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Lily finished her prednisone medication 10 days ago and id doing good. For the past week she resisted being picked up to be carried up or down stairs. Finally, we gave her a little more freedom by allowing her to first hop over the back door threshold, then go up the back steps, She tolerated it well and progressed to going up and down the back steps. She also is permitted to jump up on the basement couch. Two days ago she was allowed to go up the basement stairs and the down them. She has done well. Only one stumble going up the stairs because she was in such a hurry I think. Still block off stairs to limit her activity somewhat. She likes her new "freedom" and is more herself. When she was being restricted she acted like she was being punished. She especially likes going for car rides again and we still lift her in and out of the car and have the back seat blocked off so she can't go back and forth .

Of course, I don't have tell Lily that the UPS truck is approaching because I guarantee she knows when it's near. I put Lily out front after work today while I worked in the garage and she went balistic when the UPS truck was about a block away and then when it drove by she was ready to grab the truck like Krypto. She definitely wasn't acting disabled today and I think her back is healing very well.

On Thursday, we went shopping in Maple Grove. We were going to go to Eden Prarie but it started to rain and it seemed like it may start freezing up or begin to snow. After stopping at Costco I snapped this shot with my phone as my mom was lifting Lily out of the car. Lily is still healing her back and because of that we don't let her jump or climb very many things including jumping in or out of the car.

I got home late from work tonight and took Lily outside into the beginnings of the first snow of the year. Lily is doing a lot better now but we don't let her jump or climb at all in order to help her heal her back. Hopefully, when the snow is deeper she won't have too much trouble traversing the backyard. In years past she usually plows through the deep snow like a plow and also enjoys leaping around in the fluffy snow. However, later on when the temperatures are too low and the snow is solid ice she doesn't like the snow at all.