[yorkietalkjilly]

Checking in on Dessa and it sounds like you all are doing all that's possible and I hope and pray this little girl keeps getting better and better.

Could I just add a thought about doggy stairs for little dogs? To keep her orthopedically safer as she rehabs from this awful condition, I am so glad you got her doggy stairs if the vets approve it as the repetitive jumping from beds, chairs and couches is probably not that healthy to her little shoulder and elbow joints over time. Big dogs or even midsize dogs don't have to jump off furniture several times their heights each day of every week of every year as little ones do; but if they did, just to get to approach us or put their head on our chest or snuggle, even they might eventually develop some additional problems to any they already have. Doggy steps might prove an extra protection for little dogs. My Tibbe jumps off the bed and den couch dozens of times some days and I am always so worried about so many repetititve hits to his tiny joints, even with doggy stairs in place. So giving her these stairs to use can surely only help protect her further as she rehabs from her other very scary condition, unless in her case right now the vet wants her using more muscle as jumping requires. But I often wonder how many total times little Yorkies jump up and down off furniture on a yearly basis and if it is really hurting/excessively wearing their joints as in repetitive stress injury.