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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 1:54 pm 
RN, Naja, I don't know if your budget would allow but maybe there is a "teenage intern" out there who would like something to do for the summer. Walking dogs for a small fee?
That would give you a break when you are "dog heavy".
I think you need a new doctor, mine offers all kinds of things for my joints ... up to steroid shots. My sister gets steroid shots for her hip and that helps for about 8 months.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 1:57 pm
RN, I feel for you. Ongoing pain like that is extremely hard.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 2:11 pm
Naja, is your hip pain from arthritis or something else?
I think Dipo has a very good idea.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 5:00 pm
Naja, hand pain recently hit me like a ton of bricks! And trigger fingers, ouch. Not fun and would definitely be hard walking a big dog on lead, even one who never pulled. I mean flossing my teeth is no fun with trigger fingers. Compression gloves are a PITA, but they do cut down on fingers getting stuck, especially overnight.
Hmm Juju suggested taking a dog to meet neighbors, so if she hired a dog walker, they would meet the neighbors...
I am not a fan of steroids, I do take Ibuprofen but be careful with taking too many as that can cause other issues.
I wouldn't inhale anything, but you just added to a thought I have had from reading Karuuna posts and maybe I should try some form of CBD. So your new place is in a good location for that, too.
We have locally, Dr Pegi who was an actual pharmacist but now has a practice with various forms of CBD and treats humans and pets. She has researched and visited the sources of her products, which are certified as to contents.. And my hands just might tip the balance.
I have my annual wellness appointment on the 24th and plan to ask for a referral to a rheumatologist to get hopefully a diagnosis.. Arthritis? Ligaments, Both? I do have Dx of arthritis in both knees and one hip. Presumably the other hip, but no xray.
All I can think in your case is you not having those stairs down to your backyard any more. I bet that is a huge relief.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 7:11 pm
CBD is excellent for pain! I get it from Charlotte's Web, a tincture you put under your tongue for 30 seconds. Full spectrum CBD is best.
I'm going to gently disagree with hiring someone else to walk the dogs however. If it was your dogs only, that would be fine... but I think you need to be careful of liability if you have someone else walk client dogs.
Around where I live, too many times I have seen dogs being walked being attacked and even killed by loose dogs... imagine if that were a client dog walked by someone other than you? I don't think your Rover insurance would cover it, and you could be sued.
You could maybe hire someone to come play with them in your yard?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 8:02 pm
RN I play with the guest dogs all day. As long as I'm not playing tug, I'm fine.
I don't really want to get into dog walking. I would just like to walk my own now and then. Plus, I don't want to leave the other dogs alone in my house while I'm out walking one. I'm doing ok just babysitting them.  I just sent 2 home a few minutes ago. They were here 6 days.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 8:15 pm
RN Grooch, my hands are arthritis and my hip is an inherited condition. My brothe has it but his is fixed. It's a deformation of one of the hip bones. All my life my hip clicked when I exercised, but there wasn't any pain. I would say when I hit about 50, I started having discomfort that slowly got worse and turned into actual pain. I can never remember the technical term for it, so I'll text my brother and find out.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Monday, April 06, 2026 - 11:46 pm
Okay, I am abandoning dog walking for Naja.
AND veering off into trigger fingers - Seamonkey, can you find a better thread to move this discussion to? Even if you have to create one? Bigdog cured his trigger finger with some research on his own and then asking a local Physician's Assistant practitioner at a tiny local clinic in Port Isabel, TX to try the most simple remedy recommended by (cough) Dr. Google. And she said okay, and it worked!!! And has worked for a couple years.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 7:00 am
RN
Why? 😫
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 7:09 am
RN: Consider yourself lucky, Naja.
I let the dog outside late last night. I then have to go down the 2 deck stairs when he's done, and carry him up the stairs. Well, unbeknownst to me, I stepped in dog shit and smeared it in the laundry room. What a lovely thing to find in the morning.
Thank god I use slip on shoes when I let him out, so I didn't walk through the whole house with my shoes on.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 7:34 am
RN I've been through things like that, too, Grooch. I'll take a food mess over a poop mess any day
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 8:09 am
RN Juju that is so awesome!
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 12:17 pm
RN: Timeline cleanse. And hit the unmute button.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 12:24 pm
RN:
And here's Naja at work. Just a typical day.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 1:29 pm
Totally agree about having client dogs walked by anyone unless the owner wanted that, which would be unlikely away from home. Here even with owners, too many attacks from dogs whose owners think it is ok, or don't care that it isn't ok, let their dogs run off lead.. And we have coyotes, and little thugs riding ebikes.
Naja, I often ask why.. But cats, well Katniss, not former cats, Katniss is a water tipper.. Light bowl, heavy bowl.. Some fountains.. Non tippable, tipped or flipped.
She finally has a fountain she loves..
But dry food, not a problem, eaten and brought up, yuckky. And I have tracked that..
Naja, if you email me, I just now got an email from Dr Peggy with information and links about CBD for arthritis that look interesting.. My email is in my profile.
I hesitate because I have seen paranoid reactions that weren't pretty. But if something would help with pain or sleep..
Did your brother have surgery that helped?? For the hip?
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