Shadow is off the steroids, hurrah! He is not so altogether famished all the time, and the vets have said that 10 days after stopping them they should not be affecting his appetite at all. he also went for a check up, and the vet was pleased with how he is doing. The hole in his neck is healing slowly - as his immunity if reduced - but it is healing, and the vets was impressed that all the retained fluid in his neck has gone. His hair is even beginning to grow back over the shaved bits. We have a few more weeks of antibiotics, and we still must walk Shadow on the lead so he doesn't roll (which he does tend to do on walks) and rub foreign bodies into the wound.
Shadow isn't loosing his hair - in fact, he isn't shedding hardly at all - my carpets are normally black themselves after a couple of days without hoovering, but that just isn't happening. I know that with us humans a shock can stop the hair growing, meaning no hair is being pushed out by new stuff, and wonder if it is the same with dogs. Maybe the chemo has shocked him.
We needed the week without chemo, but Friday is advancing, bringing round two with it. I hope we have no more incidents such as this abscess, but who knows.
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