The Impact is Real

Service dogs make a huge impact in their person's life.  We know that now more than we ever have before.

This last week has been challenging in so many ways.  We've had a handful of outings outside of our home that Sunny was unable to accompany Charlie to since she is still healing.  Even at home, Sunny has not been able or up to doing tasks for Charlie. 

The biggest challenge has been the increase in behaviors and disregulation with Charlie.  We've seen meltdowns of epic proportion this week at a level of intensity that we haven't seen in awhile. We feel this is largely due to the stress of seeing Sunny hurt and the fact that Sunny has not been able to do tasks for Charlie this week.  It's been a little eye opening to see just how big of an impact Sunny has on Charlie's day to day life.  Without her, things have been tough this week.  It's a little heartbreaking to see the backward slide.  Just when you take two steps forward you get pushed three steps back.  

Sunny continues to heal from her injuries.  It's been slow going, but today she seemed more like herself.  She got to go on a short walk today to help her stretch her legs, but not long enough to over do it. She did well and seemed happy to be out of the house for a bit. Hopefully we'll see more improvements in the coming days.