Canine Geriatric Vestibular Disorder

When Becky got home from work today she found Cinnamon unable to walk without falling down and looking dazed and disoriented. She called me at the office, then took her to the vet where I met up with them. It was a very pitiful looking condition, you’re thinking it’s a stroke, and wondering if you’re about to have make the BIG decision. We have a competent vet, though, and he diagnosed Canine Geriatric Vestibular Disorder. He said she should start showing improvement tomorrow, and may be able to walk by Sunday. So, after getting her back home, we laid out a sleeping bag next to her regular pillow, for extra padding, and she’s been mostly lying there quietly all evening. Sometimes she stands up and just gazes, her head tipped to one side. I go down and talk to her and pet her a lot. You can tell just from looking at her that the world inside her head is spinning around. I hope she can regain some stability before she gets too starved or dehydrated, although she does seem to drink pretty well. She emptied her stomach on the vet’s floor, and doesn’t seem much interested in eating. I don’t blame her. We feel bad restricting her to downstairs, but we can’t take chances with the steps, and I assume we’ll still need to try to get her outside to do some “business”. Anyhow, a heartbreaking time for us, and certainly a confusing time for poor Cinnamon. It may be a long weekend, especially for puppy. She really is getting on up in years. She’s thirteen, but even the vet says she doesn’t look that old.

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Lawrence 150 Years

|Saturday was a “Lawrence Birthday Party” to celebrate its 150th birthday, as a city, I guess. Things started off with a parade through downtown.||

|After the parade there were activities at South Park including various performances. There was a shortened version of Ballad of Black Jack, some dancers, some singers and, of course, some Indians.||

In the evening was a concert at South Park. It was dark so I didn’t get photos. The main event was Kelley Hunt and she was totally amazing. We grabbed up her new CD “New Shade of Blue” and got it autographed. I mean, she was fantastic. I was trying to figure out what kind of music it was. It was some sort of blues-boogie-R&B. Whatever it was, it was great. I gathered she was either born in Lawrence or lived here sometime.

Closing Out Another Weekend

|Today was the Lawrence Parks Department Fall Arts Festival at South Park. Being another perfect day, we went downtown to check it out. A very pleasant Sunday afternoon. But I thought it wasn’t fall until Sep. 22.||

|The park itself was beautiful. They’ve done some great landscaping, lots of flowers.||

Evelyn was released from the hospital on Friday and is back home at the Christian Care Cottage in Ottawa. We visited her there Friday evening.

Becky worked yesterday on account of the KU football game. KU beat Toledo 63-14. Unreal. Oklahoma beat Houston 63-13. I washed and waxed the Miata.