she was having multiple messes per day in the house, through no fault of her own, but it was a cycle of lots to drink, and then that having to come out...and very frequently.
the medication involved a water-like solution that was dropped into the white of her eyes daily...
this seemed to help assist with her control over the constant urination, which was great because these drops were very expensive so atleast they actually helped a little.
the most glaring day to day issue was the deterioration of sway's actual body, lack of recovery, however you'd like to term it...
this was my main concern then and still is as i type this, and i've really tried so many different things in the span of these last 5 months.
i'll detail these things in the next post...
anyways, in mid-november my sister was having her wedding so i traveled home to ohio for the first time in over 4 years...
sway had to stay at a daycare and there was a dr. that came very highly recommended by dr. woods, her name was tara haddad.
this was pretty scary for me considering sway's compromised condition, on top of such an in-depth disease..but after meeting with her she put my mind at ease and off i went back home.
sway actually did really good while i was gone, and a memory i'll always cherish forever is coming back in to pick her up...
as soon as she saw me she started jumping up and down, (or attempting to)
...jumping isn't something she's had the strength to do since being diagnosed with AIHA so i could tell that she was just so excited to see me, and the feeling was 110% mutual!!!
during the next few weeks her PCV remained in the low 20's, but her body just continued to waste away.
after months of this body reversal i was becoming very, very concerned.
she was down to 24 lbs and just extraordinarily skinny.
i made the decision to pull her off of all meds and supplements...
we would be ending her low EOD dose of pred, soloxine, tylosin powder, cranberry extract, pet-tinic, b12 etc...
the only thing i kept her on was her weekly nandrolone injection, which was a given considering it had been her count anchor since being introduced to us in 07.
i wanted very badly to find out what was causing her cachexia/body wasting so i stripped it all out and just planned to re-add as i saw fit depending on her condition going forward...
i know a few of you may think that was a risky choice, but let me explain-
a few months after being diagnosed in 07, her body quickly went down to the lowest of depths possible...
as covered in this blog, this was due to the overwhelming amounts of medications she was initially on, on top of the disease and her other trials and tribulations.
when these doses were drastically reduced, sways body slowly began to recover (well into 2008), to the point where she almost looked relatively normal (except for her head, which has yet to fill back out).
but as time continued to go on, her body began to digress...
she became skinnier and skinnier, was still moving around well etc, but visually some mornings she looked like a walking skeleton.
these images will show how her body revealed a downward turn after the first half of 2008-
since her count was still holding in the mid 20's i really thought this was just something that had to be done, as i couldn't just sit there and watch my dog waste away in front of me.
so with that, all medications were stopped (except anabolic steroid)...
i wanted to find the reason for this,
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