Re: Struggling
Originally Posted by
Buster70
Last night felt like the last straw, worried all day then kept awake all night , at least once an hour the dog got us up , she gets Diarrhea a lot and being on the second floor it means taking her down the stairs and hanging about in the cold and dark while she does her business, it takes me a while to get back to sleep then just as I do she’s scratching at the door again , I was so sleep deprived I felt like I was going mad to a point I was too tired to sleep , by seven o’clock I was just sat in tears , this has gone on for years with no end in sight , at home we go down and leave the back door open and go back to sleep but that’s not possible here , she not ill just old and has been to the vets recently she nearly died from fluid on her lungs , she’s in good health for a Staffy of fifteen but it’s become a nightmare , I’ve now got so used to being woken I lay awake waiting for her to start, on the rare occasion I get maybe 5 hours sleep I function so much better , I can’t remember the last time I slept through the night , and having a nap in the day seems to make it harder to sleep at night .
This said I didn’t go mad as I thought I was going to and managed to get through the day but it’s not much of a life.
Constant diarrhoea and waking up throughout the night? What do you feed her on?
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