The trip is not getting any shorter . . .

No matter how many times I do it, the drive from Philadelphia to Ocala does not ever seem to get any shorter!  Brian is driving now and I am on the computer.  We are about three hours from where we will stop for the night in South Carolina.  We stop at a small horse and people bed and breakfast.  The horses have a stall and a paddock for the night and Mo, the proprietor, feeds us like there is no tomorrow.  Of the food that we can't finish, we give some to Jada and Mo's pugs, of which there are generally a varying number, and the rest we are "required" to take with us.  The punishment for leaving food behind, according to Mo, is that we will never be invited back.  We then get to sleep in a bedroom with a hand made afgan on the bed and an electric blanket to stay extra warm.  Mo puts the word eccentric horse person.  Her farm is always a most welcome stop on the eighteen hour trip to Florida.

On Monday we had a check up with Dr. Blauner for Doc.  We decided that he had developed an infection in his knee joint and Dr. Blauner sent us straight away to Mid Atlantic in Ringoes, NJ.  He is there now and has had one procedure done on his knee to scrape the infection out from between the joints.  His treating veterinarian there, Dr. Poulin, told me today that he will be there for at least a week longer and may need another procedure.  I am crossing my fingers that he won't.  Once the infection is brought under control Doc should be back to 100% pretty quickly, but in the mean time the situation could be slightly risky.  For one thing, every time they have to go into his knee joint they put him under general anesthesia.  This is dangerous in and of itself.  All in all, Doc will probably be perfectly fine in about two weeks, but if you are reading this, think good thoughts for him!  

Ashley