Poor Meg

It's been a funny two weeks. And rather busy- hence no new blog for a while. Oh, nothing terrible has happened- just a constant trickle of little niggles. You know the sort of thing, I'm sure. The roofer sending his two lads around to repair my cracked tile, for example, who weren't listening/told properly what they were looking for, and so consequently searched about my roof and found something else to repair. The effort it's taking to just cut the old apple tree down.Working far too hard and long trying to get outdoor stuff done while it's warm and dry. The wearing cough I've had. And, of course, the dog.
  The dog, my dear Meg, has not been well. We awoke a week last Wednesday to large pools of vomit dotted around the house, and a clearly unhappy, disorientated, staggering dog.

  My immediate thought was that she'd had a stroke- she will, after all, be fourteen this October. However, it turned out that she has vestibular disease, which came as something of a relief, though it is rather distressing to see your dog falling over as though she's found your secret cache of cider and downed the lot. She recovered from the first episode quite quickly, but then had another one a couple of days later. This one didn't seem so bad, and Meg seemed to cope with it better. She's got some pills to take, which are supposed to increase the blood flow to the head. I'm not sure how that's supposed to help, but we're trying them for now. I've also been making her a a stir fry of sweet potatoes, beet tops, carrots, oregano and turmeric, for her dinner, with a small helping of dog food in it. She has managed to keep it down and seems to quite enjoy it.
 

The cat, it appears, has no sympathy, and has been stalking Meg in the garden, suddenly leaping out at her as she comes back to the house. The dog, bless her, patiently ignores the bats round the head the cat gives her, while the cat goes strolling off as if she's just won the British middleweight title. Perhaps she's got a bit full of herself, after her three rat haul.
  We wait to see if Meg will make a full recovery from this. If it persists, it might indicate a specific cause, which will have to be investigated. Even if there is no recurrence- at least, for a while- she may be left with a lean to one side, though hopefully, as she already seems to be doing, she'll make her own compensations to deal with it. Regardless of her current ailment, she is still keen to go for a walk and still wants to play. For now, we'll just have to hope and wait.