First treatment of day 3 underway...
So far.. nothing exciting to report..
Buster went for his morning walk.. not much panting. He did fall over a couple of times but didn't seem to be in the level of pain he was in before. He has bad bone spurs in his right hip socket... so that's probably the cause of falling over.. but he definitely doesn't seem to be in excruciating pain any more. He also is on day 2 without Gabapentin or Traumeel (just turmeric and body sore chinese herbs) and I am very happy to have him off the Gabapentin!! He's not as loopy as he was.
Rex is still asleep.. He was up and down last night. His arms and legs are still weak.. but he's much more cognitive of what's around him, he's watching things more, following things, more grunting when he wants attention, and trying to get some squeaks out and make whispering small barking noises which he hasn't done in years... This too may be attributed to less pain... Time will tell ... we're still very early in all of this.. and he's going to take a lot longer to see results.. I'm hoping to get him to a point where he doesn't have the pain and can be able to put up with physical therapy a bit more and rebuild muscle mass.. He still has a great appetite though!!! And will lunge for anything other than dog food
More to come...
The rest of Day 3
So the rest of Day 3 was not all that exciting... Buster was panting more and more uncomfortable than he was for Day 1 and 2. The weather was raining on and off... Once it cleared Buster went for a walk to try and stretch his legs in the street, and he did ok there... when he hit the grass though he immediately fell over... and then he fell over again... but he did try and jump up the stairs on his own .. something he hasn't done in a long time.. he hasn't even attempted stairs (even just the 2 front steps) without a spotter in a long time... so while I think he was in more discomfort, it wasn't as bad as it has been... and there were a few times where his panting would calm down and he'd stop but he was still breathing heavier than he had been the prior 2 days. (this is still without gabapentin or traumell - just joint support, turnermic. I want to make sure we don't have any masking from pain meds so I can really see what's going on and if the Loop is really helping for the first couple of weeks with him.
Rex was not doing too well at all today.. not sure if it was the weather either.. He slept most of the day.. He ate like a champ, even ate an entire extra big can of Weruvu Chicken in one sitting which he doesn't normally do and he did a lot of it on his own slurping the sauce.. which he also doesn't normally do.. He couldn't put any pressure on any of his legs which is not normal - usually he can at least stiffen up his front legs if he's on his exercise ball or Box doing physical therapy. He could barely hold his head up, even to drink the remainder of the day... I'm guessing he was in pain.. At night he didn't want to sleep in his normal bed.. so I brought him up on my bed and he eventually fell asleep around midnight and slept until 5:30 - or work me up around 5:30.. not sure if he was sleeping the whole time but I didn't get the 2 am wake up... so hopefully he was more comfortable..
