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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  Personally, I would not compromise the liver in any way....THAT creates alot of issues you really dont want to be dealing with right now....can you rest well sleeping on the couch? If it were me, we would be on the couch, and I would see if Tibbie works thru whatever is painful in that little foot....you can not handle a dog sick with liver failure at this stage of your own recovery! I would do warm soaks, massages, warm compresses, ANYTHING that does NOT challenge his liver function! |
Thank you, Judy. I've not been doing any warm compresses or soaks, just rest/no jumping so far but realized with his excited jumping and spinning, he wasn't getting a lot of good out of the "rest, no jumping" but we finally - I think - have a handle on the wild spinning. Took that long for me to train him to begin to try to overcome - with his own little willpower - the urge to spin in circles and jump when excited. It's SO second nature to him. Dang but that is hard to do with a Yorkie who's spent 8 years reacting the same way to excitement. Now that we have a beginning handle on that - soaks, compresses might help but I'll tell you, lifting him is almost more than I can handle physically with my neck joints inflammation and generalized sore muscles all around it, I guess from too much "malingering"and lounging around healing up, though I seem constantly on the go just getting us through a regular day. There's always 10 more things to do once you sit down!
I don't rest well on the couch at all but it's far easier to manage than that long trek down the hall to the bedroom, that high bed and trying to manage Tibbe throught all that.
If only his bedroom ramp hadn't gone down! It's lighter weight for a big ramp parallel bed ramp(a friend cobbled it together for me) but just not that sturdy and it moved often to make the bed, clean, etc. At least his new one is on the way - hopefully I can train him to use it safely as it's only 16" wide and will rest perpendicular to the bed and hopefully hang onto the mattress firmly enough! It's actually a car ramp but the only one I could find that's light weight enough for me to physically manage and live with and around on a daily basis while looking for a manageable parallel replacement ramp. He'll have to walk up and down this emergency replacement ramp something like one of the Flying Wallenda's balancing on one of those precarious slanted high wires and lord help us if Tibbs gets suddenly excited while using it, tries to hurry down, jump off, etc. I'm trying to find one like his present light-weight, rickety one that goes parallel to the bed rather than perpendicular to it like the hurry-up replacement one does but can't find one that isn't 3 or more inches too tall, or reviews that say it's really perfect except the carpet is way too slippery or the angle much too steep for the dog to safely manage or way too heavy for me to manage, move out and back during cleaning, bed-making, pulling the covers up and down, etc. Sometimes the reality of living with a very tiny dog is so hard!
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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom Poor little Tibster  ! And poor you too. You both have so very much to deal with right now. Gosh, I don't know what I'd do....I think I'd mostly want to know if there was *any* other alternative to an NSAID...is there? |
IDK, Ann. Going to have to check all that out with the vet. Best thing is, either don't grow older or get any significant orthopedic problems if you live alone and own a Yorkie. Lately, all I do is whine and complain on YT!
