Day 2,899: Touch and Go

It was touch and go with poor Coco today.

She was fine when she had her meds in her. But, oh boy, when they started to wear off, she was really in pain. Exacerbated, I think, by me picking her up to take her outside to go to the bathroom, and then eat dinner.

That sequence—she was about 5 hours into her meds at that point—sent her into an acute pain episode where I think she was having back spasms. Her whole body was rigid and shaking, it would arch her head back, and she’d pace around fra...