Surprise! (Again)

We we supposed to leave NJ today, and take a train to Philly. At about 11 am Baba Hania called, and gave us heads up that Lola, their new rescue English bulldog got terribly sick, "from both ends". She called back, a little while later, to let me know that Lola just had a puppy...

So I called my sister, a vet, my beautiful sister who just two days before herself gave birth 5 weeks early, my mellow-mannered lady sister, who picked up the phone and said "Lola, ey? what the f**k!!!"

We stayed an extra day in NJ, as baba Hania and dziadek Andrzej ended up driving Lola, in the pouring rain, while she was giving birth, to my sister's vet clinic. The situation was a bit confusing, because Lola recently had a surgery to remove a baby bottle nipple from her intestines (thanks to the negligence of the previous owners, who neglected to address the situation for two weeks while the dog was getting sicker and sicker), and at that point showed no signs of pregnancy. The vet opted to not sterilize her as she was really sick, and the original surgery was complicated and intense enough. She must have been only a few days pregnant, so nobody suspected a thing.

She ended up having 6 puppies, but 2 didn't make it.

We ended up spending another lovely day with our NJ family.

I may be done with surprises for a while.