It's been 9 weeks since Max's CK treatments this week! It's so amazing to see how far he's come! He desperately needs to go for a walk right now but it's still raining and has been all day long.. He has way too much energy and is circling the house like a shark getting into any trouble he can.. stealing the cat's food, breaking into cupboards looking for food, he even grabbed a tennis ball out of the air that I was throwing to Buster #2 our shepherd mix! He hasn't ever done that before! Even before any of this brain tumor business! He chased a couple of balls rolled on the ground for him and then got bored, and chased the laser pointer .. but got bored again. Now he's playing with his cookie board game puzzle where he has to find the cookies under puzzle pieces and move them to get to them.
He has a very slight tremor that has showed up on the right side of his face where his whiskers are. You wouldn't notice unless you were looking very closely, but it's been there for about 4 days now. He also occassionally will get spasms in his arms and legs in just 1 muscle that you can see twitch too. I upped his Keppra to 250mg 2x day and he seems to be doing well with that dose. He's sleeping a little more and is a little more foggy but still himself and active when he's awake. Truth be told, he's more active than the rest of the dogs in the house!
Hi -would you mind telling me how much it cost for the Cyberknife treatment? We've just found out our dog has a brain tumour and this may be one of the options.
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Hi Maggie,
ReplyDeleteIt's not cheap but it was well worth it. We do have pet insurance and they covered 80% of the cost. Max had 2 tumors in 2 different locations. I'm looking at my pet insurance paperwork now and it our total billed was $5439.18 for both tumors. I'm sorry for the delay in responding (we have a couple of others who have decided to get really sick on us..) but this was VERY well worth it for us. Today Max was caught counter surfing and trying to eat a chicken roaster.. and then later today he got into the Christmas presents.. 2 days ago he was running in the woods chasing dogs who were chasing deer, and barking along with them.. It takes about 2 months until they start to get back to normal but even tonight when we were talking, Max was playing with his brain teaser toys trying to figure out where the cookies were hidden and how to get them out.. it's amazing to see how far back he's come.