puppy update

Of course he's not a puppy, at 9.75 years old, but I couldn't resist the alliteration.

(Digression -- Well, well, you learn something every day. I googled "alliteration" to see if I had spelt it correctly, and sure enough that's correct, but I had the meaning wrong. According to wikipedia, alliteration is only for the beginnings of words, and what I mean is "consonance." So there you are. End of Digression.)


To proceed with the update, yesterday he ate well, and had no digestive upsets.

We are working him up to a maintenance amount of food (just a tablespoon of food, every hour, yesterday...), and are to take him to Michigan State for more chemo :-( on Friday.

He was feeling better yesterday than since last Tuesday (when he got his second vincristine), and even better today.

It is hard to take him in and let them poison him again.............

I have joined caninecancer@yahoogroups.com, and the mood there is exceedingly and forcefully positive.

Sorry, calls it like I sees it -- it's poison. Sometimes, I guess, there are worse things than poison, but that doesn't turn poison into Ben&Jerry's Coffee Toffee Crunch, you know what I mean? Though I suppose, if we're being quite totally literal, ice cream full of toffee bits wouldn't work too well taken IV (as the vincristine is), so maybe it, too, would be poison, given IV.

It's all about context, I guess............

My local vet said there are better drugs for nausea than what he has had so far, but they are injectable. She went on to say that I could learn to give injections, and of course, I *can* learn to give injections..............

So that is our status, today.