Lilly Medical Update – Partly Cloudy

Lilly’s elimination issues continue. Things have improved, in part, because we’re not pushing fluids nearly as much. However, her elimination schedule and control are still off.

If you don’t count all the poop I found in Lilly’s crate in the morning, then she had an accident-free day on Tuesday. Heck, she even had the most epic poop I’ve ever seen on our walk that morning.

It seemed deliberate and voluminous to me. I was very excited. I pretended that it means the end to our troubles … when she purposefully walked into the tall grass on the side of the road to “go.”

Wednesday went mostly OK also, but after dinner, Lilly had 3 pee accidents. She had a poop accident in her crate overnight, and she pooped in the kitchen Thursday morning.

As of today, we’re officially 4 weeks into this setback. We don’t see the neuro team again until the end of August. I really hope this resolves before then.

We’re doing as well as you’d expect, but Lilly is getting wiped down a lot, and I’m doing boatloads of laundry. Thank goodness for tile floors.

Some days, if I’m feeling brave, I let her go diaper-less, but if there is any doubt, or if she is going to be on the furniture, then a diaper is a must. My poor sweetie.

As a funny, annoying aside … I’ve developed a little tendonitis in my right thumb from cutting tail holes in the diapers. It’s hard to use scissors to cut through all the absorbent padding.

Sometimes I worry that we’ll have to housetrain Lilly again, when this episode is over, but then I think she understands … right now, she simply cannot control it.