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Moving Forward

Monty’s second checkup with the neurologist went very well today. After we reduced the Prednisone at the last checkup from 15mg to 10mg, we’re ecstatic to have gotten the go ahead to reduce this to just 5mg twice daily beginning today. This should be a huge step in his treatment since even at the previous reduced levels we were all having trouble dealing with the side effects. After his CBC came back in good shape he received another Cytosar treatment as planned, so he had a bit of a rough go for most of the day. This tends to make him uncomfortably warm and not very social but we are hopeful for what the next few weeks will bring while keeping cognizant that this does increase the possibility of a relapse.

3 Week Checkup

Yesterday was Monty’s 3 week checkup with the neurologist Dr Wolfe, and it went very well all things considered. He had another dose of the chemo drug Cytosar, and we made the 1st reduction on his Prednisone from 15 to 10mg twice daily. This is the scary part – slowly reducing the steroid dose and watching for any signs of a relapse…

He didn’t feel very well which is to be expected, but towards the end of the day today he was pretty active. The rear leg weakness we have noticed is still there and may be some nerve damage as he does not appear ticklish anymore on his left paw. More things to keep an eye on I suppose.

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