09/20/2026
Liberty update, we finally received test results from her visit with the specialist/internist and the retest of thyroid. She is really doing amazing and getting her hair/fur back. When she first came to us, she had so much hair loss in different areas, especially her tail, it had no hair-- take a look at these pictures❤️❤️
Liberty’s 2M antibody test was strongly positive, confirming masticatory muscle myositis (MMM) as the cause of her restricted mouth opening and severe loss of the chewing muscles.
We had to wait 2 to 3 weeks to get her off of the thyroid medicine as the specialist wanted to confirm if she has a thyroid issue or not because the initial test was when she first was brought in and very sick. We did get those test results and it was confirmed, so we have her on new dose to get this regulated, a retest will be done next month.
Now that we have the thyroid confirmed we are now able to start prednisone to suppress the immune reaction affecting her chewing muscles. In just 1 week we already have seen amazing results, this girl is a fighter!! You will see in one of her pictures we are able to get her mouth opened quite a bit, remember when she went in for her spay, they could not get a tube in for the anesthesia.
We still have the scheduled visit with a veterinary ophthalmologist, but they cant get us in until November, this is crazy
We want to thank everyone for their prayers and donations for Ms. LIBERTY ❤️❤️
Also a big thank you to her fosters Tabitha Vieweg and Susan Vieweg for taking such great care of her.