#437 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (24th June 2020)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

This whole recording is going to be, it's going to actually have a title. Not sure what the title is going to be yet, but it's going to have Andre in the title. So I don't normally do a recording where I know what I'm going to talk about generally, but in this instance, Andre is the subject of my podcast episode.

I'm taking my slippers off. And part of that reason is because the day has been about Andre. It really has today.

But it's also because quite a few people have been asking about him. And a lot of people that listen to these podcasts seem to really love him. It's a lot of love towards him, directed at him.

I'm saying that like I'm jealous. I don't mean it in that way. But it's lovely.

I'm a little bit jealous. But I wish I had a bendy spine like his. So that's what this recording is going to be about.

So I'm going to tell you about my day with him. Now for those that don't know who Andre is, this podcast will mean nothing to you. But I'll give you a little brief introduction to the Andre.

He is my son, my little boy. He's a ferret. Had him for five years since he was a baby.

I think he was about five weeks old when I got him, four weeks old. He basically just started eating solids, if that makes sense. It just stopped.

It just been weaned off the nipple, basically. And he was eating cat food. And then I got him.

Him eating cat food had nothing to do with me getting him. Just to say that was kind of the stage in his development. He was tiny, absolutely tiny.

I could fit him in the palm of my hand. He's just absolutely like a miniature little thing. But he was developed.

He wasn't newborn. So he wasn't all bald and wrinkly like a little alien. He was like a little piglet.

He was actually, you know, a miniature version of what he is now. But you could see he was young. I mean, if you want to see a picture of him, go to my Facebook page, my normal Facebook page, which is what's normal.

It's not my... because I've got a few Facebook pages. So I've got Let Me Boys Asleep Facebook page for fans of this podcast. And the benefit of that Facebook page really is just I only post episodes of this podcast on there.

So I don't stick other stuff on there. Apart from the occasional video of Andre or picture and stuff. But on my sort of Facebook page that I've had since 2007 or whenever it is I got it, there's a little picture on the left hand side of Andre looking up at me.

And he's tiny. That was him around that time, you know, in the first couple of months of me having him. And in fact, he didn't even have any markings on his nose.

He just had a pink nose when I first got him. And then the markings developed on his nose over time. I remember scrubbing his nose trying to get it off, thinking it was poo.

But I didn't. But I did think it was dirt. Because like, what is that? I thought, is it dirt? Or has someone put a tattoo on his nose while I've been asleep? But then realized that's probably unlikely to happen.

So I, that's a little history of Andre. Took him, he started limping. His back left leg.

So if his bum was facing you, it's the left leg. Yeah. If he's facing you towards the front, it's his right back leg.

Just trying to give you any, you know, I try and get it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

So he started limping. I think this was, I think it's two weeks ago today, actually. And I just put it down to him, maybe injured himself.

Because he's always like jumping off stuff and he's limped before it's not the first time. And it usually doesn't last for more than a few days. Or a couple of days.

But sometimes just for a day. Sometimes for 15 minutes. I'm not sure if it's ever just lasted 15 minutes.

I made that little bit up. But the point is, it doesn't, it's not always for long periods of time. But he's seen something different about this time.

It just, it was a bit more pronounced. He literally was dragging himself along. And anyway, I made an appointment on the Monday, for the Monday, to get him checked out.

So this last Monday, he had an examination. And they said, they couldn't feel any breakages. He seemed okay.

But you know, other than the leg not working properly, or at all. And they said he needed an x-ray. Now, I didn't have the money to pay for an x-ray.

So luckily, I, well not luckily, but basically, I said, look, here's your 40 pound for the appointment for the, you know, give me him back. And I'll see how he gets on. I think I was a little embarrassed to say, oh, I can't afford the 120 pound for the x-ray.

But I just said, like, just give me, give me my little boy back. I brought him home. And then I watched him for another day.

And it wasn't getting any better. I mean, literally, I was having to, poor little fella, he was, couldn't go to the toilet, properly. Because he was going to the toilet, and his leg was collapsing.

And he's falling in there. And I had to wipe his bum. And he's not like, that's not him at all.

He's not. He's not about that. He's a clean boy.

He really is. Cleaner than me, probably. And he's, so I, I'm not, he's not cleaner than me in that way.

But it makes me sound bad, doesn't it? You mean you're dirtier than a ferret? No. You've got a ferret bum. You've got a ferret bum.

No, I haven't. Stop it. I, so I was cleaning up after him for about three days.

And then he stopped doing that. He seemed to be, either his legs getting stronger, or he's, he's adapted. And he's like balanced himself in a different way.

Because I haven't had to clean up after him for about four days now. But anyway, after about a day, I think the, I kind of left it the next day. And then having to clean up after him, I thought, no.

And I didn't know where I was going to get the £120 from to pay for the x-ray. I just, oh, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? And I phoned a friend. And she, someone I've known for a long, long, long time, she said that she would lend me the money for the vet to have the x-ray done.

Which was really kind of her and, you know, I'd have to pay her back. But it was really, I just couldn't get hold of that much money to do it. And he needs it done.

So anyway, had the appointment booked for this morning at quarter past nine. And ended up going to the vets, getting there pretty much probably about 10 minutes late. But they knew that I might not get there on time because of the buses.

And the, it's really weird because he was in the bag. I had him outside the bag and I put him in the bag ready to go. And then I had to take him out of the bag and I wanted to say goodbye to him.

And I felt really emotional. It's quite strange. He's only having an x-ray.

That was my thought. However, it's the longest time I've been away from him for absolutely ages. I mean, generally, I'm never away from him for long, but there's been a couple of times at my brother's wedding, I stayed overnight.

But that was like two years ago. And maybe one other time, I might have done that as well. But generally, I'm with him all the time.

You know, especially now, he's out of the cage, he can do what he wants. And he's been doing that for well over a year, maybe two years now, I've lost track. But even when I wasn't here for those couple of nights, he was still at home.

He was still here, still in his home, his environment, his water, his food, his toys, his, well, his daddy's stuff to trash and destroy whenever he chooses. A big double bed that he can sleep in, or sleep on whenever he chooses. You know, so he was here.

So apart from, well, basically, he's never been away from me, and he was away from me for about seven hours. I dropped him off at 9.30, let's say about 9.30, 9.20, 9.30 in the morning. And I picked him up about 9, about 5.30. That's eight hours, isn't it? And never been out.

It's just, he's never been in a strange place for that long time. Even when he was a baby, he wasn't in a strange place, was he? Because he grew up there. He was born with all his brothers and sisters and his mum, you know, when he was first born.

So that wasn't a strange place. So technically, the first strange place he ever came to was here. But he adapted very quickly.

Yeah, he didn't seem that bothered. But anyway, so I go to pick him up. I'm waiting here.

I come home after being to the vets, dropping him off. And I thought I was going to start crying, which surprised me. Because I've only ever cried twice in my entire life.

Yeah, sure. And I was saying goodbye to him. He was looking at me and licking my face.

He was rubbing himself over my face and just cuddling right up against me in a way that he doesn't, he seemed to be acting a bit different, which was, I don't know, it might just be my perception, but he seemed to really be clinging to me. So I chuck him in the bag. I put him in the bag and say goodbye.

And they say, the lady in the vet says, oh, we're going to call you when he's ready to be picked up. The vets will probably give him an x-ray, lunchtime, and you've got to collect him in the afternoon. So what's going on downstairs? They're banging.

They can't hear me, surely. No, they can't hear me. Anyway, I come home, and it was so hot outside.

I was so glad just to get inside. And I've been drinking. I've drunk a lot of liquid today.

It's been 30 degrees or something outside. Holiday of the year and all that stuff. So I think I caught the sun a little bit as well.

Burnt my hands. And I'm waiting around. And I'm really kind of bit on edge because I'm waiting and I can't, I just want to know, why are they not calling me? Why are they not? And then by three o'clock, I called them up.

I said, look, what's going on? What's going on, man? How's my baby? They said, oh, he's fine. He's had the x-ray. But we're just waiting for the vet to check the x-ray.

I said, okay. I said, when can I come and collect him? They said, well, about six. I said, no, he's only chance a little bit earlier because the fact is the buses don't travel as often after five o'clock.

You know, sometimes it's an hour wait, which it's not ideal, really. And she said, well, that's a lot of information. But yeah, okay.

Half five? I said, yeah, okay. Still after five though, isn't it? She said, yeah. So you didn't really listen to what I said, did you? She said, no.

I was kind of half listening, but just your delivery was so boring. I mean, I think if you told me that I just won the lottery, I just, I wouldn't care because it's just so boring the way you talk. A bit rude, a bit rude.

She said, yeah, I know. So half five, is that okay? I said, yeah, yeah. Bye then.

Love you. Okay. So I went up there.

I did two recordings before I went. It was kind of strange because I didn't have, well, the first thing, when I got back, I was looking for Andre. How weird is that? It's the first thing I do when I get home.

If I've been to the shops or something, I'm looking for him. And then of course, I remember that he's not here because I've just took him to the vets. That's where I have been.

And then I thought, oh, yeah, I'll make, I can make some recordings because I'm not going to get disturbed by him feeling a bit grateful. Oh, good. So I did that.

And then there was some, there started to be some sounds and stuff. I don't know if it's outside or somewhere. So I went into my recording studio, nice and quiet in there.

So I did a whisper hypnosis session. And also did a relaxation slash sleep session for my relaxation and the stress and anxiety stuff, podcast. And so I was quite pleased with that.

Managed to upload, edit and upload the whisper one. And then I had to go and catch the bus at five o'clock. And it didn't come at the time.

You know, they were a bit random at the moment. But as I told the lady, after five o'clock, they're very unpredictable. And so anyway, I got on the bus, put my mask on.

There was two people on the bus that weren't wearing masks. So I'm thinking, do I need to wear this mask? But I did anyway, I just wore it and got off with one of the other passengers. No, I got off at my destination.

I went to the supermarket, got a little bit of food. As I did earlier on in the day as well. First time I've been inside a supermarket for three months.

Seriously. And it was wonderful. It wasn't busy.

They didn't have to queue to get in. It was, you know, queueing from a distance at the actual tills. But it wasn't busy.

And apparently it's a quiet day for them. It was so nice to be able to just choose things. And I bought some sandwich stuff.

It was, you know, some chia batter, rolls, some bread, some cucumber, tomatoes, cheese. I've got some cakes, got some margarine. You know, just stuff that I needed.

Some milk. And then I went back again today and I got some other bits and bobs. That was lovely.

And generally, it was just, I probably spent half as much as I would have done if I'd have bought that stuff at the garage. You know, it's ridiculous. But anyway, I was in kind of a fairly good frame of mind before I went to the vets because I was thinking, I'm just collecting it.

It'll be fine. You know, it'll be all good. I just had this imagination.

I had this imagination. I just imagined him being all excited to see me, jumping up at me and stuff. Well, when I got there, I had to phone for them to come out.

The lady, she said, oh, the vet will come out and see you. Okay. He came out and spoke to me outside.

And he said that Andre had, by the way, Andre's here. He's asleep. So this isn't going anywhere too bad, too horrible.

But he reacted badly to the whatever that they have to, not anesthetize him, but dope him up a bit so that he's just like practically asleep or something when they do the x-rays. Especially, I mean, Andre is not going to sit still. He won't sit still for a photograph.

So he ain't going to sit still for an x-ray. Well, apparently it normally takes maximum two hours for a ferret or a small animal to come back to life, come back to its normal self. And six hours later, he still wasn't.

And probably, well, it's now quarter to 10 and he still isn't. So probably talking, it's got to be like nine hours since he had the x-ray. At least, maybe 10 hours.

But you know, let's say nine hours. He should be back. He should have been back seven hours ago.

He should have been fine. And they gave him treatment to try and bring him back, try and get him back to normal. Didn't work.

He was snapping at them, trying to bite them. I kind of inside thought, good boy, you bite them vets, all that money they're charging. But I thought, well, that's weird.

He's not normally snappy. So he clearly wasn't happy with what they were doing. Didn't like the way he was being handled or he was unhappy just for whatever reason.

Maybe he was confused. And so the vet said to me, we can't find anything. He hasn't got any broken bones.

He hasn't got any spinal injury at all either. We can't tell whether or not, well, I can't. He's a vet.

I can't tell whether or not he's got any nerve damage because an x-ray doesn't show that. It looks like it might be something to do with his hip. Looks like the ball of his hip, like his leg goes into his hip, is perhaps a bit swollen, which could be caused by a disease.

And he asked me a few questions. How has he been? And I said to him, he's absolutely perfect. Until I handed him over to you.

Now look at him. But before that, he was naughty. He was full of energy.

Even with his scammy leg, he was still biting my, I mean, this morning he was biting my feet. You know, he's still doing everything. Eating, wanting to go for walks, scratching at the front door to go out.

Every single thing that he'd normally do, he's doing, except he's just taking a little bit longer to get around. So the vet said, well, that counts out most things in the sense of, you know, it counts out most illnesses. If he's right in himself, if he's absolutely fine.

And if it's just the leg, then it could be damaged leg, which may heal. Over time. Or it could be a disease, which is incurable.

So it's something that he was telling me this stuff outside and there was traffic going past. And I said to him, can we get out of the road? And he said, okay. So we went back into the alleyway and still there was still traffic.

And I just, there was a lot of information he was giving me and it wasn't really sinking in. All I was thinking about is he hasn't recovered from the treatment that he's just had, the medication that made him sleepy while I did the x-ray. He hasn't recovered.

That's all I was thinking about. And the rest just wasn't going into my head, you know, it wasn't sinking in. And you know how highly intelligent I am.

But even so, it wasn't sticking into my head. So I think I might contact the vet and just say, look, can you just please send me, copy and paste the notes from the vet and send me it in an email just so I've got it, so I can kind of look into it and sort of see what to look out for. Anyway, he said, you can get tested for this.

I think it's a disease. It's a disease. You can get tested for it, which is £140 to get tested.

I think it's a blood test or something. And I said, so how much to have them put down? And I got one of the sort of, you know, weigh up the costs. No, I didn't say that.

And I was just, £140. Okay. Or it was £170, something like that.

I think it's £140. Anyway, I said, okay, well, he's not having a test now. Because you know what, if I hadn't told them, I think he would have given them the test.

But if I hadn't been really specific, last night and this morning, do not give him any treatment other than the x-ray. You know, what we've booked, because all I have is the £120, because I borrowed it off a friend to give it to you. Do not charge, do not do anything else, because I can't pay you anything else today.

And so they didn't. Now, obviously, if there was an emergency situation, that'd be a different situation. But any treatment they had to give him to bring him out from wherever they put him into, to get him all sleepy and practically comatose while they did the x-ray, that's on them, isn't it? They should do whatever they have to do to fix that.

In my mind, anyway. Imagine getting a bill, oh yeah, by the way, we had to spend an extra half an hour doing this. And apparently the staff had to give him quite a bit of attention because he just wasn't reacting.

Apparently they were quite worried about him. So they had to really take care of him for those hours. And so, yeah, they didn't charge me extra for that, which is good.

And then they brought him out. They didn't know where my bag was. So they brought him out in some kind of cat, big floppy cat thing.

But it wasn't a box. It was just, I couldn't see where he was. I realized that there was an opening in it.

It was open and he was just lying there. Now you can't do that with him. You can't bring him outside without a lead.

And I've never seen him just lie there in my life. He would not do that. You know, even if he was fast asleep, normally, if I took him outside and put him on the ground, he would not just continue lying there.

He would move around, you know, especially somewhere new. And he just lied there. It's like, where's Andre gone? That isn't Andre.

So I pick him up. I said, hello, son. And he's just looking at me.

He looks stoned out of his head. He looked like he's just been injected with heroin or something. I'm like, what on earth? Oh, Andre, shut up.

I can't wait for him to start being naughty again. I feel guilty. Like this afternoon, it was so nice to be able to make a recording, not have him running around and scratching and running on every single piece of paper, you know, just making as much noise as possible.

And now that's all I want him to do. And he's not. So I pick him up.

He does give me a kiss and sort of cuddle him. And he's looking around, sort of sniffing. He seems to be sort of a bit more alert than what he was.

And I take him away at the bus stop. And he actually wants to go down. And he's sort of rubbing against the wall, walking a bit.

And he just lays down and just stays there. So I pick him up. I'm cuddling him, kissing him, stroking him.

I don't know what to do with him. So I just, in the end, I just put him behind one of the walls and just got on the bus on my own and came home, left him there. No, I didn't.

And he, on the bus, he was a little bit energetic, a bit, wanted to get down. He wanted to go onto the floor. So I let him.

I thought he needed to go to the toilet, but he didn't. I was at the back, so I was just going to leave it there. No, I wasn't.

Maybe. No, I wasn't. No, I would never do anything like that.

A scrim. No, I wouldn't. No.

And anyway, get off the bus. And I walk across the park. And I put him on the grass as soon as we get to the park.

And he walks most of the way across the park, but in little spurts. So he walks a bit and then just lays there. So I didn't hurry him.

I didn't shout and swear at him like normal. You know, I didn't chuck snowballs at him. I carry around a little freezer that on a wheel stuff, carry around.

It's got snowballs in, so I can use it all year round. But I didn't do that this time. And he seemed just so not himself, but he seemed quite pleased to be outside.

I guess he was just pleased to get out of that place. And I like to think that he's happy to be with me. Whether that's true or not, I don't know.

Anyway, he's not dopey enough not to know who I am. He knew straight away when I picked him up, but he looked too knackered to look up at me when he was in that thing. So once I picked him up and he saw it was me, he seemed quite happy.

And he was holding on to my hands with his hands. So I clung to him a bit, so that was nice. So I get him home and the vet said they tested him because he hadn't eaten all day.

They tested him for low sugar, came up fine for that. I think they tested his blood pressure, came up fine for that. They did quite a few tests to see if he was all right.

And they didn't charge me for any of that stuff, which is amazing. I was surprised they didn't come in after a £400 vet bill. But, you know, they couldn't find anything wrong with him at all as far as why he wasn't recovering from the treatment.

So I got home, brought him upstairs. I got him some food. The first thing I did was got some food, stuck it in a bowl, some cat food for gravy.

And I was just going to feed it to him by spoon. But then I thought, no, I'll just see how he gets on. I picked him up, sat on my chair, the big black squeaky chair that's falling apart.

Well, actually, it's a big black balding squeaky chair. So it is literally... I'm surprised. I want to come in one day.

I'm just going to watch it, looking at it. It's just going to crumble. It's just going to crumble onto the floor like a big cookie.

And so, like a big... with the remainder of a big cookie falling out of a giant's beard. So how about that? Would it work better if I'd said it first time? I know. So I get him on my lap and I just hold him so he hasn't got to do anything.

And I hold the bowl up to him so he can eat. And he started tucking in, really, really eating it. In fact, he hasn't eaten all of his food.

But yeah, he had probably, I'd say, a quarter. I'd say a quarter of his food, he ate it in one sitting. And he rarely eats all his food in one go anyway.

He goes back to it when he wants it. Unless he's like super hungry. Of course, I mean, it's obvious, isn't it? He only eats all of it when he's really hungry.

You know, when he's not so hungry, he doesn't eat as much. Really? Oh, thanks for that. So I did that and I thought, well, his appetite's okay.

And then he grabbed a bit and he wanted to get off. So I thought, okay, that's something that he normally does. So I put him on the floor and he runs away and sort of eats it on the floor.

And I put the bowl down and then he goes over to the bowl, starts eating a little bit more. And he's been back a few times since. I got him some fresh water.

I like to do that every three months. Maybe that could be the problem. Could be the problem.

Stale water. No, he has fresh water. Anyway, I gave him fresh water.

And then he's just not doing anything. And at one point, I picked him up and gave him a cuddle. And then he started sniffing my groin, which is a good sign.

I mean, I don't encourage that behavior, but it is what he does. So that's like, okay, he's back. He's still got some of that androgyny, inappropriate behavior at the dinner table.

And then he got down and he started licking my slippers. The ones that I wear. They're not slippers.

They're crockers or whatever, but crocs. Not actual crocodiles. They're, you know, the plastic things or holes in.

He loves to bite them and really, but he didn't today. He was just licking them and have a little nibble. He had a sniff of his girlfriend, the other slipper.

But he wasn't, you know, kind of, he was almost in the mood. But then I think he forgot what he was. He'd forgotten what he'd forgotten about being in the mood for.

And then he went to sleep. And he's been asleep for probably about half an hour now. He was asleep before that as well, but I don't know what to do about it.

I don't want to leave him. I don't want to leave him alone, if that makes sense. I kind of just want to be here with him until he starts being naughty again.

So he starts running around and, you know, having fun. That's what I want to see. Even with the limp.

So yeah, that's that's that's the whole story. Yes. So I thought I'd do that.

Just as an update. I mean, it's probably it's maybe not my typical boring. Well, it's boring, but it's still not my typical recording.

Maybe it's exactly the same as what I normally do. I don't know. I don't take much notice really.

I just record them, edit, upload and forget. Yes. Oh, yes.

Oh, yes. Wonder how many of these I've actually done. Just out of interest.

How many of these have I actually done? I have done. Wow. 436.

So this is number 437. Oh, just as we speak, he's run over. And he's eaten some food.

Yeah, he's sniffing it. Oh, he's eating it now. He's eating his food.

Oh, it's a weird thing to get excited about. But hey, what that shows me is he's getting back to normal. If he's got an appetite, if he's got the energy to see he's he's eating and he's pulling the carpet apart.

If he's got the energy to go from being asleep to walk in the other side of the room to eat his food, then that's a good sign, I think. So hopefully, whatever it was, it's just wearing off. And he'll be back to normal.

So look forward to it. So the vet said to get him some vitamin paste. So I'll look at getting some of that for him.

I used to give it to him years ago. And other than that, it's a case of just waiting to see what happens. As far as his leg goes, other than get further treatment.

Get him tested for that thing. I guess get him tested for nerve damage. And I don't know, I didn't even ask him about that.

But I imagine that's a fairly complicated procedure. And I don't fancy the idea of putting him through what he's been through today again. And if he has to have a blood test, they're probably gonna have to do the same as well.

Because he's moving around all the time, they can't do blood tests, can they? Unless they kind of make him... I don't know what the right word is, but you know, make him like still. But if I was there with him, not allowed to go in, the vet's with him. But if I was with him, I could hold him and the vet could just take a blood sample.

And it would be easy, I can keep him still. I know how to keep him still and keep him distracted. In fact, I can practically hypnotize the little fella.

I've shown it on camera, I did a video of it. I lay him down on his back, and he just stares at me. He almost just drifts away.

So I might have to wait till he's... Until we can get back to going into the vets and stuff. Blimey. When I said I wanted to hear him making noise again, I didn't mean right now.

I can hear him. He's climbing through his tunnel. He's climbing through his plastic tunnel.

Can you believe it? While I'm doing this recording, I know it's not live, as in you're not hearing it when it's in the moment, but you're hearing it as it's happening in the space of the recording. So he's just got up, had some dinner, running around one side of the room, then gone into the hallway to the front door. Started, and now he's climbing through his plastic tunnel, which means he's got to be feeling better now, because he wouldn't be doing that if he wasn't.

He could hardly lift his head. He literally couldn't do anything before. More than a couple of sets, he'd take a few steps, then he'd just lay down again.

I might see if I can get some of those drugs that they gave him. So that I can... I'm joking, wow. Just to shut him up sometime.

Andre? Andre? I'm going to pick him up. Who's that in that bag, Andre? Who is it? Who is it? Man, he's moving about three times quicker than he was before. Who is it? You can give daddy cuddles.

You can give daddy cuddles. He's back. He's back.

He's moving really fast again. Is he back? I love you so much, mate. He's wiggling and everything.

You're my baby. You're my baby. I can't believe.

That is... Man, seriously. This is better than Christmas. I say better than Christmas.

I haven't had a decent Christmas for about 20 years, but... 2004 was the last decent Christmas. That was with my nan. He's gone back to sleep.

How cool is that? I was just saying, I want him to become himself again. He just did it. He just did it.

He's back. He's back. And I don't see him returning back to where he was before.

I think he's back. Maybe he overdid it a bit. He necked himself out a little bit.

He's gone back to sleep. But he is back. Oh yeah.

The Andre has returned. I'm so pleased. My little baby's back.

My annoying ferret has returned. They say, you know, be careful what you wish for, but... I really want... I was wishing... All I was thinking for the last few hours is... Please let him just be annoying again. Let him be biting at my toes and... You know, running around while I'm trying to make a recording.

And he just did it. That was lovely. That's nice.

I'm glad we could share this moment. I've got a few thank yous to say before I go. I know I normally... I really should do this at the beginning.

Because... Some people will be so... Bored by the time I'm finished. So first of all, Rachel. Hope you and Andre are able to keep cool over the next few days.

And I hope Andre is feeling okay after his vet visit. Thank you. So that's from Rachel.

Does say, mentioned you... At the end of... Latest... Boring... Session. Kiss, kiss. Why is that not... Okay, good, okay.

So that's Rachel. Molly says, lots of love to you. He'll be scooting around the house in no time, I'm sure.

All right, so this is Molly. She contacted me earlier. I think I've just dropped him off.

So I'm going to... I'm just going to paste the same reply otherwise. It's going to get confusing. It's focusing.

So... This is from Molly. Hi Molly. Thank you very much.

I appreciate your kind words. And concern for my little baby boy. He's... If you've listened to this, you'll hear, you know, how he is.

He seems to have dramatically improved in the last five minutes. So I'm really, really pleased. So thank you.

See, all the love coming in towards him is healing him. So thank you. So that's... I've just posted thank you, mentioned you at the end of the latest Bournemouth session.

Bob also said thank you. You know, on the recording. Jules Luciel.

Hi Jason. Worried about little Andre. Did everything go all right with the little fella? Thank you.

I really appreciate that. You've been very kind. And... Again, the same as what I said before.

It's just really... It's lovely that you care enough to ask about him. And lots of people have, like on Facebook and stuff, over the last week or so. And it's... Again, I'm just going to repost what I posted just then.

Not because I'm being lazy. Although it is because I'm being lazy. But also I am mentioning you in the recording.

So thank you, Jules. I do appreciate it. It's really nice.

And... Andre sends his love. He also sends his love to Rihanna. He thinks Rihanna is his girlfriend.

That's what Andre thinks. And... So there you go. So thank you there.

And there's been so many well wishes that have been going. I've already kind of thanked a lot of people already the last couple of recordings. So what I'll just say is thank you everybody that has sent messages of kindness towards Andre.

And... I know it's a bit weird. But he is kind of pretty much all I've got in my life. In a kind of a love sense.

He's my baby boy. And a lot of people out there can relate to that, I'm sure. And... I just... Yeah.

He's... He's my everything. He completes me. Oh dear.

Outside of that, I think that's everything. There may be other messages that I've not answered. Please, please accept my apologies.

Genuinely. When... When it comes to Andre, you know. And when people are sort of saying nice things.

You know, I feel it's important to reply. If I'm able to. You know, sometimes I do forget.

So there's the occasional person I might forget to reply to. I don't mean to. It's not me just being rude, but... I even had a couple of phone calls today.

But I wasn't able to answer it. I just... I was actually with the vet at the time of the phone call. I think.

Yeah. And... You know, until... You know, I was... All afternoon, I couldn't... It was quite hard to focus. And then when I got him back.

You know, then... All this evening. Until right now. I mean... I'm proper made up.

I'm celebrating. Seriously. Really celebrating.

That he's back. And... So what if his leg don't work? I mean, it's not a good thing, obviously. But... As long as he can have fun.

He can still get about. He still wants to walk around. He still wants to bite my toes.

He still wants to... Has an appetite. He still wants to annoy me. He still wants cuddles.

And kisses and stuff. So that to me seems like a happy boy. I might be wrong.

But that's how it seems to me. So I'm gonna... I'm gonna cling. I'm gonna cling to that.

Oh yeah. Like a big... Cling on. Even the most... Even a... Even a bidet made out of a... A fireman's hose pipe.

Wouldn't be able to remove. That's... Proper cling on. Anyway.

I'm gonna go. Thank you very much for... Listening. Thank you very much for your support.

I'm... Yeah. I will do... I'm gonna put... A title for this. I don't normally put titles for these videos.

For these podcasts. But I will just for this one. Because... I don't generally have a... A subject matter when I'm talking.

But on this occasion I have stuck to it. I haven't... I have filmed. I have not strayed.

I've not ended up talking about... Elephants or... Space shuttles. No. Knitting.

Oh, you know what? I'm thinking... Of taking up knitting. I'll tell you the reason why. Because... You think I'm doing this as a joke to try and like... That's what you think, isn't it? You think, oh... You're saying that you haven't strayed and now you're gonna stray just to prove the point that you... Well, no.

I'm not straying. I'm actually talking about knitting. The reason being is because... When you use the right and the left side... Of your hemisphere of your brain... It evens it out.

Reduces stress. And evens the brain out so that you're more relaxed. And calmer.

Within yourself. And a way to do that is by using both your right and your left hand at the same time. Now, I'm sure there are certain jobs I could get in the world where I could use both my right and left hand at the same time.

And... That would also obviously activate both sides of my brain and earn me some money. But... I... I'm thinking knitting. And part of the reason is because of my Nan.

She... She used to knit. There was no other sentence I could have said after that really was... I'm gonna knit because... I wanna... Partly because of my Nan I wanna take up knitting. Because she looked like a ball of wool.

I mean, no, no. She didn't. You know, she used to knit.

She wasn't great... She wasn't great on measurements. You know, she's... I remember there was one jumper she got me for Christmas. And I really had to strain to get it over my head.

And I wore it for about seven months. Couldn't get it off. So... Then I realized there was a zip.

Didn't realize it was a cardigan, did I? Had it on back to front. So... I'm thinking of... Because my Nan was brilliant at knitting. And I think that helped her.

I mean, she had to stop when she... Because of her eyesight. And... But, you know, she did it for a long, long time. And I think that helped to keep her calm.

Because she was quite calm. She was very, very kind. But she was a very quite peaceful person.

So I'm... Genuinely thinking about taking up knitting. Genuinely. Not messing around.

Or... Learning to be a clown. Learning to juggle and... Trampoline. Tramposee.

Trampoline. Trampese. Fire eating.

I don't know. Similar things like that. So... Yeah.

So I'm going to go now. Thank you very much for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself.

Because you deserve to be happy. So do something nice for yourself today. And tomorrow.

And every day. Lots of love. Bye.