Well, last Friday and Monday were not a fun days. To start off, Friday I took Blitz to the veterinarian on base to get some shots he needed in order to be able to go into a local kennel while I go to Rome for Christmas. He got two shots and one vaccination they put in his nose and things seem to be fine. While I was sitting waiting for the final paperwork to get done all of the sudden where Blitz was sitting on the floor was a pile of pee. Now he doesn't normally just pee on the floor like that, especially when just sitting somewhere, but it didn't concern me yet. After paying we walked outside and he was walking slowly and stiffly (they said he would be drowsy) and I asked him to go potty outside. He was walking more and more stiffly and then all of the sudden he threw up a lot (not normal for him). I immediately took him back inside to the vet and they took him in the back.
I waited for about 15 minutes and they came out and told me that Blitz had an allergic reaction to one of the vaccinations (there's no way to tell which one) and that they had him on oxygen and a benadryl and steroids I.V. Freak out time. So I waited and waited to see that he was o.k. About an hour later they came out and said they had taken him off the oxygen and I.V. but wanted him to stay another 20 minutes or so to make sure he would be o.k. without them. Well he was, but they gave me a whole bunch of things to look out for and gave me some Benadryl pills to give him for the next five days. From now on, we will have to pre-treat him with Benadryl before he gets any vaccination to keep this from happening again. I go back in 30 days for another vaccination and hopefully this doesn't happen again because it freaked me out. Poor baby.
I went to Bernkastle for their Christmas Market Sunday and took Blitz with me (I'll write about that next).
Monday I took my final day off to wait for Telekom to come and install the phone and Internet. They said they would come between 0800 and 1600. By 1500 they still hadn't come so I asked my landlady if she would call them (they only speak German) and they said we still have an hour, we'll be there. Fine. At 1530 we both saw a little car come up to the house but he never rang the doorbell and never came in. Two minutes later the car left. We called again. They said they had been there and the work was done. If it wasn't working it would work by 1830. So I waited till then, still nothing. My landlord came home and he tried it too and tried his own phone at the actual source where the line comes in, no signal. My landlady called again Tuesday and Wednesday and they keep saying they'll come by but they haven't. Today is Wednesday, they said they'll be there between 1200 and 1600. We'll see. I'm getting frustrated because I wasted a day off and I haven't had a decent conversation (more than 2-3 minutes) with any family since October because it's $2 a minute on the cell phone and it's extremely hard to not have Internet at my house because I do my Master's classes online. This has been the only frustrating thing so far about Germany I have encountered. Luckily I'm not the only one, all the teachers here said they had some problem or other with getting phone or Internet. Come on Germany!
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