Well It

wasn’t quite as straight forward as I hoped it would be, it isn’t an abscess after all it’s a tumour. As he cannot have a G/A or be sedated there is nothing they can really do for him so we just have to keep our eye on it. His heart has worsened as well so his meds have been upped and basically our time now is a little more limited now, we have not got a time limit because we would rather not know but you can rest assured that whatever time we have left with our wonderful boy will be spent adoring him more than I do already. Right now I feel like my heart has cracked somewhat and I am rather emotional as you can imagine but I will shake it off and continue as we would normally just spoiling him a wee bit more if that is possible. Keeping my beautiful boy as comfortable as I can and making each and every day with count and taking as many photos as I possibly can of him and his sister together .

 

Sorry I can’t write more but am off to cuddle my boy as he has had a bit of a day.

 

Love

Momma Tea

I don’t know

What I would do without my furbabes sometimes ! Because my treatment schedule was rearranged for my sons prize giving on Friday I am feeling more than a little low. I have had all of my weeks zappin now and I have to admit having them all in row has left me feeling pants. I got in this morning sat on the sofa and just burst out crying. My darling Richie just climbed up me snuggled into my neck and just let me sob as he cuddled me, Ronni bless her just squidged next to my leg she is pretty indifferent if I am upset. I try not to get like this if I can help it but the last week or so has been a real struggle for some reason, I don’t think the fact I am sleeping so badly is helping but hopefully now I have had a darn good blub I will start feeling better.

I feel awful as not felt up to keeping the dogs blogs up as much as I would normally but hopefully I will start feeling up to it more in the next few days. I know Richie & Ronnii have missed their blog pals and on their behalf I am so sorry guys for them not being around.

I am off to snuggle down on the sofa under a duvet now with my babes, I have to confess there is nothing quite like furry dog cuddles when you are feeling low. I am just so blessed to have these two wonderful, loving funny little furballs in my life,

I love them to bits !

 

 

Momma Tea

Wednesday Waffling

Well things have been quiet because I have been really pooped after last weeks zapping, but thankfully I didn’t throw up at all which was brilliant I felt sick but that was all. Just very very tired though, I have never experienced tiredness like this before it is bone-numbing. It would help if I could sleep a bit later in the morning but a certain little girl has decided that once her Pop goes out the door to work then Mom should get up immediately and she moans at me until I do. Yes it is a teeny tiny bit annoying ( especially as Richie would happily stay in bed all morning ) but it is kind of sweet and cute too.

I had a rough night with Richie last night, his poor tummy was doing it’s mad grumbly, rumbly, moaning thing again and he just could not settle or get comfortable poor boy. This morning he certainly didn’t want to get up or eat any brekkie and he has …….. now how can I put this delicately…… he has a runny tummy thing going on. So I will try him on some chicken and rice later, give him some pro-kolin and keep a very close eye on him and if he is no better tomorrow I think he may be going to the vet again. My poor boy is feeling a little sorry for himself and is wanting lots of cuddles which I am only too happy to provide for him. Ronnii will be having her girly surgery next month and I dreading that, it is always a worry they have to have a GA but I know she will be in the best of hands and it means she should not get anymore polyps or be a risk from pyometra.

My son had his parents evening last night and I could not connect the wonderful, helpful, polite, quiet, considerate and hard working boy the teachers were singing the praise of because it certainly did not sound like my son. He has reached all of his end of year targets and gone past it in some of them. They are expecting great things from him all of his subjects but especially the ones he is choosing for his GCSE exam options. I am so very proud of him, especially as I have been ill since before he started secondary school. He is also getting a prize at the schools annual prize giving and I could not be more happy for him. To say you can see me swell with pride when I talk about him or write about him would be putting it very mildly.

I received a lovely card from Milly and Shelbys Mom this week  to let me know they are thinking of me, I honestly cannot get over how wonderful and amazing everyone in Blogville is, it really touches me to have the support of all you and I don’t think I will  ever be able to thank you  all enough .

 

Momma Tea

Hellooooooooooooo

Hey Blogville, You have made such a difference to me over the last week or so, you have restored my faith in the human  race and boosted my faith in dog – kind even more. I am still feeling pretty pants physically but mentally I am feeling more pawsitive thanks to all of you. A big, huge, massive THANK YOU to Jill, Zona, Phoenix and Cali for the wonderful parcel of goodies you sent to us, the poochies adored Peetunia and Roobarb although I wasn’t keen on Roobarb in bed with me and Richie he makes the most odd noise when I laid on him. It was such a lovely surprise and filled with such thoughtful items all of which will be put to good use .

I was gob smacked by the kindness and thoughtfulness of your gift Thank You again.

Richie has a wonderful shiny new dog tag as he is all official now I thought he deserved it and he does look so handsome in it.

Don’t you agree ? I think it really suits him and I know his Popster approves too.  We are going to get started on blogville badges again tomorrow, I get all the boring bits of finding the backgrounds and the furballs get the fun of creating them but thats ok with me…………….lol.

It keeps the mind active which is a good thing in my opinion.

Anyway Off to rest for a bit now n snuggle with the furballs

Love

Momma Tea

xxx      xxx

Yet Another

hectic day today with Richie and his hormones but it has been interesting as we have been out and about, he now seems to quite like the bus which is a new thing and one I am rather pleased about so some good has come out of all of this.

I have been nosing about a lot this evening at who has been viewing my blog and the dogs it is really fascinating what you can find out when you have one of those tracking dohickys, anything from country, states, city and towns to IP addresses and even what your reader is viewing your page on e.g. Google chrome, Firefox or what have you and even where they have come from and where they went after your pages. I can work out who most of our readers are as I know most of your rough geographical locations which is quite fun. We have Lorenza in Mexico, Pip in Chicago, Ruby and Penny in Ontario between the three of us we have readers worldwide and there are very few entries on our tracking gizmo we dont know but there are the odd few. I find the whole blogging phenomenon quite amazing really, here we are all random people scattered worldwide who for what ever reasons decide to open our lives, thoughts, views, opinions and general ramblings to the world.  When I first started blogging online ( after years of keeping hard copy journals ) the fact that anyone wanted to read my inane witterings just astounded me. Then I started dog blogging with my sons pup Doogie and a whole new blogging community opened up however when Molly started to blog all I can say is WOW ! My furbabes and I have genuine friends all over the world now it is awesome, to think that that we had a Christmas card exchange, gifts were sent and received is mind boggling. We support each other in a way I never imagined could happen, we laugh at each others joy, worry for each other when there are illnesses and we cry for our friends and feel the pain they feel when one of our beloved fur babes cross the Rainbow Bridge. All because we share a common bond that is our darling furballs. They come in all shapes and sizes, they each have their own wonderful personalities some more so than others ( we all know who I am talking about don’t we ? LOL ), they are all just completely adorable ( even when the kool aid rains down ).

Sometimes people want to spoil our pleasure in sharing our fur balls lives in the way we do but we just ignore it and continue on happily, I know my two don’t understand what hate is they have no use for it in their lives so they dont acknowledge it and I am the same now. I have no time at all for hate in my life, I do not see the point of it, if you don’t like something then to me it is simple don’t do, don’t read it, don’t watch it or don’t eat it …… problem solved .. simple.

Life is short enough so why waste time and energy on negativity. Strange though that so many people in this world do, how sad for them is all I can say.

Pets ( and I do dislike that word because my furballs are part of our family ) and illness can be very liberating sometimes you know, they do change the way you look at life and think about things. Much as I dislike my health issues they have changed me, I look at the world around me so differently now so in a way it hasn’t all been bad. How weird is that ?

Anyway I am going to close this meandering ramble now as I have to be up at 5am because my OH is going out for the day ( far to blooming early IMHO ) and the furballs cannot be left unsupervised whilst I snooze on.

So thank you all for working your way through this odd post of mine and I wish you all depending where you are in the world either sweet dreams or a wonderful day.

 

Momma Tea

Oh By Gosh, By Golly

  

Well the big day is almost upon us !  Still not got any food yet but with the help of my Moms plastic some will be delivered tonight hopefully so at least we will have some nomables and we wont run out of loo roll now either ( I think the loo roll was worrying me more than food..lol ). With the weather the way it is getting out to the shops has been a bit of a non starter. The doglets are happy little things and are eating well which is good, Ronnii has had her Secret Santa gift from the LDR but Richies hasn’t arrived yet but he is not worrying as our post here has been terrible for ages even before the snow arrived. They have also had a gift each from the Wonderful Pip and his family in Chicago which was a lovely surprise. The pair of them have had more Christmas cards than Steve and I put together which is awesome especially when most of them have come from overseas what a wonderful idea the The Blogville Christmas Card Exchange was. I have to admit I will keep all their cards as they nearly all have pics of the dogs who sent them on them, I think for next years my two will have to sit together long enough for me to get a photo of them done to put on their cards.

This is my most disorganised Christmas since I left home . It seems the days when my cards were written & ready to post by the beginning of November, gifts bought & wrapped & ready to go by mid November, and food ordered at the beginning of December are long behind me now. It seems the older I get the more disorganised I become all I can say to this is ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH !

Although this is not my favourite time of the year it is  not so for my OH, he never celebrated Crimbo as a child for various reasons so he still sees the magic of the season and gets quite excited which is nice but makes me wonder how on earth he puts up with a bah humbug old fart like me Bless his heart.

Tomorrow will be a mad rush of getting the vacuuming done, changing beds, putting the last wash on and starting food prep so today me and the pups are going to take it easy. Hopefully I may get to have another go at Ronnii’s mucky ear hole again so she is all clean n sparkly for when Santa Paws comes to visit.

  This is her dress from her LDR Secret Santa isn’t it just the sweetest thing.

Richie has decided he quite likes the back of the sofa to lay on in his new scarf from Aunty Laney and little Lily

He looks so chilled , he is such a lovely lad I feel so lucky and blessed to have them both in my life.

Anyway feet to put up before panic stations tomorrow.

Love

Momma Tea

BAH HUMBUG !

Well the day is approaching fast and I will be so pleased when it is over and life can get back to the semblance of normality it is usually . I made a fun decision the other though I have decided I am going to run in next years annual Santa fun run……………. eek. I am hoping Ronnii can do it with me as there were lots of dogs entered this year. I can just see us both in Santa outfits………lol. Not got much else really to impart as if I do witter on it will bring every one down and I would hate to do that to others at this time of year.

 

Love

Momma Tea

Why ?

Why do I blog ? I started keeping a journal just after my son was born and I was suffering with such severe post partum depression that I was hospitalized ( hospitalized = Toon Central ). My therapist advised me it was a good way of organising my thoughts and feelings and the act of writing was therapeutic. So I started out in longhand, then I upgraded to word saving it all onto floppy disks then I graduated to online blogging this has all been over the last 14 years and the therapist was right it is a great way to sort out muddle-some noggins . Then I discovered a dog blog and thought what a fantastic idea and so my Pup Doogie started to blog also, then along came Molly and it all just took off. I have always found other doggy bloggy-ers to be a fabulous group of people, caring, supportive, funny and kind.  We want to share our dogs antics and day to day lives, we want to share their personalities, foibles, whimsical ways and share them in a fun, light-hearted way. We also blog to raise awareness, awareness of cruelty, neglect, stupid BSL legislature and to show the good work of rescues and to encourage others to adopt a dog not shop for one. We all blog for different reasons and to us each and every one is valid to us personally, our views our our own personal views and readers may or may not agree with them but that is their prerogative. If readers don’t like my views then they should not read my blog.

When My Molly crossed the bridge the support I got from other bloggy-ers  was over whelming not just in comments and posts, emails,stupendous blog badges and a wonderful gift but also the way you generously donated money To The Little Dog Rescue in her name. My ghast was truly flabbered but it shows the power of doggy bloggy-ing, the kindness of strangers, the compassion of other other animal lovers.

Blogging should be fun to do and fun to read, light hearted, frivolous, mad, and done with good manners ( well except for the dogs to whom all manners mean is to make sure they don’t toot right under your nose……..lol but not even that applies with my two ). I intend to keep mine like that

Love

Momma Tea

BSL in the UK

I have recently read an article in one of our woman’s magazines about a dog attack on a child. The dog belonged to her father and he had only had it a couple of days after getting it from an unnamed rescue centre. The little girl had just bent down to stroke the dog as her father was asleep on the couch and he awoke to find the dog on top of his daughter with his jaws locked on her face. The child suffered horrific injuries and will require further reconstructive surgeries as she is get older. I have every sympathy for this family and it was a terrible tragedy but what has got me riled was the small postscript note after the article which stated

‘ After a spate of attacks by ‘ this breed’ on children, adults and other dogs, there have been calls to ban the breed in the UK’

So are we going the way of certain states in the USA and bringing in BSL where upon well behaved, well cared for and loved family pets will be taken from their loving homes and destroyed . I do hope not I feel that this would be the wrong move for our country. We already have the dangerous dogs act but any dog can be dangerous from the petite Yorkshire Terrier to the soppy looking Old English Sheepdog. We no longer have dog licences and we do not have mandatory micro chipping which may help, I don’t know as I am no expert but I don’t feel that banning certain breeds is the answer.

In this particular case I feel that perhaps the dog in question was not adequately assessed before rehoming or maybe as this was a divorced family that perhaps they did not know it would be around children. As we all know rescue centres worldwide are inundated and overflowing so something needs to be done to help stop tragedies like this happening and to stop the suffering of ill treated and abused animals. I wish I knew the answer but in my heart I feel that Breed Specific Legislation/ Breed Specific Banning is not the answer.

 

Mollys Momma Tea

30 Day Blog Journal – Day 19

Today I am supposed to wax lyrical about a talent of mine, well I have wracked my brains and apart from my gift of being a very annoying person I can only come up with 1 thing

I can wiggle my ears !

 

There you go that’s my talent well that was the shortest post in this 30 journal….lol.

 

30 Day Blog - Day12

Oh er Missus today I am supposed to write about something I am OCD about god there are so many I don’t honestly know which to pick but I guess if I had to choose one it would be my pillows or my bed not sure which one I am worse with. OK after some deliberation it would be my pillows, no one else is allowed to use any of the three I sleep with heaven forbid they should try and slip an arm under one at night time. They also have to be in the right order when I go to bed, picture this I am all ready for bed and I go into the bedroom I flip all three pillows over and place them back in the right order but turned over as if to say ok fresh side to sleep on tonight. Does it stop there well you would think so wouldn’t you but no if I have to get up for any reason I have to go through it all over again. Nothing nicer than cold pillow on your face mmmm . It is also imperative that the really old flat squashed pillow is the top one don’t ask me why but it has to be that one next to my face. So there you have it I am obsessively compulsive about my pillows. Thank heaven it wasn’t housework though that would be just too awful for words.

Tatty Bye