Dizzy dog, 2016

There must be something about December in Florida that Grace does not like.  It was just over a year ago, in early December 2015, that Grace had her first bout of vertigo. It wasn’t funny as I thought she way dying. But she recovered. Mostly. She has had some stability problems ever since and generally is more feeble than she was before she got dizzy. It was a significant event in her life and it prompted Jett and me to have our first serious talk about when to put Grace down. The conclusion: it would be time when she seemed to no longer be enjoying life.

Well, she has been enjoying life. Yes, she is 15 and is feeble, but she still wags her tail. On good days she still romps like a puppy. But on Monday this week she suffered a second bout of vertigo. It was not as severe as the first – she didn’t fall over when she shook her head – but this time she seemed to be incontinent and generally “out of it”. She had no appetite – not even for a slice of bread, which she usually gobbles down. We were concerned that she had had a small stroke.

We had “the talk” again and decided, on the assumption that it was “just vertigo,” that we would give her a couple of days to recover.

It is now Saturday and she has not fully recovered, but she is slowly improving. Last night she wagged her tail. So it appears that we will have her for a few more days. Or weeks. But not forever.