6 months

So I looked back, and it's been about 6 months since Dock's suspected diagnosis of Meningioma.  At that time, we were given a prognosis of 6-8 months, so it seems we have been doing ok so far.  But more symptoms are starting to arise.  I noticed the other day that she is dragging her hind left paw when she walks.  I can hear her nails scraping the hardwood.  I looked and it appears that she is not retracting her claws on the left side as she does on her right.  I have also noticed odd little twitches here and there.  For no reason, her ear will twitch, or her back, her paw or her tail.  She maybe awake or fast asleep when this happens.  I've seen her dream twitches before, and these are different.  Speaking with her vet, meningiomas can typically affect one side or the other, and if it was muscle wasting or weakness due to the high doses of pred, than it would be affecting both sides equally.  She's suspecting  the twitching is focal seizure activity, and the dragging of her left paw confirms that the meningioma likely is increasing in size again and causing neurological signs.

We were thrilled to bring home our new kitty Norris the other day, and so far he has done well in his new setting, and has even played a bit with Mace.  Dock on the other hand is not so happy with his arrival.  We are not sure if that is why she has decided to travel upstairs more.  She has not come up the stairs in about 4 months, so we were a bit surprised when she woke us up the other day.  She found a nice cushy spot sitting on my chest and stayed there happily for a while before moving onto the hubbies side table.  She ventured up again last night.  I woke in the night to feel her fall over onto me.  She righted herself and a few seconds later, laid down on my chest for 5 minutes before going down stairs.  I am not sure if it was a seizure, she lost consciousness, or stumbled.  She stumbled again this morning when she came to wake us up.  These incidents, coupled with the dragging of her paws has led us to increasing her meds.  Pred and Gabapentin twice daily for the week.  We can't use the pred for more than the week as it is too high a dose.  So after a week on the higher dose, we'll see how she does.