Today is my human grandpa’s 89th birthday and I can’t wait to see him later this week. I’m very close to my grandparents as they remind me so much of my Mistress. I should have saved him a piece of my birthday cake. Despite what Aristotle said, I really did enjoy my birthday cake and I’m not just saying that because of my Mistress. Ask him if I wasn’t prepared to try to eat the piece out of his bowl when we finished it off on Friday and I wouldn’t normally have the courage to steal food out of anyone else’s bowl!
Today is exciting as we have a wood delivery coming and that means lots of time outside helping to stack wood. It may also mean a fair bit of swearing and one or two bruises but hopefully only on the part of our Mistress. She had the sense (so she thought at the time) of ordering a double load so that it would last her through the winter, but now that she’s faced with stacking it she’s wondering if she might have preferred to do it in two separate loads.
She broke the news to me on Friday about my medication. I can stay on the top dose on an ongoing basis. I was relieved and said ‘That’s good then.’ However then came the ‘but’, I’m going to have to have a blood test every three months to make sure it is not affecting my kidneys. I know that she has to have regular blood tests, but that’s different. For a start she’s not afraid of needles and secondly her veins are easy to find. Mine are covered by fur and that’s before you even get to the fact that I have low blood pressure so it comes out really slowly. What is a dog to do? She says I’ll get used to it, but I’m not so sure. I’ve got past feeling weak just at the sight of the needle, but I’m not sure I’m ready for this.
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Happy birthday to your grandpa. It’s a very good day to have a birthday, it’s mine too 🙂
Oh how exciting – Happy birthday, Ann. Have a lovely day. Woofs and licks from all of us.