Hi everyone, well a little update on my Bella.  She has her days.  She prefers to get up on her own, when she does there is usually no crying.  What I am seeing is she is having a hard time trying to figure this out. She is still pretty unsteady, I find that if I go outside with her, she will come out on her own go potty and lay right down.  So I walk around a little and tell her want to come and she will get up and move around, she seems to do much better walking in the grass.  Last night she stayed outside for a few minutes by herself and when she was ready she came in, went to her spot on the carpeting, we were eating dinner and she walked into the kitchen with us, first time she has even tried that, she did fine, but we had put some rugs down for her, so we told her how nice of her to join us and stayed with us the whole time we were in there.

 I took her for a re-check on Tuesday, this was her first day of chemo, but first they checked her out and did a rehab evaluation.  They pretty much said what I knew that  she can do it, sometimes she does not want to, she initially did everything they asked of her, then she decided she had enough and she was done, there was no coaxing her to do anything.  So they gave some suggestions of what we can do at home and suggested some under water treadmill therapy.  I called and first available appt is May 1st so looking forward to that.

She appears to have done well with the chemo, but she is definitely ticked off, she had a lot to say to me on the way home (its a 2 1/2 hr drive)  I finally had to tell her enough, she was making me nervous and she settled down.  So once she realized we were on our street she started again, I called my husband and told him to come outside because she wanted out of that car and had alot of complaining to do.  When she came in she had a drink would not eat anything (but I really didn't expect her to) and she was out for the night, pretty much slept all day yesterday and got up for me first thing this morning to potty and she did eat with my coaxing her. So she went and laid down again and I came to work.

So I am hoping no side effects from the chemo and nice weather which I am sure she will want to be outside more and heal faster.

Thanks to all for all the kind words and thoughts, I appreciate it more than I can say.  Sometimes when I am reading these boards I cry knowing how hard it is for all going through this but all of you are wonderful.  Love to all.

Michelle

Tina and Manni,

thanks for the info and I am super happy to hear that he has done so well, that really lifts my spirit.  Sometimes when I go out to the hospital I hear the bad things and upsets me terribly, I am really praying and hoping that Bella is going to do well and live a long time.  But yes things are starting to look up.

Yeah Manni 

My best... Michelle & Bella