The perils of Ms Brandi Jane

Well, Ms Brandi Jane made a trip back to the doctor today. Although she still has her problem with incontinence it is getting better with the medication she is taking.

Her current problem is with pain. Last Friday, after we got settled in back at home she started to complain everytime she was picked up. (Her way of complaining is to squeal and try to bite the hand that is doing the lifting.) She would not go up or down stairs and kept coming into the study and hiding back under my computer chair. As the weekend went on the problem got worse. My first guess of the problem was there was some injury to her front leg joints or shoulders, or maybe arthritis was sitting in with age, since that is where she seemed to experience pain the most.

Until today she had not actually gotten hold of anyone when she tried to bite. This morning Joanne picked her up to take her to the doctors appointment when she yelled out and then bit Jo's finger, bringing blood this time. Later at the doctor's office she bit down again, this time only leaving a bruise on one of Jo's fingers.

Diagnosis turns out is not her joints but her back. Sometime since we got home last Thursday she managed to injure her back. This may have been caused by leaping up and down steps. There are five steps up into our motorhome. Also, in the house the living room is two steps lower than the rest of the house. (We went through this same problem with Buddy about a year ago.)

The doctor gave her a pain killer shot, gave us some pain pills for her and another pill to help heal the back injury. We spent the day driving to Tulsa in the motorhome, to take it to a dealer for some warranty work, and then returning in the car. Each time we stopped she immediately jumped up on one of the seats. It appears the drugs are working.