{"id":16896,"date":"2019-12-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2019-12-24T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:00:00","slug":"a-big-day-tuesday-24th-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/24\/a-big-day-tuesday-24th-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Day – Tuesday 24th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Big Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today is going to be a very big day for me. In the last four years I have travelled no further than the swimming pool and a shopping centre about the same distance in a different direction. That\u2019s about fifteen miles from home. The last big journey I did was when I went to Switzerland to help bring Wilma home. Sadly because of my dementia I got so stressed about some of that process that our Mistress said my travelling days were over. Today I am going over a hundred miles from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alfie<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Family<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not well enough to go into kennels so that our Master and\nMistress can carry on with their family plans as originally agreed. Basically,\nI need my Mistress close at paw twenty four hours a day, quite literally. My\ncancer needs have overtaken my dementia moments by some measure. My pain is\nmostly under control, but I\u2019m drinking a lot and needing to pee a lot. Anyway,\nI do feel safe in the car so I\u2019ve been going out with our Master and Mistress\nif they leave the house. But today is a much bigger deal. Our journey will be\njust over two hours each way. I will need to get out at a service station to\nhave a drink and a pee stop. I think I\u2019ll be fine at my grandparents as I used\nto like going there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meal times<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re trying to fit everything around my meal and tablet\ntimes. I\u2019ll have breakfast before we go and we\u2019ll be back in time for my dinner.\nThat will minimise me getting worked up. I just need to get round having my\nlunch while I\u2019m at their house, but I think I can do that. I\u2019m going to try\nreally hard as it\u2019s a small price to pay for the fact that our Mistress is then\ngoing to stay at home with me for Christmas Day and Boxing Day while our Master\ngoes to his family without her. I know she\u2019s disappointed not to be going but I\nam grateful to them all for putting me first, so I\u2019ll try really hard today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is a very big day for Alfie, read what he has to say to find out what he’s going to be doing. It’s hard for a dog with dementia.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,50],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}