Do they make yorkie-sized crutches?

Sometimes, I think they created the expression "kick me while I'm down" just for me. How else do you explain the last 3 1/2 years, in which I've lost almost everything? Not that I want to dwell on all that right now - I've done enough of that over the last week (a rough one at times). No, now I want to focus on the latest BS curveball that's been thrown at me - Brooke, my 2-year-old yorkie (she was my mom's actually) needs orthopedic surgery on her knee. The knee on her right rear leg keeps poppig out of the joint. It's an issue she had as a puppy, which we hoped she'd grow out of. She hasn't. Now, she runs with a little hitch in her step, and the doctor was able to just pop it in and out. She doesn't seem to be in much pain, but it is an issue nonetheless.

I feel for her, even as I have been wanting to wring her neck lately. Of the two dogs, she's had the roughest time adjusting since mom died. They were both in the room at the time, and were both rather subdued, but Cali seems to have largely bounced back. The first day after, when I let them into the room, they cried and whined, but Cali seems back in her (usual) mopey routine. Brooke is having barking fits again, and regressing by having accidents in the house. I try not to yell at her, but she pushes my buttons - she just doesn't listen. Part of it is her personality, and I guess part of it is the adjustment. Of course, I always thought she was a ghost whisperer - when she barks like she does, it's as if she sees something I don't. I always imagined that she would say, if she could, "Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there!"

Anyway, the maniac (as her favorite dog sitter, Michelle likes to call her) might have the surgery on Friday, depending on the snow. Hopefully she won't have any complications. I really can't take another loss so soon. We lost our other yorkie, Kacy, just a few months after my dad died and I don't really need a case of deja-vu all over again.

Mom always felt, after Dad died, that just as soon as she thought she could pick herself up, she got knocked down again, and I know how she felt. I've felt it too, and I feel it again - do I really need to deal with this right now?

I wonder if they have doggy PT? =)

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