Yearly Archives: 2020

Chinfest 1

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On Saturday we had Chinfest with Japanese Chin from the Carolinas. There were seven Chin in attendance, and it was so much fun! At first it was really hard to tell all the dogs apart since they all looked so similar! But it got easier with time. It was especially […]

A Riverwalk to Indian food with Christi 3

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Yesterday on their way back to Ohio from Florida, Christi, her service dog in training Gabby, and her husband Jim stopped by! We met up at Riverwalk, which has a beautiful trail next to the river. It was awesome to see Christi again and meet Gabby. We went on a […]

Doggy Day 1

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Today I’ve been focusing on the dogs. I had a nice time relaxing on the couch this morning with Hestia and got a picture of her asleep taking up a full third of the couch! Remember she is only 8 lbs! Later on I gave Ollie a bath with my […]

Helpful Hestia 2

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I’ve been feeling really overwhelmed tonight and kinda wanting to not be doing what I’m doing anymore.  Hestia’s been great.  I have to talk, and then when she hears the tone of my voice when I’m like this she comes running and jumps on my chest. She then lies there […]

A Lidl training, a lot of fun 2

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Yesterday we had my Service Dogs on the Town class! We went to Lidl, which is a grocery store, and then to Starbucks. Brad and I needed to get some grocery shopping done before class, so we SPED around the store grabbing stuff left and right and throwing it in […]

Bee-utiful Brad and smelly root canal

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Today I got my root canal! Brad drove me there. On the way there, we noticed that Hestia had really really bad gas. We had thought it was Ollie who had gas at home, since his tummy has been upset. But it turns out it was Miss Hestia! When we […]

Endodontist

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Today Hestia and I visited the endodontist to get an opinion on my painful tooth. I was pretty nervous going in because Brad couldn’t go with me and I had never seen this person before. Luckily the whole office was GREAT about service dogs! They didn’t even mention that I […]

Thank goodness for curbside voting

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Today we voted in the primaries here in South Carolina, and I had to use the curbside voting because I fainted. We picked up Scarlet first and brought them to their voting place. I was able to go in there, but wasn’t feeling super hot. Then after we dropped them […]

If it isn’t one thing…

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Lately my teeth have been hurting more and more, and I’ve been having intense gnawing stomach pain in the night. Last night I woke up at 1:30 AM with tooth pain and stomach pain. For three weeks I’ve been taking lots of naproxen and in addition to brushing twice a […]

Not fearing strangers

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I wanted to make a post about how I worked with Hestia to not be afraid of strangers. Japanese Chin tend to be a bit stand-offish to strangers, and Hestia was no exception when I got her. When people would reach out to her, she would move out of their way […]