Frankie had a WONDERFUL first Rehab appointment!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂   She  got through some good ROM with him!!!  Considering he's a TRIPAWD and just nine days post surgery, she  felt pleased with what was accomplished!!  FFrankie and I had a good connection with her.  He literally wagged his tail the whle time and was getting kisses and treats from the assistant.   Not one single yelp or reactive "discussion"!

 She did pretty much acknowledge what I need to work on with him as far as "walking SLOWLY" with him and trying to hold him while he tries toe touching IS a two person job (or bare minimal  a strong person who can lift his 70 lbs).  At least I felt like less of a failure hearing that!! 

  She took measurements of the angle he could bend and the angle he could straighten and felt like they were pretty good too, considering!   I hadn't made note here yet,but he did try twice to actually put a little weight on that leg and it instantly completely collapsed each time. .

She made a really valid point about that (I think anyway). She said a four legger has the luxury of just touching down and putting minimal weight for a awhile.  She said Frankie was trying to put a lot more weight on it because he needs it to relieve his two legs. 

  I have her scheduled for three more appointments with LASER and ROM starting Saturday, then Wednesday, Friday.   Going to see how it goes and if the laser helps, etc.  Maybe able to do a few more IF it helps.   She did say it's going to be a loooooong process.  She felt like it would be another FOUR weeks before I saw him start using the leg a little without overdoing it....then maybe some more improvement at the TWO MONTH mark, but expect it be ONE YEAR for total healing!!   

And poor jealous Nurse Myrtle.  She kept bringing out stuffy after stuffy ,(even her giant teddy bear that she saves for special occasions) and tried to give it to them and bumping them with it begging for attention!!!  They stayed focused on Frankie!    I feel like this is the right Rehab person at just the right time!  And Frankie agrees!  He's ready to get on with getting on!!!

  I'm feeling more optimistic now and soooooo relieved to have some help!!!  🙂  AND WITHOUT FRANKIES'S FRIENDS....well.....all I can say is......I didn't know how much he could still enjoy being Frankie if there was no hope of improvement.  And I was starting to lose hope knowing that he needed more than me.  He deserved better!!    

TO BE ABLE TO OFFER HIM REHABILITATION....TO BE AVLE TO GIVE HIM THE TOOLS HE SO DESPERATELY NEEDED AND WANTED.....IT TRULY IS GIVING HIM BACK HIS LIFE!!!   I'll do a video of the ROM as soon as I upload it to yiutube (which for some reason takes HOURS tonupload anything from my tavlet)   

One more thing.  I showed them how Frankie DOES IT HIS WAY to go out and do his bidness!   They were ASTOUNDED (and scared) at his two leg travels.  And then when he came back in, he headed straight for the couch and got up there all by himself just using his TWO legs!!  He was showing off!!!  . She said she was amazed at his strong will and determination to adapt!   Clearly she'd  just never had met a COOL DAWG SUPER DAWG FRANKIE before! 🙂    

THANK YOU FOR THE CONTIUED SUPPORT IN SO MANY WAYS! 🙂 🙂  

  WITH LIMITLESS LOVE AND APPRECIATION

Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!

Thank you RENE, MARTHA and MICHELLE!!!! 🙂   Your kind words and pawsitive support warm my heart

The suggestions so far have basically been the ROM three rimes a day, the Smokey (assi) Loop three for four times a day, try my hardest to WALK him down the ramp and WALK him over to his pee place, slightly holding him up and TRY and get a couple pf toe tpuches. Then if I have to let go and he takes off on two,  at least I've done that much.    I reminded them that, "Even though it jist now took TWO of you to do what you asked me to do, you think I can do it on my own??! "   They laughed......me, not so much:-) 🙂

She suggested the "peanut" for him to lay his front half on.  She did acknowledge that he has OUTSTANDING CORE STRENGTH!!

The suggestion that seemed the most valuq and doable to me (other than ROM) was to go ahead and ket him put his front half on the couch, but no further.  Then gently try and "stretch" the surgery leg down to touch the floor.   She was trying to do that, but he kept pulling himself up on the sofa!   I got some treats and set them on the cushion so, while he stayed focused on those, she tried it a little more successfully!

She said there are more advanced techniques we'll use later, vut for now just these basics ones.

How does this sound to you?

Does the laser sound beneficial in this scenario?