Candace,
First of all give your sweet precious one a big hug and kiss for me. I know what you are going through as I have an 8 month old yorkie diagnoised with hydrocephalus about three weeks ago and I know how you feel.
Cricket has never had a seizure or gone blind which are two things that they were happy about. She has been put on dexamethasone twice a day. We are taking it one day at a time and she has shown some improvement. She has begun to walk, has always been alert and happy. She is not in any pain and I will go as far as I can to keep her happy. She eats well, drinks well and gets lots of love, brushes, hugs and kisses. She is worth any sacrifice that I have to make as long as she is happy with her quality of life and I will NEVER let her be in any kind of pain. I love her too much to make her suffer and I don't feel it is fair to her or me. So as long as she is not having seizures or is any pain I will do whatever I have to.
The downside of this medication is she can't stay on it forever and will have to be weaned off of it eventually. We are hoping to buy time for her, at her age to let the swelling go down in her brain. Cricket has not done the norm and was hard to diagnoise since she didn't show the beginning signs of hudrocephalus. Normally, it also shows up long before they are as old as she was when she had any symptoms.
This is not a disease that has alot of hope and it can be hard to predict the outcome of. I hope you have every success with your baby as I posted here when this first happened to me and I have had so many kind words, prayers and encouragement. I needed to know that I had support or at least someone to help give advise about this.
Please feel free to PM me if I can help in any way. My thoughts are with you.
Judy and Cricket
