[allisonx]

This is more of a whine than a vent, mostly because I'm not upset with anyone (except for possibly myself), I'm just upset, and that seems to be a good theme for my life lately. Things seem to be at their worst, and then something else happens.
About three weeks ago our landlord started screwing with us, telling us that the contract was going to be changed among other things in her attempts to get the house back. A week after that, she stopped coming around and nagging us about it only for the health department to tell us why she was so concerned about getting us out of the house--it was being condemned. When our landlord built her second house on her property, she did not follow code to sufficiently attach the septic. In turn, all that my two houses are on septic wise is a tank. A thousand gallon tank that our landlord is swearing up and down she told us had to be pumped every day. She is also saying that we were not supposed to have kids on the property and we were informed of that when we moved in. Neither of those makes sense, neither is in the contract. It costs $200.00 to get a septic pumped. To do that every week would be insane, let alone every day. I would never have agreed to rent a property in that situation. As for the second claim she is making, I'm pregnant, so how could I have moved in had we been informed that the property wasn't safe for children? We believe that she knew of these issues and had hoped to sell us the property under the table without having us go through an inspector, thus leaving us with the big mess. Luckily, she has stated repeatedly in the past two months that we are only renting, which means it is her mess. She sent us a letter about a week ago saying that she "put it in writing" that they were foreclosing on the property. Our neighbors that live in our other home along with DH and I have been waiting for the condemnation letter to come in the mail and then we will be able to go to HUD to speak with them about emergency housing. Neither of us were prepared to be moving so soon, and we have 5-15 days from the date of the letter.
DH and I were trying to get a loan on a house, and the lender was being very cooperative and telling us what needed sent in and what didn't. Now he is completely ignoring DH and I and putting our e-mails in his "junk" folder--I know because he forgot to change the subject line when he replied back.
We had come to terms with the house issues. We were working on figuring out what we were going to do. Apparently, a kid down the street from us brought home a sick stray and it had parvo. He never told us about it despite the fact that he was constantly walking the dog through our yard (he's a friend of our neighbor's). A week ago our neighbor's puppies started getting sick. Last Thursday, the final two passed away. That in itself was bad enough because we had been friends with the puppies. We still didn't know that it was parvo and while I could blame the kid for not telling us about the dog, I should have had our five month old puppy's shots up to date beforehand, but I never expected this to happen. We found his mom on the side of the road in the middle of winter while she was pregnant. We birthed the puppies and only 5 out of 12 lived. We kept the only male and gave the females away. On Thursday when we were taking in one of our neighbor's dogs to the vet to see if there was anything we could do to help and what was causing him to be sick, we noticed that our puppy was vomiting on the porch and acting severely lethargic. The vet took his temperature and confirmed that our neighbor's dog had parvo. Our puppy had a fever and he was given antibiotics and we were told to force feed/water him half a cup of food/water every three hours. It looked like he was going to make it through until yesterday when he stopped holding everything, including water, down. I called the vet and he said to drop it to an ounce of water every three hours and to try to get him through the night so I could bring him in in the morning. He still wasn't holding food down. He'd had blood in his stool (if you can even call it his stool.. it was mostly just blood) since we'd started forcefeeding him and making his digestive system work. It had started getting worse and with the puking and the blood we moved his bed to the bathtub. Before bed when I watered him last his muzzle was very hard to open. There was foam covering mostly all of it, and I noticed that beneath him was a large puddle of blood. Until that point, he'd been getting up and going to the bathroom. I knew that he was leaking like our neighbor's puppy had done before he died, so I made sure to tell him how much I loved him and that I was sorry for not getting him his shots when I'd had the chance to. This morning at eight when my mom and I were getting ready to take him to the vet, DH went to the bathroom to check on him and he was gone. Now we are worried about our other two dogs. One has had two sets of shots and she is almost a year old. The other has had her first set and is six months old. Neither is showing signs or symptoms and they are both eating and drinking normally with normal stools. Hopefully they will be okay. After going through this with our puppy I will never have a good reason not to get a dog his/her shots again. Spending three days and four nights with a syringe and a bowl of pedialyte praying that he could make it through only to watch him get worse and worse was Hell.
We are going to be moving within the next week and hopefully once we are out of this house everything will be better. I am still happy because our baby is doing well and is due in September, but it's taken a stressful toll on DH and I. It seems like this month/year just isn't our year, but as long as our baby is healthy in September it will be okay. And I think he will be.