The tail wags the dog...

Yesterday, I ended with "today we saw her tail wag for the first time...", which isn't exactly true.  On Thanksgiving morning, our friend Ashely stopped by and we saw a slight twitch in her tail...another of those "did you see that...?" moments...the three of us WANTED to see it, but it was fleeting...


Yesterday, we KNEW it was wagging!  And it was holding (for a few seconds) in the Lhasa "corkscrew" twist above her hind end...AND wagging!  She was very happy to see Jeni (Paige's assistant) so we know there is some connection between the brain and the tail...


Cassi's surgical scar is healing great also.  The last scab fell off and the hair is getting longer and softer around it...she still has the "reverse Mohawk" and she is past her usual grooming appointment (Orion went the Friday before Thanksgiving) so her hair is getting longer than we have seen it since they were puppies.  We are hoping the patch grows in enough to allow our groomer, Leslie (Wizard of Paws-Sonoma County) to even out the cut.  We won't have to worry aboyt that until January 5th...their next appointment.

Here are some of the accomodations we have made to turn our office area and bedroom into the "recovery" area.  At left, you see the "changing table" that is really a grooming table.  The doctor said we should take her outside to her "usual" potty place...but I am not doing that in the middle of the night, thank you...it's COLD out there these days!   Below that is her "taxi" (carrier) that we use to keep her contained.  Now that she is moving around a bit more, we use this less.  We will use it to go to the doctors office...and in the wagon!

Thank you Ashley and Mark Vallee, Marley and Madison for loaning us this wagon for Miss Cassi!  We will take good care of it and have it all nice and clean when we are done with it!

Here is her corner that she sleeps and spends a good part of her day in.  She can see both our desks from the corner, but she still will whine for attention.  Before this happened, we would allow the puppies on our bed at first light in the morning and Orion lets us know if we forget to call him up.  At the first sign of light, he will let out a high-pitched whimper...ever so softly, but oh so annoying.  I pat my hand on the bed twice and he is up.  Cassi usually waits until we get up to use the bathroom and wants to be picked up to the bed.  Still the same scenario, except now we have to have a towel in case the diaper leaks.  They are holding well though.  And we all snuggle and snooze until we get up a couple hours later.

And the spare panel from the bedroom pen (I had to remove one so it would fit the corner) fits nicely across the bedroom door now that we have expanded Cassi's area.  We are trying to keep her on the carpet where she can get traction.  She is standing 5-6 times a day for 2-3 minutes at a time.  When she drags herself across the rug, I can see her trying to "walk" with her upper thighs and knees, but the signal isn't getting to the feet...yet.  She is getting better balance when she stands also.


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