Showing posts with label stroke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stroke. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sit ups

Thanks to our AMAZING Pet Sitter, I got to take a 5 day vacation over the holiday.  She kept up Max's workout schedule and a few days ago I got a text that Max was sitting up like a normal dog!!!  When I got home last night, the whole gang came to greet me and Max was hanging out on the couch with Amanda.  I wasn't sure if he was going to recognize me or not, but he started kicking and pushing himself up when I came over and pet him!!!


His eye is looking much better too.  She has him eating 4 meals a day and he was getting plenty of fluids as well.   I think I need to adjust his cart so he's a little higher now. He did develop a blister in his inner thigh from wheeling around and kicking in his cart so much but it looks like he's ready to do some more work on sitting up on his own!!! So the next plan is working on sitting up, staying up and then moving into a standing position... it'll be a while but he's starting to regain more and more control of his body!  His eyes are also starting to track more and more and Amanda said he's enjoying sitting in the window and watching the other dogs play outside..  This morning when I was feeding him and Rex and #2 came in and started making noises he actually turned his head to look at them!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Max Trying to Stand Up

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words... well.. how about a video! Or a few videos


Max standing in his cart working on lifting his head 10/9/2012





Max sitting in bed demonstrating how he can now turn his head 10/9/2012





Max working on pushing himself up to a standing position  10/16/2012



If you think that last video was something - check this one out!