Back from vacation
I had an event-filled two week vacation, most of it taken up by a trip to Wisconsin to see my mother and my brother's family.
High points of the visit with my brother include a trip to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, a visit to a local landscape store to buy rocks, and playing with their new kitten.
Then back to mom's and off the next day to Madison for her surgery. I was able to sleep in the hospital room, which was not as comfortable as a hotel, but really better all around. By taking lots of walks in the hospital hallways, we convinced the doctor to let her go home the next day. I drove her to her first follow-up appointment on Friday, and she should be able to drive herself this Friday.
I got back Monday evening, and had yesterday off to do laundry and catch up with housework. Although between getting some plants in the ground and anxiously observing poor old Mirfy, I didn't get a lot of housework done.
Mirfy seems to be deteriorating somewhat. It's just his mobility (and of course I have to assume he's in pain.) Basically he doesn't seem to want to lie down. He takes a few steps, then stops. After stopping, his hindquarters immediately start to sink slowly down. Then he takes a few more steps, then stops, and it repeats over and over again. He did this for hours yesterday, until he started eating around suppertime. Of course after a few seconds of standing still to eat, his hindquarters collapsed. By this time he may have been pretty tired, too. I put some food on the floor for him to eat, but he fell asleep pretty quick. Tonight he came in after work and did only a small amount of the walking/stopping/sinking routine before trying to eat and collapsing. But once he was down, he seemed relatively okay and ate a good amount while lying on the floor before falling asleep.
While I was gone, the hubby installed the most excellent dog ramp for him, because the study (which is where the dogs eat and sleep) has two steps going outside, and he's been having trouble with them. So that was obviously done just in time.
This might be kind of a rough summer.
High points of the visit with my brother include a trip to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, a visit to a local landscape store to buy rocks, and playing with their new kitten.
Then back to mom's and off the next day to Madison for her surgery. I was able to sleep in the hospital room, which was not as comfortable as a hotel, but really better all around. By taking lots of walks in the hospital hallways, we convinced the doctor to let her go home the next day. I drove her to her first follow-up appointment on Friday, and she should be able to drive herself this Friday.
I got back Monday evening, and had yesterday off to do laundry and catch up with housework. Although between getting some plants in the ground and anxiously observing poor old Mirfy, I didn't get a lot of housework done.
Mirfy seems to be deteriorating somewhat. It's just his mobility (and of course I have to assume he's in pain.) Basically he doesn't seem to want to lie down. He takes a few steps, then stops. After stopping, his hindquarters immediately start to sink slowly down. Then he takes a few more steps, then stops, and it repeats over and over again. He did this for hours yesterday, until he started eating around suppertime. Of course after a few seconds of standing still to eat, his hindquarters collapsed. By this time he may have been pretty tired, too. I put some food on the floor for him to eat, but he fell asleep pretty quick. Tonight he came in after work and did only a small amount of the walking/stopping/sinking routine before trying to eat and collapsing. But once he was down, he seemed relatively okay and ate a good amount while lying on the floor before falling asleep.
While I was gone, the hubby installed the most excellent dog ramp for him, because the study (which is where the dogs eat and sleep) has two steps going outside, and he's been having trouble with them. So that was obviously done just in time.
This might be kind of a rough summer.
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