No change

We haven't seen much in the way of improvement since starting the steroid therapy, the hope was that his left eye would loosen up enough that we could have a protective lens put in.  For now we'll continue with the artificial tears and ophthalmic ointment.  No apparent infiltration of the disease on the right side of his face yet.  Sometimes Pika seems normal but he is sleeping a lot more than he used to and I'm concerned that he may be losing weight.  This afternoon I'll see is I can get a current weight on him, he was around 13.5 pounds last time I weighed him at home.  All I have at home is a bathroom scale to do this, so I'll just weigh myself while holding him and again after I've put him down and figure out the difference.  It'll have to do until our next visit to the vet's office  Our vet has asked us to bring him in for a check-up in mid July, the other cat who was on this high a dose of steroid developed kidney issues after several weeks but that one was undergoing chemotherapy as well so she thinks he will be OK in that regard.  We can lower the dose if necessary.  She will also check his left eye to see if our treatment regiment is working well enough or if we will have to look at other options, such as having the eye removed.  He still isn't exhibiting signs of pain, I hope to keep him off the pain meds for as long as possible but as soon as it's necessary we'll start him on buprenorphine injections twice a day.