Vets again……

After being at the vets on Sunday with Molly, then taking DD to the vets to say her last goodbye to Molly on Monday, and a trip to the Pet Crematorium on Wednesday, I ended up back at the vets this morning, with my Maine Coon, Gadget. He hasn't been well for a while, and I've had my suspicions for a while, but today the vet confirmed that he has a tumour and probably hasn't got long with us. She gave me some steroids to give him to see if it will make things a little easier for him for a while, but ultimately I know that our remaining time with him is now a lot shorter than we thought. He is, to be fair, an old boy - coming close to 16 but not quite there yet - and has had a good life, providing us with both entertainment and near heart attacks (he once brought a frog in to the house and let it go, leaving us hunting for a frightened frog while trying to keep Gadget away from it!). It will still be hard though, to make that final journey back to the vets, whenever it may be. Sadly I suspect it will be quite soon, and we will lose another much loved member of our family.  

The Good and the Sad

What a weekend! Where to start? So much has happened.

First, the Good…….

We opted to go walking on Saturday as the weather forecast was better than Sunday, so we headed off to Longsleddale again, parking at Sadgill, to continue the walk we tried to do a few weeks ago when it was drizzly and foggy. I'm so glad we decided to go - blue skies and white fluffy clouds for most of the walk!

We seemed to be doing quite well with the climb, and the higher we went, the more snow was around which made it look amazing. Finally we could see Haweswater in the distance just peeping round the corner……..

……and then more and more ……

…..and then this opened up before us ……….amazing!

It really was an amazing walk (very cold and tough in places), topped off with hot chocolate and a sandwich close to Adam Seat.

Then a quick detour up to Adam Seat before heading back down the snowy path.

Then back down to the van for a nice cup of tea and piece of Christmas cake before heading home.

Now the Sad ……..

After taking Molly to the vets on Friday and being given medication for her, we hadn't been able to get her to eat much at all, which meant that we couldn't get her to take the medication. We thought she might just have had an upset stomach. But yesterday she seemed to go downhill very quickly, and by 3.30pm she was almost unconscious on her bed. I rang the vets and went more or less straight away with Molly. Unfortunately she didn't make it. At the same time, DD was on her way back from her boyfriends and couldn't be there, and DH was supposed to be going to pick DD up from the train station so he couldn't be with me either. It was heartbreaking to see Molly at the end, but we know she has had a good life - over 16 years with us. She has been on countless walks with us over the years and enjoyed them all, bouncing along up the hills. She has travelled so much with us on our holidays in this country, particularly Scotland, going up to the far north coast of Scotland, and across to Skye. We have so many good memories of her - she will never be forgotten.