Today we had to drive to Toronto again (in the rain and some light snow today) for Kylie’s 3rd chemo treatment. She has already had Doxo 1, Carbo 1 and this was Doxo 2. She returns Nov 10 for Carbo 2. She is taking the chemo like a champ. Yesterday she had to get bloodwork done at our Vet here in town. Then they send it to Toronto via email and we get the call either that night or the morning of Chemo to say Yep, looks good, we can go ahead with next treatment. My husband Kevin takes her for the blood work usually. Its so funny because she loves it there. I text to ask how its going and I get a text back saying, “she ran in & I couldn’t keep up lol” So I start laughing at work, thinking ahh that’s my girl! Kevin said to her “you know they are going to take your blood?” lol Kylie doesn’t care! I know alot of dogs are scared of the Vet. Ours sees it as an outing to see the nice ladies that love her and give her treats 🙂
Also I doubt they see many tripawds. She’s like a celebrity in there really. Also she has spent alot of time there (couple times a week) when she had rehab for her leg before we knew it was cancer. The girls all ooh and ahh over her and Ky just eats it up! LOL
Today was chemo and honestly, I think she just enjoys the road trip with Mom & Dad and the timbit (donut hole) she knows she will get from Tim Hortons on the way! lol Yep her appetite is still great! But like many others have said. Kylie doesn’t know she has cancer or what that even is! Kylie doesn’t care what chemo is either! She’s just happy we take the day off work to spend with her and go places 🙂 As soon as we arrive she is pulling us through the door, ears up, tail wagging, ready for the ladies at the desk to greet her. Of course she doesn’t get the same greeting as she does at our usual local Vet, but they do still like her & say how sweet she is! Then we sit & wait for our turn. She hates that part. I do too because she is NOT a good waiter. She just whimpers and paces and will not lay down or even sit. I bribe her with the dog treats on the little table & she gobbles them down but stand right back up! Way too excited & nervous. The nice girl takes her to be weighed then calls us in to see the oncologist. He has a little exam room with two doors. One from the outside where we enter, and one from the back where he enters. Well today his back door was ajar, just enough for a lab head to fit! Do you see where I’m going with this?? She’s very nosey so when I take her off leash to wait in the room, she walks over, peeks her head out at the staff in the back then comes back to see us. So she keeps doing this, and finally, her tail starts wagging hard!! He’s coming! lol So he enters & Kylie greets him too and he can’t help but smile and pet her and talk to her. (She really is a people dog!!) So I tell him that she was just letting him know that she was ready for him now. He laughed. I’ve never seen him laugh. He’s kind of a serious guy usually. I think Kylie is softening him up. 😉 She has a way of getting into everyone’s heart that she meets.
So he starts by telling us she’s gained weight. Which at first we thought was a good thing since after the first chemo treatment she was so sick & didn’t eat anything for 3 days & actually lost weight. So we ask how much she gained. A KILOGRAM! Ooops! haha! He says we have to be careful because she’s living life on 3 legs now. OK, ok so we scale back on the treats starting tomorrow 😉
He checks her over and says she looks great, listens to her with the stethescope, bloodwork was good, asks no issues at home? nope. OK lets get her started and he takes her to the back and we come back in 30mins. (By the way, on our bill, that Vet “recheck” just cost us $73 and I bet he spent less than 10mins with us) but whatever! I like that he checks in with us and her before each time. Gives me some peace of mind. Today Kev & I walked down the road and found a place to split a poutine & a rootbeer! (we should probably scale back on the goodies soon too lol) We return & sit to wait some more and out comes our girl PULLING on the poor young Vet tech girl who is basically jogging to us. Did I mention she has some serious separation anxiety?? (and so do we haha!)
Today she had a cute new bandage on. They always fix her up so nice.
Oh & of course took some chemo car trip selfies as usual too!
She loves that we take the truck so that she can sit between us (such a big suck!)
Heading home!!! She slept against my lap the whole way home. Very content.. and worn out.
Its a long tiring day on chemo days. We got home, fed her supper which she wolfed down without issue. Drank a bunch of water. We started her on the anti-nausea and anti-diarrhea pills as directed by the oncologist so we can avoid a repeat of Doxo 1. And we should be good to go!
Oh then we all had a nap lol
ETA: Well it appears I did not actually publish this post the other day lol I really suck at doing blogs haha
