RING AROUND

 

My single job today is to ring around moving companies to get quotes for our move. 

It is one job we can't afford to leave off doing for much longer.  I don't want to end up with no one booked in time!

It's a BIG  DUCK  🦆  that needs to get in line.  😊

I hope to get that nailed down in the next few days.

Coco is starting to scare me! Twice last night she had nasty 'turns', where she stopped in her tracks, went like a stiff statue and wouldn't/couldn't move.  Then she huffed and puffed and struggled to breathe.

She's done this before on many, many occasions, but last night for some reason, she scared me.  It lasted much longer than 'normal' for her.

And she's moving much slower lately, like she's just suddenly aged overnight into a really old dog.  

I will take her to the Vet if she gets worse.  

She's OLD.  She's slowing down.  We will just have to love her for as long as we have her now, because I really don't think she's going to be here for the next 2-3 years as I was expecting.

I'm not sure what else I will get up to today, perhaps I'll make another round runner using some of the fabrics I got on our trip.

10.25 am, and it's been a morning.  I got up and let Coco in at 7.30 this morning, and she immediately started with the shivering, shaking, gasping for air, honking like a goose shit.  And it went on for two hours.  So, she's going to the Vet at midday.

I know they can give her medication to help dilate her airways, maybe that will help in the short term.

I will wait and see what they suggest I suppose.

I have also managed to book a moving company in for the end of May.  It was a bit difficult getting a company to do Saturday morning delivery.  And I'm paying a bit more for that, but hey, we do not want to try and do it all on the Friday.

We've been in the situation of having to wait hours on the side of the road, waiting to get the keys to the house before. 

It's just easier to get our stuff taken out on Friday, held overnight, and delivered in the morning to the new house.

Coco has settled down now, so I'm doing some sewing.  She wouldn't leave my side while she wasn't feeling well, poor girl.

It is now 1.46 pm.  We have been to the Vet.

We have had our throat examined, our ears examined, our heart, lungs and all that in between examined.

And now we have some pills to take for the next month to see if any of it helps.

Long story short, she has a collapsing trachea, and there isn't much they can do about it, as I thought.

I was offered a referral to a specialist (NO THANKS), or x-rays and ultrasounds (NO THANKS), or just pills.

Because of her age, seeing a specialist and other tests will not give us any more answers, we know the cause of her distress.  She is too old for any sort of surgery, which doesn't really help in the long run anyway.

ABOVE: She did not like them much, and rewarded them by pee'ing on their floor.  Good one Coco.

ABOVE:  We have Antibiotics, Bronchial Dilator medication and Steroids.  I now need to get a calendar and put down how much, and when each day!  The steroids are started with two a day, then one a day and finally half a day over a month.  The others are just over two weeks.

Still a lot to remember, so yeah... I will have to write it all down on the calendar.

Got 'the urge' for the bathroom on me way home.  Second time in recent history, I made it home, only to 'LOSE IT BIG TIME' before I got to the bathroom.

NICE/NOT.   

Second shower of the day done... and I'm now feeling like ... that was sorta funny.

Thank god I made it home at least.

Coco is now curled up in a ball in the sunshine, happy as Larry.  I hope she stays that way for the rest of the day.  She had me really worried last night and this morning.

LAURIE:  Yep, the vet said Coco would probably be extra hungry and thirsty.  She also said Coco will probably be on steroids for the rest of her life, as her condition will not change.  It is what it is.

OH I just remembered!  The Vet said Coco is probably having seizures as well as having the collapsing trachea.  That explains the episodes where she goes all stiff and extends her neck, shakes and shivers and just breathes weirdly. Poor girl is having a right time of it.  As we all said today, she is simply getting old.  😒😟😢

6.38 pm.  Coco hasn't been able to move much today without having a 'silent seizure' or a coughing fit.  She's really not well at the moment and I feel so sorry for her.

We have a function to attend this evening, so I better get a move on. 

Catch ya tomorrow.