So our Delaware sit went a little differently than planned. Last Friday night, Cassie, the sweet 13 year old Golden Retriever that we were caring for, started really struggling to get herself up and get herself in a comfy position when she was lying down. Her back legs didn’t seem to have any strength.
Saturday morning, she wasn’t better, so we reached out to the homeowners. They felt that she had probably hurt herself getting on and off a bed or on their wood floors and thought it might resolve itself. By Sunday night, all were in agreement that she needed to see the vet. We got a 4 pm appointment on Monday, and they prescribed some anti inflammatory pills.
We were skeptical. At this point, Cassie’s back legs were not working, and we were having to lift her to get her to get up and change positions, go outside,or get up to eat. We had put extra floor coverings down in the house because she couldn’t get any traction on the wood flooring. The happy news is the pills worked. Starting some time Wednesday, she started getting stronger. Today, when we left her, she was back to “normal” except that she wasn’t hopping upon furniture, which is probably a good thing. Bob and I made sure one of us was always with her, so we became quite attached. She is a sweetie.
Today we left Cassie to drive what we thought would be a maybe 6.5 hour drive to Greensboro, NC. Holiday car travel made it over an hour longer. We drove through Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia before stopping for the night.
The pics below are mostly from our drive through Maryland before everything slowed way down going around DC and then through Virginia.
the Washington Monument on the left and the capitol on the right
Tomorrow, we are going to stop in Boiling Springs, NC, to visit a former home owner and neighbor that we got to know over a 4 month housesit early in 2023, before we head to a repeat housesit in Atlanta, Georgia.
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