Tuesday, February 1, 2011

catch up

ok, its about time I catch up on all thats been happening, Brina continued to improve daily from her surgery, we were amazed at her appetite, there seemed to be no filling her up, I added plain yogurt to her diet to help combat the antibiotics from killing off the good bacteria with the bad. I kept my bedside vigil for 5 nights, after that time she seemed quite able to move around when needed and to shift from side to side without hurting herself.

   No one mentioned how lonely she would be!! She'd do a pitiful bark and "pee pee" dance till one of us would get up, take her out and then lay down with her, thus giving her the company she wanted*L* so we'd be wide awake with her snuggled up and sleeping beside us. 
   She had some swelling around her ankle, fluids gathering, but not like we'd expected, mulitply daily massages helped with that and she really seemed to enjoy having us rub and massage her bad leg.

we started at this point to allow her a bit more freedom and she soon took over the living room as her kennel, she was kept gated from the rest of the house and had to stay only where we placed scatter mats.   

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