New Week New Problem

My parents were so organised re sorting out their affairs and paperwork well in advance of the possibility of them ever needing some help with their financial and health decisions in later life in the form of Lasting Power of Attorneys

Admittedly I just stuck them in a drawer thinking I'd never need them but was glad it was all sorted, I then totally forgot all about them until recently

Photo Description - Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel and Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel sitting side by side amongst the bracken out on the common in bright evening sunshine

On Monday the DWP rang me

The Kindness of Strangers

My dad is an avid lifelong supporter and shareholder of Portsmouth Football Club and as our long time followers are aware my dad also has Alzheimer's

 The other day dad broke his favourite cereal bowl which he's had for years and got really upset, it was his much loved Portsmouth FC cereal bowl that he uses each morning to start his day

It may sound like such a small thing to get upset about, but to dad this cereal bowl holds so many of his precious memories about Portsmouth FC

With so many of dads memories disappearing as each week passes, this bowl was important to help keep his memories alive of of his favourite football club

As a surprise I went to order dad a new bowl off the Pompey website only to discover

Happy Boris

Boris is at last weight bearing on his poorly leg but that's only due to adequate pain relief

I drove the boys the short distance to the woods last night so that Boris could have some much needed sniffing and catching up on pe-mails time as we walked the 20 yards or so into the woods

Video Description - Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel slowly ambling down a woodland path on a long flexible lead attached to his harness to prevent him from running around and overdoing it, whilst Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel is trotting around doing his own thing

It's a fine line between exercise

Today's the Day

Today is x-ray day for Boris to find out why he's no longer weight bearing on his left front leg after a second bout of non weight bearing lameness, you can read about the first time here

Photo Description - Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel sitting in long grass on the allotment facing the camera, he has his tongue out and is wearing a light purple harness to aid getting him in and out of the car when I drove him there for a change of scenery, his left front paw is raised slightly to avoid putting his full weight on it

I have very mixed feelings about it, whilst we need to know what he's done to himself so

Never say the Q word

As a shift worker for most of my adult life there's one word you soon learn to never utter

Within minutes of somebody saying it the incidents would start coming in thick and fast and the rest of the shift would be hectic

When I turned the page on my calendar this morning to organise my life around my parents various appointments I got a pleasant surprise

Photo Description - Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel and Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel laying on a Union Jack covered sofa when we were recently at Dogstival in the VIP area, both boys are facing the camera with their tongues out and wearing blue cooling bandanas around their necks as it was starting to get very warm

There's only one appointment for mum at the