A very doggie update

This weekend Aloysius goes off his Prednisone and Robaxxin.  All he has left is Tramadol.   This is the real test to see how he is doing.
He's been feeling better and not screaming in pain.  In some of his out of crate time yesterday (he is still spending 90% of his time in the crate) he jumped on the couch.  No scream, no look of pain.
I know that many dogs live with IVDD and don't always need surgery, we're hoping that will be the case for Aloysius. 

Since he's still on crate rest we needed to clean everything in his crate.  I decided to make him a new pillow for his bed out of some comfy flannel with robots on them.

Aloysius approves of this bed.

He's looking much better and doesn't look like he's in pain.  I'm hoping he continues to recover and that we don't need to have the surgery done.


EDIT:  He's still in pain so we've called the vet for a refill on his pain meds.