I think Elspar is the one Michelle is thinking of! Ewok did well on that one and Ceenu or CCNU when the other chemo drugs stopped working. But I believe the oncologist started him on Elspar first thing just to get the tumor to shrink and then we started the regular protocol. You'll know pretty quickly if it works or not...and if it doesn't, I would definitely do the steroid combo that Michelle suggested...it works unbelievably fast and gave Ewok a good week in between treatments (and he was close to the end)!
**************************************************** "But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world; You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed..." --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys." --Chief Dan George ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 3, 2006 2:00 pm Subject: Re: Belinda > > Belinda, > > Dexamethasone and Depomedrol are much more powerful than > prednisolone. > Buddy, Josephine, and Simon were all on pred initially (Jo and > Buddy at 20 > mg/day for a while), but it did not make anywhere near the kind of > difference > as the dex/depo shots did. I believe the same was true for Jen's > Ewok. I > would try them. I seriously would also ask to try the first of > the chemo drugs, > again can not remember the name but starts with E, because it can > not hurt, I > do not think, and if it helps you will know it is probably > lymphoma and can > treat as such. > > No, Simon did not waste away much. He started to, but when he > rebounded > from the steroids and chemo he actually started gaining weight. > But he had > multicentric lymphoma in his bone marrow and liver, and it did not > really > affect his appetite accept when he was jaundiced, and did not > cause much muscle > wasting either. Jo and Buddy both had terrible weight loss and > muscle wasting. > Jo had lymphoma in her kidneys and intestines. Buddy was never > definitively > diagnosed-- he had no masses anywhere, and at the time I did not > know how to > humanely go about finding if there was cancer in any of his organs, > so we just > treated him with steroids. In the beginning Buddy was actually > eating > normally but still losing weight. > > Michelle > > > In a message dated 2/3/2006 1:54:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi Michelle, > No it isn't time for considering letting him go, I just don't know > what else we can try, the prdnisolone is the thing that is suppose > to > help with this anemia and from what I can tell so far it isn't. > he did > just get over the diarrhea yesterday so he had that for a long, > long > time and I'm sure that has really drained him. It's the shape his > body > seems to be in that really has me worried. Every cat I have ever > had > get cancer looked exactly like this, bony even when getting enough > food > and acting fairly normal, Buddie was like this when she had cancer > and > she was having a very good quality of life, just bony. > > He has no energy although he is out in the room, instead of laying > in > the carrier all the time. He has been out in the open since > yesterday > and coincidentally also when the diarrhea was for the most part > gone (he > had one bowel movement that was mostly solid but had some runny at > the > end of it yesterday or this morning, I can't even remember). HIs > bottom > is still alittle red and inflamed but so much better than it was. > He > gets his epogen tonight which will make 4 complete weeks. > > Was Simon wasting away, in the photos he looked pretty good? > > > >
