24 Hours of the O.P. preparation and parvo

Well...since the last post we have had some interesting times. Anne was sick with a cold and fever at the end of last week. Her parents came to visit on Friday and left Sunday. On Saturday morning I woke up to Yampa the dog vomiting in her kennel which was a little bit of a heads up but we decided to hang out and see if anything else transpired with her throughout the morning. She would not eat or drink anything and threw up again mid-morning. We deliberated and decided that we would take her to the vet. We got her there and the did a parvo test pretty much right away and it came back positive. Our options at that point were to do nothing, sign her up for outpatient care, or have her start treatment right away which included a minimum of two night at the pet hospital and maybe up to a week. Doing nothing is basically taking care of her while she dies. The outpatient care gave her about a 20 to 30% chance of prevailing and the hospital stay gave her 50 to 60 percent chance. We checked her into the hospital at that point and hoped for the best and hoped that we would not have to make the decision to put her to sleep. Luckily on Monday after just two day in the hospital she had not thrown up at all and her symptoms had not worsened so we brought her home. We are now convinced that she was sick when we got her because her energy level and personality have improved greatly since returning from the hospital. I have been trying not to catch Anne's cold and thought I was pretty successful but yesterday instead of waking up and wanting to get a good ride in since the 24 Hours of the O.P. is only a couple week away I thought that I was dying a slow death. I will recuperate and head to the desert to have a good time at the race but my goals are postponed due to sickness and lack of winter riding here in the snow. I got word the other day that my registration for the Cascade Creampuff was accepted so I will be upping my mileage considerably come spring time and hopefully will be able to finish under the cut off of 15 hours.