Shado had Doxorubicin Friday- and it went fine. He bounced out of the vets, came home to drink bowls of water, go outside pee and poo, and then throw himself on his bed with an audible sigh of relief, and crash. He is lying underfoot as I type.
His lump is not doing so well, beginning to grow again despite the antibiotics. The vets drained about 20 mil of pus from it yesterday, and have sent a sample off to be cultured. Funnily enough the puppy, who had begun leaping all over him in that annoying way that puppies do, has steered clear since he returned from the vets. We wonder if Shads smells different after his chemo, but as side effects go it is a good one, as he needs to rest and recover, something difficult to do with a puppy hanging off his ear.
Next Friday is a rest day - thankfully, as even though the chemo has gone well so far, it puts you in a constant state of anxiousness. If the vets find that there is bacteria in the pus, they may be able to prescribe a specific antibiotic that will sort this lump out one cna for all.
Fingers crossed.
His lump is not doing so well, beginning to grow again despite the antibiotics. The vets drained about 20 mil of pus from it yesterday, and have sent a sample off to be cultured. Funnily enough the puppy, who had begun leaping all over him in that annoying way that puppies do, has steered clear since he returned from the vets. We wonder if Shads smells different after his chemo, but as side effects go it is a good one, as he needs to rest and recover, something difficult to do with a puppy hanging off his ear.
Next Friday is a rest day - thankfully, as even though the chemo has gone well so far, it puts you in a constant state of anxiousness. If the vets find that there is bacteria in the pus, they may be able to prescribe a specific antibiotic that will sort this lump out one cna for all.
Fingers crossed.
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