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Age: 1.5 years
Weight: 5 lbs.
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2/9/11 – Roriee is still doing well. Unfortunately the chemo she is on for her GME is currently on backorder, so in the meantime we are putting her on cyclosporine and will monitor her progress to make sure she doesn’t start to get bad again. There is one other medication we can try if this does not work. They are hoping to have the chemo back in stock in a couple of months, but do not know for sure. In the meantime we will pray adding this new medication will help and keep her continuing down the path she is on now. She still continues to protect the house with her ‘Roars.’ She is such a happy and sweet little girl and we are thankful for every day with have with her!
12/28/10 - Roriee is still doing great and protecting the house from any intruders! She 'roars' to let them know they should stay away. She still gets her chemo treatments every three weeks and is doing well with them. We are thankful for every day we have with this little munchkin!
11/8/10 – Roriee is still doing very well and is continuing her chemo treatment. She is still feisty as ever and lets us know any time any of the pups are getting out of hand, if there is someone at the door, or she isn’t happy with something. She is a very sweet little girl and we are thankful for every day we have with her!
We just cannot get over how far Roiree has come since entering her loving foster home. From not being able to eat and stand up to running around her foster home, giving kisses and co-existing with her foster siblings.
Without all of your prayers and the wonderful medical attention from Roiree's vet that she needed so desperately, Roiree would probably not be here today. It's always amazing what A POSITIVE ATTITUDE can do!
9/29/10 – Roriee is doing well. She was put back on Prednisone because her eyesight was going, and it has come back in one of her eyes. The other one she can’t either see at all or very little. She has got a lot of spunk in her step since going on the prednisone and her appetite has also increased because of it. She is very happy and ruling the roost in her foster home, which is the way she likes it being the smallest munchkin of the bunch. She goes back into tomorrow for her next round of chemo. Roriee sends her barks and tail wags everyone’s way for your continued thoughts and prayers for her.
9/7/10 – Roriee is at the doctor today for her every three week round of chemo. Within the past few days we have noticed that Roriee seems to be losing her eyesight again. We asked the doctor about it and he agreed that it appeared that way. Therefore, we are going to put her back on prednisone and he is going to have the ophthalmologist check her eyes just to make sure there isn’t something else going on, but we suspect this is being caused by the GME. We are hopeful that the prednisone will help and she can regain some of what she is losing now. Please continue to keep Roriee in your thoughts and prayers. Thank You!
9/1/10 - Roriee is still doing great!! She does have an infection in one of her ears, but is on medicine for it. She is continuing with her chemo treatment and is still fussing at the other pups when they play! Her red blood count was a little off with her last check, so we are going to check that again after her chemo next week. She is still a little spitfire and has lots of personality! Her specialist wishes he had a video of her at her worst to show how amazingly well she is doing today. Thanks to everyone for you continued prayers for little Roriee, she keeps thriving!
6/28/10 - Roriee is still doing fantastic! She sure has opened up vocally and learned quite well from the other pups in the home! She chimes right in and barks when someone comes in the door or barks at the other pups when they are playing and she doesn't think they should. She loves to play all the time! She is not a fan of baths though, she get very mopey for about a day after she gets her bath. She is continuing her chemo treatments and they are still working! The doctor keeps saying he wouldn't believe it had he not seen it with his own eyes. Thank you to everyone for your continued thoughts and prayers! It has been a miracle for little Miss Roriee! She sends tails wags and barks to everyone!
6/11/10 – Roriee is still doing fantastic! The doctor took the bandage off her leg earlier this week and decided to leave it off because it is healing so well. The doctor will check her leg again next week to make sure it is still healing as it should. We have also transitioned her to the new steroid without any issues. She clearly has a dislike to some non-yorkies though! Her foster family is babysitting a pup that is not a Yorkie and she yells at the pup anytime she sees it or hears it! She started playing with toys yesterday too! She pulls on them, chews on them, and will go get them if you throw them. She is doing SOOO good. She isn’t quite as stable as most pups because of her neurological problems and her back leg, but she does good. We think she may have regained some of her vision as well! She is able to clearly follow objects now. She has come such a long way and continues to improve! The prayers and thoughts for her have done wonders, please continue them!!
6/3/10 - Roriee had her second chemo treatment last week and her bloodwork this week and is still doing great! She got a little spunkier after her treatment, so you can kind of tell when it is getting time for another one. We are taking her off the one steroid and going to start her on the other one so we can get the necessary antibiotics into her system and get her staff infection cleared up. She gets the bandage on her leg change once a week and the doctor said it is healing wonderfully! She is doing fantastic!
5/25/10 - Roriee went in for her second treatment today and a bandage change on her leg. She is still doing really well and her leg is healing. The specialist said today that he never thought she would be doing as good as she is given how bad she was. It must be the power of prayer from all of her many supporters and followers. Thank you so much to everyone who keeps praying for her, you have all helped her so much! She sends many tail wags everyone's way!!
5/21/10 – Roriee is still doing really well from her last chemo treatment and goes in next week for the next round. We did have to take her in the other day because her leg wasn’t healing from where they had put the catheter in and it had become abscessed and was bothering her. She, the doctor cleaned it really well, took a tissue sample, stapled her up, and put a bandage on that will need to remain for 10 to 14 days to help it heal. Being her white blood count was down from the chemo treatment, her body wasn’t able to heal and fight it off as good as it could have. She is on antibiotics and we will determine if those need to change based on the results from the tissue. In cleaning and digging into this abscess, the doctor found that one of her tendons had torn in her leg that helps with her ability to flex her toes and extend and bend her leg. The doctor said this could have been caused from the prednisone, which can weaken the tendons, and possibly in combination with the catheter being put in. They can do a surgery to fix it, but since we are in the very early stages of her GME treatment we felt it was best to hold off on doing anything at this point. The tendon will not cause her any pain nor will it hinder her ability to walk and move around. She may just have trouble with flexing her toes and may have her leg extend every once in a while because of it. She is a real trooper and it hasn’t brought her spirits down at all. She is still as sweet and happy as can be!
5/18/10 - Roriee is still doing really well! I attempted to see if she has any site and unfortunately she didn't close either eye unless I touched the hair around her eye. I used my finger one time and a paper towel the next to see if that made a difference, and it didn't. Maybe her other senses, smell and hearing, are just so good that it helps her get around and makes it seem like she has some site left, I am not sure. But, if she is truly completely blind, it has not hindered her at all! She still gets around very well! She is an amazing little girl!
5/16/10 - Roriee is doing SO good! She has been walking around real good, wagging her tail a lot, and even lets out a single bark when the other dogs bark or she wants something. She gets excited when you come home and is wagging her tail waiting for you to pick her up and love her! She always looks at you with those big brite eyes and big ears, but isn't she so cute? She follows you anywhere you go, and if she loses your trail, all you have to do is talk and she figures it out. She has done amazingly well and keeps getting better, so please continue the prayers for Roriee. She goes back in around the 25th for her next chemo dose.
5/12/10 - Roriee went into the doctor today for a blood workup to check to see what the chemo is doing and she had her cast removed. They were going to put the cast back on, but after taking it off she did not cry or scream, which indicated she was not in any pain, so she did not need the cast any longer. She has been up moving around more and hasn't been as cranky. She is still quite unsteady and 'knuckles,' meaning she flips her front paw under and cannot get it back to the right way. She sometimes just lays down when that happens otherwise she falls over. She is eating and drinking well and is better than when we first picked her up. With that said, Roriee is still a very sick little girl with so many medical issues against her. We pray for good days, but know that bad days are a huge possibility given all that she has wrong. Her poor little brain has been tortured by her medical issues. Our biggest prayer for Roriee is for her to be pain free and have peace, so please keep the prayers coming her way!
5/9/10 - Today the doctor decided it might be best for Roriee to be in a home environment instead of a clinical environment, so we went and picked her up. This evening we took her outside to try and let her go potty, since that was what they were doing at the vet, and she was actually able to walk around a little bit. She wasn't completely steady, but she wasn't falling over on her side each time she got up like the night we picked her up. It was so exciting to see her move around without falling and without screaming! She didn't scream once while she was moving around and actually came to me when I knelt down a few feet from her. This was one small step forward and we sure hope these are signs of good things to come! Thank you everyone for your continued support and prayers for Roriee, she has so many things against her medically that she can use all the prayers she can get!
5/6/10 - There is no change today in Roriee's condition. For the time being, she will remain hospitalized. She has received the necessary treatments for the GME and we feel it is best to let her stay there under constant and 24 hour supervision. Hopefully, these treatments will begin to help with the GME.
Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to little Roriee's care; and to all who have emailed us with your kind words, and also the prayers for this little angel. Please keep praying for her.
5/5/10 - Roriee is actually doing a little bit better this afternoon. They put the body cast on her and they also have her on Hydromorphone. She does cry a bit when they take her outside, but she is much more comfortable!!
5/5/10 - So far, Roriee is not responding to the medication. The biggest problem right now is her comfort level. She is still screaming whenever she moves even the slightest bit. The neurologist is not sure if this is pain from the AAI or something possibly related to the GME, perhaps behavioral. He does lean towards it being from pain.
Humane euthanasia is being discussed but we want to be absolutely certain that we have done everything possible to help her.
The plan for today is to complete the infusion of cytosar this morning. We asked about a body cast to see if that might make her more comfortable until we can see if she will respond to the medicine. We will then give it another 24 hours to see how things are going. Sometimes it can take a couple of weeks before the medicine will show improvement. The only way we can have the luxury of that time is if the body cast helps her comfort level.
5/4/10 - Very sad news from the neurologist, but not without some hope.
After doing a MRI and spinal tap they have found that Roriee has multiple issues:
GME; AAI; Hydrocephalus
Clearly GME is the major issue at this time and she is being started on a chemotherapy drug today. She will be hospitalized for 48 hours of treatment. Providing she responds to this treatment, the next step will be treatments every 3 weeks for a year.
Nothing else can be taken care of at this time if ever. The neurosurgeon did say that some of her other issues could be due to the GME. I am sure he did not mean the AAI. But...there is no way they can operate on her. The GME is the immediate problem that must be addressed.
We are so sad for Roriee, but also hopeful that perhaps we can get her stabilized and she can have a quality of life for whatever time she may have with all of us. Please keep her in your prayers...she really needs them!
5/3/10 - Roriee was lovingly surrendered by her mother who could not care for her due to her own medical problems. She has some severe medical issues and will be seeing a vet on 5/4/10. We will update when we have a plan for her care.
