So the best laid plans as they say...
...Charlie has been really out of sorts for a few days and, after a day when he had been so lethargic and so not wanting to eat, we had agreed to take him to the vets in Polis as soon as we could get an appointment and that was to be Monday morning. He lay on the bed next to me last night and there were times when I thought he had stopped breathing so I didn't get a very good night's sleep. Then this morning he seemed much brighter and hopped off the bed to get his breakfast and then bounced around a bit in the garden so we were happy that we had an appointment for him and that it could wait until then to get him checked out. We prefer to go to Polis as it is that bit closer so less stressful for the cats and for us.
Happy that all was ok and on a fabulously glorious day in February before storms are forecast, Rachel and I walked and new walk. I have found that Narky Nora aka Kamoot can do a video of the pictures so I shall try and post it here. This walk started at the lovely little picnic area I had found on Thursday which is between the edge of Kathikas village and the cemetery. We parked up here and crossed the road and walked heading towards the top of Theletra.
We crossed over the main road and headed down into the valley below which, if we just walked directly down would have taken us to Stroumbi. We walked across towards Kathikas - it is a warren of little roads and tracks with vineyards all around and where today people were out clipping the vines and burning the clippings - great except we had come out for some fresh air and at times our lungs were filled with smeech!!!
Rachel was amazed that at this point we are in beautiful countryside but within 2 minutes of the main road and our car. This was not the longest walk we have done but possibly one of the most hilly and certainly one with some fabulous scenery. It is always so gratifying if I get a "WOW!" at some point during our exercise and today we had several.
I got home earlier than anticipated and John and I showered and changed and we then shot off to Mum's with lunch. I had done a one pot beef in beer casserole with peas, carrots, sweet potato and ordinary potato all in one and we had a tarte au citron with fresh strawberries and cream for pud. Our lunch was short and sweet due to the time restrictions imposed by lockdown but all good and Mum is going to see her friend Lilian for lunch tomorrow so a nice weekend all round for her.
On our return we began to notice that Charlie was not so well again and gradually getting worse. His good eye which is the one which is half closed in the picture was half closed and the only way he seemed to be able to breath was by holding his head up to the light with his mouth open - periodically he made a strange sort of gagging noise and he was clearly in distress. We decided that we could not wait and that we would call to make an emergency appointment at the vets but it being a Saturday we had to go down to the vets on the road to St George's which is a good 20 minutes and is distressing for the cat and distressing for John and I as we get so stressed we argue all the way.
So to cut a long story short - I had to get special permission to make a third journey out and had to take a form with me in case we were stopped, John's text message went twice and he got it approved and denied. It was muggy and Charlie couldn't breath so by the time he arrived he was hyperventilating and very very distressed - I thought we were going to lose him then and there. John and I have terrible memories of that vet's building because the last time we were there we had gone down to collect Chivers body as he had passed away during the night after ingesting something toxic.
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