Out of Commission

I hurt my back last weekend. I can only blame myself because I overdid it and wanted things done just the way I wanted them RIGHT THAT SECOND, so I rearranged furniture between floors and took the brick edgers out of my flower beds and didn't think about how I was doing those things. Sunday night I got up from the couch and I was in a world of pain.

SIGH.

So now I'm on muscle relaxers and pain pills. I can't take them during the day because I can't drive when I take them and a girl's gotta work. Also, puppies and back injuries don't mix too well, but Stella has been great. Last night she was chewing on her cow hooves and I sat down to pet her and an hour later I was laying on the floor sound asleep and she was curled up next to me still chewing her cow hoof. Such a good girl!
She getting bigger and bigger and even her face is changing. Every day she looks different to me and I'm trying to remember to take pictures so that I see the changes day by day. Tomorrow we're doing another puppy play time session to wear her out a bit, and afterwards we're going back to the dog bakery for more bully sticks and tendons. She adores them, and zipped right through them. She loves her Elk antler too, and has hardly made a dent in it.

I'm also going to try changing her food. She still spits out her Blue Buffalo food because she likes to pick out all the brown pieces and leaves the little black bits all over the floor. My sister pointed out that I sound like the mom on the Pediasure commercials, "I have a picky eater on my hands...." I'm not going to pay for this premium dog food if she won't eat it all! Also, she's still scratching and the vet said that if a bath didn't help, I might want to try switching her food because there might be something in it that she's sensitive to. Great. I'm going to try the Wellness brand and see how she does on that.