Mooshu, our Chinese Crested puppy, has been fluffed and put on one of his cute outfits and is ready for treats and festivities. We have packed up our red envelopes and are ready to start our Lunar New Year celebration. The broom, knives, and scissors have been put away until after our festivities are over. (Yes, this involves lots of meal prep, but it’s worth the effort and Mooshu gets to sneak some bacon.)
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Chinatown, New York City. Silver is tired of never fitting in. After years of teaching at her adoptive uncle’s kung-fu school, the loyal seventeen-year-old is depressed to see a mediocre student promoted above her. She’s thrilled at the chance to redeem her honor by competing in a high-level tournament where the winner performs the complex dragon dance during Chinese New Year.
Training hard to win, the determined young woman forces herself to ignore the instant attraction she feels to a handsome boy at a rival school, but after she emerges victorious, Silver is horrified when her triumph is rewarded with a deadly attack by a demon in disguise.
On the run from a sinister enemy she can’t remember, with only the cute kung fu master as an ally, will this accomplished fighter discover her destiny before the flame of her passion burns everything in it’s path?
Time of the Silver Dragon is the action-packed first book in the Tales of the Zodiac Shifters YA fantasy series. If you like daring heroines, sprinkles of romance, and fresh takes on Eastern mythologies, then you’ll love Deserie Kelly and Yan Kai’s witty adventure.
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With Mooshu’s continued health issues, we weren’t sure he’d be with us for the New Year’s celebration, but we are so thrilled he is here and for the moment doing well. If you are unfamiliar with his story, we adopted him back in March and within 24 hours of rehoming him, he was in the emergency vet for bleeding. The vet assured us UTI’s are fairy common and not to worry. He was given fluids, medication, and sent home with us to recover. Within a month, he was back for stronger antibiotics and we were really concerned. He basically went out playing with his brother Butler on a walk, seemingly fine, and within minutes of returning home crashed. He was better in a about a week but we gave him the antibiotics for a full month along with steroids and pain medication. It was a lot for a small guy but he was a trooper and came through fine, or so we thought.
Six months later it happened again. This time our vet was closed so we took him somewhere else. He was a pincushion for 24 hours and bled out 1/3 of his blood. The thought was that he had a blood disorder and not a UTI. Every test that could be run was done and we took the poor half shaven, half matted mess of a puppy home to recover with no answers.
We waited for bloodwork to come back and spell his doom. Instead the bloodwork came back showing he didn’t have what they thought. He is on some Chinese herbal concoction and ok for the moment. We have elected not to subject him to another round of torture if this should occur again, as he was given no medication this third time and still recovered.
My fear is that he has a similar condition to my autoimmune disorder. My symptoms were mistaken for everything from a UTI, to depression, to fibromyalgia and you name it. I was checked for fifth’s disease for my chronic pain and everything came back seemingly normal. Outside of a positive ANA and C reactive protein, I was severely anemic, which is probably due to a combination of PCOS and macrocytic anemia from the autoimmune illness. The most effective thing the little guy Mooshu had was steroids, which I live on because of my illness, now.
Mooshu came to us, to keep Butler company when I work outside the home (I do entertaining at children’s parties- you’ll love my story time, trust me). Since the two doggies are inseparable, we plan to keep them both healthy and happy as long as we are able. I know firsthand that there is life after diagnosis, so we hope we get to the bottom of his problem soon, so he can be on the right course of treatment and live a full long life being as crazy a crested as he pleases. In the meantime, we give him love, support, and treats. All our book sales right now are helping to pay back the emergency care he received, so if you bought a book or plan to, thanks-It helps so much. If you have time to leave a review, it’ll persuade Amazon’s algorithm to keep us out of the murky basement, so we reach new readers.
If you are adopting/rehoming/rescuing an animal, just remember that you have them for their entire life, so make it happy and don’t sweat the small stuff. We all make mistakes and an oops or three doesn’t break a lifelong friendship. Shower your fur-babies with love every single day.
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