Simone Update 8/12

She's doing better. Had a scare on Friday afternoon...She started acting funny, and when I looked her over, I noticed that her gums were paper white. I called the vet and left a message, and she called me back an hour later. By then Simone started acting more normal, and her gums started to pink back up, but she said it could have been internal bleeding, so we went in. They did bloodwork, and by the time the vet saw her, her gums were back to normal. I think Simone was just ticked that we hadn't taken her in that day and wanted to go back (they have good treats!) Her bloodwork came back as improved...the RBC count was down a little, but her platelets were up...to 135,000! A huge improvement over Thursday's 21,000 count. So, everything seems to be going better. We go back in for bloodwork on Tuesday and hopefully her platelets will be normal by then. It's going to be like this for awhile...making sure her platelets stablize, then the vet deciding when to decrease her steroids. It may take months before we get it right, but we're willing. Hopefully she'll get back on track and have another 7 healthy years.