{"id":2728,"date":"2011-03-21T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverdogprints.com\/dogblog\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:04:51","slug":"old-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/old-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/4674900883_ffde0b76161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/4674900883_ffde0b76161.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Running Dogs by P.A.B. Away for a Week on Flickr\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2729\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI run with A-Dog a few times during the week.  I can hardly stay inside my skin when I know she&#8217;s getting ready for a run and I might be going too.  She used to take me every time, but as I grow older, I&#8217;m not allowed to go every day.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRecently, my body started to rebel.  I would run a mile and begin to limp.  Of course, I wouldn&#8217;t stop unless A-Dog did.  Even with a day of rest in between runs, I would still limp.  She said it was hard to tell which leg was affected and after a few days of little improvement, we had to go to Dogdom&#8217;s unspeakable four letter word:  the vet.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNo need to go into details on that horror, but if any dogs out there want to share a better place to hide than the human leg tunnel, I&#8217;m all silky ears.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy diagnosis was arthritis &#8212; a mild case that can be treated with medication.  I started with a quarter pill, twice a day.  After two weeks, my dose is now a quarter pill once a day.  I am in awe that such a small bit of medicine can make such a difference. (Although, hearing the humans trying to break that little pill into four pieces is hilarious.  Watch the language, people!)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI am back to running every other day to a maximum of 3 miles.  I&#8217;m grateful and hopeful that I can do it for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run with A-Dog a few times during the week. I can hardly stay inside my skin when I know she&#8217;s getting ready for a run and I might be going too. She used to take me every time, but as I grow older, I&#8217;m not allowed to go every day. Recently, my body started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,84,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-behavior","category-dogs","category-running"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9583,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/9583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}