Mom is barking!!!

Sorry I haven't been around much. The mom has been acting very strangely this week. She is constantly pulling tissues out the box (if I did that I would be in trouble) and making these strange hooting sounds. When she is not doing that she is making these awful barking noises......I get so worried sometimes because I can see it is hurting her. So anyway, I have just been laying quietly on the bed with the mom....she is snoozing as much as me at the moment!!!!! She tells me not to worry and that it is a cold like dad had last week.....but last week mom was there to look after dad and dad is away so there is no one to look after mom but me and I can't reach the big cupboard to make her some tea. I tried bringing her one of my chew bones.....but she didn't seem very interested and I bought ALL my toys into her room and left them strategically where she would step on them (so she would know where they are) but she didn't seem interested in those either...in fact she even grumbled about it a little. It's tough being the dog of the house when the mom is sick.