Day 1515 Khaleesi back to the vets for a check up!

Good news again at the vets this morning.

Took poor Craig 2 hours to get to Stirling for around a 5 minute appointment.

Her bandage is off and her leg is healing well.

The foot will most likely stay at that angle now.

And now for the hard part. The cone of shame for the next 4-5 days at least, to stop her from licking the wound.

Her face says it all… bless her. I’m saying that a lot these days!

Here she is just out of the vet. The cone doesn’t work well either big ears 😂

She has to wear that for up to 5 days and we can take it off…. If she starts to lick the wound then back on it goes, I’m afraid.

She should start putting the foot down in the next 4-5 days as well, bearing in mind she’s been carrying it for the last 2.5 weeks. It will take some time to realise she can use it. I think she used it for balance there just now.

She also just got stuck in the tree. 🤦🏻‍♀️😬

I think she’s trying to shake it off.

Look away now all you squeamish… though it’s not bad and hard to see in the sunlight.

The wound is healing really well.

I’m trying to get it from all angles.

She’s actually handling it surprisingly well. She just had a good licking session on the inside of the cone. I hope that helped her.

We had a slight mishap at dinner as she obviously couldn’t eat out her bowl so clever mumma thought she’d feed her inside the cone.

Nope… the food went everywhere inside the cone and I needed to take it off her and wash it all. Problem is when the cone’s off, we have nothing to hold onto, as her collar is looped through the cone.

Like everything it seems hard work at first but we’ll all settle into the new routine, just like we did with the bandage.

It’s gonna be a long night puppa.

In other news I’ve had a better outlook today. Nothing has really changed apart from my response. I’m no longer resentful, angry or sad, I’m grateful for the small things.

What is this trying to teach me?

What can I learn from this?

How can I respond differently in the future.

I’ve felt like a different person today.

Not that nasty, moany git I was yesterday.

It was like the world was ending.

It’s not.

That’s my fight or flight kicking in again, the minute something doesn’t go my way.

I did all of this long before I read this.

I’m proud of myself for that.

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️

Day 1505 a scorcher for Khaleesi coming home!

What a beautiful day and we got our baby girl home.

This is captioned “where’d ma daddy go?!!”

She was sooooo happy to see us. Broadleys Veterinary Hospital say she’s been the model patient and they’ve all been checking up on her. She takes her meds no problem and hasn’t been such a good girl. Sounds just like her to be honest.

She just makes everyone feel so special when they meet her. 💕

She’s ready for the off with her kinky boot on.

Here they all are when she got home. The Borders all had a good sniff of her. Calaidh sniffed all over the leg.

She should be kept to one room and is only allowed to exercise 3 times a day for 5 minutes. That is going to be so tough. We need to keep her bandage dry and make sure it doesn’t slip down over the splints. We need to make sure it doesn’t chafe her skin too much.

She’s back in on Wednesday for the dressing to be checked and will get further X-rays in 6 weeks.

Unfortunately the Go Fund Me money has not cleared and may not do so until 5th June. We never realised that. They expected it to be settled fully today but we obviously couldn’t. They understood but asked if there was anything we could do to settle it then could we. I paid £500 and we showed them the Go Fund Me page and total. That was a wee bit uncomfortable but there was nothing else we could do. As soon as the money clears we will pay it.

We’ve had lots of cuddles and kisses, she has a few tough months ahead.

It will be 3 months before she is fully healed. We postponed our 4 dogs holiday to Wales in July because we couldn’t afford to pay the balance, with everything else going on, and it will be just as well as Khaleesi still won’t be able to run about by then.

I love this next one… her face when Craig’s still making the scrunched up face look.

He thinks I’m gonna kiss him…. Nope!!

So after all the excitement of going to Stirling to get her, she is literally sleeping in the living room for now.

Taking her 2pm meds like a good girl.

I was awake at 5.15 this morning as “someone’s” alarm went off at that ridiculous time…. I wasn’t due up until 6.45am but of course, that was me tossing and turning, wide awake, thinking of Khaleesi.

Someone has been warned for future alarm events 😂

The run club met at 7am, right outside my house, and we ran 5.36km.

And I LOVED it. I run so much better when I’m not behind everyone, I love that today I was paced out front until the 3k mark. That does NOT mean that I was faster than the others, it means they ran at my pace. I didn’t stop running to catch my breath until 3k in, which is my best yet. I need to work on my head chatter when people are in front of me. I need to stop the negative committee telling me how slow I am.

I love love loved it.

Here are Emma and I rounding the bend. (Should say here that Claire runs on ahead to take photos and then catches up without looking like she had to try!)

Now there’s a guy doing a 24 hour lawnmower push around Beith, to raise money for Cancer Research. We were lucky enough to bump into Grieg of Greig’s Garden’s on his challenge!!

The second time this week asking for donations but if you click on the link to his FB page you’ll be able to donate. He apologised for being sweaty but quickly realised we all were too! The photo shoot will have affected our time as didn’t turn Strava off… check me making excuses for what was, a fantastic time!

I took Calaidh up the hill when I got home but forgot my phone. She looked so cute running through the long grass but we’ll needed to check her for ticks.

So nothing else for it but some sunshine in the garden this afternoon.

It’s a really beautiful day.

We’ve just brought outside for a change of scenery, here she is lying next to me.

Bless her.

And also, my current view!

Here’s the link to Craig’s business FB page with a wee video of her getting him and thanking everyone!

Thank you for being a friend!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and huge congratulations to my lovely friends Julie & Keith who get married today, down in London. 👰🏼‍♀️🤵🏻💍💒

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️