I haven't posted in a bit. I was enjoying the summer like weather last week too much and spent quite a bit of time enjoying the back deck with my book.
Dock has been doing good, but I do feel she is slipping a bit. Not enough to warrant an increase in her meds yet. But I do find she is a bit more sluggish (perhaps she is a bit more sore) and a bit more demanding. I found last week that she tended to follow me around the house. If I was in the kitchen, she was there. If I walked from the living room into the bathroom, she would try and follow me. She's not travelling upstairs anymore, and I saw her going down into the basement to use the litter very gingerly, and slowly coming up the stairs. Her appetite is down a bit, and she was sitting under my computer desk last night. Another place she never stays. Her hair is also thinning. It is like she has no undercoat, and when she lays down, it parts a bit and you can see her pasty white skin. The vet says that maybe due to the steroids. The prednisone can affect her hair growth, and besides lowering the dose, we have nothing we can really do for that. She's still my beauty, and will always have a nice soft coat. I can't reduce the pred as she gets wonky really quickly. We'll wait and see, but we may need to up her pred within the next week or 2.
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