We were excited to see the mail truck pull up to the house!!! The Assisi Loops arrived today! We immediately read all of the information that came with them... popped open the packaging and slipped them on the pups!
Since Rex has strength in his neck and a little in his front arms and a slight ability to walk with his front arms, we started with the loop around his neck. After this treatment was over I did his back hips... completely forgetting that I was supposed to let the loop charge for 2 hours after the first treatment.. I got too excited! I'll remember next time..
Buster was still asleep at the crack of 1pm... so I put the loop on his back hip... you can see the 2 green lights that flash when it's on in his photo. He slept through his treatment, and woke up and got up on his own and came into the kitchen to look for food and get a drink after. He was walking stiffly but seemed a little better than he normally does but maybe we're just imagining things.. He also has arthritis in his shoulders and he could probably use a treatment there too.. He went for a walk outside.. still seemed a little loopy from his gabapentin last night or maybe sun in his eyes? But he did manage to step OVER a food bowl on the ground vs. IN it.. which in itself is a huge feat!!
We are assuming that it's going to take 2-6 weeks for us to see a noticeable improvement in Rex since he can't even sit up on his own at this point. He needs help to stand and can't support himself on his back legs. He can eat on his own and is really good at it, but we need to bring his food to him. We have discovered he can run in his sleep (so there are still neural connections that work, and if he's in his wheel chair and we hose him down after he has had an accident.. and the water is cold, he'll jump and try and get out of his cart... he will also lunge at you and try and move his cart if you happen to walk by with a really good smelling chicken quesadilla... and he's try and bite it out of your hand.. In my book.. where there's a will, there's a way..
We think we'll see something positive in Buster much sooner.. but not sure exactly how long.. Miracles are welcome but we also have a lot of patience... These guys are not our first seniors by any stretch... Max, or Mighty Max as he's known had his own blog.. http://maxck.blogspot.com which chronicled his diagnosis with Brain tumors,through Cyberknife, Full Recovery, Rex taking him out on the side of the road, and he hit his head and ended up with a brain bleed/ stroke and in a coma.... with a feeding tube..and when he started to recover he couldn't walk... and didn't have much motor skills, until he started physical therapy and HBOT treatments (We discovered HBOT by accident after a case of Gangrene.. but it was an AMAZING discovery... ) Rex did walk again... and even took steps all by himself unassisted. He crossed at the ripe old age of 20, from a bad case of food poisoning.. we all had it.. but his poor tummy just couldn't take it.. and honestly I think it was his time. Exactly a year and a half to the day before, Our 20 year old Beagle Buster (we had 2 Busters at the same time) Crossed, and our 19 year old cat Tulsa had crossed a few days before (Dec 17 and 22).. It was a rough Christmas Season and I had tole the rest of the animals, that nobody was allowed to die for at least a year and a half... and Rex took that to heart and it was exactly a year and a half to the minute from when Buster Crossed..
... So anyway... Here we are... The beginning of a new blog.. and a new journey.. with fingers crossed hoping that we'll be able to help these guys feel better and help a lot of other people with our story!
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| Buster Day 1 Treatment 1 |
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| Rex Day 1 Treatment 1 |
Buster was still asleep at the crack of 1pm... so I put the loop on his back hip... you can see the 2 green lights that flash when it's on in his photo. He slept through his treatment, and woke up and got up on his own and came into the kitchen to look for food and get a drink after. He was walking stiffly but seemed a little better than he normally does but maybe we're just imagining things.. He also has arthritis in his shoulders and he could probably use a treatment there too.. He went for a walk outside.. still seemed a little loopy from his gabapentin last night or maybe sun in his eyes? But he did manage to step OVER a food bowl on the ground vs. IN it.. which in itself is a huge feat!!
We are assuming that it's going to take 2-6 weeks for us to see a noticeable improvement in Rex since he can't even sit up on his own at this point. He needs help to stand and can't support himself on his back legs. He can eat on his own and is really good at it, but we need to bring his food to him. We have discovered he can run in his sleep (so there are still neural connections that work, and if he's in his wheel chair and we hose him down after he has had an accident.. and the water is cold, he'll jump and try and get out of his cart... he will also lunge at you and try and move his cart if you happen to walk by with a really good smelling chicken quesadilla... and he's try and bite it out of your hand.. In my book.. where there's a will, there's a way..
We think we'll see something positive in Buster much sooner.. but not sure exactly how long.. Miracles are welcome but we also have a lot of patience... These guys are not our first seniors by any stretch... Max, or Mighty Max as he's known had his own blog.. http://maxck.blogspot.com which chronicled his diagnosis with Brain tumors,through Cyberknife, Full Recovery, Rex taking him out on the side of the road, and he hit his head and ended up with a brain bleed/ stroke and in a coma.... with a feeding tube..and when he started to recover he couldn't walk... and didn't have much motor skills, until he started physical therapy and HBOT treatments (We discovered HBOT by accident after a case of Gangrene.. but it was an AMAZING discovery... ) Rex did walk again... and even took steps all by himself unassisted. He crossed at the ripe old age of 20, from a bad case of food poisoning.. we all had it.. but his poor tummy just couldn't take it.. and honestly I think it was his time. Exactly a year and a half to the day before, Our 20 year old Beagle Buster (we had 2 Busters at the same time) Crossed, and our 19 year old cat Tulsa had crossed a few days before (Dec 17 and 22).. It was a rough Christmas Season and I had tole the rest of the animals, that nobody was allowed to die for at least a year and a half... and Rex took that to heart and it was exactly a year and a half to the minute from when Buster Crossed..
... So anyway... Here we are... The beginning of a new blog.. and a new journey.. with fingers crossed hoping that we'll be able to help these guys feel better and help a lot of other people with our story!
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