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Speaking of pain meds, I've been pondering the possibility that May may be experiencing returning sensation in her legs, and her right leg is causing her significant pain when she attempts to maneuver it. Just a hunch, really, as I watch her as she moves to try to position herself to eat or to poop.
She is making slow progress, though remarkable. She now can stand on her left leg quite adroitly without faltering or losing her balance. But when she tries to bring her right leg under her to use it, she hesitates and is reluctant to try to extend it. It remains an appendage that she doesn't quite know what to do with.
She's getting stronger, her appetite it improving, though she's still half the weight of the other two, June and April. This afternoon, as the sun was angling into the garage window, I brought her inside for some boiled rice and keifer. She greedily wolfed down two helpings, maybe half a cup in all. Earlier, she and Su-su shared two of April's brown eggs, soft boiled. I'd sure like to get some weight on her.
So, I'm going to try her on 81 grain aspirin twice a day and see if that encourages her to use her right leg more.
I look at where she's come from, complete paralysis of both legs and weak and sick and barely able to eat on her own, and I see a miracle in the works.
She is making slow progress, though remarkable. She now can stand on her left leg quite adroitly without faltering or losing her balance. But when she tries to bring her right leg under her to use it, she hesitates and is reluctant to try to extend it. It remains an appendage that she doesn't quite know what to do with.
She's getting stronger, her appetite it improving, though she's still half the weight of the other two, June and April. This afternoon, as the sun was angling into the garage window, I brought her inside for some boiled rice and keifer. She greedily wolfed down two helpings, maybe half a cup in all. Earlier, she and Su-su shared two of April's brown eggs, soft boiled. I'd sure like to get some weight on her.
So, I'm going to try her on 81 grain aspirin twice a day and see if that encourages her to use her right leg more.
I look at where she's come from, complete paralysis of both legs and weak and sick and barely able to eat on her own, and I see a miracle in the works.