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Toby’s Diarrhea Episode

Photo Credit: United Vet

After staying with Grandma for almost a month, we finally brought Toby home. Everything went well until we woke up to a diarrhea mess on Sunday morning. It all started when Dear jumped up from sleep and heard Toby vomiting. We cleaned up the mess and Dear said to bring Toby to the vet. Sadly, our usual vet doesn’t work on a Sunday though the clinic was opened and she’s on leave. We had to look for alternative vet.

The Animal Doctor was busy and couldn’t see our son, so we had to look for the next available nearest vet. We ended up with United Vet and are really thankful they are able to slot us in on their earliest available slot. Thankful it’s near home as well, it’s about a 10-minute drive away including finding a parking lot at the nearest car park. Usually we would monitor when the kids had diarrhea, however, due to Toby’s age, we decided to seek treatment since he had been having the runs multiple times while we were asleep.

We packed the soiled pee pad thinking they might need some stool samples since we heard of many pawrents mentioning it’s best to bring. However, I was wrong. To have a fecal smear, I was told by Dr Phoebe Ong that it’s better when it’s fresh. I’ve no idea how they’ll be getting a fresh one, but Toby did a fecal smear and thankfully nothing major.

During consultation, Dr. Ong mentioned several tests she thinks we should let Toby do. I am overwhelmed again by the various tests, and I decided to give Dear a call. Even got Dr. Ong to explain everything again and thankful Dear remained calm and we proceeded with the blood test to check on his pancreas. Thank you Dr Ong for being patient and understanding while I’m basically useless at the clinic. Dear was down with covid and only I could leave home since I tested negative.

Toby’s pancreas test results came back not looking good. Suspected pancreas issue, the reading was a little higher than the normal range. Went home with some medication for his diarrhea and a supplement for his pancreas issue. Not to forget, 7 large cans of Science Diet Presciption Diet, which Toby eventually didn’t enjoy from the second day onwards.

We were quite happy that he recovered well around the third day after seeing the vet. We’ve stopped the diarrhea medication as advised by the vet. We continued with the antibiotics and pancreas supplement. Happy to announce that he’s back to normal with lots of energy to chase his cat brothers.

Discovered Tiktok

Hesitation

I knew about TikTok a few months ago when it started to boom all over the internet. I wasn’t sure if I should jump onto the bandwagon as well. Mainly for work because I do not want to be left behind in regards to technology. It’s a fast-paced world right now, and being left behind can be scary while your competitors are far ahead of you. And at a time like this, we need to keep up and change in order to survive during the pandemic.

I was curious and went to Google it for more information. It’s a social media solely for videos in case some of my readers have no idea what it does. However, according to my findings, TikTok’s users are the majority of youngsters. So if you’re intending to use it for business and your target audiences are the younger generations, this is where you should be lurking at.

What i Discovered

Finally downloaded the app after much hesitation. Created an account for both ourfamilee and my work. Wanted to have at least a personal account to scroll through pet videos or random stuff.

Before I follow any tiktokers, my feed was flooded with videos. There are some cute challenges that aren’t harmful. But the majority, in my opinion, are trying to hard to get attention. However, there are some videos providing information and knowledge.

For example, I’m following a veterinarian who is on Tiktok. He’s using this platform to educate pet owners about pet’s health. There’s also a couple who are traveling on a van and making it their home. It’s like documenting short videos of their adventures which are interesting to me.

Short Video

Tiktok is a place where you post short videos up to a minute long. It’s a place to showcase your talent in terms of content and creativity in that short time frame. Quite challenging actually.

Have been trying it out and I must say it’s not easy putting every information into a minute-long video. So far our Tiktok videos that received the most views are food-related. I thought it would be our fur kids, but I was wrong.

Nevertheless, it’s fun to try this out. And it’s a major milestone for me making this scary step. I’ve no idea how Tiktok will help in my business but there’s no harm to actually try it.

Hopefully, I’ll improve as time goes by. And yes, this is how I get through the second month of the circuit breaker.