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"This is me 10th November 2007, guess what I am waiting for my dinner"
"Meggie at Kirkaig Falls July 2007
1 week after her operation."
"Meggie as she was before all her eye problems started, she was beautiful then and she is just as beautiful now."
"Meggie at Clachtoll Beach Camp site, would she take to camping, we were about to find out, she loved it it was nice and soft if she bumped into anything 14th July 2007"
"Meggie in the Highlands on holiday july 2007"
"Again at Kirkaig falls, what a superstar she is, I couldn't have coped with such a big operation then just 3 days later be in a totally strange place and not able to see anything."
"Meggie home from holiday and stitches removed from both eyes 24th July 2007"
"Meggie wearing her new bandana 24th July 2007"
"Little baby Meg enjoying her first encounter with snow."
Likes: Food and Sleeping
Pet-Peeves: Anything being moved around in the house or garden
Favorite Toy: None really
Favorite Food: Anything eatable
Favorite Walk: Scottish Highlands we have never seen her so happy as she was there. Meg also enjoys going Geocaching with her human Mum and Dad so she enjoys going anywhere as long as it is out, especially if it involves a ride in the car.
Best Tricks: Paddy Paws, and putting her paws together and Snuggling up with a big floppy bear on the back of the settee to go to sleep
Arrival Story: We have Meg's daddy Mr Bean, Meg was one of a litter of two puppies the first was born at home while Meg had no intention of entering the world of her own accord, she was born by caesaerian section at our vets, she was such a big pup so fat and wrinkly we knew why Jennie her Mum had so much trouble bringing her into the world. Meg was very slow, she couldn't walk and went everywhere on her tummy, I spent hours getting her up onto her feet with the aid of an old pot towel, she was 5 weeks old when she opened her eyes, but she was a real character and we knew she would have to stay with us, then after her puppy injections Meg started to have fits luckily she has grown out of them, but she has always had all the characteristics of Autism she couldn't cope with change of any kind. Meg was 9 months old before she learned to jump onto our settee by herself, now we can't keep her off it.
As Meg grew her condition has improved, the one thing she does do is get totally disorientated in water, she just goes round and round in circles. People in the show world said we should have had her put to sleep, but we knew we could give her a good life, even our vet said she would be lucky to live past 12 months, she did though, her sister Pennie who lived happily with Col and Sue in Frodsham sadly died of a liver condition at just 17 weeks, which made Meg all the more special she has improved as the years have gone by and she has not had any further fits since around 9 months of age.
Meg never had to go to the vets for any reason and until March this year she had never even been on any antibiotics, then one Sunday morning we got up to find that her lens in her left eye had luxated, luckily we got her straight to the vets and with immediate treatment things started to look good, her check ups had gone to monthly and just 2 days before her real problems began the vet had given her the 3 monthly check up appointment, then Megs left eye blew up and she was in great pain, late saturday night we rushed her to our emergency vets surgery when we were told that she would have to have her lens removed asap. Monday morning the surgery was performed and poor Meg's eye was stitched shut. She still didn't seem comfortable but we put that down to all the disruption at home caused by us having a new kitchen installed at the same time. A few days before she was due to have her stitches out I began to suspect that she had gone blind in her other eye as she was walking into things that previously she would have walked around. In between times our vet left and we managed to get ourselves booked in with a lovely lady vet who is training to be an eye specialist, I mentioned my fears to her, but she didn't think that Meg was blind in her right eye, all the stitches including the ones out of Meg's eyeball were removed with just local anaesthetic, she was such a brave little girl, even Iona the vet was amazed as she thought she would have to give her a general anaesthetic. Once the stitches were taken out I became more and more convinced that Meg had gone blind, she went back to the surgery for pressure tests the results were so high, and Iona couldn't get any response from either eye, that she confirmed my suspicions that Meg was totally blind, I knew she had been for the past week or so.
We then got the news I had been dreading, the only solution to end Meg's pain was to remove both eyes, I had been expecting this, but my poor hubby hadn't, it was such a hard thing to agree to, but we knew that the only other option was no option at all. Meg has struggled through life and she loves and trusts us dearly and we were not going to let her down now.
The surgery was performed on the 10th July 2007 and Meg came home to us that same evening, she was highly sedated, she had a morphine patch on her side, antibiotics, and liquid pain medication. Dispite all this on the first night her whimpers and obvious discomfort broke our hearts, but the day after she was a little more awake. By Friday just 3 days after her op she was more like her own self, obviously the pain relief was working and she was pain free. Our vet Iona was very pleased with her progress and she even agreed that Meg could come with Hubby and I on a much needed and long ago booked camping holiday to Clachtoll in the Scottish Highlands, Friday was spent getting Meg two nice warm coats, a new highly deserved bed chosen by her ladyship herself in a big pet superstore and enough dinners to keep her satisfied for 9 days, we should have gone for 14 but Meg was due to have her stitches out on the 24th and we wanted our own vet to do this.
9pm my daughter arrived to doggy sit Mr Bean and Emma our other two Lancashire Heelers, we were still getting all our gear together as we didn't want to pre empt the vets agreement. It was a great rush but we left at 11pm for the 12 hour journey. Meg queen bee was enthroned on her new bed on my knee for the whole journey, and she was rather reluctant to get out of the car to go to the loo even though we had plenty of stops along the way. Finally we arrived at the campsite and we explained to the owners about Meg and they fell in love with her immediately. Meg took to camping like a duck to water, she loved her soft sided house and she soon learned her way around it, she walked well on her lead and her favourite game was flicking the sand up with her plastic hat it was so funny to watch. Meg became the star of the campsite, everyone knew about her and what had happened the campsite owners made sure of that. When we took her out everyone was so friendly towards her and she made lots of new friends, and even had quite a few photos taken by foreign tourists, this attention really boosted her confidence and by the time we were coming home she was even confident enough to explore outside the tent.
She had her stitches out on the 24th July 2007 and of course she was allowed to loose her big hat. She is coping brilliantly we were amazed that she had remembered her way around our house when we got back after the holiday but she did.
Meg now sees everything with her heart, she is pain free and is a lot happier than she has been for the past couple of months, of course we worry about her getting hurt, but we know that she has to stand on her own feet and grow her own confidence which she is doing everyday.
Meg is a real Superstar, and a tribute to what can be acheived through love and total trust on both sides.
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Well I know it has taken my Mummy Secretary a while to get around to updating my diary for me, but she has been under so much stress this week.
She had another meeting with the big yukky boss man on Tuesday this week, and the outcome of the 3 minute meeting is that she is redundant as from 28th March this year. She was amazed that she got a months notice though as she was only expecting a week. When she was back in her office her direct boss gave her a letter from big yukky boss man she was furious when she read it as it said he had offered her two positions and she had refused them. Lies total lies, she was offered an interview for her own job, and he mentioned in passing a position in caring, anyway she flipped and had a right do with her boss the one who has always hated her. In the end Mummy said she would find out more about the caring which she did the day after.
Well this is a whole new story, she asked for a job description, she read this and at one point it says something about giving clients medication, well you are not allowed to do so unless you are a trained nurse or a Senior carer, anyway she bit her tongue and said nothing, and she went to speak to the manager of this part of the Charity, at present Mummy is working 20 hours and all she was offered was a maximum of 8 hours and that was cleaning, washing, changing curtains etc. Mummy did caring for a few years which was looking after people not doing all their domestic work. Anyway Mummy left this option open, but last night when she was thinking about it, she realised that she wouldn't be able to try the job she is doing now mobile if she stayed with the Charity. She hasn't said anything to anyone yet about wether she is taking the 8 hours or not, I don't think she is going to though.
This morning she made her mind up to go mobile and she printed lots of flyers off the computer and in a couple of weeks she is going to take them out around the local area. She has got a mad idea, being that she doesn't drive and buses are so expensive her idea is to get a pushbike with a trailer on the back then she can be a bit more mobile than she would be just on her two feet, I think it is awful having only two feet to walk on, mine get tired and I have got four. She will have to save up though as the cheapest she could find was including the trailer £200.00, so it will have to be two feet for the forseeable future.
She is telling her clients that she is being made redundant on the 28th March well why shouldn't she, she is not lying is she, she is just letting them know that they won't see her again after this appointment, anyway 3 out of the 5 have asked for her phone number as they want her to carry on treating them, the other two were really hard ones that she doesn't want to do anyway.
Then to top it all off nicely, just to put Mummy in yet another mood, the Charity are only advertising for volunteers in our local paper and they want them to do Mummies job. Now how is that for putting the icing on the cake.
Mummy is working to rule now, doing just what she has to, she is starting on the dot, taking her whole half hour dinner (unpaid of course) and she is finishing on the dot and she is taking no hassle off anyone client or staff.
So that is where Mummy is at my friends, I am going to take her downstairs now so that she can have a cuddle with me, Emma and Mr Bean, we will all cheer her up and chill her out.
Speak soon
Meggie and Mummy Secretary
I don't believe this all my bones have disappeared again
Mum and Dad Pawrent were watching a programme the other night about Sloth's and hey guess what they are just like me they can take up to 15 hours to digest a meal well I think thats what they said, but best of all they can sleep the day away, see I told you they were just like me, my two favourite things food and sleeping, now I wonder if there is a group for doggie Sloth's on here, may get Mummy Pawrent to look around ha ha.
Since I last wrote my diary Mummy has written to her boss, she has spoken to an employment lawyer and the letter she had written was put in as a Formal Grievance she put in it why she wasn't applying for the new post and mainly that was because she doesn't drive and she wouldn't be able to do part of the job and also that she couldn't afford to loose a big chunk of her wage which is only 20 hours anyway, she spoke with the boss last Monday and he said he wanted to see her again today at 1pm. She went to this meeting, her direct boss, the big boss and the employment lawyer were all there, this time Mummy wasn't scared of them. When she went in the Big Boss said that in respect of the travelling expenses that he originally said would be no more, he had discussed it with the Lawyer, who said that they have to carry on being paid. One small triumph for Mummy, then he asked Mummy if she was going to apply for the new job (which really is hers already) Mummy said no, because she couldn't fulfill the home visit part as she doesn't drive, which is the biggest part of the letter she sent in. Big Boss then told her that there is a good chance she will be made redundant but Mummy stood her ground, and again said why she wasn't applying. He then told her that the only other job going was in the Care Section, (which again means travelling all round, working stupid hours and weekends) obviously he knows that Mummy can't do that either as she is at college two nights a week and at weekends she spoils us fourleggers. Mummy didn't say anything about the offer and he didn't go into any more details, he has arranged to have another meeting with Mummy next Tuesday at 1200hrs. Which means yet again Mummy will have to cancel her clients, and they are getting rid of a job because it isn't making money, I wonder why when she has had to cancel 9 clients this week for meetings and yet more next tuesday for another meeting.
That is all I can tell you for now but I am sure Mummy will tell me all about the next meeting on Tuesday.
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