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These are Huskos' last blood results of Saturday 23rd November 2013
*Had stopped Vetoryl 2-4 day prior to this...
SGPT/ALT 104,43 IU/L (10,00-94,00)
ALP 243,00 IU/L (0,00-90,00)
Routine CBC
RBC L 5,44 *10^6 cells/μL
HGB L 12,7 g/dL
HCT 42,7 %
MCV H 78,5 fL
MCHC L 29,7 q/dL
CHCM L 29,1 g/dL
PLT H 478 *10^3 cells/μL
Routine WBC
WBC 16,43 *10^3 cells/μL
Neut H 82,5% - 10,68*10^3 cells/μL
Lymph L bb8,9% - 1,15*10^3 cells/μL
Morphology Flags
MACRO ++
HYPO ++
Cortisol level (note that Husko by this time hated every single vet and cried hard with every needle pinch...)
7,63 μg/dL
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Tuesday 26th November Husko started eating again!!!
I was happy again beyond belief for this little glimpse of hope!!!
DECEMBER
As I said Husko had started eating again...
*He was given organic MSM in water 3 times a day (amidst all the turmoil i gave him human dose for 2 days ,which caused blood in stools...blamed the curcumin...before realising my mistake...)
...stopped it a month later because it didn't seem to do anything other than loose stools and sometimes diarrhea
*Curcumin powder with chicken breasts
*Boiled the water he drunk to evaporate the chlorine (since start of November water was given with a syringe because anytime he went to drink water, his tongue licked the air).
*1-3grms vit-C every day
*Alpha Lipoic Acid 1*250mg every day
*Milk thistle organic liquid
*Moved his bed in the most quiet room...the living room ,and always left the balcony door a bit open...
Nighttime NO lights were on ,completely dark.
*Every 2 weeks (Saturday&Sunday) he had IV vit-C ,with ever increasing doses
23-24 November = 3-4grms
7-8 November = 7-7grms
21-22 December = 15-15grms
4-5 January = 18-18grms
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Since mid-November ,
he would sleep...
and whenever he woke up he would get stuck in corners or head-pressing them.
But this stopped when he was out walking. (head-pressing only happened 4-5 times in 2-3 months when on walks)
So my solution to this problem was to walk him whenever he woke up, no matter what the time was.
He woke up 5-7 times a day...sometimes more...sometimes less...
Anytime of the day or night...multiple times...
The time i was at work my father or mother would sometimes walk him outside or get him unstuck from the corners.
This went on for months...
Tensions grew even more in the house...
Husko would pee and relieve himself in the living room which drove my mother mad sometimes and her stress was turned into cursing to me...
Funds were ever diminishing...
Bills were gathering...
But i had to be home for ever inrceasing hours because the others couldn't deal with Huskos' condition...
Work hours diminished...i tried to balance work/money to get what's needed but also have as much time at home tending to Huskos' needs...
Frustration was through the roof...
My 100% was diminishing every day...
Rainy days were worse than others...
Many times were good and i tried sooo much to give positive vibes to my baby every single day since the summer...but the strength needed to look positive and give positive energy was diminishing too...
These are some photos of our walks during December...
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Also found a small trick of kicking mandarines in front of him so he would follow...
Sometimes he would try to catch them with his front legs...
One night we found a huge green ball...it honestly felt he was playing with it...pushing it and rubbing his neck on it...(no photo of this event...have kept the ball though...)
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Last days of December i also received my order of Sunflower Lecithin and an ultrasound cleaning machine to make Liposomal Vit-C
I was sooo happy and and had high hopes for this...
...After 2-3 days of giving him it he went very much downhill...
I called the vets (the ones nearby who had done the original mistakes, specificaly Elias) and asked they come to put Husko to sleep the next day...
The next day he called and cancelled it due to an emergency...so he'd come the next day...
Same day i noticed the Sunflower Lecithin has an ingredient called Linoleic Acid...which is OMEGA-6 (pro-inflammatory)...i stopped giving him immediately...next day he was better so putting him to sleep was cancelled...
result:100+ euros (which would make things easier later on) down the drain...
Finding the right medication that works for your dog is frustrating...
some pics of Husko sleeping or in bed...
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JANUARY
The difficulties of handling all of this became ever increasing...
Many times I found myself sitting frustrated against Husko...
Many times when he woke up my voice had lost its tenderness and positive vibe towards him...
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By this time I had changed his food to 1/2lbs sardines a day as chicken breast was giving him diarrhea/loose stools.
Continued giving curcumin , ans also gave OMEGA-3 capsules (4-6 a day) , vit-B supreme complex by Health Aid , Liver Guard by source Naturals
a cup of spinach or broccoli in a syringe mixed w/5-10ml aloe Vera and natural lemon juice...
Most nights I would also give a cup of water w/14-18drops of Hydrogen peroxide (at 20 he vomited).
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This is his last IV vit-C (January 5th) as I could no longer afford it (more than 100 euros a month just the IV bottles), only hind-leg veins were used all this time due to the front getting black after the MRI and Dextrose serum months before...and most importantly it reached a point where Husko would panick when he saw a needle...
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One day we went at the park nearby where we used to spent hours in the years before (the one with the lake ,not the one far away where we'd spend whole nights with friends during the summer)...
After you see the last picture...imagine Husko diving in the water & swimming to get to the ducks...me panicking beyond belief...
I succeeded getting him out in less then 2-3 seconds by extending my arm as far as possible...
When I got him out...he collapsed...so I carried him on my shoulders for more than a mile to get home...
I thought I lost him...
but he was better many hours later after getting a good sleep...
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...The research for medication was non-stop...
I found there is a drug called Artemisinin/Artemether which is successful against cancer and tumors like the one my baby Husko had...
I found there is a medicine called Riamet which has the substance Artemether.
I called the pharmacy shop/lab if they had it...they didn't.
I called the company Novartis...it wasn't readily available...
it had to be ordered through a doctors' prescription through the Greek FDA...
I lost hope...
Days & nights went by as described before...
The frustration was building...
Looking back ,during December,January and February I found myself so frustrated by everything...
The war of nerves ,constant bad mood and turmoil in my house especially between mother&father, sometimes family helping and sometimes indifferent or against me, people telling me I should just put him to sleep, lack of funds, lack of car to get to vets, 24hours a day seemed few, bad decisions ,trying to balance everything...
got me to the point were sometimes at night when Husko would wake up and needed a walk and I was dead tired or researching the internet I would just go to him and slap him......
How pathetic is this???
I slapped my sick baby...and nothing can do this right or justify it...
What kind of horrible person could do this???
WHY couldn't I hold myself together?
If you think i am a bad person you probably think better of me than i do about myself...
This is the last photograph I have of my baby being alive...(January 19th)
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I also tried giving him BCAA for the tumor-cachexia but the suggested dose caused diarrhea so i backed it off...
By sheer chance one night ,mid/late January ,after looking at a rescue site ,I found a place where I could order Artemix (Artemisinin/Artemether/Artesunate) and a Yahoo!group experienced in this!!!
Again...high hopes emerged!!!
Few days later when I had collected the funds, I finally ordered it from the US.
It would take about 1-2 weeks to arrive and then ,my baby would have hope again!!!
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Ending of January......my father took Husko for a walk while I was at work!
He said Husko stumbled and hurt his left front leg (the one which had the pus come out at summer and was still opened ,due to cortisol suppressing the immune system...)...and was walking on the other 3 legs!
Returned home...found out about this...and all hell broke loose...
I cursed my father for not paying attention to Husko!!
I cursed myself for not being there or couldn't see this coming!!
Just when i hoped things would get better...this happens...
I believe it was a huge blow in my babys' psychology and already bad health and I feared it would cost him his life...
FEBRUARY
February 1st
Managed to find transport to the vet Elias the day after Husko hurt his leg...
He checked it and said it is probably muscle receding.
I didn't ask for an x-ray or blood test...
I didn't have the funds...but now looking back i should have just said i would owed him ,as he had given me this option in the past, instead of worrying about collecting money for future supplements or stupid bills...
One of the biggest mistakes of my life...
Was I getting used to Husko being able to surpass anything and didn't understand how important this was?
Did my stupid honor of not owing money cost the life of my baby???
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By now the bottle of Artemix had arrived from the US!
Artemix works better when the tumor is aggressive so i started giving 1*30mg Vetoryl (still had plenty) each night 1 hour prior to 2 capsules of Artemix.
Artemix is pulsed so it was one day on one day off!
On the days he didn't get Artemix I only gave 1*15mg of Vetoryl at night!
Gave Artemix with 1Tablespoon of Organic Coconut Oil for better absorption (also with each day passing I reduced the amount of sardines and increased the amount O.Coconut.O. eventually giving 6 TBsp a day
Of course...Husko stopped eating again the same day i started Vetoryl...
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2 weeks went by with no improvement of his walking...I was getting pissed off by everything...
My mother helped a lot during February...
She would put a blanket across his chest and walk him inside the house...
I did too...sometimes though putting my arms on his sides was enough...
He would cry when he wanted to pee or relieve himself, so me or mother would rush to pick him up...
In the following days I tried to collect funds for an x-ray...
Doing that while now working 3-4 hours a day ,since very few companies/people needed courier services since almost the start of the year ,and trying to do everything with 9-12 euros a day......seemed impossible...
It took me 2 weeks to collect the money...and by now it was March...
MARCH
I received this months Artemix ,Omega-3 and Liver Guard(still had of the others)...
Artemix was now given 2on-1off...
I also registered on the Artemisinin-Yahoo!group in case i did sth wrong, wanting any advice...and just plain talk to someone since it had been many months since i spoke and opened myself to anyone...
3 very good people offered to give me medication (I4P and Artemisinin/Artemix) which they did send by airplane...!!!
I had contacted many friends but only one could get us to the vets Saturday 8th March...
I waited anxiously and counted every hour since Thursday!
Morning Saturday she calls and she can't make it...I call a few friends...none I called were available...
I gave up...and hoped for next Saturday......
(now some other people say ''why didn't you call me?'' and i don't know what to say to them or myself...)
Can't remember the exact date (maybe 2-3 weeks) this started but Husko was now sleeping like this (opposite side ,left)
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I put a fan 1yrd away blowing air at him in case he had trouble breathing...it seemed to help...
Last 2-3 days he only wanted to sleep this way on his right side...
If I lay him to sleep on his left side he would moan and ''distort'' his body to the point his head would almost reach his pelvis...
He slept throughout the day and night only waking up to pee or relieve himself...
He could not stand oh his (3) legs anymore...he would immediately or 2-4 secs later fall ,while also ''distorting/bending'' on his right side (head to pelvis).
My mind was full of thoughts it burned and felt empty...I just waited for next Saturday and if nothing improved till Monday-Tuesaday i would call the vets to come to the house to put Husko to sleep...
I could only guess...was it maybe not giving enough Artemix (more days on Artemix) or was it giving the immune system time to get the sick cancer cells out (more days off Artemix)?
Should I had maybe just stopped Vetoryl for a few days or go 2days*30mg+Artemix then 2days*15mg then nothing of these?
What was the magic combo??????