Sad news, good news, and a thought

Here is a continuation of Belle’s incidents…

After she had the bad poops that nearly made me throw up she had some incidents but they were outside (thank goodness!) so we decided to call the vet. Aaron and I took her in that Saturday and waited FOREVER for the vet guy but he did eventually get to see her. He wasn’t really sure why she was having so much trouble with her little GI tract but we got three different kinds of meds for her (she also had some congestion) and she was fine in the next few days. The vet wanted her back last Thursday for some x-rays because he wanted to look at her heart. I dropped her off that morning and talked to the vet when I got off work. He told me that Belle has an enlarged heart, how sad! Since we caught it now, we can give some heart medicine everyday basically for the rest of her life and that should slow it down. He also said we could take her to see a cardiologist in Dallas to get further testing done. Aaron and I love Belle to death and we’re so sad about her heart issue but there’s a line to how much money we can spend on her. The medicine is definitely affordable and we’re going to give her that but a cardiologist, are you kidding me??? There’s no telling how much that would be. Anyways, at least Belle is back to her normal spastic loving puppy self.

The good news is that I got a new job, yay!!!! I’ll be working for the City of Abilene in their environmental labs testing water and stuff like that. I start the 25th and am definitely counting down the days. The mail room hasn’t been a bad place to work at all, in fact, it helped Aaron and I to be financially stable in our first months of being married. I’m just really happy to start working in my field, maybe not necessarily doing something that I want to do for a career but gaining very valuable experience for the future, which leads me to my thought…

Is it totally irrational and crazy to be actually considering just up and moving to a new city (possible Seattle) because Aaron and I don’t want to get stuck living in Abilene. Abilene is cool and all but we want to be able to live in a bigger city that can offer more job opportunities and to experience life outside of Texas together. I think we’re in a perfect time of life to move right now but I don’t want to make a dumb decision and get us in financial trouble just because we want to move. That’s really my only concern. We’ll see where God leads us.