The Owner is well. It is Day 15 since her Covid began. Now we can go for a Walk. I have been taken for walks by Others but it is not quite the same. There is something about the quality of the Throwing. A Moral Dog walking with a Substitute […]
I ask the Other Dogs if we should still be Licking. Caspar and I are in Favour. However Bercow says he is maintaining a two metre rule, whilst Houdini says he makes a point of never being in the same room, or even street, as his Owner for more than […]
Everyone is talking about mild, moderate and severe case, and critical cases. What does this mean? There are, as yet, no clear guides for patients to tell them what doctors mean by mild, moderate or severe Covid. Some guidance on classifying illness is appearing in research papers and epidemiological reports, […]
The Owner says I can go for a Walk with the Man if we Keep our Distance from Other People. She says she has to stay at home for two more days. That will make Fourteen. You will have to lift me into the Car, I say. Unaccountably, the Owner […]
The Owner is looking Surprisingly Bouncy. Are you Feeling Better? I ask. Much, says the Owner, thank you for asking. Not at all, I say. I am delighted for you. Squeaky Cat makes a Small Sound of Affirmation, Indicating that he is also Thrilled. Silence falls. Are you not going […]
Covid in two 50 somethings in North London has gone like this. One mild. One mild to moderate. The patients are two 58 year olds. One of us had a very mild case. The other had a case that, from a doctor’s point of view, was mild to moderate during […]
The Owner hopes she is past the Worst because her temperature has come down. There was a Turning Point in the night, she says. Mind you, she is still coughing, and about as Cheerful as Mr Darcy in the start of that film, even before he fell in the Pond. […]
Could you please Stop Coughing now? I say to the Owner. I would like to go for a walk. Unfortunately, says the Owner, we do not get to Choose how long we cough for. I hear that most people cough from day Eight, for a few or several days. I […]
Is that a Cough? I ask the Owner. It might be, says the Owner, now excuse me, I am Languishing. That was Rhetorical Question, I say. It was not much of a Cough, I say. I could easily have mistaken it for Clearing your Throat. One would expect a person […]
The Owner says she will be going to work as soon as her Virus is gone and her Stitches are Dissolved Away. (Squeaky Cat is rather alarmed by this as he is now Mainly Stitches and Hopes they will not Dissolve as he will Go With Them.) What will happen […]
Why won’t you play with me? I ask. I am Hot and Cross, says the Owner. Like the Buns, I say. I feel this is rather witty. No, says the Owner, not at all like the Buns, in fact, but like a Person who is Hot and Cross and Has […]
You don’t look Very Sick to Me, I tell the Owner, so why am I Going to Day Care? I cannot Walk the Moral Dog whilst I have Covid-19, says the Owner. This would be Unfair on Many Levels. Whilst I do not yet look sick I have only just […]
Do you have Covid-19? I ask the Owner. It seems that I do, says the Owner. But this is Day one so it is early days. How do you feel? I ask. I have a slight cough, says the Owner, such that it tickles when I breath in, and a […]
Why are we staying in? I ask the Owner. I want to go to the Coffee Shop. I may have a Bug, says the Owner. I do not want to Give it to Others. It seems to me, I say, that if you have a Bug then giving it to […]
The Moral Dog’s Owner is a Doctor so the usual provisos that her Opinions are hers only do come tweaked with Medical Knowledge gleaned over three decades and a swine flu pandemic. The Owner is expecting imminent Covid because of close contact. So apologies for hijacking the Moral Dog’s blog […]
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