I'm trying to get the hang of expressing her and keeping her accidents to a minimum. In the past couple of days she's had one a day. One in the morning on the 5th and one in the evening on the 6th. I think the one on the fifth was due to me not expressing her fully an hour before. Looks like she's having a bm every other day. Although I suspect that to change. She went last evening, and this morning she's farting and there are lots of gurgling sounds coming from her guts.

I am so excited because yesterday she wagged her tail! Brett and I had gone for about 40 minutes to buy supplies for this sling contraption for her, and when we came back in the house, she was wagging her tail! O.k., not really the full on kind, but more of the afflicted slow motion jerky sort. But it was definately there.

She's showing improvement in p.t. too. There is resistence (a little bit) for a moment in each of her legs. The slightest show of resistence seems to be exhausting, so i guess that's why it is only for a moment.

This morning she rolled, by herself, from lying on her left side to lying on her stomach. She is improving greatly in her ability to raise her head and extend her neck. She doesn't show pain like she used to when her neck is touched, although we still try to avoid touching it.

OK. For the "sling contraption." Brett is a genius at thinking up innovative ideas to make life easier. Maybe he wasn't the first one to think of this... there was at least one other similar to it we found online later, but still.
The point to this thing is not to suspend her in a totally passive upright position. The point is to have a way to hold her safely upright while she excercises her legs. I'm still sewing the harness part, and will finish it today. It will be adjustable so we can vary the amount of pressure on her feet. I'll post a pic as soon as its done. It was a blast to build and cost about $40.00 for the parts, which include casters. We haven't yet determined how to attach the casters since their bases don't quite match up to the diameter of the pvc... is close though. We have two smart casters for the front and two straight casters for the back. Plus the pvc is hollow, of course, and the end caps available that fit are rounded. We bought rubber stoppers instead to plug the holes in the bottoms of the legs... the kind that go on the ends of walkers. We shoved them into the pvc rather than capping them on the outside. Make sense? Pics are coming shortly!