We take it a day at a time. She can eat solids, she had alot of energy this morning. We didn't feed her during the night (for the first time), so she went without food for 8 hours. She was in ICU for 48 hours post-surgery, close to death; since then we fed her every 2 hours for 48 hours and every 3-4 hours for 48 hours. Its a hard choice with the feeding schedule. On one hand, we can maintain her for the forseeable future with the current feeding schedule, but on the other hand, we want her to have an independent life (not to mention we want to sleep again and I need to go back to work). I'm hoping she will start eating her kibble at some point (real soon). I think she still has some GI problems such that she's not tolerating kibble. However, her edema is down, swelling is down but she's still inflammed or has a fever (prob both). My hope is to wean her off prednisone slowly, that will help with edema, and hopefully whatever her GI problem is will heal naturally. Or maybe it's not the GI tract that's not letting her eat solids...her stool is pretty normal nowadays. We have a vet appt on Thur, which, frankly, none of us thought she'd live to see. Wish I was a vet so I can get blood and diagnostics every day instead of just guessing and hoping. The fact that she hasn't had a seizure/episode since we brought her home (esp last night, 8 hours w/o hand feeding) is a really good sign, her body may finally be adjusting to the loss of insulin production. I think if we can get her to eat solids by herself we'll be doing good. Robert Dejournett, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow Brain Tumor Center, Depts. of Neurosurgery and Neuro-Oncology UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Room S5.8136 1515 Holcombe, Box 1004 Houston, TX 77030 (713)834-6211 Blog: http://gibbie.powerblogs.com [Posted in FML 6061]