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A few years ago I wrote this post. I never named names, however the nosy next door neighbor of this girl certainly knew who I was talking about — because he alerted her parents to this kid’s actions. And then I got a phone call. The mother and I had a conversation, she said she talked to her daughter and that she admit that she rang our bell, and ran because my husband scared her off. I thought it was interesting that they bought her story, but whatever, we agreed that our kid’s both needed time apart from each other. She asked me why I didn’t just call her when this happened, and to be honest I had already called her enough about things that her daughter had done that we BOTH were unhappy with. I also never named names and who would have thought that I had a nosy neighbor who thought it was his business to CONSTANTLY be in MY business via my blog?
Everyone has choices. I chose to write that post and publish it. After talking with that mother I decided the proper thing to do would be to remove that post from my blog. We’ve been friendly with each other, our daughter’s have played together a few times, and as far as I know there hasn’t been any problems. I should point out that my daughter attends a different school, so they really don’t even see each other until the summer anyways.
And then Sunday happened. However first I need to fill you in what’s been going on with Maisy.
Maisy
Maisy has been diagnosed withintervertebral disc disease (IVDD). I first noticed that she was having problems with her hind legs over the summer when we’d return from walks and her hind claws would be bleeding because she had wore them right down to her paws. She never complained, never limped, never stopped walking (or running) the entire time. I just figured that her claws had been cut too short. Weeks went by and I noticed that she was dragging her knuckles when she walked through the house, I could hear it due to the hard floors we have, she sounded like a zombie shuffling. She also started to stand with her hind foot folded over. Something was clearly wrong so I took her to the vet around September or October, at was this time that she was misdiagnosed as having arthritis. The cure? Get her out and walk her MORE!
Those “more walks” didn’t happen for very long. And sadly, within a matter of weeks Maisy went from having no issues of walking to kind of having a drunken sailor walk (no offense to the sailors, my dad was a sailor!) to sometimes losing all ability to move her hind left leg. Finding my dog with her hind legs in a splits position where she is unable to stand up without help just about broke my heart. So, off to the vet we went again. This time she was diagnosed with IVDD and we are on the road to figuring out the right medication cocktail in order to make her more comfortable. We started with Tramadol twice a day and Deramaxx once a day (basically pain pills and an anti-inflammatory). Within a few weeks it was obvious that she wasn’t doing better. She was unsure of herself, wouldn’t step off of the area rugs at home and wouldn’t go outside unless I stood out there with her, and then it would sometimes take her 10 minutes just to get the right position to relieve herself.
The previous Sunday I was volunteering at the Icebreaker Indoor Marathon when my husband called. I need to get home now. SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH MAISY. That whole ride home from the Pettit Center I thought this could be it, I had no idea what condition I would come home to. Well, she had gotten too excited and her hind leg was convulsing out of control. She basically needed some time to lay down and relax.
I consulted the vet the next day and we moved onto the medication cocktail #2, Tramadol and Prednisone. In order for her to be on the Prednisone she had to be off of the Deramaxx for five days. Those five days were miserable. For me and for her. We were able to start her on it over the weekend, which meant she finally received some relief. The problem
