Double Dose

It’s been a traumatic week! Rosie had a dentist appointment on Tuesday to remove a wisdom tooth that had come through and was interfering with her bite. As a surprise, the dentist also took out another wisdom tooth that hadn’t come through yet in case it caused problems in the future. She is feeling much less wise now and also a little bit puffy like a chipmunk.

In a fit of excitement/recklessness, we managed to book an appointment for our COVID-19 vaccinations for the following evening! Rosie hadn’t realised that she would be on prescription medication… The dentist suggested forgoing the steroids (to control the pain and swelling) as they also suppress the immune system, potentially making the vaccine less effective. The staff at the vaccine clinic also told her off for booking the appointment so soon after the procedure, as it would be difficult to tell if a fever was due to the vaccine side-effects or due to an infection in her face. She is still taking the prescribed antibiotics though and no fever so far!

We were told by Rosie’s parents that the vaccine would give us superpowers. So far, Rosie’s superpower appears to be nausea and Ollie keeps hearing the Windows 10 start up sound when he yawns.

Before all the trauma, we did go out for a walk last weekend. The snow is still here, it is slowly melting and revealing a winter’s worth of dog poop.

Rosie is not allowed any alcohol, food with seeds/bits, spicy food or fun. So she will mostly be sulking this weekend. Ollie will probably be laughing at her chubby cheeks.