Katie With Frisbee : 4 Aug 2011

I need an OT category. :-)

About 10 days ago, Katie exhibited signs of lameness, pain and possible dysentery, but we fairly quickly worked out that the problem wasn’t intestinal. It was her back.

I just got the results of the radiologist report. She has a narrowing of the spine at the lumbosacral junction. It’s not “definitive” but there appears to be some spondylosis as well.

She is responding to anti-inflammatories (vetprofen) and pain meds (tramadol). We started that routine on Monday. We’ve slowly decreased the pain meds, and today she ran up the stairs even though this morning she was not able to jump up into bed. (Yes, I know I need to discourage exertion – she took me by surprise.)

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Data from 2005-2010; chart updated with July data.

On May 2, 2009, Lora L. Hunt, 48, re-ended motorcyclist Anita Zaffke, 56, who had stopped for a red light near Lake Zurich, IL, about 40 miles north of Chicago. (Google map view of the intersection; Zaffke was traveling south on Route 12.)

Zaffke, who was wearing a bright high-viz yellow safety jacket and riding a Honda Shadow, was thrown “a couple hundred feet” and died at the scene of a broken neck. (She was wearing a full-face helmet.)

In September, a grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Hunt. She was convicted of reckless homicide; the sentencing hearing is set for July 22. Her sentence could range from probation to five years in prison for the conviction of reckless homicide.

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Data on Washington State motorcycle fatalities, calendar 2005 through June 2010.