July Already!

Dear God, where does the time go?? I haven't posted in nearly a month?? I'm sorry! I've been so busy, and on the computer even. I feel chained to this Macbook Pro of mine. 

First, I'm building a new spiffy website for my photography. It's going to have Flash, and full screen images. Can't wait. Then I had to work on figuring out my pricing, which is not the most fun part of the biz, I tell ya. Then I've ordered almost 200 photos, some for a client, and a lot for samples and for me. Most of Borias! Can't have enough pics of my boy!

Speaking of the subject of this blog, he's been doing pretty well. We're at acupuncture every two weeks now. But our last visit to see the chiropractor didn't reap such great news. She felt his neck out of whack again, and his left elbow was "crunchy". I remembered that when he was young, x-rays showed a slight separation in that elbow, and one vet said it was probably Elbow Dysplasia. But a few others said it wasn't bad enough, but it could eventually be an issue. 

I guess that eventually is here :( All the overcompensating for his weaker hind end is probably making it harder on his front joints, so it's starting to break down the elbow more. As if I didn't have enough to worry about with him. Well, there's treatments to help keep it from deteriorating faster. When we go see Dr. Keith for acupuncture on Tuesday, we're going to discuss Adequan shots. 

Borias' mother has been on that for arthritis for years, and it helps quite a lot. So I'm hopeful. His chiropractor thinks that he probably hurts when he walks for distances. And now it makes sense that he appears to have sore feet. I think he still does, but some of it is also that elbow. I can see him favoring it when he does limp on rougher surfaces. For some reason that seems to hurt him more. 

I'm also reading up on diets that are more anti-inflammatory. There's one for Degenerative Myelopathy, which he doesn't have, but it helps joint inflammation the same way. Supposedly it involves tofu! OK, I like tofu, but not so sure Borias is gonna dig it ha ha. 

And boy, summer is here. It's just starting to move out of June gloom, and into July heat. I think it's time to buy a heavy-duty fan for the house, and hang out with my buddy til it cools off during the day. Neither of us do well in extreme heat!