8.......... rehab update

Time doesn’t always fly. Actually, when u is aware of it – it goes by very slowly!

Check-up confirmed, with a “snapshot” – (an expensive word for a slightly less expensive x-ray - one without anaesthetic), - that all the nuts and bolts (3) were still in place, but a very high temp meant an infection somewhere. Back onto antibiotics. One stitch open and a shaving nick also means the scary collar stays on for a while longer.


A speedy visit to Sylvia to try on Chilly’s Back on Track mesh coat. Just choosing the correct size is too much for me. Borrowing a slightly too small one from Kath (Gugs’), so need one size up or maybe go even bigger? Decision, decisions, decisions; something I’m not good at when presented with too many options. It’s a huge amount of money; do I need to spend it? Does it really work?

Which reminds me about another decision I need to make? MediPet or PetSure. Talk about shutting the stable door once the horse has bolted! Anyone?

Dawn Jones, his rehab therapist, visits again and is very happy with his back – yay! Back on Track maybe? OK – I’m buying. www.backontrack-uk.co.uk has already been so patient with my queries and has even offered me a “no postage deal”.

Good massage session, with Mac enjoying it so much he’s almost standing on just 2 legs (if that’s possible). Just his wound is still yucky. Popped him into my local vet to have it checked but all seems OK. He (Dr Paul Burger) was so sweet; word must be out that I’m broke, he never charged me for the visit. We all know Cape Town is small and Hout Bay even smaller, but jeeps!!!

Although only 2 weeks since surgery;  it’s been a total of 4 weeks since “house arrest”;  I haven’t yet had to crate him. He is such a chilled BC and was already in the habit of lying under my desk while I worked. He’s just accepted that maybe I’m working more than usual but doesn’t grasp that it’s because I’ve put myself under house arrest too. I had started crate training him but still concerned that “force-crating” him could be detrimental to his state of mind which, has so far been brilliant as, depending on the circumstance (issue), he does still occasionally “shut down” and it always reminds me ………………….

Mac and Me

C’est la vie