Ken has been diagnosed with likely Parkinson’s disease. There is no clinical test for Parkinson’s so it is down to tests and then if the diagnosis is Parkinson’s it depends on whether he responds to the treatment which can be slow progress. So far the treatment has stopped the tremors so I think we can say the diagnosis is accurate. Everyone with this disease is different so there is no easy progress. We have taken the attitude that there are worse things and will make the best life we can as we always have.
We have had a fantastic life moving to Dorset, retiring early and sailing round the Med, buying our house there and all our cats and adopting Shula which was why I started the blog. Things are very different now Brexit has put paid to the villa in Spain so we are back in the UK. Shula who was 14 last January is suffering with her joints and has all sorts of lumps and bumps. In Spain with her vet there we had an agreement that we would look after her until she was in pain or couldn’t go on. In the UK I have no such agreement, every time I go they want a blood test, this test or that test it is all down to money so I have stopped going I will have to make the decision when she can’t go on. I blame dog insurance which has hiked the price.
Little dog Sky is deaf and blind in one eye but is doing fine. She is still nervous in new situations but in her own home she is a little tyrant and one happy little dog.
