{"id":17210,"date":"2020-03-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17210"},"modified":"2020-03-17T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:00:00","slug":"a-dark-day-tuesday-17th-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/a-dark-day-tuesday-17th-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dark Day – Tuesday 17th March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Today is a dark day, a very dark day. Please take a moment this afternoon at 4pm to think of Alfie. The vet will be coming to our house to help him cross the Rainbow Bridge. Mum will of course be with him and Dad will be there too via the Amazon Alexa screen they use. It\u2019s the best they can do as Dad can\u2019t get home at the moment. I won\u2019t be in the room when it happens, but each of us will have chance to say our goodbyes just afterwards. None of us are coping all that well with the thought, but we do know it\u2019s his time. Life is going to look very different in our house without him and we\u2019re all going to need to rise to the challenge of looking after Mum. I might ask Mum if she would like to say a few words to you all tomorrow, but I\u2019m not sure how she will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last Days<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alfie is spending his last days being given anything he wants.\nIf he asks for an extra meal he can have it. If he wants what\u2019s on Mum\u2019s plate\nhe can have it. He\u2019s getting gentle kisses rather than lots of cuddles as he\nsays he\u2019s struggling with those. Mum would have loved to have taken him out to\nsome of his favourite places or done some of his favourite things but he\u2019s not\nup to it. She had hoped to take him out one last time in his little car, but he\nhas said he needs that just to be a memory. He would struggle to get in and\nwould not be comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do think there might be steak on the menu today, but I\u2019m not\nsure I shall really feel like eating it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Wilma reports on what is a dark day for us all. A very dark day indeed. She asks you all to take a moment to remember Alfie.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[109,50,93],"class_list":["post-17210","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\/17210","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=17210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}