We bought Bobbins home from the vet – she’d been staying in for over a week and we really felt that there wasn’t much that could be done for her in the vet which we couldn’t do at home. The vet has said that she is well, but the virus is lingering giving her digestive problems (which was the diarrhea) and it was a case of waiting for the virus to run its course.
We’re glad we did opt to bring her home as the vet bill was increasing rapidly and after over a week, we were facing a hefty vet bill, without feeling we were getting much from it.
So she’s been at home and the pattern has been the same – she’d get a bit better and then slip back about 90% of the improvement. So she’s been showing signs of improvement but in tiny, tiny increments.
The last couple of days, however, she’s taken step forwards without the step backs, so fingers crossed this is a sign that at last the virus is going. She’s been kept away from the others – which has been a challenge – however I don’t think it has worried her too much as long as she has had something soft to sleep on.
I think this is the first time we’ve actually missed not having pet insurance. While we have pets with chronic conditions who need medication on an ongoing basis, this costs just tiny fractions of a euro, so it’s not something we need to think about. However, with Bobbins treatment, which has been ongoing without a clear ending, we’ve had to be aware that everything that they try comes with a cost, whereas if she had pet insurance, I imagine everything would have been covered.
In other news, everything just continues as (new) normal. Extremadura is still under a ‘state of emergency’ however that is so they can keep the night time curfew and make snap decisions to add stricter measures to an area.Usagre, the next village to us, was under a lockdown, but that has been lifted. Spain has been one of the few countries not to have a second national lockdown, instead relying on local lockdowns to contain things. There have been and continue to be big clusters of cases in some cities, but not everywhere . Of course, mask wearing has been mandatory since May, even for children and in schools, so I wonder if that has had something to do with it.
The information available continues to improve and one interesting thing we can now see is data about specific outbreaks. We can see whether an outbreak is a family, workplace, mixed, social… and how many people those people have been in contact with. I imagine this information must be invaluable for councils when working out what to do. Obviously, an outbreak of 10 which is one family is likely to be less challenging and more easily contained than an outbreak of 10 in a workplace who then go home to their own families.
We shall be watching Bobbins closely today – if she continues to improve, she will be allowed out from her doggy lockdown!!!