A painful day!

The results from Belle's bloodwork came back. Everything looked normal and her thyroid levels were great. So, she really is just a calm husky (can you say oxymoron?). However, she had a very elevated white blood cell count and showed a bacterial infection in her bladder. Apart from a frantic poddy situation earlier this week, she showed no signs of a bladder infection prior to the vet visit. So thank God that we had the visit when we did or it could've spread to her kidney and caused kidney failure.
The painful day continued as Dave took off to go get Belle's medicine after his afternoon bike ride. We haven't had a lot of rain lately and the roads have been covered in lots of sand. Dave took a corner through sand and his bike came out from under him and he took a nasty crash. His body is pretty scratched up (with one pretty seriously deep gouge on his knee) and he said his shoulder popped out (it's back in now). He landed pretty hard on his head-- so again, thank God he was wearing his helmet.
Both Belle and Dave are doing okay, but we are all saying we want a do-over on today! Hopefully the fresh-baked cookies and bell-e rubs will help mend the remainder of the day.