{"id":16989,"date":"2020-01-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16989"},"modified":"2020-01-20T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:00:00","slug":"this-is-hard-monday-20th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/20\/this-is-hard-monday-20th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Hard – Monday 20th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is hard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well this is hard. Alfie isn\u2019t doing so well. It\u2019s his dementia. He\u2019s on some tablets to help him stay calm and Mum has been giving them to him twice a day. Unfortunately, they have stopped working for twelve hours so we\u2019ve had a couple of days with time when they\u2019ve worn off and he\u2019s really hard to be around. Mum is going to move him to three times a day from today and we\u2019re all hoping that will solve the problem. Poor Mum was very frazzled yesterday when they wore off and he wouldn\u2019t stop wandering around barking. We had to put up with it for two hours before she could give him his next tablet. If she had done it sooner then he was likely to get us up in the middle of the night and she didn\u2019t want that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alfie built himself a nest behind the chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I really nope none of the rest of us every get dementia as it\u2019s\nnot very nice to watch at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a Brighter Note<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On a brighter note, Mum thinks she can start to increase the\namount of walking she does now. She took Shadow round the village yesterday and\ndidn\u2019t even need to take a stick. She thinks she\u2019ll need a stick on uneven\nground for a little while, but that\u2019s likely to arrive today so she has said\nthat Ari and I can start having walks again. We\u2019re both very excited. When we\ndrive to where we walk we will have to sit on the car seat as Alfie will need\nto go with us in the crate in the boot. He will have his coat on, so he should be\nwarm enough waiting for us. I don\u2019t think my walks will be very long yet, but I\njust can\u2019t wait to find out what\u2019s been going on in my absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

This is hard – Alfie isn’t doing so well with his dementia. Canine Cognitive Dysfunction is as hard on a dog as the equivalent is for a human.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[109,63,50,27,93],"class_list":["post-16989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989","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=16989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}