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All About Max

Max update Sept 7th 10:35 AM

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Well yesterday was a good day for Max in regard to his walking. We are definately seeing him use is front left paw correctly for some steps. Usually about 3 steps and then he knuckles (walks on top of foot, foot curled under). It’s much better than the constant dragging he’s been doing with it.

Yesterday he had some diarrhea and was incontinent x 3. He really tried to let us know, when he looks like he wants to get up and walks towards us, we need to remind ourselves that it’s not necessarily a warm glow feeling that he wants to be with us.. it’s usually a signal that he wants to go out and that it’s urgent and if we don’t move it, we’ll be in cleaning mode!

He slept upstairs with us last night and had one accident at 3 AM. M and I were sleeping and we woke to see him walking in the room, and we flicked he light on to find he had been trying to get to the bedroom door (which we close at night so he can’t fall down the stairs). Anyways we were able to clean him and the room up pretty fast (we are getting to be pro’s! We had the windows wide open and the fan going and this morning the room smells pretty good 🙂 It’s all good. We are just so happy to see him using that front left paw some… it’s hopeful.

I slept in this morning to almost 10 am, and came down to find him resting in the family room with Maurice, Karen, Dick and Nick.. so he’s not lonely! 🙂 I’ve got his bedding in the wash, but it’s no hardship for him as he has 3 beds.  He ate his morning pills, I had sneakily cut a slice in a piece of sausage and gave it to him, and he spit the pill out, but then when he  realized it still had part of the sausage smell on the pill, he ate the pil! Then he started licking the carpet where the sausage had been briefly when he spit it out with the pill…  I think he likes the sausage! It’s one way to get a clean carpet  lol

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Grouse Grind

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The Grouse GrindYesterday (Sunday) was a busy day. I had made plans with Michelle, someone I used to work with, to check out the Grouse Grind. She had done it before and was looking for someone (some sucker?) to share in the abuse.

If you don’t know what the Grouse Grind is, it is sometimes called Mother Nature’s stairmaster. It’s a STEEP climb up the side of Grouse Mountain. Stairs have been cut into the mountain, and some sections are so steep that you need to use your hands to pull yourself up. It’s roughly 2850 steps straight up Grouse Mountain.

Grouse Grind Gondola.Sunday was not the best weather, and the further up the mountain we moved, the more the weather became overcast, drizzly, and flat out raining. It is very challenging. I’m not great on stairs, even though I do quite a bit of running. I was pleased to make it in at 1 hour 35 minutes.

Michelle did much better – making it in just over an hour. A really terrific time for her. She had set a goal of 1:35 for herself – so I was happy to make her goal! Way to go Michelle.

It was too bad the weather was so overcast that the views were totally obscured from the summit. So we had a beer and took the gondola back down. The larger pic here was taken on the journey down.