Howdy……  Today was kind of a weird day. It was a day for writing/producing outside of AWB… Andy and I had a writing session booked with a certain girl singer… I won’t name names, but she’s fairly famous:-)… anyways, she was supposed to be here at noon… 3 o’clock rolls around, no call, no nothing… so we figured it was not happening… (turns out it was a scheduling accident)… we did however end up coming up with a song we think might not suck… we’ll see…

So, we were hanging out in the studio with the door open to the backyard… our dog Clementine (the most lovable, amazing dog I’ve met), comes strutting into the room… she heads straight for my crotch and buries her head in… this is “hello” to her sometimes, but this time there was some extra force behind it (I’m okay)… I was laughing and started petting her… then kinda got her outa there… she then starting rubbing her face on the ground… and I knew something was up… I looked at her face and she looked like Clementine’s Evil Twin (see photo). She was gnarled, wrinkled and all puffy. AHHHHHH! Adrenaline RUSH. I hurried in, got Natalie and we rushed Clem to the vet (which is luckily less than a mile down the road)… the vets were immediately like “woah! okay!, lets get her back here!”… I wish I could say I was super calm and collected, but I was pretty worked up… earlier this year when Clem was at the vet for popping a few of my wife’s birth control pills (another harrowing story:-) we saw another dog that was having an allergic reaction and it was super sad… the dog was coming in and out of consciousness and seemed on the edge of death… Anyways, I friggin love this dog… and now we just have to sit and wait. Natalie was staying calm which is normally my job… but I was already imagining 50 different futures that all involved something horrible… creativity working against me:-)… 

So after about 25 minutes, we heard they had administered intravenous steroids and benadryl… another 15 minutes go by and then we get to see her and talk to the doctor… Clem looked worse than how we left her BUT the doctor said she ws looking MUCH better than she was 20 minutes before… when her eyes were swollen shut… by the time we saw her she was getting better (when this photo was taken)… her eyes was still pretty swollen and beet red… She was covered in large hives… her lips were almost an inch thick and she had a a big chunky chicken neck… she looked 80 years old!! But she was acting at about 75% Clemmers, which was good. She was getting better right before our eyes… They said it was either a spider bite or a bee sting most likely, but could be a food thing and that we should try find out which so they could decide whether to empty her stomach (fun!)… they see a handful of these every week… anyways I rushed home to check out the crime scene… I found a freshly dead bee with no stinger. That son of a…!!! We then took her to an all night vet for observation (where she is now). Doc says if we hadbn’t got her there fast she couldn’t gone in to shock, which would have been BAD, life threatening bad.  And if we hadn’t have been home she would’ve died… her throat would’ve swelled shut. 

So who knows… if our writing session would’ve happened we would’ve likely had the door shut playing music… and maybe we wouldn’t have found out about the bee sting until it was too late… yikes.

God works in mysterious ways… glad we got her to the vet in time… and apparently the devil influences the minds of bees.

Anyways back at it tomorrow…. we finished the EP so now we’re rehearsing….we’re playing at The Gypsy Lounge in Lake Forest next Thursday night. Be there! This show will be for our Clemmers (a.k.a. Clem, Clementine, Claps, Clippers, Clapenstein, Clappersteins).

- A

She looks happy, but I doubt she was... swollen Clem via bee sting!

This is as it was getting better... was twice as bad... poor girl!

 
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