Good morning,
Laurie, Kick Max has become one of my favorite workouts. I didn't like it much at first, but the more I do it, the more I like it! And I'm with you... I'm not much of a hi/lo fan either. That's always the part of MIC that I really dread!
This morning I did KPC and Legs and Glutes. I had planned to do a premix of the two last night, but I had a mini-dog emergency. I took my two dogs out when I got home (our yard isn't fenced so we walk them on leashes). We went in the back yard and they were doing their business, and Bailey, my lab, was sniffing around our neighbor's fence and brushed up against a bush with some burrs on it. I stopped her before she got too many burrs on her, pulled them out of her hair, then we went inside. I was looking through my mail and thought she was just still chewing on her milkbone. But no. There had been a burr on her chest that I didn't see or feel, and she somehow contorted herself to pull part of it off with her mouth and was chewing on it. ! I got most of it out of her mouth, but she swallowed some of it and was hacking, coughing and getting sick. It was scary. She was breathing okay but was pacing around, coughing, licking her chops and the floor (for whatever reason)... she was panicky, understandably. She didn't know what was caught in her throat or why she couldn't get it out. I called our vet, who was closing, then called the emergency vet. They said that since she was breathing okay and was trying to get it out, to let her keep coughing, but if it continued to bring her in. Luckily, after about an hour she calmed down and stopped coughing. It was awful. I didn't know how to help her so I just kept trying to comfort her, but she didn't want that. I got her to drink some water, then we went outside just in the front yard and she ate some grass, which seemed to calm her down too. Sheesh!! Thankfully, she's fine now, like nothing happened. Of course, I went and pulled the bush out of the ground and threw it out... I don't want anything like that to happen again. That's a lab for you... they will eat ANYTHING.
Anyway, take care everybody.
Ellen