[Dailydrool] Well I just don't know what to do about this

[AWoodrum]

Okay I need some suggestions and ideas for what to do to help Sister Anna.
A little background here -- you may know that she had Hemangiosarcoma, and
I've been giving her alternative cancer treatments for quite a while.  It
worked, we killed her tumor, but it caused a serious health crisis when the
tumor died and was expelled from her body.  This happened right at
Christmas.  She is almost completely healed on the outside, inside she is
probably still healing, which may be the problem, because she is now very
frail and fragile, and can't get up sometimes.  (Age about 11.)

 

Not being able to get up is the problem.  She is sleeping a lot, which is
fine, but a lot of the time she is sleeping on the floor in one room or
another, and she sleeps on her side, always has.  What is happening is, she
is on her side, wakes up, and she can't get up.  The legs are paddling like
crazy but her feet are not hitting the floor, it's kind of like a bug on its
back except she is on her side.  If I am home and hear or see her I go over
and start rolling her onto her belly and she hops up.  But if I am gone or
she is in another room sleeping at night, I don't hear her.  She lays there
paddling and paddling, and eventually pees all over herself and the floor,
and I find her laying in a humongous puddle, still trying to get up.  (She
is a tanker like Gracie, they both drink a lot and pee a lot.)

 

Here are some things we CANNOT do.  Pick up the water (4 cats and 2 other
dogs here with water bowls inside and outside).  Gate her in the sunroom at
night where the pet door is located.  (Gracie goes out to pee at least 2 or
3 times every night, Holly goes out, too, and the cats go in and out a lot.
The sunroom is where Anna's favorite bed is and she always ends up there by
morning.  This morning she was on the sunroom floor on her side, paddling
and laying in a pool of pee.)  Gate her in the kitchen on linoleum floor
(then she can't get to the pet door if she is able to get up, and linoleum
is slippery).  

 

I'm wondering if there are some exercises or activities that might help her
get stronger so she can get up normally like she used to.  Or do we just
have to give it more time?  Any suggestions would be appreciated, because I
am stumped.  And Anna is not ready to go to the bridge, she is still eating
and seems to feel okay, although it really takes it out of her when we have
a paddling episode when Mama is not here to help.  

 

Anita Woodrum

awoodrum at clear.net

 

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