Buttercup (Calcinosis cutis) - Buttercup is now in heaven

Dawn,
wow! Having to wear gloves!
So happy that the CC continues to improve.

Butter's body is working overtime.

Dawn:
That must be one powerful antibiotic. Only one caution I have. When Tipper was a puppy she had ear problems. The vet kept giving her antibiotics, but it did not make the ears infection go away. She told me she was giving her a really potent antibiotic. Well it took the infection away, but permanently screwed up he stomach. To this day she has acid reflux because of it. I know you watch her like a hawk so just know this happened to my Tipper. Sounds as if things are finally going to come together and go uphill for you both. Blessings
Patti

HI Dawn,
I am so sorry to have been absent from this wonderful forum (no excuse--I suck). I've read your thread regarding Butters and I wanted to just let you know how Doc is doing. I will be updating my thread as well. I think I should be more active so that people who are pursuing the radiation can see how he is doing. He did 5 treatments of stereotactic radiation We know we shrunk the tumor 20%. That MRI was done 3 months after the treatment. They (University of FL) is thinking it may shrink another 40% but don't want to do another MRI unless he starts having symptoms again. As of Feb 4th, we will be one year post radiation. He has had skin issues over the year, mostly dandruff that I treat with a conditioner. Otherwise, he is back to his normal self. We would seem to "cycle" with cushing's symptoms but otherwise his symptoms were so mild, they did not want to treat for them. They are mild enough that they don't want to do the ACTH test either. We had a blood test 3 weeks ago and all of his numbers are in the healthy normal range. All his high liver numbers are now normal. It is as if he never had a tumor or had cushing's. All of the Cushing's symptoms are completely gone and he is normal self. He is 13 and we are dealing with arthritis, but other than that, he is fine. I know this doesn't help you now, but I wanted it to give you hope that the treatment did work for us and we are so grateful that we did it. I wish you and Buttercup all the best and I promise to do better at staying on the forum. If you have any specific questions, please let me know. I WILL do better. It is a wonderful forum full of wonderful, supportive people!!

Butters is doing better each day. Today when she saw a squirle on the phone line , she got excited and and charged toward the fence, she hadn't done that in a couple of months. Left her at home for the day, I was gone for 8 hours and she held her water the whole time, wee pads were dry and there was water left in her bowl, YEAH! One more blood test on sat. Should have the results back by the end of next week and that's the 1 that will tell us how her pituitary gland is doing and whether or not she needs the trilo.

CC is still showing minor improvement around her neck, she has been so good about not scratching herself.

Started her on the new AB chloramphenicol 1250mg ever 8 hours for the next 14 days, I hide it in ice cream like I do her pain pills and she swallows it all back in one gulp, cant afford to have her spitting those out . Other wise things are getting better her head aches are fewer and farther between , which is an awesome sign.



Best always
Dawn and Butters

This is such fabulous news Dawn! Considering what you are reporting, I would be surprised if she needed trilostane at this point in time. All the "symptoms" including the cc seem to be clearing up and the tumor shrinking still. It could be that it will even continue to shrink and I think I'd really want to give her every opportunity to not need the medicine. So make sure you tell Davis how she is doing, the head aches, the holding her pee during the day, drinking less and showing excitement at the good doggy things in life. (squirrels) LOL

Just great news and I'm thrilled to hear it.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

this is really good news for buttercup and you!

The adventures never end, Butters miss judged her steps and hyper extended her 2 toe on her right rear paw. Ran her to the vet, xrayed the paw, no breaks or dislocation of joint, just pulled soft tissue, she's doped up and will not lay down and to top it all off ,I am now sick with a bug. Life just keeps pushing to the edge, just when I think I'm gonna get a little break, something comes along. Have to put off her blood draw till Monday, hoping we both feel a.little better by then. At this point the only good thing is the warm dry weather, know we need the rain but with Butters skin condition, dry and warm is best for her. So hopefully April showers will bring May flowers.

Dawn & hopalong Butters

Dawn, Hoping you are both feeling better.

I was reading (in your message for Tobey ) that you were happy with the spray… is that the Trizchlor? I've been doing the shampoos 3 x a week, but would like something to quick touch up on the days I have to work.

Shelly

Dawn:
Butter's avatar is absolutely gorgeous, what a beautiful face. Sorry she hurt herself and you are not feeling well. You sound like me, can't ever catch a break! Blessings
Patti

Both of you on the not feeling well list then. Glad that Butter didn't do any more serious damage to her paw. That has to hurt. You get better too, rest up, this is a rough flu/cold season this year.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly muffin