Tess update

Thanks everyone for your support and helpful tips for my beloved Tess. 

She is getting around much better now, - I am so thankful it turned out to be vestibular and not stroke. 

Now when she goes outside, she doesn't bounce off the wall as she goes out, she is much steadier on her feet. She doesn't go splat  (much) any more, just the odd time when she tries to shake her fur and loses her balance. 

Her appetite seems to have returned. I have been making her food, usually pasta, eggs, meat and whatever veggie I can find that she will eat, and lately started adding in canned dog meat, which she finally is eating again. (Her new favourite is turkey & venison) She also gets a big spoonful of canned pumpkin in the morning- that seemed to be the thing that helped her appetite. I opted to go for the simplest route first instead of buying stuff from the drug store to help the nausea, as that's just the way I roll. 

It does my heart good to see her getting out and wandering around, even making her trip down to the barnyard when she thinks I am not looking (she won't go there with me).

Aside from the head tilt 

and that she won't walk on the bare floors in the house, she is almost back to her old self! I indulge her by putting old towels down for the areas she prefers- mostly under the kitchen table, it has become her den. We usually eat in the living room anyway, and don't entertain any more. 

Meanwhile, the winter solstice is coming in as a very soggy, wet, muddy day! I'm hoping to get a few Christmas photos with Moondance over the next 2 days, but meanwhile here is my yard décor 

and my tree.

I rode past that tree several times this summer and finally it was time for it to grace my home to celebrate the birth of Christ. I will try for better photos of it but with it against a window it is really tricky to get a daytime photo with my cell phone, and my big camera only has a zoom lens. We shall see what I can come up with!