As a deaf person who can not hear any sound in the middle of the night to the early hour of the morning…
I normally use my special vibrating pager alarm clock under the pillow which attached to the clock at the bedside table. Now I would not need the vibrated alarm clock regularly. WHY?
As you see we have got three dogs – the young pup is nearly eight months old. Nova is the name and she love waking me up every morning in her unusual ways of getting attention to a deaf owner. When she was barely a baby pup and she did not realised that I can not hear her barking in the middle of the nights – let alone my partner has to do it. Then she hear the loud buzzing and high pitch sounding coming out of my hearing aids when I put my hearing aids on or to take off before going to bed. She has found a way of waking me up for I can not find a picture to show you. It is similar to the photo above from the website I found.
What actually Nova do every night to the early hour of the morning? She use thumping on me just like jumping, licking my face, gently paw on my face or to press her nose to my face to check if I am really awake, stroking my blanket as if she was pulling the blanket away from me even to walk over me from foot to right shoulder where I do get constant pain from my neck, shoulder to right elbow for many years. She knew her routine time pattern for toilets, meal times, or stranger lurking out there.
If you are wondering about two other dogs – one dog is a senior aged of nearly twelve years old and the middle black dog who she is nearly four years old. They are well behaved and they press their noses to my face. Often Jazz the middle one, would use her paw to pull down the blankets from the top of my shoulders.
Imagine me getting up three or two times in the middle of the night to the early hour of the morning. I would become a bad mood if I do not have a proper sleep or have increasing pain on the right side. Then I would let my boss know that I am home resting. Usually my partner do this BUT not at the moment due to his double hernia surgeries and during the Lockdown from the start of Level Four and it is my turn. I am grateful that my partner help me and support me during the day even when I am working from home. Currently nearly two weeks since his surgeries, I am full on to do the jobs around home such as collecting firewoods, let the dogs out for runs around the fields, prepare meals for all of us including dogs, washing etc and working from home. I am also grateful that my second workplace let me have a month leave instead of two week leaves since I met the persons (I am supporting)‘s case manager last week.
Dogs give us pleasure of funs, mischiefs, sense of humours if they behave strangely or different ways they do, give us comfort and cuddles in bed or on the sofa.
Life in Eureka 
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