Day 65 - Couldn’t sleep again, it’s getting quite bad, isn’t it? Combination of thoughts and Dave doing his impression of a train. Just because one shoulder is not on the mattress does not mean you are on your side. We are all clear about that, aren’t we? Good to know.
I spent the early hours of the morning bashing away at the laptop. No, don’t worry, didn’t wake Dave up. He slept through that earthquake - you remember when it hit Sheffield in 2008? No Dave doesn’t either. I thought the house was subsiding into the mines underneath, although to be fair our house wasn’t built anywhere near any excavated earth – it could have been, I didn’t know that at the time.
So, bashing away I was and Willow got up again, screamed, neck tear scream, stood on Eva and they nearly got into it, I nearly throw the laptop across the boat and put an end to any fighting. Willow stood there with her trembling head down. She’s pulled whatever she’d pulled before.
That’s what I assumed and then you google it, don’t you? Advice – don’t google ever. You start seeing things, you start reading into things. She’s got Bloat, she’s got Wobbles (coordination thing), she’s got this that and the other. Their dog died from this and his dog had that. Got myself into a tangle, let me tell you. Anyways everything simmered down and I went back to bed, about the time Dave got up to go to work. Nope we didn’t disturb him he was ‘fast on’
I’d only just closed my eyes again and then I was awake again. I took the girls out, briefly round the tree and back. Really wanted to limit movement in Willow. Phoned the vets couldn’t get an appointment; see you next Tuesday. Not that much I can do I’m pretty sure it’s a pulled muscle, trapped nerve or something of that description. She wants to be just like me. But the screaming, when she’s repositioning or stood or sleeping, I feel completely useless.
Dave comes homes and things just escalated. The girls get all excited and that involves movement and movement involves screaming crying and pain, not from Eva. Although Eva is always in pain and heavily medicated due to her arthritis. Being an Akita, Eva is a quiet dog, no fuss, and very independent. Willow is like me, a drama queen, but a queen that is in pain. In the space of those 20 to 30 minutes, we had an emergency vet’s appointment.
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