Things HAD been going too well :P Stairs are a No Go
I should have known, i'd been coasting mostly non stressed with Rock and seeing improvement. I got too optimistic ;)
I mentionned in another post his shoulder was off. He was more timid on stairs (going down). He had his treatment on Friday and things seemed good. I probably over did it on the walks and stairs. We took things easier on Satuday but on our third pee break of the day he wouldn't go down. He went down the turn then backed up. I tried to coax him, encourage him. Took a break. anyway long story short a big fat no on stairs. Got him down (semi-forcefully). Took a chance in hopes he wuld be ok after a night's rest we went up to bed (he was fine going up - two flights).
Anyway this morning was a disaster. I had to carry him down, which I can absolutely do safely with his harness. But that destroyed any chances of working his courage back up. I am now at a loss.
We're taking it easy for the week walk-wise. I will massage his shoulder like the vet said and will call tomorrow to see if I can give him temporary pain meds to help work his confidence again. but pretty sure my vet isn't in on Mondays :(
I live in a walk up. I can work around and sleep downstairs and spend time here but the kitchen is upstairs and lots of the normal "house stuff" will need to be up there. So it means he will be alone quite a bit more.
So - how do I go about testing to see if we can recover from this and do stairs again before giving up altogether? I don't wnat to push and ruin his confidence MORE. But I don't wnat ot wait until it's been too long since he's down stairs and he "can't" anymore. he hasn't been up again today and I think I could try again tomorrow after work. or is that still too soon. I don't want to wait TOO long where he can't do stairs at all. and if we can work his confidence where he lets me "carry him" that works but i don't see how to get there. At this point the little bit of pain has killed his confidence so it's two fold.