44 new cases, 1283 total with the second death being a woman in her 90’s.
Last night I was very hopefull that I would finally get a good night’s sleep as the antibitotics kicked in to heal the ulcers in my mouth, caused by the clove oil I used too liberally to dull the pain of the abscess in my tooth 10 days ago. Moving on. Piggy, our little toy poodle who has been enjoying a lot of “dad time” has developed an abscess of his own - but not at the mouth end. He’s been on antibiotics as well for two days but last night it was bothering him a lot, not sure if it was pain or itchiness and at around 11pm he backed up and parked himself on my chest with his back to me which generally means “back rub please!”. I massaged his lower back on either side of his tail for half an hour and eventually he settled down to sleep. Until 3 am when he was jumping around again and looking at his tail end and then stood on Lisa which often means he’s asking to be taken outside. He didn’t need to pee and was obviously in a lot of discomfort. He was eventually “comfortable” when cradled in my arms so I put my fleece jacket on, the one I normally wrap around him when it’s cold, and propped myself up with some pillows and rubbed his back until I partially fell asleep. At 6 am I managed to slide down a bit into a more comfortable position and get an hour’s sleep, while he was happy to slide down lower but remain in dad’s arms. This morning the abscess burst judging by the trail on the carpet and marks on my clothing and we’re waiting to hear back from the vet on further action to take.
In the afternoon I received a message from our neighbour telling me they found one of my
”keep off the benches” signs that I had taped to the three benches up at the park. Someone has obviously removed it in their wisdom.