Progress

Went yesterday to my first "real" physical therapy session (went Saturday, but only for evaluation) for my leg/back problems and it actually DID help.  It's not like it doesn't still hurt to bend over, and often to walk as well, but the pain was a bit less when I got out of there last night.  This morning when I got up my right leg wanted to give out when I stood up, so I got back in bed and did a number of the exercises that they had me do over there yesterday and it actually did help.  I'm at work anyway.  I guess that's progress.

And Mark started Duke on his "I've eaten all the wrong things" medication this morning.  Well - I guess it's not "medication," actually.  I had ordered a huge container of a psyllium-based product that I planned to give to Lizzie on a daily basis come spring so that the spring grass wouldn't cause laminitis, given her Cushings condition.  But that's a new use for it, actually.  The stuff has generally been for use when a horse eats something undigestable - like sand.  It clears it out of their intestines.  So I'm hoping if there are thorns or gravel or anything else in him that he shouldn't have eaten (and he eats EVERYTHING that he can get his mouth on!) that it will work on those things, as well.  Mark started him on it - three HUGE scoops three times a day -- this morning.   It's been our experience that Duke will eat absolutely anything you put in front of him, and as expected, he didn't hesitate to down it.  But it really wouldn't have surprised me all that much if he had refused to eat something just because he really needed to eat it.  (That without doubt would have been Joey's reaction!)  Glad that wasn't the case.

I'm going to have to leave work early again today --  but this time it's my truck that's not well, not Joey or me!  I have to take it over to the Honda dealer so they can remove the CD player.  It was switching from disk 4 to disk 5 last week when it suddenly just stopped.  The screen started flashing "CD error" or some such thing.  And when I tried to eject the CDs, they wouldn't come out.  So . . . they tell me they will have to remove the player from the truck and send it off to be repaired and that it will take four to six weeks!   Good grief!  And the  (library!) disks that are in there will also be gone for four to six weeks -- the library is NOT going to be happy about that.  Oh well - not much I can do about that.  In the meantime, I've been carrying around a portable CD player and listening to my books on that.  As it turns out, that is probably less than helpful since now when I park and go into my office or the house, the book goes too!   I'm always tempted to keep listening instead of doing what I should be doing!  NOT good!