[christiers]

Originally Posted by linz06

I feel so much closer to Layla now. I am learning to know what she wants and needs. Mostly, she just wants to be by me all the time. If I'm near her, she's happy. If I'm not, she cries. In the mornings, Scott takes her downstairs while I'm getting ready upstairs, and he gives her breakfast and expresses her bladder. And most days, she will cry until I come downstairs, and she doesn't eat her kibble until I'm eating my breakfast! She's been weird like that too, not eating any meal until we're sitting down eating our meal. She can have her food an hour before we do, but she will just let it sit there until we eat! She's so polite lol!

Yesterday, she did pretty good on the exercise ball but didn't do as well as last week on the treadmill. The vet can't figure out her big changes from day to day. Instead of a steady forward pace in her recovery, some days she goes forwards, and some days she goes backwards. Maybe it's just her state of mind, or how tired she is, or maybe even the time of day they work on her.

It is my experience that as she continues to progress, she will have days where she is just "off". I finally stopped rushing Belle to the vet everytime she seemed to move slowed than she had been, or if her gait seemed different than the day before. Belle had a day over the weekend actually. Gave her a dose of metacam (she keeps a Rx for that at the house) and the next day she was back to herself.

Keeping all of you in our thoughts and prayers!