Week One is Done...

and onto Week 2 of 19. Chemo is not real exciting, to be honest. We go to our fantastic Vet's Office: Timber Ridge Animal Hospital, in Bonney Lake, WA (they don't have a web site...can you imagine?) and have blood drawn for a CBC. It's important to run a CBC prior to the actual chemo infusion to take a full inventory of important numbers...like white cell and red cell counts, as well as levels of enzymes, etc. It also helps chart progress or lack thereof. To be honest, I didn't need a blood test to tell me that Phoebe's chemo has been working...Pre-chemo, she appeared to be channeling her inner bullfrog...4 days post infusion #1, the lymph nodes were noticeably smaller and the squishy mass, was mostly gone.

She's been drinking more, lots more and subsequently peeing more...sometimes there have been accidents in the house. Considering the dose of prednisone she's on it's expected...plus it's just about time to finish the new flooring in the hallway and hell, the bedroom could use a makeover anyway.

Bloodwork looked fantastic, in fact, once again the bloodwork indicates there's not much wrong with my dog. That's one of the really shitty things about cancer...it tends to fly under the radar, until it's too late to do much about it. Tonight, post infusion Phee didn't eat much, she liked the leftover hamburgers, but the rest of her meal was not very interesting to her. I'm not stressing that, going to the vet takes a lot of energy. Meeting, greeting your Public is a lot of work. She's been drinking extra water (she was given a diuretic as well as the chemo), but is napping and isn't much interested in the Bulldogs that are SERIOUSLY acting out!!!