I've noticed that Lucy has been acting differently. She seems like she has not been feeling well. I took her back to the eye doctor, and she has elevated pressure in one eye. She's back on meds for eyeball pressure. The red haze in her eyes is just a normal reaction to the incisions, which was good news. But she is back to weekly visits to the eye doctor to monitor her pressure. Also, she has developed a bad case of night separation anxiety. She has always resisted going to bed, as she does not sleep in our room with us. But her fear of going to bed seems to grow with time, instead of diminishing. Research on this issue has proven unhelpful. We may need to add some anxiety meds, but I'd like to finish some of her eye related prescriptions, first. We try not to react to her crying and digging at night, but we need to get some sleep. To keep dust down, I don't want to have my pets sleep in my bedroom. I've tried letting her go free range for a few nights. I thought that if she saw that we were fine, and her bed was in the laundry room, along with Molly, eventually she would settle down on her bed. But she wandered all night. And being up all night resulted in accidents in the house. Except for our free range experiment, we stick to a predictable routine in the evenings; we try to not coddle her when she is upset, we are good pack leaders, but she is really anxious and is disrupting everyone's sleep. I hate seeing her like this. I wish she could speak, so we could talk out what is upsetting her.
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