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Every year Toys R Us posts it’s holiday gift guide for differently abled children. This is a great resource for families, relatives and therapists looking to get the right gift for a loved one in their life. Here are a few of my favorites: Crayola Dry Erease Activity Board:This is a great gift that . . . → Read More: Holiday Gift Giving We’ve been doing swimming this summer, but less so then last year. She needs help to keep swimming with her hind legs this summer. Underwater treadmill would probably be more helpful at this point as it would require more hind leg use. She seems to enjoy the swimming and seeing her doggie friend Milkway . . . → Read More: The ups and downs of DM Sierra is back swimming again and has been very perky since her swim yesterday. We just did 5 minutes in the pool as I didn’t want to push her too hard the first day. She swam the five minutes with ease and wasn’t too tired the rest of the day. I am going to . . . → Read More: Back to swimming I am very excited to be attending the first Canine Rehabilitation course for occupational therapists tomorrow. It’s going to be a great day with hands on training. I feel like I will come back with greater insight into OT’s role in canine rehabilitation as well as tools for continuing Sierra’s rehabilitation. The last few . . . → Read More: Canine Rehabilitation course tomorrow. I didn’t forget to update. Without swimming there is less to write about. Sierra has had some feeding/eating issues- mostly centering around how much she was eating. Her appetite appeared to drop, but part of me thinks she was fatiguing during mealtime and she was giving up. She is now back to eating 2/3 . . . → Read More: All is well Sierra had a really bad day today. She refused her breakfast and lunch. She spit up what little antibiotics I tried to give her this morning. She ate some oatmeal and part of her dinner. I skipped her other doses of antibiotics today as she just won’t eat. She was looking really weak behind . . . → Read More: Bad Day Sierra has been holding steady and has improved from her physical status at her original evaluation. I have been especially careful to protect her from the heat and over exhaustion. I have had to make some very hard decisions about leaving her home rather then taking her on longer walks or hot car rides- . . . → Read More: Daily DM Sierra is my 8y7m old Harlequin Great Dane. She received a rule-out diagnosis of Degenerative Myelopathy (DM) on Saturday 5/30/09. She had been having symptoms for the last three months. I am an occupational therapist and have been researching canine rehabilitation since learning of her diagnosis. I feel that I have a lot to . . . → Read More: Diagnosis |
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