Wordy Wednesday.

Ever since Eric left I have been slowly losing weight. No obvious cause had shown up and it was put down to me missing my brother and also to getting older.
A few months ago I started to lose weight more quickly so mum and dad took me back to the vet and I had my blood stolen. The results all looked good apart from thyroid which was in the higher end of normal. The vet advised no treatment at that stage but to keep an eye on my weight. Mum weighs me once a week. Until about 18 months ago I was around 14 pounds. I have always been much smaller than Eric.
Two weeks ago when mum weighed me I had dropped 1.2 pounds in a week and now weigh 11.2 pounds. I was taken back to the vet and had my throat shaved and more blood stolen. This time the T4 was definitely raised. Mum and dad were told of the alternatives for my treatment and decided on pills which I will be on for the rest of my life. I have now been on them for a week and we think it will probably be another week or so before there is any noticeable difference.
Mum is surprised at how good I am to take them which she is thankful for as they are slow release and can't be crushed. I don't fight against them, but I don't like to swallow them but do before too long. I go back after 3 weeks of taking them to have another blood test to see if the dosage needs adjusting.When mum did my weekly weigh I hadn't lost any more weight so that is good.
Mum has been using all the photos that don't show my weight loss and also I have a very thick coat which hides a lot, but in the photo below you can see a definite change in my shape and you can feel every vertebrae when my back is stroked.

Hopefully we will get good results with the pills so I can continue with a long and happy life.

Wordy Wednesday.

We are not used to the very hot weather in the UK so it is very important to keep well hydrated.
These purple flowers are supposed to be cat nip. That is what it said on the seed packet, well, as a nip connoisseur I can tell you it is not the real thing. It does absolutely nothing for me, growing or dried and the people who said it is nip don't know what they are talking about. The bees seem to like it though.
I had a couple of comments in my last post asking why dad lent some straw to his friend then had it back again two days later. His friend wanted to take some people on a tour of his fields on his farm trailer but he only has big round bales so dad lent him some of his small bales for the people to sit on. Trouble was that their stinky cats sat on it too.
I am sorry I have not been commenting for the past two weeks, the reason being that I have been in lock up while the Beans were off gallivanting again. We decided against putting it on the blog as the last twice there were introoders snooping about while they were gone. It was okay though because our neighbour sent them packing. It was probably just coincidence but they decided not to advertise the fact that they were away and mum scheduled some posts for me. I will try and get back to normal and start visiting all my friends again.
Thank you all for the blogoversary wishes too.