(Wednesday) I took Alfie out for his walk across Eaglestone Park. We did the full circuit because it wasn't raining. Infact, it wasn't particularly damp, fortunately. We got almost to the completion of the circuit when Alfie spied a cat, minding it's own business, almost asleep, it looked to me. He hared off and went to investigate, but I was concerned that he would chase after if if the confounded creature ran away, but I managed to capture him and put him back on his lead. I didn't fancy having to chase him along the Redway and over the road, otherwise he might have got run over by a passing car, but it didn't come to that. I think he was merely investigating the strange creature, as he would another dog. I don't think he connects a cat out in the park with the creatures who drift in and out of our garden and stroll nonchalantly along the fence, meaning he has to bark to warn them off. In that respect it's a matter of territory. He doesn't want them on his territory, so be barks to chase them away.
(Friday) Quite cold and foggy when I took out Alfie this morning. We didn't do a complete circuit of the park.
Carol is having a blood transfusion today. She texted me to say it began at 7 a.m and is likely to take three or four hours. She has her antibiotics through a drip and they had problems with the cannula in her arm into which the tube is fed. She has to keep her arm straight otherwise the drip will stop because he tube is kinked or crushed. Quite difficult for her to sleep with this drip going and she's being woken at regular intervals for the nurses to give her the various medications she is on, particularly pain relief medication.
Later. 2.00p.m. I got back from seeing Carol on Ward 19 a good deal earlier than usual. She spent a good deal of the morning asleep. On arrival at around 10.00 she was on the blood transfusion and fast asleep. A real wonder, considering all the noise there is on the ward. There's a door which leads into the next ward which bangs shut with a load sound. Nobody is able to go through without it making a noise. Then there's a woman domestic who cleans the ward and when she cleans the toilets, which are nearby, she can't resist banging the toilet seats. How on earth you can do that job and make so much noise I cannot think. Then there are a couple of patients, screams and hollerers who make a noise, then there's people moving around all the time. Not a quiet place, by any stretch of the imagination.
When I got home, because it was sunny and bright, a definite contrast with the cold and fog we had earlier, I decided to take Alfie out for a walk. Poor little dog, shut in all day, it's the least I can do for him. He certainly deserves a treat. So off we went, Alfie barking happily and keen as ever to be let off the lead in the usual place.
(Friday) Quite cold and foggy when I took out Alfie this morning. We didn't do a complete circuit of the park.
Carol is having a blood transfusion today. She texted me to say it began at 7 a.m and is likely to take three or four hours. She has her antibiotics through a drip and they had problems with the cannula in her arm into which the tube is fed. She has to keep her arm straight otherwise the drip will stop because he tube is kinked or crushed. Quite difficult for her to sleep with this drip going and she's being woken at regular intervals for the nurses to give her the various medications she is on, particularly pain relief medication.
Later. 2.00p.m. I got back from seeing Carol on Ward 19 a good deal earlier than usual. She spent a good deal of the morning asleep. On arrival at around 10.00 she was on the blood transfusion and fast asleep. A real wonder, considering all the noise there is on the ward. There's a door which leads into the next ward which bangs shut with a load sound. Nobody is able to go through without it making a noise. Then there's a woman domestic who cleans the ward and when she cleans the toilets, which are nearby, she can't resist banging the toilet seats. How on earth you can do that job and make so much noise I cannot think. Then there are a couple of patients, screams and hollerers who make a noise, then there's people moving around all the time. Not a quiet place, by any stretch of the imagination.
When I got home, because it was sunny and bright, a definite contrast with the cold and fog we had earlier, I decided to take Alfie out for a walk. Poor little dog, shut in all day, it's the least I can do for him. He certainly deserves a treat. So off we went, Alfie barking happily and keen as ever to be let off the lead in the usual place.
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