also perscribed some steroids, but if the situation were to worsen, may need to do a quick MRI scan to see if need any surgery to be done.
What a frightening thought huh?

Precious, be good, and be strong, and then walk properly again!