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| fatbird | Mar 1 2011, 09:45 AM Post #51 |
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Glad your first day back at work went ok Nat, fingers crossed for you winning the rollover tomorrow! It's sunny here - well, sort of anyway, very watery & weak but it's there at least. |
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| Jennyanydots | Mar 1 2011, 05:33 PM Post #52 |
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Me too MR. I just can't get rid of this wretched cold, it's gone bronchial now and I feel cold all the time. Haven't been out of the house since Friday as I kept sneezing every time I did venture outside. It's a horrid bug.
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| Lorraine | Mar 1 2011, 06:25 PM Post #53 |
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Today has been utterly shit. We got up this morning and Biff (the labby) couldn't get up off his bed. We thought initially that he was playing around because in the mornings he likes to sleep in and pretends it's such an effort getting up. Charlie tried to coax him out then I realised that his back legs were a problem. Charlie lifted him up off his bed and his was shaky on his back legs he was standing but his feet were so close together, we got him to walk through into the kitchen which he did and slowly and he stood in the kitchen and just wee'd. I ran and got their towels and put those under him to soak it up, and we waited until he felt he could move. Charlie walked up the garden with him, he managed to go for a poo but then he lay down on the ground and he seemed that he couldn't get up. Charlie picked him up and carried him back into the house. I rang the vets and they told us to get him up there ASAP. I felt that maybe he had had a stroke. The vet came out to us in the car and luckily the Land Rover has the drop down section which she used as a type of treatment couch. To cut a long story short he had two injections one for anti inflammatory the other for anti sickness. We have had him home since mid morning and the heating has been on all day so that he has remained warm throughout. We kept the house quiet but he did want to eat his Milky Biscuits and he was alert to our digestives Around 4.00pm we got him up using a towel underneath him and Charlie and I walked him up the garden the more we walked around with him the less stiff he got and we brought him back in. He is getting up and down now without us helping him and he is allot brighter too. He is lying in the lounge at the moment with Charlie. We did think that this could be it this morning as you know Biff is nearly 14 years old and we were realisitic with the vet that if this did not work we would look at his quality of life and putting him to sleep - hopefully I am optimistic that there will now be no need for this. We need to speak with the vet tomorrow as he may have to go on permanent anti inflammatories, but we shall see. We don't now what caused it, whether he has pulled a muscle and this has triggered it off we just don't know. I have cried allot on and off today because it was only at 4.00pm that he started to make progress - prior to that it was terrible. I will let you know what happens tomorrow.Added to this those barstools are going to start building on the land next door very soon, they have been pegging out the footings and trying to sort out sewerage - mind you I put a spanner in the works this morning I told them that our sewerage pipe is privately owned and that we would not give permission for them to connect. The other three homes have their sewers going through their back garden and again we would not give anyone permission to come through our back garden to connect up. I am trying to make life as difficult and costly for those bunch of fraudsters as I possibly can - I hope that they won;t be able to sell those homes for what they want either!
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| madrat | Mar 1 2011, 10:41 PM Post #54 |
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poor biff |
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| Natnee | Mar 2 2011, 06:48 AM Post #55 |
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Ah thanks Lorraine! Well it wasn't as bad as I thought. I had a couple of tears as we dropped her off but then I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be. Belle has settled into nursery really well, she seems to love it. She's going down for naps and eating everything they give her! When I've got home with her she's really hyper! Yesterday morning as this morning right now, she's still asleep. Where as she's normally awake by about 6:30, yesterday I had to go and wake her up to get her up. Now she's still fast asleep, so nursery must be wearing her out! Work wasn't too bad but I've not really started properly yet. I spent the whole of Monday going through emails. There was 1795 to go through. Most just deleted. Then yesterday I sat with another girl and listened in to calls with her. I did go on and took my first call at the end of the day, to get it out the way. So thursday will be a little bit more like a normal day, back on the phones. |
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| Natnee | Mar 2 2011, 06:50 AM Post #56 |
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Oh I've just read about Biff. I hope he's better today. And I hope you are ok Lorraine. |
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| lisa0307 | Mar 2 2011, 10:33 AM Post #57 |
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How's Biff Lorraine?
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| Lorraine | Mar 2 2011, 01:29 PM Post #58 |
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Thanks Lisa, Mad Rat and Nat, Biff is allot better today loads in fact. We took him up the garden last night at 9.30pm so that he could go for a wee and he was okay. I had a restless night but this morning he is so much brighter. I have just got off the phone with the vet. She said that the Metacam injection has done the trick in reducing the inflamation, but he will now be on these for the rest of his life. He does have spondylosis of the back lower part of spine and they think that this has been slowly cranking up to the point of what happened yesterday. I know it sounds daft but I prayed to Saint Francis of Assissi who is the Patron Saint of Animals and asked for his help for Biff. Either he gave him a boost or it's my daft thinking. Either way he is a huge amount better today. We now have to put Biff onto a senior plan food so that he is not carrying too much weight and we will get that sorted out quickly. I am just sooo relieved that what could have been decision day today to say goodbye - if the injections didn't work - have turned a corner on him
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| madrat | Mar 2 2011, 09:18 PM Post #59 |
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spondylosis This is haunting me just lately, My sisters dog was diagnoses with this and with in a week had to be put to sleep she had a liver problem as well. An old boy I work with has just been diagnosed with it. And a friends cat also has it. spooky
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| fatbird | Mar 3 2011, 11:19 AM Post #60 |
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Lorraine, hope Biff is ok today, how often will he have to have the anti-inflammatory injections? Bringing back memories of Mick & Joe rading that, but that's the sad thing about having pets. |
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Around 4.00pm we got him up using a towel underneath him and Charlie and I walked him up the garden the more we walked around with him the less stiff he got and we brought him back in. He is getting up and down now without us helping him and he is allot brighter too. He is lying in the lounge at the moment with Charlie. We did think that this could be it this morning as you know Biff is nearly 14 years old and we were realisitic with the vet that if this did not work we would look at his quality of life and putting him to sleep - hopefully I am optimistic that there will now be no need for this. We need to speak with the vet tomorrow as he may have to go on permanent anti inflammatories, but we shall see. We don't now what caused it, whether he has pulled a muscle and this has triggered it off we just don't know. I have cried allot on and off today because it was only at 4.00pm that he started to make progress - prior to that it was terrible. I will let you know what happens tomorrow.
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