"I don't believe in God. But I miss Him." ~Julian Barnes
Juggling life through a bi-polar lens. Sometimes up, sometimes down. Mostly trying to tread water in the middle. Creating a likeness to a normal life. Whatever "normal" is...
Spring was early this year! There is a little patch of woodland about a 10 minute drive from here. There is a part of it away from the 'official visitor paths' which we always try to visit because of the bluebells. Here is a short video I took of them. I love the birdsong on this!
The bluebells went back a long way...
-no special effects tweaking here, the sun did it for me!
I filmed Scooter in the garden last Tuesday, and I hope you have a few minutes to watch. You'll see how big he is, how glossy his coat is!!!
You'll also see the swelling I've been talking about, around his eye and nose.
The anti-biotic jab hasn't done as much for this as we'd hoped. It IS definitely doing something- Scoob sneezes and snorts, a real manly yucky snort. Bleagh. Poor Scoob. I THINK what's happening is that the anti-B is breaking up and attacking the infection. I hope so. Two other developments-
I've started to put honey into his drinking water. I think it's helping because HE HASN'T HAD A SEIZURE FOR A WHOLE WEEK! This is the longest since July, I think. The honey water means that his blood sugar stays up just that little bit in between munchies. If it drops too low, he looses the impulse to eat. Then it's downhill all the way to a hypo, unless I force honey or something into him, which he hates me doing. But he does drink, even if he won't eat. So I suddenly thought, ok, put the honey in his water! I was suprised he drank it, to be honest. But he doesn't mind it at all. I told the vet and he said it was ok, as it isn't like we have to worry about any teeth! (He has a couple of fangs, though, I'm sure Scoot would like me to point out.)
I discovered from the vet that what I had been told was the maximum dose for his painkiller isn't that at all- it's only half what he can have! It felt like a punch to my stomach, I was so shocked, as it means I could have given him more relief when his hip has given him trouble. AAARGHH. Never mind. The only good way to look at it is to say, well, we thought there was no more we could do, but now we know there is. We can up his painkiller. And as it's an anti-inflammatory, it should help that swelling round his eye, too.
So....... there have been tears this week, again, but also smiles as we have had more hot weather, and so we've been able to see Scooter enjoying sunbathing again, and snoozing on his cushions on or under his bench. The higher dose of painkiller is making a difference, I think. Now to the video.......
THANK YOU all again for your loving comments and messages. I am very touched that you have taken Scooter to your hearts :)
Here's a short song by Radical Face. Lovely lyrics (see below....)
"A Little Hell"
I was ten years old,
Bloody nosed in my face,
And I watched you watching
In the darkest of the day.
You said that I’d be fine,
But first I wore you with hurts.
It takes a little hell
To know what heaven is worth,
That some other time
You gotta lose what’s right
For you to know
What's really worth the fight.
My latest hog-sitting..... he was tiny and weighed barely 250g. (about half a pound-??)
He wouldn't settle in his box, which was stressing ME out- thinking about how stressed HE must be, in a box!!
So my partner rang the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and asked for advice (yes, they do exist LOL). They said to him, "You might not like this, or fancy doing this, but they DO seem to like a cuddle in a warm towel or something." MIGHT NOT WANT TO????? He must be MAD! I couldn't get him out of the box to cuddle quickly enough! LOL!
And so, this was me and hog, for most of the evening....
Awww..... I was up all night. I did put him back in his box for a bit, with some food, water and a hot-water bottle, but after a few hours he wanted more cuddles.
A woman from the RSPCA came to collect him at 10 the next morning, after which I fell asleep in the bath :)
Contact with animals is very therapeutic. An instant lift :)
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Sorry I haven't answered your comments- it has been so busy round here lately, and I haven't had time to get onto Blogger! (I have read them, though, as they come through to my email automatically- so thanks, everyone!) I hope to be back to "normal" routine this week, and visiting you all!
Ahhh........ yummy OATY biscuit, so much finer than your little wheaty cousins... Let us look into your family tree.....
First there was the ORIGINAL HOBNOB: Then came the MILK CHOCOLATE HOBNOB ahhhh... the perfect dunker..... : Then came the only possible improvement- the DARK CHOCOLATE HOBNOB! Alas! No more! They stopped making them last year.... how COULD they???HAIKUfor the departed Dark Chocolate HOBNOB:
Poor little dark one,
not too sweet, always just right,
oh, how we miss you.
Next came HOBNOBS IN A TUBE... perfect for the drawer at work.....
(well, NEARLY perfect- perfection would have included a padlock device)
And then... Oh Heavens! can it be?
The HOBNOB CREAMS:
But lo! Here come the imitators......
HA!
Well it's nice to see the 'own brands' trying an oaty bic at last, but frankly, they don't come close.
Did you know that wherever there are biscuits there will be found Bears?
So which Biscuit is best?
Let's let the Bears decide.... !!!
Click on the video link to see!
If you can't see the video here, try HERE instead!
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