Taking turns

Helios and I are taking turns giving our M health scares. After she thought that he's broken his tail on Sunday, he was back to his 'tail whacking in your face' self by Monday evening. So I guess he did really have the cold water tail.

However, on Tuesday, my M found 2 lumps in my neck area, which she remembered clearly was not there on Sat when she was giving me a neck scratch. The lumps were making me a little uncomfortable so I didn't finish my dinner that night, which is a RARE thing. This is about where the position of the lumps are:



She called our 'in house vet' Aunty G again, who wondered if dogs can have sore throat. Or she thought it can be tonsilities. So she said to observe for a few more days before bringing me to the vet.

My M is praying that it's just sore throat because she just gave me a lot of biscuits that morning. According to traditional chinese medicine, there are 'heaty' food and 'cooling' food. So heaty food will cause sore throats. If one is too 'heaty' or 'cooling', they will need to eat something of the opposite effect to offset.

So my M went to the market this morning and bought barley to boil barley drink for me, because barley is supposed to be 'cooling'.

My barley drink


I just hope it's a sore throat, and not a tumor, or a problem with my lymph node or something serious. If the lump is still there on saturday, I'll have to see the vet. Everyone cross your paws for me!