<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">As cold as it is here (15 at 9:30) Llewis is better today than he has been for several days. I am very relieved because I was terribly worried that he had some substantial problem with that left shoulder. If his front goes, that is the end, </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">since he is so compromised in the rear that he would be unable to move at all. Unlike his brother, Nigel, he would not even be able to sit up. Nigel may be paralyzed in the rear but he has shoulders like a tackle and can power-scoot fast enough to make us trot to catch him. Llewis would be stuck. He would have one good front leg left.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I had been giving him tramadol and seeing not much improvement, and hoping it was a soft=tissue injury and not the arthritis in the shoulder. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">That he is ambulatory and cheery this morning makes my day.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">MomPerson to Nigel, Llewis, Conley and Doc</div></div>