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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Anita Woodrum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="mailto:awoodrum@clear.net">awoodrum@clear.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>