HEllo my darling spectacular podsquad, sorry for the radio silence.
By some actual miracle, Pod has now slept through 7 whole nights in a row.
CT results came back mostly fine, no obvious explanation for the hellish nights, no scary findings, just one slightly enlarged lymph node near his gut. Could be something, could be nothing. Thankfully Petplan gave me back £870 so I'm not too empoverished. So he’s back on Apoquel now, which might be what’s helping or it might just be classic inexplicable Pod chaos and timing. We've got a few days of tablets left, so I guess we'll soon see if it's coincidence or if it's been helping his tum.
Behaviour-wise, it’s been a real smorgasbord. Some walks have been amazing, loose lead, calmish greetings etc. Other times, he’s gone feral raccoon. Mainly at me.
The lovliest thing happened sunday though, he went to the charity dog show raising money for the charity that brought him over from Spain, and we got to meet the woman who rescued him. She flew over for the event and absolutely lit up when she saw him,it was lovely. I don't think he remembered her but he did polite wagging and she was chuffed. No ribbons for us, but he really is learning to stand nicely in his little ‘show dog’ pose now (when they stand across you with their head up), and there were FOUR Malis there which he didn't scream at.
I miss meltydog a lot but Pod is much happier without the Spanners around. I also got five whole tanks of absolutely disgusting water out of the Spanner Couch with the hoover spot cleaner thing, and it still smells faintly of pond. But apparently the Spanners have settled back into their own home very nicely, so I guess they don’t miss us too much either. Fair.
Anyway. Holding steady. Hope everyone else is hanging in there too.