Up The Farway Tree

Quick Update

Just thought I would do a wee update before I head to Newcastle tomorrow - the bronchoscopy is on Monday but I will not get the results until Tuesday so wont be updating before then. I must admit I do feel a bit anxious as I really don't know what the biopsies will show, but fingers crossed it's all ok and I get back up the road on Wednesday as planned!

I have had a nice weekend so far. We had Andrews mum, dad and gran over yesterday for dinner (hello Anne and John!) and had a lovely evening. I think I probably last cooked for them about three years ago, so it was very novel all round :-) Today we took Seb a long walk around the loch and as always he had a great time. There was one point where the water was very shallow and we went down to take some photos - Seb ran into the water for the first time in his life! He was rather exhilirated and began running round in circles at high speed before running back into the water. Another dog then came along and was diving into the water to retrieve sticks - I think Seb would have followed suit if he hadn't been on a lead. I don't even know if he can swim! He is never allowed off lead anyway as he would just run off without a care for where we were and he certainly wouldn't come back when called (he is trained to do this but has selective hearing depending on what he is doing/chasing/planning).

We stopped for a coffee...note how Seb also has to sit on the bench!

My good news for the week is that I am going on a wee holiday to Ireland at the beginning of August :-) My dad goes golfing in Donegal every year and the lady that runs the B+B he stays at has kindly invited us over for a wee visit (hello Winnie)! It will be mum, dad, Andrew and myself. We are taking the car over on the ferry so can do a bit of sight seeing, although I have warned Dad that we are not going on an ancestral tour. I give Dad about 24 hours there before he starts speaking with an Irish accent -I kid you not. It will be great to get away and will be my first holiday in quite a while, and certainly my first holiday being 'well' for years! Let's hope for some sunshine as well, that would just be perfect.

Well, I am going to leave you with a great wee video clip. Seb became extremely concerned when he realised his 'moose' was not breathing. He quickly started CRP but sadly it was just too late for Mr Moose. ER is one of my favourite programmes but I had no idea Seb was taking in quite so much medical knowledge. I can perhaps hire him out as a paramedic dog or something -he could crawl into small spaces, car wreckages etc and start life support. I'm sure I could teach him to use a defibrillator....

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n.b for those interested, this is actually a cat behaviour called 'kneading' and relates back to when the kittens were trying to get milk from the mother. They do say Tibetan spaniels are very cat like but as always Seb likes to take things too far!