Tyson: Week 3

 Well, we're into a routine now.  Daily physio, short walks and massages.

We went for the first full hydro-therapy session yesterday and a check-in with the rehab vet.  She was very impressed.  He's still quite lame on his right side, but he's standing properly and isn't really "knuckling" his paws on the right side.  He's also got the strength now to jump up on his hind legs and when we play "shake" he can lift his entire front right paw and put it in your hand.  All of which he couldn't do a week ago.

Once he got used to the underwater treadmill and stopped trying to climb out, he got down to the serious work of walking and did a solid half mile while she corrected his gait from time to time.

All in all she felt that his recovery is remarkable and that we needed to stop worrying about him doing things he should do i.e. jumping into the car, and let him do them but with our supervision so he gets used to doing them again.

One of the things in his favour, according to the Vet is that he's in great physical condition.

It's one of those weird things - we have two exceptionally healthy dogs in peak condition, great weights, who do lots of exercise while their owners aren't quite the same :) - but it's a weird feeling as an owner to feel pride for having well looked after and healthy pets because the vets we go to really act like this an exception rather than a rule.

Now, if you don't mind.  I'm going to go to the park and throw balls for the obsessive 2 year old...

Some of this stuff is hard...

 So we've started pulling together the interfaces for our big backend.  In theory we were launching everything last weekend, except what we realised when we came to do that is that all we were prepared for was a basic Alpha - here, it just about works - product and we needed to do a LOT of fiddling about on our backend.

So now I'm trying to get wireframes done for the site.

Now, MS have the mind boggling powerful Expression Blend tool which does wireframes which actually work and can be shared as quasi working projects... OTOH...  the learning curve is FUCKING ENORMOUS and I while I have a long weekend, I have a LOT of other stuff to do.  So it's back to the excellent, but more limited Balsamiq.