We are on hold in Vero Beach. The boat is ready for cruising, but alas, Oliver is not. We went to get his health certificate the Bahamas require and had his bloodwork updated. We found out his kidney disease had progressed significantly. We are working through a vet here, but they are taking direction from his wonderful vet internist/specialist we used in Ft. Lauderdale. She is wonderful helping us through this. Her name is Alison Cannon if anyone should ever need her. Anyway, the course of action is to raise his one medicine Enacard, which could cause acute renal failure short term or work for the long term. So far, we have made it 24 hours doing this. We have to monitor him and look for appetite issues and lethargy. We were stunned by the results as he was walking a mile in the morning and late afternoon, all bodily functions working well and he was hanging around the docks happy as a clam. Of course, this is the dog that fooled 3 vets when he was in heart failure, soooo...
What have we been doing?
We provisioned the boat and readied it to go, oh well.
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| Dale did some wiring and then we cleaned under the floor. |
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| Oliver supervising with his dolphin. |
Halloween was nice. We had trick or treaters on the dock.
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| Ollie waiting for them to come to our boat. |
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| The Beck family, Andy, Robin, Maddie and Peyton |
We have been watching the weather which is not cooperating. Lots of windy northerlies that make waves very high. We have had days up to 13 feet. We do not want to be out sailing in those.
We went to the Sebastian Clamfest. They have fried clams, steamed clams, clam chowder as well as other foods. It was yummy. They also had a craft fair and informational booths set up.
We have been keeping up with our Spartan football and basketball games when we can get them. For some reason ABC here rather show SEC and ACC games here and our direct TV satellite is based in Michigan, so we haven't been able to see all the games. We listen on the computer and do Gamecast on the ESPN app.
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| My new Spartan Burgee |
The marina hosted a Thanksgiving potluck, so we have now had 2 celebrations , one Canadian and one American. (sorry, no pictures)
Small remote sailboats race on a pond on Sunday afternoons.
Last night, Oliver was thrilled to see 2 dolphins in the marina. He barked from the docks and one swam right over, snorted through his blowhole right below us and them swam under the docks and a boat. They have some kind of connection. They did not go near the people. Oliver was ecstatic! I was holding him so did not get any pictures. I do not want the iphone to go in the water.
Watch the plethora of birds around here.
So anyway, here we are. We go for another blood test for Ollie next Tuesday when we will know how he is doing. I will keep you posted. I finally joined Facebook, so I try to update that.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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| Oliver is ready for the next holiday. |
