Notes & Walking

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Here are two new adhesive notes I've been working on. I made a bunch of birthday cards this weekend for Mom and my nephews but didn't scan a one. They were all new designs and I'll be making more of them as I perfect specific techniques so I'll scan the new ones.

Reggi is doing very well. To be honest, we've hardly had the E collar on her at all. She's been very good about leaving her staples alone. If anything, she licks at the area occasionally, never tries to bite the staples. Steve isn't feeling well so he's staying home today, so that's a plus for Reggi too. Not that he'll do her massage therapy or physical therapy (I love saying that about my dog!) but at least he'll be here to keep an eye on her and her staples. It would have been the first day she's been left alone since the surgery and we were going to opt to leave the collar off even today while we were at work. Simon would be here part of the day, but he rarely comes up from his lair downstairs. Because we haven't made her wear the collar much, she's not used to it so she tends to sit like a statue whenever we do put it on her. FYI, the vet did say we could leave it off if she was sitting with us or whatever.

I took her for her first official post-surgery walk today. She supposed to walk 10 minutes or less 3 times a day this first week. She spends a good deal of time outside in the morning in the yard anyway, but we haven't officially walked her. She was eager to go on a walk which surprised me a little. She may not be so eager tonight, we'll see. She sat down a few times to rest. Sometimes she would be so happy to be walking she'd hop on 3 legs so she could go faster. But I kept her slowed down mostly and she was putting weight on the leg properly. She's sacked out with Steve now so I'm sure that short walk took it out of her. She couldn't even jump back in the car at the end, I had to boost her rear end up.

I had a wonderful, family-oriented weekend. I'll write about that tomorrow. Just wanted to whip out this quick entry before work and post those adhesive notes pictures. I'll have to rescan the sunflower I see it's a tad tilted.