Quickey update

It has been 206 days (7 months) that Coby has been prednisone free & over a month of being chemo free!!! He's still doing good, despite his poor appetite these past few days. It may be related to the restart of the cyclosporine, so we are holding off on that for now. Hopefully this will bring his appetite back. All he will eat are cheap-o milkbone biscuits! LOL

Coby gets the "Zoomies" Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g94XMTfX42A

Mid-June update

It is mid-June & Coby continues to do well. I posted a few pics below. The first one is the best - this is what Coby does to me when I try to clean his ears or put eyedrops in. He is seriously trying to attack me. LOL The other 2 are of him & his wood eating fetish. Overall, he's been doing great, except for his allergies. We are now putting prednisone eye drops in to help - it's mostly been the watery/tearing eyes that have been his problem. We plan to restart the cyclosporine next week when it arrives. Other than that, he is energetic, rumbustious, naughty & getting into mischief. He's back to his usual self. He's eating great & gaining weight. He has been prednisone free for 196 days! I believe being off all the chemo has made a huge difference as well. He looks better, healthier & is happier (despite the eyedrop behavior).

Coby has finished his GME treatment!!

Coby's CBC results from Tuesday were normal. The anemia is resolved & everything is back to normal!! The neutrophils are now 6790 (they were 10,164 on May 23rd - I was concerned because they dropped a bit, but Dr. Sisson said the 10,000 was too high). The platelets are up to 295,000 (on the 23rd they were 196,000). It looks like Coby's bone marrow has recovered much faster than we all thought! What a fighter my blue-eyed wonder dog is! We will continue the Keppra & that is it! No more further CBCs or other blood tests are needed!!! Dr. Sisson said I can contact him if anything arises regarding Coby's (supposed) allergies or obviously GME-related! Looks like we are officially done with treatment & hopefully Coby will live a long, healthy happy doggy life! I will continue to post updates on Coby frequently! Thank you everyone for ALL the support over the past year!

Love,
Jaime & Coby
xoxo

Coby's first walk of the summer

Coby anxiously awaiting to go for a walk! A beautiful sunny day, mid 80's - the perfect evening to walk Coby to the lakefront, which is a good 3-4 mile walk there & back.
Coby enjoying being back home & able to relax & sleep. I think the walk knocked him out for the night. He has not moved for hours! LOL

Coby's first week home

I can't believe it's been only 1 week since Coby's been home from Boston - it seems like weeks ago since he was there. He has made significant improvement during this past week. He is full of energy & very feisty!! He has been playing with Olive all week - biting & pulling her tail, biting her head, rolling around on top of one another. Coby appears very happy & healthy. He's eating well & still loves to eat ice cubes. He now weighs 8 pounds, which is great since he was admitted to Angell's weighing only 6.6 pounds.


Ready to take another trip, but not back to Boston!!

One Year Later.....

On this day, May 24th of last year, Coby was officially diagnosed with GME. Now exactly 1 year later he is in remission, med free, has been off prednisone for 177 days & is doing great! It's been a year of hell for us - we've had many, many ups & downs, an incredible amount of money has been spent, but it's all been worth it! My little boy is a fighter!!

Coby had a CBC done yesterday. The results were better than I could have imagined. WBC 13.2 - normal; Neutrophils that were 3400 on Friday are NOW 10,164! They are normal. Platelets 196,000 - normal. Coby still has very mild anemia that is close to being resolved. Coby had his last dose of that liquid medication used to remove leflunomide from his body this afternoon. Now the only med he's on is Keppra three times daily! This is an anticonvulsant, but Dr. Sisson thinks it's possible we could eliminate this med in the future. He really doesn't think Coby needs it - he thinks the GME caused the seizures & that Coby probably has a 10-20% chance of having a seizure off the meds. We will wait & see.