It took Callie a little while on Friday evening to re-orient herself after coming home … when you're blind, have been away for three weeks in the hospital, and have some new vestibular problems that keep you off-balance, well, it can take a bit to figure out where everything is again. So she kind of milled around her first night back and seemed occasionally lost.
Late Saturday morning, however, we saw her on the cot in the living room, earnestly licking the pillow that's supposed to be inside the bumper bed that blind Charlie likes so much. This, we knew, was a very good sign. She was getting ready to re-open her grooming salon, and she was just practicing on the pillow as a warm-up session.
Sure enough, a few hours later on Saturday afternoon, I heard the distinctive sounds of Callie grooming one of her many clients just outside my office door. I turned around to look, and there she was, methodically grooming blind Briggs. Back and forth she went with her tongue, carefully cleaning his neck and face. (If you click on the photo for a larger image, you can see her little pink tongue sticking out.)
I thought, bless her heart, she circles when she walks and her head tilts sideways, but she can pull herself together enough to start grooming again. Briggs, her favorite client, was only wondering, "Where have you been for the last three weeks, honey?"
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