Angela Law

The weather has been absolutely beautiful lately. Instead of doing something fun, we did an improvement project. We were supposed to do this project in the spring, but things kind of got away from us.

The stairs leading to the front door of our rental property needed some work, so we’ve been working on that intermittently over the past week. The stairs are concrete and were painted at one point, but most recently were covered with carpeting, which was getting pretty worn. I didn’t want to do carpeting again, so we removed the old stuff and scraped up as much of the paint and glue as possible. Yesterday, I patched some spots and today we painted. I would have preferred to have gone for a motorcycle ride because surely this weather isn’t going to persist, but what can you do?

Lizzy has more lives than a cat. We returned to the vet today and she was pleased with the progress Lizzy is making. She did tweak her meds a bit in order to keep her on steroids longer, but things are looking good for the little yellow dog for now.

The vet thinks it is a degenerative problem, so, without surgery, we’re likely to see more of this in the future. Surgery isn’t exactly an option (plus there are no guarantees with it anyway), so I guess we’ll just have to take things one day at a time.

Lizzy’s back problem has returned. She was perfectly fine when we brought her home from the kennel yesterday afternoon, but by last night, she was having some problems getting around. This happens from time to time, so I didn’t think too much of it. But, by this morning, things were significantly worse. I called the vet early this morning in order to get her a prescription for steroids, which is what they gave her the last time. By late morning, Lizzy was unable to stand using her hind legs, so I called again (the vet was still in surgery and hadn’t called me back yet). They wanted us to bring her right in. Brian took care of that. They gave her a shot of steroids there and steroid pills and muscle relaxers to take home.