A treatment begins

On Saturday I spoke to our vet at Family Pet so we could start a treatment, I don't like doing nothing.  Getting to the clinic to pick up a prescription would have been very difficult due to the Old Town Art Fair and the Wells Street art fair going on, it would have been impossible to find a parking spot within a mile of the house if I were to have driven to the clinic for the drugs.  Luckily the vet was able to call the prescription in to a nearby Walgreen's for us to pick up.  The drug we are using is MIllipred (prednisolone 5 mg twice a day), a corticosteroid that should help reduce the inflammation caused by the disease and at least make him more comfortable.  He seems to be tolerating the medication well, we hope to see some results within a few days.  I have heard of pulse steroid therapy being used successfully in the treatment of human myofibroblactic sarcomas , but have not found any reference to that therapy being used in veterinary medicine and don't know if it is applicable to this situation.  On Friday I put out some feelers to a few people in research at the University of Chicago, hopefully someone down there will have some knowledge of this disease and may be able to suggest a therapy to treat the disease itself rather than to just manage the symptoms.  In the meantime I'll continue to scour through publications to try and find a treatment with promise.