{"id":16978,"date":"2020-01-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16978"},"modified":"2020-01-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:00:00","slug":"an-update-thursday-16th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/an-update-thursday-16th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"An update – Thursday 16th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well here\u2019s an update on Alfie and, as Mum thought, it really isn\u2019t obvious. Our lovely vet says still only some of his lymph glands are enlarged, so that side of things is not that clear and there doesn\u2019t seem to be much change in size of the enlarged ones. He could outlive all of us. Sadly, it\u2019s not that simple though. His body might be holding up quite well, all things considered, but she doesn\u2019t think his mind is doing quite so well. At times, the lights are on, but there really isn\u2019t anyone home. Mum though when his head was sort of nodding from side to side it was as much about his muscles being weak as anything. Sadly it seems more about his brain not functioning normally. It all helps to explain his levels of distress if Mum isn\u2019t there too. We just have to take care of him and wait until he tells us he\u2019s had enough, or his body catches up with his brain and gives up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well that leaves us all with the question with what to do next. Mum has made a start by trying to make the chair more comfortable to sleep in. I said I could help her bring a bed down from upstairs, but she\u2019s going to try to new improved version of the chair and two footstools first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alfie and me with our eye on Mum’s tea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My role<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s my part in the whole process. For reason\u2019s none\nof us can quite work out, all this change of routine has left me getting up\nvery early in the morning. I\u2019ve been insisting on getting up anytime from about\n4.20am. Apparently that\u2019s not ok. Mum has asked me to stop. The problem is that\nI\u2019m not really sure I know how to break the habit. She\u2019s asked if I could maybe\nlearn not to bark when I do wake up. I said, \u2018How are you going to know I want\nmy breakfast if I don\u2019t bark?\u2019 Apparently that was not the right response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need to work on this one, but I\u2019m not sure I know how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Wilma has an update on Alfie and although some of it is good news, the rest is pretty difficult. Life is not so easy right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[109,50,93],"class_list":["post-16978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}