For the last 2 days Jake is obviously feeling good.The littlest things are so important to us now. He's been laying in the hallway less and wanting to be with us more (and under our feet more like he used to always be). His energy is great. He has been walking so much slower than before this all started but today he walked out ahead of me and actually led the way like he used to!
His right eye also seems to be drifting less. Not sure if we mentioned it before but his right eye used to drift a little when he was really tired. Since the treatment we noticed his eye was always drifting and seemed almost 'vacant' compared to his other eye. Looking at him with his eyes so clear again is such a great thing!
He still has his cough/gag that he's had since he first got sick. It's upsetting to hear. I don't know if this is something that other dogs with brain tumors have so in case it helps anyone I'm going to upload a video of him doing this so you can compare to your dog. He does it whenever he eats or drinks.
For the whole week since radiation ended he's seems to have one good day then a bad day and the cycle continued. We got 2 days back to back this weekend so we're thrilled and hope things continue this way :)
Max has the cough/gag thing too.. Nobody had mentioned this to us until Dr. Young said something about it... He usually has it when he first lays down in the morning after breakfast or when he lays down to go to bed. It was more frequent after CK... about 4-7 times / day. Dr. Young said to just keep an eye on it and really only worry about it if it was happening when he was eating or drinking. The last few weeks for us he has only cough/gagged maybe 1x every few days... so it is something that can get better. I don't think he's done it at all today but he did do it yesterday (we're 7 months out of CK)
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