Another long night with Alice started when we came home and she was breathing hard, like it took her whole body to get a breath. We waited with her to see if it would improve and eventually wound up at the emergency vet, where x-rays confirmed that she has aspiration pneumonia for the second time in a year. They wanted to keep her overnight but with a cost estimate of $344-$750, we figured that we could slap her on her back to get the fluid up ourselves. It was a new vet for us, closer to our new house and Alice was NOT comfortable there. We figured if we could get her through the night with minimal discomfort, she'd be better off at our regular vet's in the morning.

The vet is worried, like, why has this happened more than once, it's not supposed to be a recurring thing, so we're going to look into that and in the meantime, our backyard project of ripping up the weeds posing as grass in our backyard and replacing it with sod that we can keep short enough that she'll be less interested in eating it will be bumped up to this weekend. Though my mom pointed out that 'having someone come in and do that is expensive.' Yes, Mom, that's why we're that somoene.

She was feeling much better by this morning and hopefully the Baytril will work it's magic for her once again. She's spending today in the wing she paid for at our regular vet's office.