CIMDA

In loving memory of our little Bostie:  AXL  ..........we lost him to this horrid disease at 344am, Monday Sept 2nd. 
The monster grabbed him only 3 and a half weeks prior and within a month he was gone.
Our hearts are broken but our boy, who was only 3 yrs old, will never be far from our hearts. 
He is resting now in a field of flowers waiting for that next unsuspecting squirrel to come strolling by

WE LOVE YOU AXL FLY LIL GUY.

Run free !

Sheila & Maria and Honor ( his brother, the Boxer )

Thank you Jo and everyone else out there........... We are trying to deal.  The house is so quiet.  Breaks our hearts. 

We appreciate all of your kind words of sympathy and encouragement.  He was the BEST little Bostie ......there will never be another small dog with a heart as big as Axl's.

The Dr. called this morning and the test results showed that he did have the mediated immune disease....and it was the kind with the extremely long and drawn out name..........can't even begin to try to spell it out.........first word starts with an S and the second word starts with a P.  I guess it doesn't really matter at this point.  The Dr. apologized over and over saying he wished he could have helped him more.  All meds given to him were what should have been given to a patient with this monster disease.  Says that it just overtook the little guy.  All of this in a span of 3.5 weeks.  I keep thinking I am going to wake up from this horrible dream.

Thanks again, to all of you.........your words have been a comfort.

God bless, take care.
Signed,
Axl's 2 Moms who loved him beyond belief

Hello all.... our little boy passed away in the early hours of sept 2nd.... Labor Day.  I woke him up at 3 in the morning to administer his eye drops and he went into what we believe was cardiac arrest or a seizure..... he died in our arms..... we are heartbroken.
over the past couple of days on this holiday weekend he had gotten worse and  the emergency vet  upped his prednisone to 20 milligrams a day ....from the 5mg he was presently on..... and also quadrupled his predz eye drops...... could that have just been too much for his little body We also asked for some type of sedatives because he was so miserabl.....e he wouldn't even let us give him his medicine....... so they gave us that to give to him plus told us to give him one benadryl every 8 hours... 25 milligrams .......he was only 20 pounds.....
we are feeling horrible and guilty and sad and confused......
any thoughts?
I can hardly quit crying long enuf ti type this out....

Thank you so very much for your sweet reply Gwyneth.  I am hoping for advice soon.....some direction.....
since i first posted yesterday he has developed a little bitty red blood blisters all over his chin and his muscle.  He is very uncomfortable and continues to scratch and when he does that they bleed so his face is pretty much a bloody mess.......its heartbreaking. ..... hoping the steroids since we doubled it will kick in very very soon ....any advice is most welcome... thank you....God bless

Hello all....... our little 3 yr old Boston Terrier is a very sick lil guy.  Dr's tested and tested before they are even able to 'suspect' the above long winded diagnosis.  He's on every pill known to man, including prednisone which they just double on him now.  The bumps and lumps are subsiding but now his eyes are again watering and red and inflamed.......and he keeps them shut and just constantly blinks.  He's miserable.  Now he's sneezing like crazy and keeps wanting to scratch his face ( nose area ) ......  They have us giving him eye drops twice a day, which he LOATHES..... but now they've doubled that dose.  He shakes a lot now and just feels horrid.   Although this combo plate of diseases have an 'unknown cause' , is there a real answer to how to 'fix him'?.....how to keep this terrible disease at bay?.....how to make him feel better ?  Or is the only answer pumping him full of steroids along with all of the other meds until his little body breaks down BECAUSE of the steroids ?  Please, please, if anyone has any answers, thoughts, experience with this, please do reach out.....our hearts are breaking and we just want him to feel normal again.  Thank you so much for taking time to read.....