#and yes... i completely forgot all my medications through all of this... 😶

[saintedbythestorm]

God, what a fucking night... around 9 pm last night Lucifer started wobbling about, out of the blue. He'd walk around and around in a circle and his eyes would (as I've understood now that it's been better describe to me afterwards) show signs of him having balance issues.

At the time this occurred i was sleeping in my room, so dad burst in, in complete panic and woke me up speaking of how something was very wrong with Lucifer. I try my very best to wake fast (which I'm bad at, at the best of times and I've had a severe pain day) but I keep feeling very off and can't really wake up. I also feel very nauseous, which isn't helping things.

Managed to get out there in the end and Lucifer gets of the floor mattress and starts doing the spin walk thing in front of me. Alarming to see, and hard not to think of our cat that got a stroke wobbling about... almost at the same spot too (which certainly didn't help to prevent the connection forming in your mind!!).

I had to rush to the bathroom so couldn't stay and try and help dad figure things out. Only had to ask him to call a vet and get guidance from them on what to do as I rushed by.

Still stuck in the bathroom, I waited till dad had talked with the vet who wanted us to come in with Lucifer. Problem was... I was going nowhere anytime soon, and was clearly unfit for travel.

So I quickly suggest asking our lovely neighbours for aid. They quickly came over and dad and the husband of the family soon took Lucifer with them and left. The wife stayed back here with me, keeping me company (probably quite worried since they knew about my trip to the psychological emergency place 😅).

About an hour or so later we get a call from dad, saying they've reached the vet and they need a picture of Lucifers id number (cause dad forgot to take the bag with Lucifers papers, despite me reminding him about it as they were leaving 🙈).

About two-three hours after that we finally get a call again. Lucifer is fine, but they believe he may suffer from old dog vestibular syndrome. He gets a few medication prescribed to help ease his symptoms and needs to get plenty of rest (oh no.. good luck to us with that one). Overall though, they say he seems healthy and they think it's very likely he will recover... but for now we can only wait and see how it goes. If he isn't better in a few days or he's gotten a lot worse we are to contact either a local vet or them again. They did note a slight noise on his heart, but said it was nothing of concern for now. He basically instantly went for kicking about on the floor mattress the second he got home, so that's at least a good sign of him being a good bit better right now.

Now he's been home a few hours, still a wee bit wobbly on and off but certainly way more energetic than may be expected after everything. Been sleeping soundly in between (as to be expected after his little... adventure... and for the time of day too).

Just very glad to see him back home and looking pretty ok all things considered. Was beyond scary though.. AND WHY MUST HE ALWAYS PULL THESE KIND OF THINGS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAMN NIGHT?! 😫😫😫😫😫