Joeri is making progress but he is improving quite slowly. Once a week he goes to Shaker Veterinary Hospital where Dr. Gabriela Varcoe performs acupuncture and cold laser treatment on him. The pictures come from one of his latest sessions. He likes his trips and visits there, maybe because he gets a lot of attention and some extra tasty cookies. We are working on reducing his prednisone dose and frequency, and this has to be done very gradually. He also gets Adequan shots and this coming week we'll be starting him on gabapentin. His appetite is very good and altogether he acts happy and wags his tail often. We are doing everything possible to give him a a chance for recovery!
Merry Christmas to you both,and to all the dogs. I will continue to pray for Joeri!
ReplyDeleteThank you Maribeth! Merry Christmas to both of you too!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update, Jolanta. That beautiful gaze of his is brimming with hope!!
ReplyDeleteGo Joeri Go! Joeri is lucky to have such great people like you and John looking out for his well-being!
ReplyDeleteYes I was thinking...it was some posts ago about him.
ReplyDeleteGlad you are doing everything for him...he will recover even it takes some time.
Merry Chjristmas to you and John and your dachs crew.
Hugs from us!
Thank you so much everybody! Merry Christmas to you all!
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