It's a dirty job...

Well, I have to take [Amazing] Grace to the vet for a booster shot and a heartworm test. It is a routine visit, thankfully, but there is nothing routine about the size of her eyes when she is there. She trembles, and looks very scared. It is heartbreaking.
She's like a kid, but she can't talk.
Details later.

We're back now. Gracie did very well even though the vet waiting room was full of scary sounds. There was a crated cat obviously expressing its discontent and emitting 'altered states'

opinions. While we were in a room, we heard [through the door] a very angry dog that sounded like a fight waiting to happen.

Grace never made a peep. She did 'a whole lot of shaking' from the moment we entered the building. She's up to date on her shots. And very happy to be back on the lap of her favorite face to lick! That would be G'ma Flo.