Bad Fleas!!!! Grandma fell.

Benji is on the left, I am on the right.

Mommy was going thru a range of emotions over the past few days -- she needed to calm down a bit before she actually did a post about what happened, (or else this post would have been a bunch of HBO words, with the word "flea" thrown in here and there.)

Mommy noticed I had a flea on me last week.   She got rid of that flea, and a few days later noticed me itching again -- and saw another flea.

Mommy started to panic and said -- I need to give you dogs a bath and put that flea medicine on you.

After us dog's got a bath, Grandma ended up slipping on the wet bathroom floor/carpet, fell down towards the hallway, hit her head, and got all bruised up.

Mommy heard the thump when Grandma fell -- and heard Benji barking frantically in a really high pitched bark.   Mommy was in the laundry room when it happened-- and quickly ran to Grandma to help her up. 

All Mommy remembers is pushing Benji aside to help Grandma.  Benji was springing up and down with his front legs and barking in a high alarm sound. (I think Benji was either trying to alert Mommy that Grandma fell or trying to keep Grandma alert.)

Mommy doesn't remember what I (Lassie) was doing when the fall happened.   What Mommy doesn't know is that I was trying to keep Benji calm and out of their way as Mommy helped Grandma to get up.

Grandma is ok.  She refused to go to the hospital.  She has a bunch of bruises everywhere, but we are thankful that Grandma didn't hit her head in a different spot -- or the fall could have killed her.

A few days after the bath -- we got the flea medicine squirted on our backs between our shoulder blades.   We hope the flea medicine works and those bad fleas go away!!!


It's all the fleas fault that Grandma fell down!  Bad Fleas!!!

If the fleas didn't get on me -- Grandma wouldn't have fallen down.




Thanks everyone for listening.  We hope those bad fleas stay away from you and your loved ones too!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties


P.S. These are things Benji and I have been doing to help Grandma since her fall....


1.  We licked the cinnamon off Grandma's fingers after she ate a cinnamon donut so Grandma didn't have to go wash her hands.

2.  We stand in the hallway, guarding the wall in case Grandma falls down again so she doesn't hit her head again.

3.  Grandma keeps her bruised leg elevated on her lift chair (the lift chair is a recliner chair with a remote control). To be helpful to Grandma, we rotate shifts and when we think Grandma needs to keep her legs elevated longer -- we lay under the recliner part where her legs are -- so Grandma can't put the recliner down in the sitting position.  She has to lay with her feet up in that reclining position until we move.  (We only have Grandma's good intentions in mind when we take doggie naps under the recliner. It's not because it's the most pawsome hide-out ... it's because we want Grandma's leg to feel better!  Honest!)

I think Grandma appreciates all the things we have been doing to be helpful.