Oct 12, 2008 19:00
Beetle's medication seems to be working! Well, more or less. He's much more lucid and engaged, which is fantastic, and he is eating, although not a lot and he mostly has to be coaxed into it. He's breathing a little more easily, but he still wheezes a lot and about twice a day has low-grade asthma-like attacks. He's also not drinking very much water, so we've been giving him water several times a day with the dropper that came with his liquid steroids. He's not responded to the medication as well as we'd hoped, but it's given us a little more time so we're really grateful. As long as his quality of life is good we'll keep doing what we're doing.
Thanks to everybody who commented before, it really meant a lot to Laura and me.