Living the dream: a stroke and dinosaurs

lördag 28 mars 2015

a stroke and dinosaurs

It has been hectic the last couple of days. So hectic that we haven´t had the energy to write anything. Now we´ve had a day off , well I even had one and a half, from work and thus have more energy.

Our beloved and quite old dog;Herman, probably suffered from a minor stroke on Thursday and we were scared to bits.

Herman on the beach. You can´t tell he will be 13 in June.

He was his usual self in the morning, going for a walk, had his breakfast and playing with the other boys. Just before lunch time, we were having lunch for our workers, he wasn´t around, so I went looking for him. That he would skip lunch time is unheard of.

Herman in his favourite place

I found him in the horta, the veggie garden which has no veggies at the moment. He seemed absent and tired but came with me when I called him. There was no energy in him and staggered a bit. We immediately saw something was wrong. So we pulled our last card to see if he wasill or not. We got som chourico from the fridge and he didn´t touch it.

Ok that´s it. If he isn´t eating then he is seriously ill and we called the vets. We have the best vets in the world by the way. They opened even if it was closed for lunch and took us in. The vet couldn´t find anything wrong with Herman. Hearts and lungs were fine, no vomit or diarrea, temperature perfect and so forth. He asked if we thought he could have eaten rat poison. But we didn´t think so.
He told us that it was probably a stroke but he couldn´t tell for sure.

By that time Herman had recovered and had started to look his normal self. We took our dog and went home, relieved but also a bit quiet. Herman is going to be 13 in June, which is quite a lot for a big dog. He is not going to live forever. We know that. But what will we do when he is gone?

Senhor Lars and Herman

Today we took the dogs, some coffee, some fruit and pao com chourico, which is bread with baked in chourico and decided to go to the dinosaur park in the Serra da Aire e Candeeiros. We wanted to get a book from the park workers where you can read about different hiking trails. This was our second attempt to find it. We do own a GPS but can´t find the charger so it isn´t much use. And of course we didn´t find it. But we found other interesting things

A sign by the road read Alcoberta and that it was something old there. What it was we didn´t know.

It was a tile oven from Roman time.

The view from there was stunning

Then we continued our journey and I must say that it is absolutely beautiful this time of year. There are flowers everywhere, the temperature was over 20 degrees and the sun was shining.