Amazingly enough we have spent over four months toting around Lexi!
I am happy to report that she is still happy and otherwise healthy.
She is regaining tons of mobility too. She can manage to walk her front end all by herself, but the back end is still wobbly. She can't stand up on her own, but she can sure let us know where she wants to go! She pulls anxiously on the harnesses every time we help her up.
Her toe articulation is also greatly improved. For a long time her feet were 'flat', as if they had no muscle to them. Now they look properly formed.
She is constantly hungry, but that's not new ;-)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Day 96 - Thursday, February 2008
Not much in the way of marked improvement, but Lexi remains strong.
Over the last month Lexi can stand for a longer period of time, some muscle tone has returned. She now actively "walks" with her front legs and is stronger in front than back. The biggest problem now is the swelling in her wrists from "kuckling under" when she stands or tries to walk. She is back on the Dexasome. However with the UTIs we pulled her out of hydro-therapy and are not returning. She pretty much decided to float when she was in the tank, so we were not seeing any benefit, but plenty of negative side-effects.
We hope to get her into acupuncture soon.
Over the last month Lexi can stand for a longer period of time, some muscle tone has returned. She now actively "walks" with her front legs and is stronger in front than back. The biggest problem now is the swelling in her wrists from "kuckling under" when she stands or tries to walk. She is back on the Dexasome. However with the UTIs we pulled her out of hydro-therapy and are not returning. She pretty much decided to float when she was in the tank, so we were not seeing any benefit, but plenty of negative side-effects.
We hope to get her into acupuncture soon.
Day 96 - Thursday, February 2008
Not much in the way of marked improvement, but Lexi remains strong.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Lexi had her first UTI during this ordeal so she is out of hydro-therapy for a while. In fact, the hydro-therapy didn't seem to be a huge help. After the first session she made little improvement in the tank.
Most of her progress has been made at the food-dish, LOL. She actively pushes herself into a standing position to eat and drink. Although the moment the food is gone she lets herself collapse.
The front feet remain problematic: she makes little effort to more her legs and her toes are clearly not "feeling" the ground. The toes look slack, not well-arched, even when she is bearing full weight on her front legs.
We are adding short sessions of moving her front legs for her while we assist in holding her. This is how we got her back legs and feet to move and seems to be helping get her mind engaged with her front legs/feet.
Progress is slow and hard to measure as pass into Week 9 of this ordeal.
Most of her progress has been made at the food-dish, LOL. She actively pushes herself into a standing position to eat and drink. Although the moment the food is gone she lets herself collapse.
The front feet remain problematic: she makes little effort to more her legs and her toes are clearly not "feeling" the ground. The toes look slack, not well-arched, even when she is bearing full weight on her front legs.
We are adding short sessions of moving her front legs for her while we assist in holding her. This is how we got her back legs and feet to move and seems to be helping get her mind engaged with her front legs/feet.
Progress is slow and hard to measure as pass into Week 9 of this ordeal.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Lexi started the hard-work portion of her rehab today. She was put in the treadmill hydrotank today for some muscle building activity.
She did wonderfully!!
At day 32 she was able to support a small bit of her weight on the front/back legs in turn. By day 39 she was able to stand without the ball to eat, with support. She was also able to squat pee in her harnesses!
By Day 44 she was actively and quickly army-crawling at will.
We are soooo proud of her!!!
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Saturday, Dec 22 '07
So today is the four week mark :-(
But Ms Lexi has shown incredible progress in the last couple of days. We left her alone for two hours and when we came home she have travelled over 7 feet from her bed, some over hard wood wood, mostly over carpet. This morning we saw how she did it when she crawled from her bed to the living room: she 'swims' her feet in the air and worms her way along, then she sits up and pulls herself along a bit, then more worming. She even tried to stand a time or two, which makes me want to cry. All I want for Christmas is for my Lexi to walk.
But Ms Lexi has shown incredible progress in the last couple of days. We left her alone for two hours and when we came home she have travelled over 7 feet from her bed, some over hard wood wood, mostly over carpet. This morning we saw how she did it when she crawled from her bed to the living room: she 'swims' her feet in the air and worms her way along, then she sits up and pulls herself along a bit, then more worming. She even tried to stand a time or two, which makes me want to cry. All I want for Christmas is for my Lexi to walk.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Thursday, Dec 13 2007
We finally arrived at Therapy Day!!
We saw Dr Troy at the Canine Rehab center and were thrilled to have new hope for our girl. Lexi has new exercises:
We saw Dr Troy at the Canine Rehab center and were thrilled to have new hope for our girl. Lexi has new exercises:
- rolling over the way a dog physiologically should move
- a big therapy ball (like an ab ball at the gym, KWIM?) to help teach her how to bear her weight again
- a set of lift devices for the front and rear ends to help get her mobile again
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