Am I any...

ISER?

WENT TO VET THIS MORNING...

Even tho Floss is the one who has been having the mobility issues I know what that is and why it's happening, she has an old ACL tear that has weakened her back legs and it makes  walking and most especially getting up from laying position very hard...Pain killers is about the only treatment.  I made her a pair of support stocking for the back legs to help give her some support when she is trying to get up from laying position.  Dogs are like horses, they get up with the front legs first,  then hoist up with the back legs.

This is why I had to have my horse Sundance who was 28 yrs old put down be could no longer stand up and support his own weight and he could not get up without help...and the vet said even if I gave him daily shots he would continue to deteriorate.  Dying is like a water fall there is little that will hold back that gush on it's way down.  

BUT she is not the one who went to the vet today, it was Annie!  I noticed last week she was holding her head down to one side and one ear was down..not like her.  So I checked and I found a lot of hair inside the ear canal and I removed it...but the ear didn't get better so she has an ear infection! I was given a salve to put in once a day for 14 days.. Hope that helps...and she is below 50 lbs now...49.8 When I first began their diet they were both nearly 60 lbs!  

Floss is having mobility issues for a few years and the reduced weight helped to keep her more mobile the past couple years...she probably weights in about 50 I would think she is taller than Annie. 

I made my own birthday dinner today...simple potato salad and cornbread! And I baked a cake just combining flour, butter, sugar almond milk and other things like vanilla, maple syrup, brown sugar and chocolate chips and baking in a cast iron skillet.  I have powdered sugar I will make a simple frosting, its only one layer.  

I hope the Skype call will happen, they said they will try from down where they went Alamosa, so we will see either way Im ok with it. Other  birthdays spent alone were the ones where I had to work a double shift when I was doing EMS in NYC, worked my last day in EMS on my birthday in 2006,  I fell out of the attic on my 60th birthday  and broke both arms 2013,  And there have been other not so good birthdays but those are the ones that come to mind today.  One really good one was in 2015 when I was on a road trip in the PNW.  I was traveling along the Oregon coast and I came to the Kalaloch Lodge and they had cabins with a Pacific Ocean view so I got one for my birthday! That was fine then treated myself to meal in the lodge. 

Tomorrow I figure I will spend the day alone, and I have 3 cards propped up on the hutch and I don't expect to have anymore but I haven't checked the mailbox yet today...such is the life of a Senior whose family has been decimated by time and distance.