Trudi

Sorry your car is too poorly to fix Hope your bacon steaks appear soon The house still stinks of petrol but me, benji and the floor are all shiny clean and fragrant again We go on holiday one week today - am getting very excitable but very nervous too (it's the first time we've been away since I lost my sight)

as needed for poorly or sad folk and for anyone who wants em :yay: Melf that is fantastic Have a good time at the Chertsey show Happy Gotcha day Todays random wondering: Is it really a good idea to leave a blind (very clumsy) person with a petrol can and suggest they can use the contents to clean the adhesive off of the wood floor or is it only me that will then proceed to miss the bucket with the petrol and cover the whole floor and myself and Benji's back end in petrol And i'm still not certain that the adhesive is gone - it still feels a little sticky in places and the whole house smells like a garage :lol:

As I said I would make more effort to post here.... for your amusement... Charlie Parrot is in his holiday cage, I thought I would take this opportunity to give his big cage a real good clean out and set to this morning - I was sat in the cage cleaning when the door bell went - I jump and whack my head on the top of the cage and then get stuck in the door (which really isn't designed for backsides the size of mine) - when I eventually made it to the door I find the postman nearly wetting himself laughing as he had been watching through the window

I stopped posting for similar reasons to Elricc but when I lost my sight I came back and I find that the board is too difficult to navigate so only read the few threads I can find, not really felt 'comfortable' enough to post. It was easier to get out of the habit of posting than it is to get back into it but I will make more effort

Morning, it's a lovely sunny day here today so far - hope you all have a good day and that the builders aren't too hard on the eyes

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Hi all Has been a long time but i now have software that makes the pooter talk to me and i am slowly learning to use it Hope that you are all well and hope to be around more as i get better at using the pooter and stuff

Changed my mind

Sending Akita good thoughts for tomorrow

I have been keeping up with this thread and although i haven't posted i have been sending you both all the good thoughts in the world, i don't 'know' you or your dogs but your love for them all shines through your posts and i hope that you get plenty of quality time together

for you and Moo

Hubby is a bus driver and says well done to Ray, it takes seconds to turn the engine off and they are all told to do so at changeovers and stands, is just laziness by the drivers

Just can't find the right words, my thoughts are with you today Be at peace Barney

So Sorry Jacky

Hope the results are good and she is back to full health soon

So Sorry

My brother asked not to be tube fed or given Iv fluid as he wanted to die, he had progressive MS and had suffered 15 years of slowly losing the ability to control any of his bodies funtions. He was seen by a doctor who agreed that he was in full control of his mind and had made the decision to end his life, the young doctor in A&E who saw him when he was admitted felt that he could not accept the decision made by my brother and inserted a feeding tube and IV fluids. Once this had been done the doctors would not remove the tubes and it took Mark several more weeks before he finally passed. I would not wish the suffering he endured on anyone and would have given him an injection at that time had it been a possiblity as we knew it was his wish. Due to actions taken by that doctor my other brother who also had a terminal condition withdrew fluids whilst he still had full control of his body and hastened his own passing rather than face the same as Mark. However my Dad passed last year also and he was in great pain towards the end but he was not ready to go and we fought the doctors all the way to get him treatment, to have ended Dad's suffering early would have been against his wishes but would have made it less painful and traumatic for us (he bled to death from a ruptured aneurysm, also had lung cancer). Had his ending been speeded up it would have haunted us forever, as hard as his death was it was natural and that was how he wanted it to be. I guess the point i'm trying to make is that each case is different and a decision can only be made by the individual, i'm not sure this could ever be policed effectively to prevent some relatives 'getting rid' of elderly relations. Life is incredibly precious and as much as we can try to empathise, if we are not the person suffering we cannot truly know their wishes unless they are able to express them at the time of the decision

Sorry that you have had to have this rubbish to put up with Laura, my 2 collars have been on the boys since they arrived and are still in fantastic condition. I have bought collars from the shop that haven't worn as well as these have As for those that haven't paid - beyond contempt

Issie - be well and young at the Bridge and watch over those who loved you Melp - the way they have treated you is appalling and you should complain loudly Losing your hearing is not so bad once you get used to it but the prospect is pretty daunting - if I can be of any help let me know, are you seen at QMC? they have a fab ENT dept there so if anything can be done they'll know

Sarah and Phebe Owl, no words say enough at times like this

Hiya

Benji is my hearing dog - he lets me know when someone is at the door or the phone rings, he has never been trained in any way for this he just does it. When hubby is out he is constantly by my side Henry loves everyone and everything unconditionally

So Sorry to hear your news Be well and happy at the Bridge Danny