Today is Zoe’s first day without her pain medication and you can tell. She didn’t want to go down or up the stairs and she wasn’t moving around as much. This morning I dropped her off before going to work to get her hair cut so she wouldn't look so funny with a shaved leg. When I picked her up she was her normal "I am excited to be here" self but when we got home it was a different story. I had taken her into my work to see some people and she was excited to see them and didn’t act like anything was wrong but when we got home she was not a happy camper.
She didn’t want to go up the stairs and I practically had to carry her. When she laid down she started to do her whine “no one loves me, I am sad”. I would pet her and lay with her but she was exhausted, not sure if it is from all the excitement or her leg truly hurting. I now wonder if she really was progressing or if it was just the pain medicine. I couldn’t even get her to go to the bathroom; she ended up peeing in the middle of the yard, which Josh yelled at me for killing the grass. What am I suppose to do carry her? She weighs 50 pounds and is not the easiest thing to carry!
On another note I bought her a life vest today – it is pink, the only girly thing she has! She was not a fan of it but if we want to take her to a pond, canoeing with us or go to a lake we now have it. It is nice because it has a handle on the top to pick her up if she is struggling. When we first got Zoe we had a scare when we took her canoeing, she jumped out into the cold October water and was struggling to get up luckily she was small and didn’t weigh much so it was easy to get her out of the water.
My Brother-in-law (Jay) made a statement recently on my Facebook page that I should name Zoe - Marley from the Movie/Book Marley & Me. This week she destroyed yet again another rug we had in the kitchen. We had laid a bunch of rugs out so that Zoe could walk around and not slip, and she decided to ruin them so NO MORE RUGS! That statement got me thinking that I should write down all the things that have happened since the beginning of getting her. I am not a writer as you can tell by reading this blog – I can’t spell (thanks to spell check) so I am not doing this to write a book or anything but it would be interesting to write everything down and re-read it later! I am sure I could get a few chapters out of her 1st year. August 16th will be the 1 year anniversary of us bringing her home! I can’t believe we have survived a year already! As crazy as she is we still love her!
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