A Question For The AUS Veterans

I cannot answer your question Tony, but I'm hoping that one month will be sufficient for me to lift some heavy boxes. I'd think that dog walking shouldn't be too much of a strain... in fact, the exercise will likely do you good. I do remember that you already posted in one of my earlier threads.

about the boxes, my PCA Dx came about right in the middle of our move to our retirement home in Florida. We ended up leaving a storage locker full of stuff that we intended to finish moving the first week of this past December, but my wife was in so much pain that we cancelled that trip. Turned out that was the week we discovered she has stage 4 lymphoma. When it rains, it pours.

Her final chemo was last Friday, and her final LP infusion tomorrow. The trip to complete our move is now scheduled for the last week of June, about five weeks after my AUS implant and a week before activation. Here's hoping everything goes well for my wife, for me, and for you!

Keep us posted on your progress. I'll be right behind you.

It would probably depend on the dog. After a week, maybe ten days, you should be able to go for a walk although two miles may be a bit ambitious at the start. While you are walking you could certainly take a small, sedate, well-mannered dog along -- the sort of unnatural creature that just trots along beside you and never gives the slightest tug on its leash -- but if your dog is anything like mine -- a feisty, strong animal who pulls like an Iditarod champ and lunges at passing cars -- then not so much.