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Cool August night

YES!!

And rain, too!

August started with a whoosh of a cold front and then an afternoon, night and all day today gentle rain.

Hoo…I say HOO-RAH!

The forecast high today was 65F but it only made it to 60. I am ecstatic and dressed in fleece shirt and boots and long pants. AND, I even turned the heat on for just 15 minutes to take the chill and damp off…for Bob, you know :) !!

Rainy day Bob…

Rainy day Bear…

Rainy day me…

It’s ok. I was happy to sit at my desk and plug along at work while Bob and Bear snored.

In the wishful thinking department:

We started August cool and rainy
On Monday Bear and I saw a Cinnamon Bear on the game trail! ( we usually only see bears Spring and Fall)
Also on Monday, squirrels were working in the yard gathering stuff
There are a LOT of butterflies

Maybe it will be an early Fall …. maybe the yellow jackets will take the hint and do their Fall thing NOW!

A girl can hope….ok, a middle-aged woman can hope! I know Bear and Bob hope too!

Mr. Bob’s ear news… it is STILL going on. Last week we got an all clear from Dr. Clark via visual exam. To be on the safe side we continued the meds through Saturday. By Tuesday, Bob had the wobbles.

RATS.

DOUBLE-TRIPLE RATS!!!

We picked up more medication today and have calls in to 2 specialist clinics. We will travel either to Missoula or Great Falls or both this coming week.

On the plus side, Dr. Clark told me today that his gut feeling is that things look worse than they are. He was referring to my worry over Bob’s wobbly symptoms vs all other tests and as he said, his own intuition based on years of experience. As much as I try not to and KNOW that it does Bob no good to worry, it was so good to hear this. Bob is eating and drinking normally, normal output, he sticks to his normal routine and does not seem in pain.

So.

Onward!

The other good news is that originally, I was to pick up the newly washed and waxed Wild Thing today. That would have meant driving a fresh clean motorhome in the rain…on roads that had been dusty – resulting in yucky, muddy splashes. BUT…, the person working on WT called in sick and now she is to be ready next Tuesday AND staying in a nice garage bay at the body shop all this time. Another HOO-RAH! She should be home in time to load and head to whichever clinic(s) we need to go to.

It might not be exactly the getaway I had in mind, but we will get away and hopefully move toward full resolution of Bob’s ear infection. Dr. Clark does feel that is all it is…just bad, resistant bug or bugs. There is nothing to indicate anything worse.

The lastest wobbly Bob video…recorded for the veterinary diagnostic purposes.

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More light and shadow

This afternoon.

Bob.

Light and shadow.

*** 8 days, maybe more…90-93F. The nights cool to upper 50/low 60’s. BUT, we are having a Yellow Jacket year… I have traps made of meat hanging from skewers over soapy water in mason jars and have been drowning over 100 yellow jackets daily. I fear for the boys being stung – especially Bob, so we’ve all been inside except for a couple of hours in the morning. Bear and I go out – carefully – at noon and dinner and then at 9-10 ish p.m. And I take Bear for some Jeep excursion when I can break during the day. Hurry up, Fall!!

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Saturday morning lie-in

It has been hitting 90 during the day and forecast to continue. But the air is very dry so we drop into the 50’s overnight, making morning prime time to be outside.

By 8:00 a.m. this Saturday morning, we were back inside.

After breakfast, some of us went back to bed…

Most of us went back to bed.

At first separately.

But then together.

Saturday morning lie-in.

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Life experience

It has been 2 1/2 weeks since our last vet visit (Bob and I re Bob’s ear infection).

We went today.

The last round of medication resulted in a slight setback.

We regrouped and will go back to the injectible but slightly risky medication.

Dr. Clark and I jointly had a case of nerves re the injectible but in hindsight we are kicking ourselves as it was kicking the bugs.

The road not taken…

While the ear infection is not life threatening, it was making Bob’s quality of life kind of “sucky” (that’s 40 something Dr. Clark’s words :)!! )

This latest setback is nothing like the worst we saw – (minimal, in fact) but no one wants to go back there so…

Dr. C and I agreed to “suck it up” and go back to the injectible med with a once a week blood test to monitor Bob’s kidney/liver stuff.

Bob has been going on about his normal routine. It is only us humans that are having anxious moments.

Have I learned nothing from past experience???

Gah!

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The continuing saga of Bob’s ears

The last we left our story, Bob had undergone an ear roto rooter kind of procedure and the resulting gunk was sent off to the lab to see if something could be grown that would help target a new medication.

Something(s) did grow and it was two odd/rare/hard to kill bacteria but we have an ear drop weapon picked up today and have commenced on another round of attack.

Meanwhile, the first drug was one that was effective against one of the bugs, hence Bob’s feeling better, being less wobbly and progressing to being my snuggle buddy once more AND using his litter box vs the pile of litter sand. Yea.

Not only that, but as Mr. Bob is feeling up to getting on the bed, he has also been feeling up to giving Bear a bit of the ole stink eye…just on general principle.

Onward.