Chicago Update

Our Chicago trip went well and it's good news from Dr. Pachman. She is very pleased with the improvement she saw today. She has informed us to start tapering the Prednisone by 1 mg. every 4 weeks. She is hoping that in doing this that it will help lower Allorahs glucose and triglycerides. This has to be done slowly as to not begin a "flare". So we are keeping our fingers crossed. She is however increasing her Methotrexate injection from 0.6 to 0.7 to cover any calcinosis forming at the incision site of her surgery from Friday, also due to the little piglet gaining some weight from this past September. Her strength and range of motion has improved as well and she is so pleased. She did stress the need to continue with a strict diet of low fat, low carbs, no sugar. It's so hard to find stuff for her to eat and enjoy. You can only have so much chicken breast, fish, pork and veggies. So we have had to become creative. She had her usual amount of labs drawn today and will have more answers in about a week and we have to be back for a follow-up on August 22nd. We are praying for the decreasing of all her meds and for a total remission.


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