Still Not Doing Well.....

Although he IS starting to get up on his front legs,  he's not able to get up on his feet without help.  But it is his way to let us know that he needs to go outside.  It's both encouraging and depressing at the same time.

All he wants is comforting.  He stays upright once he is on his feet.  The Beast has helped him lay down in front of the storm door  so he can look outside like he normally would do before he became ill.  He's not eating much and some days he refuses to eat at all.  The Beast keeps trying different things to entice him to eat.  Sometimes it works, sometimes nothing  does.

His back left leg is still causing him enough pain that he is not putting it  down except when going down the ramp area.  He now needs help getting back UP the ramp and into the house.  This is not fun to be going through.   Poor Baron is sleeping a LOT.  And he's now sleeping with his hind end  on his mattress (it's foam and I  think it doesn't put a lot of pressure on his leg.  But seeing him with half his body on the mattress and the rest  of him on the rug next  to it really looks very  odd.   The cat is still laying close to him and tries to sleep either under his chin or with his face very close to being nose to nose.  We found out  that Baron wants the cat nearby.  He gets restless and whimpers if she isn't there or is asleep somewhere else.  

She always ends up around Baron, regardless.  It calms Baron down.  I don't pretend to understand why but it works.  I just wish he truly was going to get better.  He doesn't act like he wants  to, unfortunately.

Well, I am going to take a bath for a change.  I feel like I need to soak.  My lower back is hurting me.  I am still healing from the latex patches for that darn EKG.  It was only on me for a day and a half but I laid on that side.  I've always thought of my sensitivity to latex as something to do with bandages or the gloves worn by the doctors and nurses.  It never occurred to me that those things are latex.  And there is no substitute for them.  When I saw the skin on the patch, I could have screamed.  It's so bad because diabetics don't heal fast.  I  am still healing there and have a nasty scab.  It's thick for some reason and, there are times that I stretch and feel it split.  I'm almost out of my paper tape and I will have to get more so I can keep triple antibiotic  ointment on it and a bandage over it.

Love you all.  Smile and spread a little bit of happiness.  A smile seems to encourage everyone who sees it, to return it.  ***Hugs***