Starting last weekend, I noticed that Gimme wasn't herself. Actually before that, I thought I found a warm spot on her back, but that Saturday she wasn't willing to play as much with Grafton and was more insistent about her refusal to engage with him. And by mid-walk we noticed she wasn't running as much or moving as far away from me. When I got home the spot on her back was really hot. I used TTouch to cool it down.
I tried to get in touch with Tonya, the person who does bodywork and energy work on Gimme, but never did catch her until Tuesday evening - came home to a message from her. As I'd guessed, her family was out of town for the Memorial Day weekend. So Gimme got an treatment Wednesday afternoon. Her whole back was out of whack, so Tonya had a lot of corrections to make. Her mid-back was really locked and was the area in front and behind. Tonya thought it was all related to her original issue. Also there was a stuck area between her shoulders. We talked and Tonya thinks I may have pushed the "take a bow" training, since we've been working on duration -- obviously I'm not doing that for a week and then will work up much more gradually. And both hips were stuck, with no idea why. Poor baby.
I also asked her about checking her energy and she said she would, but that Gimme might be a bit loopy for a day afterward. She was concerned about how it would affect our class that night. She did find her energy slightly stuck in the rear, but nowhere near as bad as the first time. Tonya had to work hard to get things moving again and asked me to keep her a little less active for 36 - 48 hours. So today was our first walk again with her Grafton, Mary and Linda. It went well, though Gimme was still less active. I checked her during and after the walk for any warm areas in her spine and didn't find anything. I think she may be worried about hurting and not actually hurting. Still I'll keep an eye on it and see how it goes and may get her back in for another session after the ORT if she isn't completely back to normal.
Tonya was right about Gimme being loopy. Our class was basically three ORT type searches, the first we knew where the hide was and the other two were blind. Three of us are scheduled for the ORT on Friday (8th), so we were all glad to see container searches, since we hadn't had any for several weeks.
Gimme found the first one, but it was really apparent that she wasn't as focused... for heaven sakes -- it took her as long as everyone else to find it! The second time she did better, more like she regularly searches. The third time she was back to normal and little Miss Nose-That-Knows Gimme. She has a tendency sometimes to give a drive-by indication on the right box, but keeps on going and then will come back around when she's sure there isn't a better one. She did that the first two times, but the third one stuck with the correct box the first time.
Cross your fingers about the upcoming ORT. If we don't get this one, I'm just going to lay down on the floor and cry...
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