Good Friday with A Few Good Men

Good Friday this year started with an early morning walk around Ranelagh where we picked litter up as we walked the dog. If everyone took a few minutes every few days to clean up outside their house, we could find ourselves with lovely clean streets when lockdown finished.  I got my litter picker in Dealz but I am sure they are available in other shops too.

Other than that we had a fairly quiet day. Ciaran did a bit of work on an artwork proposal for a government initiative to support artists and encourage creativitiy during the pandemic.  
We both also did Spanish classes online and I signed up for an additional language app to support my language learning.

We went for another walk about 6pm and wandered around Ranelagh (always sticking to no more than 2km from our house and also ensuring we socially distanced from other walkers as we passed them) and then when we came home Ciaran had a Zoom meetup with a gang of friends.

Zoom has been quite the life saver in these times. On Thursday, Ciaran was in Zoom meetings pretty much all day with clients and also staff.....later after work he then did a Zoom work out with trainer / physiotherapist Derek Ryan and a group of guys that he plays squash with.  Technology is great!

At one point about 4.30pm I was on a Teams online meeting with the Library Finance Team and Ciaran was in one of his meetings and to be honest it just felt like the strangest thing ever. It's like we have advanced ourselves so rapidly in the last few weeks. I guess it is one of the good things that has come out of the pandemic.

And then it was on to our evening.  I cooked the nicest steaks with really great hasselback potatoes to go with them. I wish I took a picture as they were so good!

After flicking around Netflix and regular TV we finally settled on a film we could both watch. It was an oldie but a goodie - A Few Good Men! 

I put the below up on my Facebook and my twin sister commented from the States that she wished she could be there to watch it. Lol!

Emergency Vet Visit

Trust Bones to need a vet visit during a pandemic!

The other day when I was brushing Bones hair near his face I noticed that he winced. This happened again yesterday and once again I noticed that he did it again today.  

So I knew something was up and started investigating. Ciaran picked him up and I had a look in his mouth. Straightaway I saw a growth of some kind and reckoned he needed to go to the vet.

I rang our vet to see if they were open. Normally they don't operate an appointment system but they gave me an appointment time of 6.10pm and instructed me to ring the clinic from outside when I arrived.

So I popped Bones on the lead and walked down to Charlemont Street which is about 15 minutes away. 

When I arrived, I rang to let them know I was outside. They asked me a few more questions and said there were a few patients ahead of me but they would take Bones in when it was his turn.

There were people waiting with pets in cars and the vet staff came out and took different animals in and dropped animals back out to their humans with instructions on how to care for their pets and how to give them their medications, etc. The staff were decked out in full PPE.

And then it was Bones turn. He was in for about 10 mins when I got a phone call from the vet who explained what had been found and what she recommended.  Basically he has what she thinks is a benign growth that needs to be removed and sent off for analysis and at the same time as doing this she will clean his teeth and remove any bad ones (I'm not surprised by this - his teeth are dire) along with removing a cyst from under his chin. While I was on the phone, she looked up the diary and booked him in to be operated on tomorrow at 10am.

I am in the office doing essential work tomorrow (answering the Community Call Line) so Ciaran will take him down to the clinic for his op (he needs to fast from midnight).

From my description of how the consultation was handled, you can see how the vet practise was adhering to social distancing.

Along with the usual Covid19 signage in the window there was instructions on what to do on arrival.

While we waited outside, Bones pulled on the lead as if to say "C'mon Enid, we don't need to go in there!"

 

I love this retro sign on the Vet clinic!

Bones is in good hands.  I'll let you know how the op goes tomorrow.