Decisions, decisions, but we need to base at St Neots

Moored St Neots

It’s nice here at St Neots, I like the town a lot, ‘tis very laid back and friendly.. people like being asked where this and that is.. “Oh the fishing tackle shop is hidden here, I don’t know why, but seems they don’t like ‘outsiders’ finding them”… OK, so me the detective found them!!

Lucy went to the vets today for an update on her devastating injury of 3 months ago.. I am not happy with the result of the surgery to try mend that hip.. I want the ball of the hip removed so it isn’t touching the hip joint.. hard to explain to you all, but I know my dog.  The operation at Peterborough was not totally successful, she is still not putting her leg to the ground at ‘cantering gait’… I have not been walking with her for fear of her knocking that joint out again.  It was pinned, but when the pin was taken out the ball bit slipped and is just hanging on in there on the socket joint.. what is she knocks it?  Will it come out of the joint, and we will be in the same position as we were three months ago..

I ramble here.. but the alternative to what she has at the moment is to cut off the ball bit of her hip joint and let the muscles and tendons etc make a new joint for the hip… there will be no cage rest after this op, and as much exercise as I can give her.. to me that seems the best option.. at least then I don’t have to worry about her jumping about and knocking the hip ball joint out of that socket..

She goes to the vets on Thursday for xrays… I know vets know best, but I know what will be best for her too…

OK so that is that..

Things are not that good at the moment… just a bad patch I think… I took a nice pic tonight of NP at St Neots…

Then promptly dropped the camera as I got down off a park bench that I took the pic from and the camera fell onto the concrete and broke!

Such is life I suppose, but we will base ourselves here or here abouts for a while, Lucy needs sorting and so does Vic.. his next appointment in Oxford is next Monday, and the bus to Oxford goes through St Neots so we can catch it here..

But we can relax too.. here Ann of NB Moore2Life snapped a delightful photo when we were at St Ives, of a couple of water gypsies with their dog..