23/12/2024
Just a wee check in from me & update & to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas 🎄❤️💚
I was really hoping to be back on deck by now or at least by the new year doing a few days a week but things really aren’t flash with our wee man Bodhi. He has got very severe reflux alongside other issues, which our oldest Lachie had too, except Bodhi is even worse which I didn’t think was possible!
We had a trip to Dunedin last week where he got a test done called a barium swallow which came back with severe gastro oesophageal reflux, a hiatus hernia (which means his stomach is moving up & down into his diaphragm) as well as significant delayed gastric emptying. These results even surprised his paediatrian at how severe they were. 😭
To sum up life for us at the moment, consists of an uncomfortable screaming baby the majority of the time, he can’t feed properly without choking and spluttering with a lot of his feeds, he can’t sleep because the reflux just constantly wakes him up, he chokes and stops breathing and it is all just honestly heartbreaking.
The only thing we can do for him is surgery but due to the time of year we have to wait until the end of January. With the degree of severity there may be still problems we have to deal with after surgery but it will significantly change his life and improve things. 🤞🏼
I’m very much a do it myself kind of girl and not much stops me, I usually work through everything, with Covid, a broken finger, vomiting bug, chest infection, pre eclampsia, the whole shibang, if I’ve had it I can guarantee I worked through it. But this is just something I can not work through, because it’s not myself it’s my wee boy I need to put him first & there’s absolutely no way he would cope out there while I was grooming, he requires all of my attention constantly and it just would not be do able at the moment. 😞
While I will do absolutely anything for my children, it doesn’t mean I don’t want to be grooming, I miss it so much. If anything, this has all taught me that I’m definitely in the right profession! I groomed my own dogs the other day and for the first time in a very long time I felt like myself again, in my happy place. 🫶🏽 I miss you guys and your furry friends like you wouldn’t believe. 💔
I will be back! Hopefully once Bodhi has had surgery things should be finally starting to get a little bit more normal and manageable and I can start doing even just a few dogs a week. 🤞🏼
I just want to say a huge thank you to all of you, my clients ~ a lot of you who have become good friends & big parts of my life 🩷😭 you have all been so understanding, kind & caring and I am just so grateful for each and every one of you.
This is not how I had planned for things to go, but it seems things never go to plan for me so we just have to roll with it! A massive shout out too, to the other groomers here Kellie & Megan who have taken on you guys to make sure your doggos still get groomed, especially at this time of year, I’m so grateful & I know they have been in good hands which makes me feel better.
I’m going to sign off now until my next update for you all probably in January,
I hope you all have the most wonderful Christmas, New Year & holidays with your family and loved ones. ❤️☀️🎄
Thank you so much for all the support this year, you guys have really gone above & beyond for me and I am so thankful for my Ruff Around The Edges family. I truly can not wait to be back on deck grooming doing what I love, but first I need to get my wee boy healthy. If you stick with me after all of this, honestly thank you 🙏🏼 This is so much more than a job to me, it is what I love.
Here’s to 2025, this year has been a bloody rollercoaster! 🎢 Give your doggos a big cuddle from me, and look after yourselves over the break. 🩷
Thank you for each & every one of you,
Love always,
Kayla & my wee
family xx 🫶🏽
